Friday, November 7, 2014

Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Ensemble Series: Jazz Improvisation
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jazz @ Sitrus: The Djangoners
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The great gyspy guitarist Django Reinhardt's music is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and The Djangoners are carrying on his legacy. The group features Bobby Henrie on lead guitar, Eric Aceto on violin, Harry Aceto on "Manouche" rhythm guitar, and Brian Williams on upright bass. These fine players came together with a common love of Django's music and the amazing chops necessary to recreate it. Come check them out on this rare excursion to Syracuse playing in the style of Stephane Grapelli and the Hot Club of Detroit.

Pepys' Pajamas
NYS Baroque

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

"And so to bed..." English music from the 17th century, with reference to the diaries of Samuel Pepys. A Lawes harp consort, songs by Lanier, a sonata by Enrico Butler, Playford dance tunes, and other English treats.

Performers include Laura Heimes, soprano; Christa Patton, harp; Boel Gidholm, violin; Lisa Terry, viol; Deborah Fox, theorbo.

The Boxcar Lilies
Folkus Project

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

The darlings of last year's Falcon Ridge new-talent showcase make their Folkus debut.

The Boxcar Lilies have quickly made a name for themselves with their signature mix of folk, country, and bluegrass-tinged Americana music featuring spine-tingling, innovative harmonies and top-notch songwriting. Accompanying themselves on guitar, clawhammer banjo, ukulele, electric bass, and washboard, they have brought their uniquely warm sound and energetic stage presence to venues up and down the Eastern seaboard, including The Birchmere Music Hall, Club Passim, and Philadelphia's Tin Angel, and opening for legendary performers like Bill Staines and The Seldom Scene. In 2012, they were selected to perform an official showcase at the International Folk Alliance Conference and in 2013 won the audience voting in the Emerging Artist Showcase.

BowSmack
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Nationally known duo BowSmack is the fusion of Mike Block's versatile cello playing with Tupac Mantilla's "anything goes" percussion approach, featuring explorations of pop music from today, yesterday, and the future.

Michael Block is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the ideal musician of the 21st century" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble.

Tupac Mantilla is an internationally known Grammy Nominee percussionist/drummer. His work as a performer, educator, producer, and clinician has been recognized worldwide and has appeared in major festivals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Newport Jazz Festival to name a few. Mantilla is also the Director of the Children's Program for the Panama Jazz Festival and the Founder and Artistic Director and Founder of Columbia's Percussion Group TEKEYE.

Ensemble Series: SU Baroque Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Rl Grime
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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The Laramie Project

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

The story of Matthew Shepard, by Moises Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Group.

The play contains mature content.

For more information, phone 315-435-4389.

Lincoln's Blood
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies concerning those most closely associated with the crime. Mary Todd Lincoln (Kate Huddleston) found her manic depression and financial disarray pushing her further from her beloved dress maker Elizabeth Keckley (Karin Franklin-King) and closer to the asylum. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt (Karis Wiggins), entangled in the machinations of assassin John Wilkes Booth (Ryan Santiago), grows increasingly aware of the danger she is in. Ford's Theatre guests Major Henry Rathbone (Darian Sundberg) and his fiance Clara Harris (Maya Dwyer) found their domesticity shattered in the wake of the murder and dogged by years of guilt and madness.

With sumptuous costumes by Debbie Ritchey of CNY Costumes, sound design by Tony Vadala, lighting by Bob Dwyer, stage management by Jeff Riegelman, direction by Garrett Heater, production by Susan Blumer and Michael Penny, this is a world premiere performance.

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The Pillowman
LeMoyne College

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

By Martin McDonagh. A viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of murders.

Be Our Guest: Disney Through the Ages
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cast comprised of Rarely Done favorites and newcomers to our stage raises their voices in celebration of the best of the Disney music songbook. Disney has been adding their distinct, much-loved, often-sung music to the American musical canon for years, and with Be Our Guest, Rarely Done shares the very best of Disney with our audiences. Appropriate for the entire family!

