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Events for Saturday, May 7, 2016

Time TBD Spring Dinner Show Syracuse Community Choir

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-6:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Opening: 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM The Little Mermaid Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM Artful Tales: Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo Everson Museum of Art

1:00 PM The Art of Bringing Paintings Back to Life Onondaga Historical Association, featuring Susan Blakney, West Lake Conservators

2:00 PM Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

4:00 PM Cirque du Soleil: OVO

5:00 PM Student Recital Series: Bryan Watson, guitar Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:30 PM Cirque du Soleil: OVO

7:30 PM The 39 Steps Open Hand Theater

7:30 PM Vocal Jazz Concert Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

8:00 PM Ride Appleseed Productions

8:00 PM The Complete History of America (Abridged) Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

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

8:00 PM Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Opening: A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Daniel Fields, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Urban Video Project

9:00 PM Thunder Body, with Mosaic Foundation Westcott Theater

Events for Sunday, May 8, 2016

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

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

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

1:30 PM Cirque du Soleil: OVO

2:00 PM Ride Appleseed Productions

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Jazz on Tap: Angelo Candela & Friends CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

2:00 PM The 39 Steps Open Hand Theater

2:00 PM A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Setnor Opera Shop Scenes Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

4:00 PM Shower Me in Song Syracuse Children's Chorus

5:00 PM Cirque du Soleil: OVO

5:00 PM Student Recital Series: Sara Potocsny, viola Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:00 PM Opening: A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Jin Jin, piano Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Monday, May 9, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM April Showers: Technically Irrelevant Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

7:30 PM Comedy Double Feature: Hold 'em Jail (1932) and You're Telling Me! (1934) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, May 10, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM April Showers: Technically Irrelevant Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

7:30 PM Tedeschi Trucks Band

7:30 PM Cinemagogue: God's Slave Temple Society of Concord

Events for Wednesday, May 11, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM April Showers: Technically Irrelevant Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

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

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Jazz to Rags with the Onyx Clarinet Quartet Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Preview: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

Events for Thursday, May 12, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM April Showers: Technically Irrelevant Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-7:00 PM Shaped Clay Society May Sale Syracuse University School of Art and Design

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:45 PM Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Henniger High School Student Artist Reception ArtRage Gallery

7:00 PM Ed Riley and Katerina Spilio of the Hotel Syracuse Strathmore Speakers Series

7:30 PM The Oak Ridge Boys Landmark Theatre

7:30 PM *SOLD OUT* Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Preview: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, May 13, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM April Showers: Technically Irrelevant Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-8:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Ben Altman: Site/Sight Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-7:00 PM Shaped Clay Society May Sale Syracuse University School of Art and Design

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Opening: A Good XCuse Gandee Gallery

7:00 PM Spring Open Mic Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM Cats Syracuse Children's Theatre

7:30 PM The 39 Steps Open Hand Theater

8:00 PM Ride Appleseed Productions

8:00 PM The Complete History of America (Abridged) Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM MacBeth Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Urban Video Project

9:00 PM Poor Man's Whiskey: Paul Simon's "Graceland" Tribute Westcott Theater

Events for Saturday, May 14, 2016

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Student Art Show Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Classic Tradition Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-6:00 PM CNY Photo Expo Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:30 AM Sesame Street Live: "Let's Dance" Landmark Theatre

11:00 AM-5:00 PM 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-5:00 PM A Good XCuse Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM The Wizard of Oz Open Hand Theater, featuring Puppet People

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM [Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM MFA 2016: None the Wiser Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-7:00 PM Shaped Clay Society May Sale Syracuse University School of Art and Design

12:00 PM-4:00 PM People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell Point of Contact Gallery

1:00 PM Broadway for Kids MasterWorks Chorale

2:00 PM Sesame Street Live: "Let's Dance" Landmark Theatre

2:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Cats Syracuse Children's Theatre

2:00 PM A Flea in Her Ear Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

3:00 PM Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Cats Syracuse Children's Theatre

7:30 PM The 39 Steps Open Hand Theater

7:30 PM Tim Burns, with band 2-Hour Delay Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Masterworks Series: Nielsen, Sibelius & Shostakovich Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria), featuring Caroline Goulding, violin

8:00 PM Ride Appleseed Productions

8:00 PM Talk To Her (2002) ArtRage Gallery

8:00 PM The Complete History of America (Abridged) Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM MacBeth Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Ragtime Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Second Saturday Series: Shelter from the Storm: All-Star Tribute to Bob Dylan Westcott Community Center, featuring Loren Barrigar

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Urban Video Project

Next week  >>>

Saturday, May 7, 2016


Art
 

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



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 7



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 7



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



Opening: 44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm.

