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Events for Wednesday, May 6, 2015

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

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015 Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: Grupo Pagan Lite CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Video Vault: The 70s Revisited Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Manifestation & Ambiguity Gallery 4040 (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Strawberry Fields: An Opera Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

7:00 PM Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Sammy Celebration Concert Listening Room Acoustic Music Series

8:00 PM Fishbone Westcott Theater

8:30 PM Flicks al Fresco: Chef

Events for Thursday, May 7, 2015

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

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-7:30 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015 Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Video Vault: The 70s Revisited Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Manifestation & Ambiguity Gallery 4040 (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM Contemporary Film Series: Art and Craft Everson Museum of Art

6:45 PM Death Takes a Bow Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Artist Talk: Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

7:30 PM Forbidden Broadway Redhouse

8:00 PM Cuse Comedy Showcase Central New York Playhouse, featuring AJ Foster

8:00 PM Avenue Q Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, May 8, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015 Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Video Vault: The 70s Revisited Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Manifestation & Ambiguity Gallery 4040 (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz @ Sitrus: Nancy Kelly CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Opening: The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Poet Sean Thomas Dougherty Downtown Writer's Center

7:30 PM Ragtime Celebration of the Arts

7:30 PM John Mellencamp Landmark Theatre

8:00 PM Moon Over Buffalo Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM May Bank Show Syracuse Improv Collective

8:00 PM Avenue Q Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Terrapin Flyer, with Melvin Seals & Mark Karan of Ratdog Westcott Theater

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, May 9, 2015

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

10:00 AM-2:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Video Vault: The 70s Revisited Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015 Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Manifestation & Ambiguity Gallery 4040 (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Beauty and the Beast Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM-4:00 PM The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone Studio 24

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Scholastic Jazz Jam CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

2:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical Redhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Avenue Q Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Terravita, with Bear Grillz, Direktor, Dg Westcott Theater

7:30 PM Ragtime Celebration of the Arts

7:30 PM The Vectors Lite Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Masterworks: Mahler Symphony No. 5 Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria), featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Moon Over Buffalo Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Improv Comedy Night Don't Feed the Actors

8:00 PM Forbidden Broadway Redhouse

8:00 PM Second Saturday Series: Colleen Kattau and Dos XX Westcott Community Center

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, May 10, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM City Market

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015 Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Video Vault: The 70s Revisited Everson Museum of Art

1:00 PM-4:00 PM The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone Studio 24

2:00 PM Moon Over Buffalo Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Ragtime Celebration of the Arts

Events for Monday, May 11, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-7:30 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Student Recital Series: Wang Ruogu, piano Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

4:30 PM Student Recital Series: Lu Xi, piano Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:00 PM Flashback Monday: Arthur Palace Theatre

7:30 PM Random Harvest (1942) Syracuse Cinephile Society

7:30 PM Student Recital Series: Yili Huo, piano Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Tuesday, May 12, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women Sculpting Women Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

8:00 PM Tinsley Ellis Westcott Theater

8:00 PM Tinsley Ellis Westcott Theater

Events for Wednesday, May 13, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

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

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM John Spradling, Christopher Spinelli, and Gregg Welcher, pianists Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-11:00 PM Flicks Al Fresco: Chef

6:30 PM "What If..." Film Series: The Barefoot Artist Gifford Foundation

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, May 6



LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 6



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 6



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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



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

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

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

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


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



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 6



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 6



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 6



Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 6



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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



Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

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

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

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



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 6



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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Film
 

8:30 PM, May 6



Flicks al Fresco: Chef

Price: Free
Cosmopolitan Building parking lot
1153 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

NOExcuses Syracuse and the Syracuse Food Truck Association kick off the "Flicks Al Fresco" film series with "Chef" (2014). Bring a folding chair or blanket, and get there early to enjoy the delicious variety that is the Syracuse Food Truck Rodeo.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, May 6



Jazz at the Plaza: Grupo Pagan Lite
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:30 PM, May 6



Strawberry Fields: An Opera
Civic Morning Musicals
(Victoria King, Gayle Ross, Michael Hanley, Donnie Williams, and friends

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

A one-act opera by Michael Torke, with libretto by A.R. Gurney. The action takes place in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park.