Starring Julia Berger, Rachel Boucher, David Cotter, Liam Fitzpatrick, Corey Hopkins, Colin Keating, Cathleen O'Brien Brown, and Jennifer Pearson, this production features musical direction by Abel Searor and musical staging by Jimmy Curtin. This family-friendly show will leave you tapping your toes and humming your favorite classic Disney songs.

Throughout performances of Be Our Guest, we will be accepting donations of cash and new, unwrapped toys in our lobby, in support of our friends at The Salvation Army.

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Doubt
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Doubt, A Parable is a riveting story of suspicion and moral uncertainty. Featuring only four characters -- Sister Aloysius, the conservative and skeptical principal of St. Nicholas School; Father Flynn, the sociable priest who may or may not hold a dark secret; the novice teacher Sister James; and Mrs. Muller, the nervous mother of the school's first African-American student -- the drama uncovers a captivating study of the nature of truth.

Though set in 1964 in a Catholic school in the Bronx, the story could not be more fitting or timely. Less about scandal than about these four characters' assumptions, the show raises questions about moral certainty and remains full of empathy for all sides. Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, is a drama the feeling of a good thriller at heart.

Starring Nora O'Dea, Lynn Elizabeth King, Michael Richard King, and Kim Rowe. Tickets available at www.cnyplayhouse.com/doubt.

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The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.

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

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

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

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Opening: Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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8th Annual One-Take Super-8 Event

Price: $5
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Join us for the live screening of 25+ new Super 8 films created by amateur and experienced filmmakers from Central NY. Participants are given one reel of film in their choice of color or black & white, and have one week to shoot their ideas. No one has seen these films before, including the filmmakers. The films are shown as they are shot -- no cuts, no splices! Live performances and/or soundtracks coordinate with each film, making this an evening full of magic.

For more information and a list of filmmakers, visit the OTS8 Facebook event page.

Brew & View: Icons of Horror (Double Feature)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.

They Live (1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the earth.

Mini Folk Festival
Steeple Coffee House

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

Fall Festival featuring:

Ann Barnes: Pianist playing jazz/Latin/pop/sing-a-longs/classical/new age/standards

Genesee Ted: Tom Burr, bass; Dana Cooke, mandolin/guitar/strumstick; Eileen Rose, mountain dulcimer/percussion; Shirley Stevens, guitar

Kristin & David: Kristin Gitler, mountain dulcimer and David Goldman, acoustic guitar, play traditional fiddle tunes – French Canadian, American, Celtic.

Masterworks: Northern Lights
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Featuring Allan Kolsky, clarinet

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

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

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Ray LaMontagne
Landmark Theatre

Price: $36.50 an up
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Grammy Award winner Ray LaMontagne is touring in support of his 5th studio album, Supernova.

As a special feature for this tour, Ray will, for the first time, offer VIP packages that include meet & greets with 20 fans in each market. For more information, please visit his official website at www.raylamontagne.com.

Tickets are available at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at TicketMaster.com.

BowSmack
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Nationally known duo BowSmack is the fusion of Mike Block's versatile cello playing with Tupac Mantilla's "anything goes" percussion approach, featuring explorations of pop music from today, yesterday, and the future.

Michael Block is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the ideal musician of the 21st century" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble.

Tupac Mantilla is an internationally known Grammy Nominee percussionist/drummer. His work as a performer, educator, producer, and clinician has been recognized worldwide and has appeared in major festivals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Newport Jazz Festival to name a few. Mantilla is also the Director of the Children's Program for the Panama Jazz Festival and the Founder and Artistic Director and Founder of Columbia's Percussion Group TEKEYE.

Second Saturday Series: Upsouth
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Old time classic country & western swing.

Donna The Buffalo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Robin Hood
Open Hand Theater
Brad Shur

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

We welcome Brad Shur with his newest original performance featuring the legendary Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest. Brad is a versatile puppeteer who has created and performed characters made of everything from pixels to paper mache. Since 2009, he has been the Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace Theater, where he performs regularly for youth and family audiences and teaches puppetry classes to students of all ages.