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 7



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 7



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 7



People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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1:00 PM, May 7



Artful Tales: Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo
Everson Museum of Art

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

Enjoy an afternoon of storytelling and gallery exploration with a museum docent. Stories are inspired by themes found in the exhibition Helen Levitt: In the Street.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 7



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.


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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, May 7



Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

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

Don't Feed the Actors specializes in audience-interactive improv and is one of the longest running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over Central New York, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time.


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Lecture
 

1:00 PM, May 7



The Art of Bringing Paintings Back to Life
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Susan Blakney, West Lake Conservators

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

How do you repair an old painting when it gets damaged? What can you do if it's so covered in dirty varnish that you have difficulty seeing its details? In conjunction with the current artwork exhibit at the OHA Museum, "A Life in Art: A Highlight of Women Artists in OHA's Collections," Susan Blakney of West Lake Conservators will discuss how the conservation studio addressed these and other problems. In particular, Blakney will discuss how they turned the damaged and dirty "Landscape with a Stag" by Charlotte Brigham—a painting featured in the exhibit—into a beautiful, vibrant painting. Blakney's talk will also discuss several of OHA's other artworks that have been restored over the years.


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Music
 

Time TBD, May 7



Spring Dinner Show
Syracuse Community Choir

Price: Dinner and show, $25-$50 sliding scale; show and dessert only, $12-$25 sliding scale
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

5:00 pm: Appetizers and Jazz
5:45 pm: Dinner (vegan and gluten free, prepared by Turkish Cultural Center)
7:00 pm: Show, with Syracuse Improv Collective, Turkish Cultural Center, Marcia Hagan, Danan Tsan, Dance Theater of Syracuse, Al Zapalla, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Colleen Katttau, Jack Manno, Hoola Hoops Sistahs, Signature Soul, and more!


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5:00 PM, May 7



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

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

Bryan Watson, a graduate string performance major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a guitar recital.

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


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7:30 PM, May 7



Vocal Jazz Concert
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Jeff Welcher, conductor

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Back by popular demand, SVE is at its versatile best singing great vocal jazz. Get a jump on summer and feel the beat!


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8:00 PM, May 7



Student Recital Series: Daniel Fields, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Daniel Fields, a voice performance major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a recital.

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


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9:00 PM, May 7



Thunder Body, with Mosaic Foundation
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, May 7



The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, May 7



Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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4:00 PM, May 7



Cirque du Soleil: OVO

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

OVO, meaning "egg" in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement.

When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives. It is love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye — and the feeling is mutual.

The cast of OVO is comprised of 50 performing artists from 12 countries specializing in many acrobatic acts. One highlight of OVO is the stunning Flying Act in which a group of scarabs soar high above the stage, from both edges to the middle landing on a platform.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.com.

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7:30 PM, May 7



Cirque du Soleil: OVO

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

OVO, meaning "egg" in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement.

When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives. It is love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye — and the feeling is mutual.

The cast of OVO is comprised of 50 performing artists from 12 countries specializing in many acrobatic acts. One highlight of OVO is the stunning Flying Act in which a group of scarabs soar high above the stage, from both edges to the middle landing on a platform.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.com.

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7:30 PM, May 7



The 39 Steps
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The 39 Steps is a mix of the Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, and a dash of Monty Python. This fast-paced whodunit is for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. The play is a 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat. It is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. Open Hand Theater adds a dash of its own unique style with shadow puppets and technical effects to enhance the mysterious mood of the play.


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8:00 PM, May 7



Ride
Appleseed Productions
Gina Fortino, director

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

Presented by The Academy, the senior high education program by Appleseed, this poignant and hilarious play takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip.