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7:00 PM, May 6



Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Sammy Celebration Concert
Listening Room Acoustic Music Series

Price: $10
Small Plates
116 Walton St., Syracuse

To celebrate "Almost There" winning the 2015 Sammy Award for Best Americana, the album band is presenting special concert: that's JPR (guitar, Strumstick), Josh Dekaney (percussion kit), Wendy Ramsay (accordion, flute, clarinet), and John Dancks (upright bass), with special guest Jason Fridley on saxophone.


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8:00 PM, May 6



Fishbone
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Thursday, May 7, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, May 7



LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 7



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 7



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, May 7



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 7



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

New works by 100 of Central New York's finest painters, sculptors, ceramists, metalworkers, fabric artists. Works are offered for sale; credit cards, checks, cash accepted.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 7



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 7



Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 7



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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



Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

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

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

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



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 7



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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7:00 PM, May 7



Artist Talk: Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Prolific, self-effacing and sarcastic, Ron Throop will speak about his current exhibition, "Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss," at ArtRage.

After graduating in 1990 from SUNY Oswego with a degree in History, Ron began painting as a way toward enlightenment. He became a father just out of college (1990) and after working many jobs, made the raising of his children a number one priority. He considers himself a culinary artist, avid gardener, man of letters, ranting philosopher, and prolific painter. He has been painting regularly for over 20 years, and has exhibited in just short of 40 exhibitions since 2008. He has also published articles and 11 books.


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



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, May 7



Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring AJ Foster

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

Coming to the CNYP stage is our February showcase winner AJ Foster, as well as seven competing comics: Bryan VanCampen, Francisco Ruben Arce, Nick Galoni, Rico Tigner, Justin Screech Munro, Justin Trimm, and Maryanne Donnelly.



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Film
 

6:00 PM, May 7



Contemporary Film Series: Art and Craft
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work spans 30 years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th-century icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. And while the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn't in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, a grieving executor of a family member's will, and most recently as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list of institutions across the United States. But after duping Matthew Leininger, a tenacious registrar who ultimately discovers the decades-long ruse and sets out to expose his philanthropic escapades to the art world, Landis must confront his own legacy and a chorus of museum professionals clamoring for him to stop.

Directed by Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman, co-directed by Mark Becker, 89 minutes, official selection of Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs 2014


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 7



Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London, yet a place everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title of this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes, and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: At this showplace greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.


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7:30 PM, May 7



Forbidden Broadway
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this long-running Off-Broadway hit musical revue, Broadway meets Saturday Night Live in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre's greatest stars, shows, and songwriters. This is your chance to see Chicago, Annie, Mama Mia, Cats, Les Mis, Rent, Chorus Line, Hairspray, and many more like you've never seen them before.

Redhouse is producing this show as a benefit for Rarely Done Productions to help support their 2015-2016 season. This show replaces Rarely Done's production of Pippin as part of The District Festival.


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8:00 PM, May 7



Avenue Q
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh (people), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart. This long-running Broadway hit is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet-surfing monster), Lucy the Slut (and proud of it), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life. A little bit naughty, a lot a bit nice, and with enough satire to satisfy the monster in all of us. Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty.

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Friday, May 8, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 8



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 8



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



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

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

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

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


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



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 8



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 8



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

New works by 100 of Central New York's finest painters, sculptors, ceramists, metalworkers, fabric artists. Works are offered for sale; credit cards, checks, cash accepted.


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



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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


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



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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



Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

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

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

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



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 8



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 8



Opening: The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

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



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, May 8



May Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

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

The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store!


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 8



Jazz @ Sitrus: Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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7:30 PM, May 8



John Mellencamp
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Grammy-winning musician John Mellencamp has touched the heart and souls of music listeners and influenced American culture with enduring songs, and he is also one of the most successful live concert performers in the world. A man with a conscience, he used his visibility and influence to advocate an issue that hit close to home and became one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms. The Farm Aid concerts have raised over $45 million to promote a resilient family farm system of agriculture.

"The Voice of the Heartland" will play 80 shows throughout 2015 with special guest Carlene Carter, and concert goers will receive a digital download of John Mellencamp's new record Plain Spoken with purchase of tickets to the tour. (One download code per ticket for online and phone purchases only; does not apply to box office or outlet ticket purchases.) Exclusive VIP Packages are available! VIP Packages include amazing reserved tickets in the first ten rows, limited edition memorabilia and much more!