Brad toured the country as a performer with Big Nazo (Rhode Island), Wood & Strings Theatre (Tennessee) and The PuppeTree (Vermont). As a builder, Brad has designed and fabricated puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, Underground Railway Theater, Avenue Q productions, and the U.S.S. Constitution Museum. He is a graduate of the Film and Animation program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

All of the puppets Brad uses in his performances come from his workshop, where he builds them by hand from wood, paper, plastic, foam and fabric.

New this fall: Up Close -- A Look Inside the Story
Join us at 10:00 am for a hands-on story hour suitable for children as young as 3 years (with an accompanying parent) and anyone who wants a more in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance. Cost is an additional $5 per child, accompanying adult is free.

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Lincoln's Blood
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies concerning those most closely associated with the crime. Mary Todd Lincoln (Kate Huddleston) found her manic depression and financial disarray pushing her further from her beloved dress maker Elizabeth Keckley (Karin Franklin-King) and closer to the asylum. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt (Karis Wiggins), entangled in the machinations of assassin John Wilkes Booth (Ryan Santiago), grows increasingly aware of the danger she is in. Ford's Theatre guests Major Henry Rathbone (Darian Sundberg) and his fiance Clara Harris (Maya Dwyer) found their domesticity shattered in the wake of the murder and dogged by years of guilt and madness.

With sumptuous costumes by Debbie Ritchey of CNY Costumes, sound design by Tony Vadala, lighting by Bob Dwyer, stage management by Jeff Riegelman, direction by Garrett Heater, production by Susan Blumer and Michael Penny, this is a world premiere performance.

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The Pillowman
LeMoyne College

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

By Martin McDonagh. A viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of murders.

The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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The Laramie Project

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

The story of Matthew Shepard, by Moises Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Group.

The play contains mature content.

For more information, phone 315-435-4389.

The Pillowman
LeMoyne College

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

By Martin McDonagh. A viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of murders.

Be Our Guest: Disney Through the Ages
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cast comprised of Rarely Done favorites and newcomers to our stage raises their voices in celebration of the best of the Disney music songbook. Disney has been adding their distinct, much-loved, often-sung music to the American musical canon for years, and with Be Our Guest, Rarely Done shares the very best of Disney with our audiences. Appropriate for the entire family!

Starring Julia Berger, Rachel Boucher, David Cotter, Liam Fitzpatrick, Corey Hopkins, Colin Keating, Cathleen O'Brien Brown, and Jennifer Pearson, this production features musical direction by Abel Searor and musical staging by Jimmy Curtin. This family-friendly show will leave you tapping your toes and humming your favorite classic Disney songs.

Throughout performances of Be Our Guest, we will be accepting donations of cash and new, unwrapped toys in our lobby, in support of our friends at The Salvation Army.

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Doubt
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Doubt, A Parable is a riveting story of suspicion and moral uncertainty. Featuring only four characters -- Sister Aloysius, the conservative and skeptical principal of St. Nicholas School; Father Flynn, the sociable priest who may or may not hold a dark secret; the novice teacher Sister James; and Mrs. Muller, the nervous mother of the school's first African-American student -- the drama uncovers a captivating study of the nature of truth.

Though set in 1964 in a Catholic school in the Bronx, the story could not be more fitting or timely. Less about scandal than about these four characters' assumptions, the show raises questions about moral certainty and remains full of empathy for all sides. Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, is a drama the feeling of a good thriller at heart.

Starring Nora O'Dea, Lynn Elizabeth King, Michael Richard King, and Kim Rowe. Tickets available at www.cnyplayhouse.com/doubt.

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The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival

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

Mickey Mouse and friends rock the world with the stars from The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story in their new touring show, "Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival." Disney hits are remixed to the hottest sounds of today featuring hip hop, pop, swing, reggae, rock, country, and much more! The irresistible lineup of performers, including Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy, Ariel, Sebastian and Ursula, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie, and Woody, Buzz and Jessie, are among the more than 25 Disney stars featured in this jam session fit for the entire family! You can't resist dancing, singing, playing your air-guitar, and laughing with this band of characters. Join them for a lively concert experience guaranteed to deliver enough rockin' memories to last a lifetime.