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8:00 PM, May 7



The Complete History of America (Abridged)
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Sharee Lemos Pierce, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Complete History of America (Abridged) was written by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor (aka The Reduced Shakespeare Company), and shamelessly skewers U.S. history from its very beginnings up to the middle of 20th century. Three actors (Matthew Gordon, Joe Pierce and Josh Taylor) will portray a host of characters from Amerigo Vespucci to George Washington finding and establishing America; to Lewis and Clark's vaudeville routine charting their trek through wilderness; to soldiers fighting in foxholes in "The Great War" (WWI); and exploring the nuances of radio dramas and film noir of the 1940s-'50s. American history as you have never heard nor seen it before and, may never witness it again.

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8:00 PM, May 7



Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes. These plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships, and the often hilarious power of love. Plays by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moises Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright.

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8:00 PM, May 7



Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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8:00 PM, May 7



Opening: A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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Sunday, May 8, 2016


Art
 

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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 8



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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


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



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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Music
 

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Jazz on Tap: Angelo Candela & Friends
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles


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2:00 PM, May 8



Setnor Opera Shop Scenes
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Setnor School of Music students in Opera Workshop will perform opera scenes under the direction of Professor Eric Johnson.

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


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4:00 PM, May 8



Shower Me in Song
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Celebrate Spring with all four ensembles of the Syracuse Children's Chorus, performing music of water and life including works by Robert Shaw, Libby Larsen, John Rutter, Orazio Vecchi, and Moses Hogan.


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5:00 PM, May 8



Student Recital Series: Sara Potocsny, viola
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Sara Potocsny, a senior string performance major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a viola recital.

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


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8:00 PM, May 8



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

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

Jin Jin, a graduate piano performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a piano recital.

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


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Theater
 

1:30 PM, May 8



Cirque du Soleil: OVO

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

OVO, meaning "egg" in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement.

When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives. It is love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye — and the feeling is mutual.

The cast of OVO is comprised of 50 performing artists from 12 countries specializing in many acrobatic acts. One highlight of OVO is the stunning Flying Act in which a group of scarabs soar high above the stage, from both edges to the middle landing on a platform.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.com.

More information.


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2:00 PM, May 8



Ride
Appleseed Productions
Gina Fortino, director

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

Presented by The Academy, the senior high education program by Appleseed, this poignant and hilarious play takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip.


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2:00 PM, May 8



The 39 Steps
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The 39 Steps is a mix of the Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, and a dash of Monty Python. This fast-paced whodunit is for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. The play is a 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat. It is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. Open Hand Theater adds a dash of its own unique style with shadow puppets and technical effects to enhance the mysterious mood of the play.


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2:00 PM, May 8



A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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5:00 PM, May 8



Cirque du Soleil: OVO

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

OVO, meaning "egg" in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement.

When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives. It is love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye — and the feeling is mutual.

The cast of OVO is comprised of 50 performing artists from 12 countries specializing in many acrobatic acts. One highlight of OVO is the stunning Flying Act in which a group of scarabs soar high above the stage, from both edges to the middle landing on a platform.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.com.

More information.


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8:00 PM, May 8



Opening: A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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Monday, May 9, 2016


Art
 

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



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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



April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.


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



Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, May 9



Comedy Double Feature: Hold 'em Jail (1932) and You're Telling Me! (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Hold 'em Jail
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edgar Kennedy, Edna May Oliver, Betty Grable, Warren Hymer, Robert Armstrong, Paul Hurst

Wheeler and Woolsey are framed and sent to prison, where they meet the sports-obsessed warden (Kennedy) who puts them on the prison's football team. Lively comedy was the forerunner of Burt Reynolds' 1974 film "The Longest Yard".

You're Telling Me!
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Kathleen Howard, Louise Carter, Adrienne Ames

Inventor Fields is disrespected by his family and home town until he's befriended by a wealthy foreign princess. One of Fields' finest films, containing some of his best routines.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2016


Art
 

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



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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



April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.


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



Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 10



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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



44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, May 10



Cinemagogue: God's Slave
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Inspired by true events, this movie is the story of Ahmed and David, two extremist characters, one Islamic and the other Jewish, who cross paths while being on the opposite side of the conflict in the AMIA bombings that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires.