Tickets may be purchased at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at TicketMaster.com.


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8:00 PM, May 8



Terrapin Flyer, with Melvin Seals & Mark Karan of Ratdog
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, May 8



Poet Sean Thomas Dougherty
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of 13 books across genres including All You Ask for Is Longing: Poems 1994-2014 (2014 BOA Editions), Scything Grace (2013 Etruscan Press), and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010 BOA Editions), which was a finalist for Binghamton University's Milton Kessler Literary Prize for the best book by a poet over 40. He is the recipient of two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans, and an appearance in Best American Poetry 2014. He has taught creative writing at Syracuse University where he completed his MFA, at Penn State University, Case Western University, Cleveland State University, Chatham University, St. Cyril Methodius University in Skopje the Republic of Macedonia and he was selected as the 2014 Twin Cities College Association Poet in Residence at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. He currently works at a pool hall in Erie, PA.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 8



Ragtime
Celebration of the Arts
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

Price: $10
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Ragtime, which begins in 1906, follows the changes in the new century through the eyes of three diverse families: Coalhouse, a prominent African American pianist who plays Scott Joplin's "new music" called ragtime that is taking the new century by storm, and his family--Sarah, the woman he loves and their son; Tateh and his daughter from Latvia who emigrated with hopes of a new life in a new land; and Mother, Father, their son Edgar, Mother's Younger Brother, and Grandfather, an upper middle class wealthy white family whose comfortable world in New Rochelle is rocked by the changing world that starts to quickly present itself. As these three families are confronted by the tumultuous world of the early 20th century, each life intertwines with prominent figures like Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, and Harry Houdini, and each faces the struggles of the age and the promise of the new century: women who want to leave the home and make their own way, African Americans demanding true equality with all other men and women, immigrants yearning for the same chance at the American dream as anyone born on American soil.

The cast will include a large ensemble on stage, a 60-person choir in the choir loft, and a 20-person orchestra. The production is musically directed by Abel Searor. Ragtime is produced by St. David's Celebration of the Arts and is co-produced with Salt City Center for the Performing Arts, Appleseed Productions, The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Center, and the Onondaga Historical Association.


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8:00 PM, May 8



Moon Over Buffalo
Appleseed Productions
Pamela Kelley, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The finale to our Main Stage season will be the comedy Moon Over Buffalo, which saw Carol Burnett's return to Broadway in 1995 after a 30-year absence.

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend me a Tenor, also by Ken Ludwig, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they're playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom.

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8:00 PM, May 8



*SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, music By Stephen Flaherty, lyrics By Lynn Ahrens, conceived By Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, based on the works of Dr. Seuss.

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8:00 PM, May 8



Avenue Q
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh (people), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart. This long-running Broadway hit is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet-surfing monster), Lucy the Slut (and proud of it), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life. A little bit naughty, a lot a bit nice, and with enough satire to satisfy the monster in all of us. Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty.

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Saturday, May 9, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 9



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 9



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

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



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

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

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


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



Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

New works by 100 of Central New York's finest painters, sculptors, ceramists, metalworkers, fabric artists. Works are offered for sale; credit cards, checks, cash accepted.


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



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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



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

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

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


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



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 9



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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



Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

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

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

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



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 9



The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stephen Perrone's paintings reflect the hardships that confront homeless peoples experiencing isolation while still recognizing the hopes and dreams of each individual.

Gallery open other times by appointment.


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, May 9



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, May 9



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.


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Music
 

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



Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The CNY Jazz "Scholastic Jazz Jam" events offer any student or adult the opportunity to perform with professionals, in this case the rhythm section of the CNY Jazz Orchestra. The combo consists of regional teaching artists such as Rick Montalbano, Joe Carello, Darryl Pugh, and Larry Luttinger, all seasoned veteran performing educators who collectively teach at Le Moyne, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse University, Colgate, Hamilton College, and SUNY-IT. All guest soloists of all ages will receive constructive feedback from this group as they test their developing skills in public.