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office (inside the State St. entrance of The Oncenter War Memorial Arena), by phone at 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

SU Student Recital Series: Nina Pelligra, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Nina Pelligra and a dozen other Setnor students will come together for her senior voice recital. It will be an exciting and fun display of student collaboration, performing in the two most collaborative ensembles: a Baroque chamber ensemble and a band. The concert will include a full production of J.S. Bach Cantata No. 51, Jauchzett Gott in allen Landen, American standards like My Funny Valentine, and Nina's original compositions and arrangements of pop tunes. It will feature Greg Kaplan on the drums, Kevin Metzger on guitar, Will Rosati on the bass, Eamonn O'Neill, Matt Vendemark, and Joe Fournier on violin, Sara Potonsky and Sam Scaller on viola, Dylan Beckerman and Brian Savage on cello, Joe Morris on trumpet and piccolo trumpet, and Sarah Thune on piano and organ.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival

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

Mickey Mouse and friends rock the world with the stars from The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story in their new touring show, "Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival." Disney hits are remixed to the hottest sounds of today featuring hip hop, pop, swing, reggae, rock, country, and much more! The irresistible lineup of performers, including Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy, Ariel, Sebastian and Ursula, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie, and Woody, Buzz and Jessie, are among the more than 25 Disney stars featured in this jam session fit for the entire family! You can't resist dancing, singing, playing your air-guitar, and laughing with this band of characters. Join them for a lively concert experience guaranteed to deliver enough rockin' memories to last a lifetime.

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office (inside the State St. entrance of The Oncenter War Memorial Arena), by phone at 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $10 adults, $5 ages 18 and under
Eagle Hill Middle School
4645 Enders Rd., Manlius

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert. The SYO will perform Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" in its entirety. The SYSO's program will include works by Handel, Atwell, Waller, and Brooks.

An Evening with Giacomo Gates
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular, $25 for advance subscribers and donors
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

The Cabaret Series opens with a rare visit by jazz vocal legend Giacomo Gates, one of the deans of America's select crop of male jazz singers. He will bring a gift basket of songs gathered throughout his world travels. One of Kurt Elling's "Four Brothers" vocal ensemble along with Andy Bey and Mark Murphy, Gates is a grizzled veteran of the jazz wars, having performed worldwide for nearly half a century. This is his first club date in Central New York. He'll sing from the Great American Songbook and his most recent release, "Miles Tones-Giacomo Gates Sings the Music of Miles Davis," which garnered rave reviews, topping the National Jazz Radio Playlist at #1 for four weeks.

Like all seriously committed jazz artists, Giacomo Gates is a student of the music's great legacy. Known for his interaction with audiences through witty patter and informative introductions, every performance becomes a fun lesson in music history.

Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival

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

Mickey Mouse and friends rock the world with the stars from The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story in their new touring show, "Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival." Disney hits are remixed to the hottest sounds of today featuring hip hop, pop, swing, reggae, rock, country, and much more! The irresistible lineup of performers, including Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy, Ariel, Sebastian and Ursula, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie, and Woody, Buzz and Jessie, are among the more than 25 Disney stars featured in this jam session fit for the entire family! You can't resist dancing, singing, playing your air-guitar, and laughing with this band of characters. Join them for a lively concert experience guaranteed to deliver enough rockin' memories to last a lifetime.

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office (inside the State St. entrance of The Oncenter War Memorial Arena), by phone at 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Doubt
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Doubt, A Parable is a riveting story of suspicion and moral uncertainty. Featuring only four characters -- Sister Aloysius, the conservative and skeptical principal of St. Nicholas School; Father Flynn, the sociable priest who may or may not hold a dark secret; the novice teacher Sister James; and Mrs. Muller, the nervous mother of the school's first African-American student -- the drama uncovers a captivating study of the nature of truth.

Though set in 1964 in a Catholic school in the Bronx, the story could not be more fitting or timely. Less about scandal than about these four characters' assumptions, the show raises questions about moral certainty and remains full of empathy for all sides. Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, is a drama the feeling of a good thriller at heart.

