Friday, September 9, 2016

Opening: Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
5:00 pm: Attractive Nuisance
6:00 pm: The Town Pants
7:30 pm: Butler-Sheehan Academy
7:50 pm: The Flyin Column
8:30 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
8:50 pm: The Moxie Strings
9:30 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
9:50 pm: The Elders

LeMOYNE STAGE
12:00 pm: Quigsy and the Bird
1:20 pm: An Ceol
2:40 pm: Home Slice
4:00 pm: The Public House
5:10 pm: Butler-Sheehan Academy of Irish Dance
5:30 pm: The Flyin Column
6:30 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
6:50 pm: The Led Farmers
8:10 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
8:30 pm: The Causeway Giants

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

Cabaret: Gin & Regret
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Abel Searor

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

CNYP's resident music director Abel Searor will star in his own cabaret, Gin and Regret. Come see him sing his way through his problems.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

Opening: Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Robert Shetterly's portraits highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. We bring back this popular series with an entirely different collection of portraits from those we exhibited in 2010. This work, selected from over 200 paintings in the Americans Who Tell The Truth series, centers around the theme of "Finding Your Power" and includes portraits of several Central New York activists painted as a result of Shetterly's time in Syracuse. It highlights many individuals of humble beginnings who, despite their circumstance, or in some cases because of it, realized their power to affect change through their activism.

Cuse Comedy Championship
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Headliner Moody McCarthy will be featured, and two finalists from each of the three opening rounds will compete for the title. Competitors are Madelein Smith, Larry O'Grady, Will Phillips, RJ McCarthy, James Fedkiw, and Justin Jackson.

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
12:20 pm: Blarney Rebel Band
1:30 pm: Dance School (TBA)
1:50 pm: Moxie Strings
3:00 pm: The Public House
4:20 pm: Drumcliffe Arts
4:40 pm: The Led Farmers
6:00 pm: Roisin School of Irish Dance
6:20 pm: Moxie Strings
7:30 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
8:00 pm: The Elders
9:25 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance
9:45 pm: Searson

LeMOYNE STAGE:
12:00 pm: Harrington School of Irish Dance
12:20 pm: Irish Dance Lessons for Adults
1:30 pm: Deirdre McCarthy
2:30 pm: Kilgore McTrouts
3:30 pm: Syracuse Irish Session
4:30 pm: Roisin School of Irish Dance
4:50 pm: Kitty Hoynes Irish Session
5:50 pm: Drumcliffe Arts
6:10 pm: Blaithin Loughran & Her Family
7:00 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance
7:20 pm: TBA
8:20 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
8:40 pm: Billy Delaney & The Celtic All Stars

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

Masterworks Series: Ohlsson Plays Rachmaninoff
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Garrick Ohlsson, piano

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

Kabalevsky Overture to Colas Breugnon
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Parties in the Plaza: Kevin Barrigar
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Born ninth in a musical family, Kevin's talent showed early as a singer. Singing Elvis with his family's band, the Christophers. Kevin has shared the stage with Joe Whiting, fiddle legend Hal Casey, guitar master Tommy Emmanuel, and 5 time Grammy winner Lloyd Maines. In addition to performing solo, Kevin also performs with his brother Loren.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

Truth Teller Speaker Series: Ray McGovern
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Remembering The Heroes: A Musical Tribute to the Victims of 9/11

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Trinity United Methodist Church
8396 Morgan Rd., Clay

Annual memorial concert featuring light classical, cinematic, and Broadway music performed in a peaceful environment allowing listeners to remember and reflect on those who were lost. Donations will be accepted to assist local food pantries.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

I Love You Again (1940)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: W. S. VanDyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Don Douglas, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer

A small-town solid citizen (Powell) gets hit on the head and reverts to his previous life as a slick con man, which becomes a source of confusion for many ... including his wife (Loy). One of several popular non-Thin Man comedies starring Bill and Myrna.

Truth Teller Speaker Series: Bill Ayers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Bill Ayers is known both for his 1960s activism opposing the Vietnam War and racial injustice, as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. One summary of Ayers' life would include acts that put him on the FBI's list of most-wanted criminals and led to a life in hiding before surrendering to authorities and having those charges dropped. Another summary would include a lifetime of activism and public service for the benefit of the underprivileged. His is not a simple story.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

Crystallized Memories: Works by Leigh Jerome
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

Time passes—memories fade. We remember the experiences of our lives in broad brushstrokes. The sharpness of presence and the immediacy of occurrence do not persist. The details of even our most dramatic and impassioned moments wash out. What remains are dull reproductions. "Crystallized Memories" is an immersive art installation of image, light, sculpture and perception that explores the transience of memory and the yearning for a lingering visceral reminiscence.