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7:00 PM, May 9



Terravita, with Bear Grillz, Direktor, Dg
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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7:30 PM, May 9



The Vectors Lite
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The Vectors Lite (Mike Hattala, Mark LaJoie, Bob MacBlane) perform folk to rock, blues to jazz, old to new, covers to originals.


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7:30 PM, May 9



Masterworks: Mahler Symphony No. 5
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
David Loebel, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano

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

Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2
Mahler Symphony No. 5

Prior to the concert, beginning at 6:30 pm, the Liverpool High School Concert Symphonic Orchestra will take to the stage under the direction of Jeffrey Abbot. This performance is presented as part of our community spotlight series, and patrons are encourage to come early and enjoy the performance.

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8:00 PM, May 9



Second Saturday Series: Colleen Kattau and Dos XX
Westcott Community Center

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

Socially-conscious modern folk with a Latin flair.

Colleen Kattau is a bilingual singer/songwriter whose music joins rhythms of Latin America with her own roots in rock and folky jazz-laced compositions. Her innovative poetic lyrics cover a wide and varied range from soulful sensual songs to rise-up-and-change-the-world anthems. Dos XX formed in 2012 with Kattau on vocals, rhythm guitar, and ukelele; Jane Zell on lead guitar and vocals; Connie Walters on percussion and vocals; and Mike Brandt on electric bass. They call themselves "a Latin-fem-folk fusion of bilingual originals and songs in Spanish, French and even a little Arabic." Dos XX blends Zell's bluesy flair with Kattau's and Walters's passion for world music rhythms and vocal stylings to create music that leaps out of the ordinary and gets audiences moving.


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, May 9



Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic children's story.


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2:00 PM, May 9



*SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, music By Stephen Flaherty, lyrics By Lynn Ahrens, conceived By Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, based on the works of Dr. Seuss.

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2:00 PM, May 9



Avenue Q
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh (people), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart. This long-running Broadway hit is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet-surfing monster), Lucy the Slut (and proud of it), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life. A little bit naughty, a lot a bit nice, and with enough satire to satisfy the monster in all of us. Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty.

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7:30 PM, May 9



Ragtime
Celebration of the Arts
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

Price: $10
Hopps Memorial CME Church
1110 S. State St., Syracuse

Ragtime, which begins in 1906, follows the changes in the new century through the eyes of three diverse families: Coalhouse, a prominent African American pianist who plays Scott Joplin's "new music" called ragtime that is taking the new century by storm, and his family--Sarah, the woman he loves and their son; Tateh and his daughter from Latvia who emigrated with hopes of a new life in a new land; and Mother, Father, their son Edgar, Mother's Younger Brother, and Grandfather, an upper middle class wealthy white family whose comfortable world in New Rochelle is rocked by the changing world that starts to quickly present itself. As these three families are confronted by the tumultuous world of the early 20th century, each life intertwines with prominent figures like Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, and Harry Houdini, and each faces the struggles of the age and the promise of the new century: women who want to leave the home and make their own way, African Americans demanding true equality with all other men and women, immigrants yearning for the same chance at the American dream as anyone born on American soil.

The cast will include a large ensemble on stage, a 60-person choir in the choir loft, and a 20-person orchestra. The production is musically directed by Abel Searor. Ragtime is produced by St. David's Celebration of the Arts and is co-produced with Salt City Center for the Performing Arts, Appleseed Productions, The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Center, and the Onondaga Historical Association.


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8:00 PM, May 9



Moon Over Buffalo
Appleseed Productions
Pamela Kelley, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The finale to our Main Stage season will be the comedy Moon Over Buffalo, which saw Carol Burnett's return to Broadway in 1995 after a 30-year absence.

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend me a Tenor, also by Ken Ludwig, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they're playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom.

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8:00 PM, May 9



Forbidden Broadway
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this long-running Off-Broadway hit musical revue, Broadway meets Saturday Night Live in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre's greatest stars, shows, and songwriters. This is your chance to see Chicago, Annie, Mama Mia, Cats, Les Mis, Rent, Chorus Line, Hairspray, and many more like you've never seen them before.

Redhouse is producing this show as a benefit for Rarely Done Productions to help support their 2015-2016 season. This show replaces Rarely Done's production of Pippin as part of The District Festival.