Starring Nora O'Dea, Lynn Elizabeth King, Michael Richard King, and Kim Rowe. Tickets available at www.cnyplayhouse.com/doubt.

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The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Flashback Mondays: Mystic River
Palace Theatre

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

Buck Privates (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, the Andrews Sisters, Nat Pendleton, Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee, Alan Curtis, Shemp Howard.

Abbott & Costello's first starring feature is a lively mix of classic A&C routines and hit musical numbers from the WWII era ("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Apple Blossom Time" and others). It's Bud and Lou at their best!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Artist Talk: Sanford Biggers
Urban Video Project

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

Celebrated multimedia artist Sanford Biggers will talk about his video Shuffle & Shake. The talk will be followed by a reception on the plaza, where the videos are currently on display.

Film Talks: Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
Syracuse International Film Festival

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild placed Vilmos Zsigmond among the ten most influential cinematographers in history. And he'll be with us to talk to us about the art of filmmaking, from the viewpoint of one of the most important people in the process: the cinematographer.

Vilmos was born in Hungary, and immigrated to the US in the 60s, when, working as William Zsigmond, he may have anticipated today's zombie craze when he worked on the classic horror B-Film, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. He gained prominence during the 1970s after being hired by Robert Altman as cinematographer for McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Working with Stephen Spielberg on Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Vilmos won the 1977 Oscar for Best Cinematography.

The Innocence Project: DNA and the Wrongly Convicted
University Lectures
Featuring Barry Scheck

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Attorney, DNA expert, and co-founder of The Innocence Project, Barry Scheck is known for years of landmark litigation that set the standards for using DNA evidence in courts throughout the country. He has spearheaded a nationwide movement to re-examine the fairness and efficacy of our criminal justice system. The Innocence Project started in 1992, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent injustice. Scheck and the organization have used DNA evidence to exonerate almost 300 wrongfully imprisoned people, many of whom were on death row or had been incarcerated for decades.

In Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, Scheck exposed the mishandled evidence and coercive interrogations that plague the legal process. Publisher's Weekly called the book "an alarming wake-up call." In October 2010, Scheck and The Innocence Project were featured in the feature film "Conviction."

A DNA expert with the O.J. Simpson defense team, Scheck has represented notable clients including Hedda Nussbaum, Louise Woodward and Abner Louima. A commissioner for the New York State Forensic Science Review Board and Professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, Scheck is considered to be on the of 100 most influential lawyers in America.

Ensemble Series: SU Brazilian Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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

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

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

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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Lunchtime Lecture
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A Lunchtime Lecture with the organizer of the "Conceal/Reveal" exhibition, Andrew Saluti.

The Lake Effect Winds and The Highland Winds
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Gordon Jacob Quartet for clarinets (1974)
Piazzola Se Armo Astor
Walter Piston Three Pieces (1926)
Rossini Quartet I

The Highland Winds: John Flaver, Tom Soccocio, Ed O'Rourke, clarinets; Tom McKay, bass clarinet
The Lake Effect Winds: Beth Scott, flute; Tom McKay, clarinet; Margie Hawthorne, horn; Jill Bushnell, bassoon

The Divine, the Earthen and the Mysterious
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Ensemble Series: SU University Singers
John Warren, conductor

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

"The Divine" portion of the program includes works by Widmer, Berger, Essenvalds, Gjeilo, Bruckner, and Vaughan Williams. "The Earthen" section includes works by Hindemith and Brinsmead. "The Mysterious" section concludes the concert with music by Haydn, Poulenc and Caldwell and Ivory.

Denise Ellis will appear as assistant conductor, and Sabine Krantz will accompany on piano.

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

The Revivalists, with Red Wanting Blue
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Gallery Talk and Reception Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery talk this evening at 5:00 pm, with a reception 5:00-7:00 pm.

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00–7:00 pm, featuring a performance by exhibiting artist Zeke Leonard at 5:00 pm.

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

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

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

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

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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