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Music
 

7:30 PM, May 10



Tedeschi Trucks Band

Price: $39-$75
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Tedeschi Trucks Band will return with their latest Let Me Get By 2016 Tour. Driven by Susan Tedeschi's impassioned, blues-soaked vocals and Derek Trucks' virtuoso guitar, Tedeschi Trucks Band is an 11-member, American roots-rock tour-de-force. With a growing worldwide reputation for legendary live performances, the Grammy-winning group have proven themselves as the preeminent leader in modern blues rock. TTB's third studio album is slated for release this month.

Tickets are available in person at the OnCenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or online via Ticketmaster.com.


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Wednesday, May 11, 2016


Art
 

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



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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



April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.


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



Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 11



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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



44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 11



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 11



People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, May 11



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 11



Jazz to Rags with the Onyx Clarinet Quartet
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Laurie Dobmeier, Terryann Gerber, Alan Woy, clarinets, and Roxanne Woy, bass clarinet, perform music of Gershwin, Ueday Bowman, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, W.C. Handy, etc.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 11



Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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7:30 PM, May 11



Preview: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

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8:00 PM, May 11



A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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Thursday, May 12, 2016


Art
 

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



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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



April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.


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



Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.


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



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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



44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 12



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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11:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 12



Shaped Clay Society May Sale
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

The Shaped Clay Society will host its annual May ceramics sale. The Shaped Clay Society is a student-run group based in the School of Art's ceramics program. Active on campus and in the community, the group uses various fundraising activities to increase educational opportunities, such as bringing visiting artists to campus, and to support local organizations.


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



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 12



People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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7:00 PM, May 12



Henniger High School Student Artist Reception
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join us as we celebrate the work of students from Henniger High school as part of our "People Who Came to my House" exhibition. Students, working with their art teachers and visiting artist/photographer Marilu Lopez-Fretts, created a project where they took photographs of the people in their school that are by and large "unseen"; those who keep the school running outside of the classroom. The photos, along with text taken from students interviews with their subjects, will be on display in the ArtRage Gallery windows. Please join us in welcoming these students and their friends and families to the gallery. Refreshments will be served.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 12



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.


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Lecture
 

7:00 PM, May 12



Ed Riley and Katerina Spilio of the Hotel Syracuse
Strathmore Speakers Series

Price: Free
Onondaga Park Fire Barn
W. Colvin St. and Summit Ave., Syracuse


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Music
 

7:30 PM, May 12



The Oak Ridge Boys
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us to see the latest inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame, The Oak Ridge Boys, with special guest Jimmy Fortune of the Statler Brothers.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 12



Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin' and, of course, no family gathering would be complete without the annual pig-calling contest! Dang, you might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of money! Yeehaw! Best watch your step on the farm this year, though. Pa's been hitting the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!


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7:30 PM, May 12



*SOLD OUT* Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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7:30 PM, May 12



Preview: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

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8:00 PM, May 12



Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes. These plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships, and the often hilarious power of love. Plays by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moises Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright.

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8:00 PM, May 12



A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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Friday, May 13, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 13



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 13



April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.


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



Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.


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9:30 AM - 8:00 PM, May 13



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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



44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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



Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.


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



Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 13



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 13



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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11:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 13



Shaped Clay Society May Sale
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

The Shaped Clay Society will host its annual May ceramics sale. The Shaped Clay Society is a student-run group based in the School of Art's ceramics program. Active on campus and in the community, the group uses various fundraising activities to increase educational opportunities, such as bringing visiting artists to campus, and to support local organizations.


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



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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



People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 13



Opening: A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 13



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.


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Music
 

9:00 PM, May 13



Poor Man's Whiskey: Paul Simon's "Graceland" Tribute
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, May 13



Spring Open Mic
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The season's not over... there's one reading left.
If you don't come read, we'll all feel bereft!

Signups begin at 6:45,
If you want to read for our audience live.

And if some of your writing is less than fine,
Don't sweat it. Just listen. (By the way, we'll have wine!)