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Sunday, May 10, 2015


Art
 

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



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 10



City Market

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Held the second Sunday of each month through October, the market will offer jewelry, decor, furniture, pottery, lighting, art, and more.


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



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

New works by 100 of Central New York's finest painters, sculptors, ceramists, metalworkers, fabric artists. Works are offered for sale; credit cards, checks, cash accepted.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 10



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 10



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 10



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

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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 10



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 10



Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 10



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 10



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 10



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

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

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 10



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 10



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 10



Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 10



The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stephen Perrone's paintings reflect the hardships that confront homeless peoples experiencing isolation while still recognizing the hopes and dreams of each individual.

Gallery open other times by appointment.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 10



Moon Over Buffalo
Appleseed Productions
Pamela Kelley, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 students, $12 seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The finale to our Main Stage season will be the comedy Moon Over Buffalo, which saw Carol Burnett's return to Broadway in 1995 after a 30-year absence.

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend me a Tenor, also by Ken Ludwig, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they're playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom.

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2:00 PM, May 10



Ragtime
Celebration of the Arts
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

Price: $10
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Ragtime, which begins in 1906, follows the changes in the new century through the eyes of three diverse families: Coalhouse, a prominent African American pianist who plays Scott Joplin's "new music" called ragtime that is taking the new century by storm, and his family--Sarah, the woman he loves and their son; Tateh and his daughter from Latvia who emigrated with hopes of a new life in a new land; and Mother, Father, their son Edgar, Mother's Younger Brother, and Grandfather, an upper middle class wealthy white family whose comfortable world in New Rochelle is rocked by the changing world that starts to quickly present itself. As these three families are confronted by the tumultuous world of the early 20th century, each life intertwines with prominent figures like Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, and Harry Houdini, and each faces the struggles of the age and the promise of the new century: women who want to leave the home and make their own way, African Americans demanding true equality with all other men and women, immigrants yearning for the same chance at the American dream as anyone born on American soil.

The cast will include a large ensemble on stage, a 60-person choir in the choir loft, and a 20-person orchestra. The production is musically directed by Abel Searor. Ragtime is produced by St. David's Celebration of the Arts and is co-produced with Salt City Center for the Performing Arts, Appleseed Productions, The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Center, and the Onondaga Historical Association.


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Monday, May 11, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 11



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 11



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, May 11



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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



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

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

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

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


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



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 11



Flashback Monday: Arthur
Palace Theatre

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


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7:30 PM, May 11



Random Harvest (1942)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers, Reginald Owen

MGM's superb film version of James Hilton's classic novel. A WWI soldier with amnesia (Colman) is destined to life in a mental institution ... until a vivacious music hall entertainer (Garson) enters his life. A beautiful story and excellent performances make this a film not to be missed.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, May 11



Student Recital Series: Wang Ruogu, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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


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4:30 PM, May 11



Student Recital Series: Lu Xi, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 11



Student Recital Series: Yili Huo, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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


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Tuesday, May 12, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 12



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 12



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 12



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 12



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 12



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 12



Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 12



Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, May 12



Tinsley Ellis
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, May 12



Tinsley Ellis
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Wednesday, May 13, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 13



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 13



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 13



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 13



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 13



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 13



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 13



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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Film
 

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM, May 13



Flicks Al Fresco: Chef

Price: $2 per car; $1 bike or walk in donation
Cosmopolitan Building parking lot
1153 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Flicks Al Fresco outdoor movie series invites you to enjoy screenings in a parking lot that's been transformed into a cultural venue for Summer 2015. Bring your blanket or lawn chair, walk, bike or carpool. Enjoy local food trucks, listen to local bands, and then at dusk, watch films under the stars.


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6:30 PM, May 13



"What If..." Film Series: The Barefoot Artist
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Lily Yeh is a global artist who has committed herself to creating community-based art projects in some of the world's most troubled areas. She is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as constant traveler, the world is her canvas. (Directed by Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub, 2014, 83 minutes)


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, May 13



Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:30 PM, May 13



John Spradling, Christopher Spinelli, and Gregg Welcher, pianists
Civic Morning Musicals

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

American music of varying periods.


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