Read for less than three minutes*, and no one will hiss.
We know you'll bring something better than this!

*That's 2-3 brief poems, or 3-4 pages of double-spaced prose.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, May 13



Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $18.50 regular, $16.50 children 13 and up/seniors, $10 children 3-12, free for children under 3
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year—the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heavyside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.


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7:30 PM, May 13



The 39 Steps
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The 39 Steps is a mix of the Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, and a dash of Monty Python. This fast-paced whodunit is for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. The play is a 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat. It is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. Open Hand Theater adds a dash of its own unique style with shadow puppets and technical effects to enhance the mysterious mood of the play.


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8:00 PM, May 13



Ride
Appleseed Productions
Gina Fortino, director

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

Presented by The Academy, the senior high education program by Appleseed, this poignant and hilarious play takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip.


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8:00 PM, May 13



The Complete History of America (Abridged)
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Sharee Lemos Pierce, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Complete History of America (Abridged) was written by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor (aka The Reduced Shakespeare Company), and shamelessly skewers U.S. history from its very beginnings up to the middle of 20th century. Three actors (Matthew Gordon, Joe Pierce and Josh Taylor) will portray a host of characters from Amerigo Vespucci to George Washington finding and establishing America; to Lewis and Clark's vaudeville routine charting their trek through wilderness; to soldiers fighting in foxholes in "The Great War" (WWI); and exploring the nuances of radio dramas and film noir of the 1940s-'50s. American history as you have never heard nor seen it before and, may never witness it again.

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8:00 PM, May 13



MacBeth
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Updated to be set in the late 1940's, William Shakespeare's MacBeth tells the tale of an ambitious would-be king and his power-hungry wife. They kill their way to the top with the help of the Three Sisters, but a misread fortune and revenge may spell their doom.

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8:00 PM, May 13



Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes. These plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships, and the often hilarious power of love. Plays by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moises Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright.

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8:00 PM, May 13



*SOLD OUT* Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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8:00 PM, May 13



Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

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8:00 PM, May 13



A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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Saturday, May 14, 2016


Art
 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 14



Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 14



Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 14



CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 14



Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



44th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibiton
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc., the annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 14



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 14



Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 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.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 14



Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.


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11:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 14



Shaped Clay Society May Sale
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

The Shaped Clay Society will host its annual May ceramics sale. The Shaped Clay Society is a student-run group based in the School of Art's ceramics program. Active on campus and in the community, the group uses various fundraising activities to increase educational opportunities, such as bringing visiting artists to campus, and to support local organizations.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 14



People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 14



The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 14



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.


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Film
 

8:00 PM, May 14



Talk To Her (2002)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A masterful, compassionate work from Pedro Almodovar, one of our most acclaimed modern Spanish filmmakers. This offbeat drama explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances; first, almost meeting at a theater, then in actuality at the hospital where they watch over the women they love, both comatose. Even as the story unfolds in flashback and flashforward, the lives of the four are further entwined as they move toward a surprising conclusion.


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Music
 

1:00 PM, May 14



Broadway for Kids
MasterWorks Chorale
Kip Coerper, conductor

Price: Adults $5, children 18 and under free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Kids can bounce and stomp to show tunes at this interactive concert in family-friendly Dobson Hall at First Presbyterian Church.


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7:30 PM, May 14



Tim Burns, with band 2-Hour Delay
Steeple Coffee House

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

Playing Americana, rock, jam.


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7:30 PM, May 14



Masterworks Series: Nielsen, Sibelius & Shostakovich
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Caroline Goulding, violin

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

Nielsen Helios Overture, op. 17
Sibelius Violin Concerto, in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, in D minor, op. 47


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8:00 PM, May 14



Second Saturday Series: Shelter from the Storm: All-Star Tribute to Bob Dylan
Westcott Community Center
Featuring Loren Barrigar

Price: $15
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Concert featuring Syracuse music icon Loren Barrigar, with special guests Kathy Cadley, Judy Stanton, Larry Hoyt, Dave Robertson, Tom Gafrancesco, and and many more.


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Theater
 

10:30 AM, May 14



Sesame Street Live: "Let's Dance"
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Hosted by two live performers, Sesame Street Live "Let's Dance!" offers an up-close, interactive experience that includes dance parties. Elmo uses his imagination to "Do the Robot," Cookie teaches all "feets" to dance, Abby leads a rhyming game, and Ernie shares the fun of dance with the Sesame Street favorite "Shake Your Head One Time." Favorite friends join the audience on the floor—dancing with fans, not just for them. It's Sesame Street Live like you've never experienced it before!

Tickets available through Ticketmaster.


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11:00 AM, May 14



The Wizard of Oz
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Puppet People

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


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2:00 PM, May 14



Sesame Street Live: "Let's Dance"
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Hosted by two live performers, Sesame Street Live "Let's Dance!" offers an up-close, interactive experience that includes dance parties. Elmo uses his imagination to "Do the Robot," Cookie teaches all "feets" to dance, Abby leads a rhyming game, and Ernie shares the fun of dance with the Sesame Street favorite "Shake Your Head One Time." Favorite friends join the audience on the floor—dancing with fans, not just for them. It's Sesame Street Live like you've never experienced it before!

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2:00 PM, May 14



*SOLD OUT* Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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2:00 PM, May 14



Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $18.50 regular, $16.50 children 13 and up/seniors, $10 children 3-12, free for children under 3
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year—the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heavyside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.


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2:00 PM, May 14



A Flea in Her Ear
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

In French playwright Georges Feydeau's famous bedroom farce, an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

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3:00 PM, May 14



Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

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7:00 PM, May 14



Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $18.50 regular, $16.50 children 13 and up/seniors, $10 children 3-12, free for children under 3
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year—the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heavyside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.


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7:30 PM, May 14



The 39 Steps
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The 39 Steps is a mix of the Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, and a dash of Monty Python. This fast-paced whodunit is for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. The play is a 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat. It is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. Open Hand Theater adds a dash of its own unique style with shadow puppets and technical effects to enhance the mysterious mood of the play.


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8:00 PM, May 14



Ride
Appleseed Productions
Gina Fortino, director

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

Presented by The Academy, the senior high education program by Appleseed, this poignant and hilarious play takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip.


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8:00 PM, May 14



The Complete History of America (Abridged)
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Sharee Lemos Pierce, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Complete History of America (Abridged) was written by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor (aka The Reduced Shakespeare Company), and shamelessly skewers U.S. history from its very beginnings up to the middle of 20th century. Three actors (Matthew Gordon, Joe Pierce and Josh Taylor) will portray a host of characters from Amerigo Vespucci to George Washington finding and establishing America; to Lewis and Clark's vaudeville routine charting their trek through wilderness; to soldiers fighting in foxholes in "The Great War" (WWI); and exploring the nuances of radio dramas and film noir of the 1940s-'50s. American history as you have never heard nor seen it before and, may never witness it again.

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8:00 PM, May 14



MacBeth
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Updated to be set in the late 1940's, William Shakespeare's MacBeth tells the tale of an ambitious would-be king and his power-hungry wife. They kill their way to the top with the help of the Three Sisters, but a misread fortune and revenge may spell their doom.

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8:00 PM, May 14



Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes. These plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships, and the often hilarious power of love. Plays by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moises Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright.

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8:00 PM, May 14



*SOLD OUT* Ragtime
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the powerful tale of a white, upper-middle class family, an African American couple, and an Eastern European immigrant escaping to America with his daughter. All families confront the timeless contradictions of wealth, poverty, freedom, prejudice, hope, and despair in pursuit of the American Dream in early 20th-century America.

Just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, the Tony-winning score draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. A truly unique musical portrait of America, Ragtime is sure to inspire and entertain.

Ragtime boasts a cast of professional and local actors featuring Aubrey Panek, Jason Timothy, Justin Dunn, Jim Byrne, David Cotter, Briana Mia, Chaz Rose, Alexandria Parker, Patrick Burns, Alex Bronchetti, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, John Grimsley, Daryl Acevedo, Stephond Brunson, Julia Goretsky, Ben Sheedy, Chad Tallon and Kathy Egloff, as well as an ensemble of over 30.

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8:00 PM, May 14



Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

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