Us and The Night Tour: 3 Doors Down

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

With the addition of new members, the band is ready to perform a new album and old hits on their fall tour.

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

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Robert Shetterly's portraits highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. We bring back this popular series with an entirely different collection of portraits from those we exhibited in 2010. This work, selected from over 200 paintings in the Americans Who Tell The Truth series, centers around the theme of "Finding Your Power" and includes portraits of several Central New York activists painted as a result of Shetterly's time in Syracuse. It highlights many individuals of humble beginnings who, despite their circumstance, or in some cases because of it, realized their power to affect change through their activism.

Crystallized Memories: Works by Leigh Jerome
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

Time passes—memories fade. We remember the experiences of our lives in broad brushstrokes. The sharpness of presence and the immediacy of occurrence do not persist. The details of even our most dramatic and impassioned moments wash out. What remains are dull reproductions. "Crystallized Memories" is an immersive art installation of image, light, sculpture and perception that explores the transience of memory and the yearning for a lingering visceral reminiscence.

Lunchtime Lecture: Gallery Tour of "Politics on Paper"
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join Andrew Saluti, curator of the exhibition and assistant director of the SUArt Galleries, for a gallery tour of the exhibition.

Artist Talk: Rob Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Ann Barnes, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

The season gets off to a joyful start with a light classical piano concert: different styles of music including classical, ragtime, jazz, and blues done in a classical style.

Karen Russell
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Karen Russell is the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

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

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:30-6:00 pm.

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Robert Shetterly's portraits highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. We bring back this popular series with an entirely different collection of portraits from those we exhibited in 2010. This work, selected from over 200 paintings in the Americans Who Tell The Truth series, centers around the theme of "Finding Your Power" and includes portraits of several Central New York activists painted as a result of Shetterly's time in Syracuse. It highlights many individuals of humble beginnings who, despite their circumstance, or in some cases because of it, realized their power to affect change through their activism.

Crystallized Memories: Works by Leigh Jerome
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

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

Time passes—memories fade. We remember the experiences of our lives in broad brushstrokes. The sharpness of presence and the immediacy of occurrence do not persist. The details of even our most dramatic and impassioned moments wash out. What remains are dull reproductions. "Crystallized Memories" is an immersive art installation of image, light, sculpture and perception that explores the transience of memory and the yearning for a lingering visceral reminiscence.

Opening Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm, with tapas, live music, and special guests including former Major Leaguers Carlos Baerga and Cándido "Candy" Maldonado.

La Casita Cultural Center, a program of the College of Arts and Sciences at SU, commemorates Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with back-to-back events devoted to Latinos in Baseball and a "Familia" themed community collective in its annual signature show, the "Balcón Criollo".

The Balcón Criollo 2016 exhibit features a gallery-wide installation of community-sourced photographs, family keepsakes, and meaningful pieces that celebrate our Latino family traditions, history and culture. This year, the show also features a new mural by local artist and Westside resident Juan A. Cruz, joined by Triana, a talented artist recently arrived from Cuba, now living in Syracuse.

The project also explores baseball, the national pastime, as a social and cultural force within U.S. Latino communities and across Latin America, as it advances into the second year of its ongoing program: "Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues." This is part of a national community collecting and research initiative involving La Casita and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Peppa Pig's Big Splash

Price: $27.50, $40.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Peppa Pig's Big Splash is an action-packed live show featuring your favorite characters as life-size puppets and costume characters! Come join Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, and more in an all-singing, all-dancing adventure full of songs, games and muddy puddles!

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

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

High on a hill died a lonely goatherd and some people around the Abbey are beginning to get the idea that sweet little Maria just might be a budding serial killer. Is she now at sixteen, going on seventeen? What exactly are her favorite things? Mother Abbess and her new assistant, Sister Adolph, are calling in all nuns and townsfolk to decide what to do. Even the pompous Captain Von Trumpp and his bratty children will be there. Don't be late. You don't want Sister Adolph shaking her carrot at you.

Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

This humorously irreverent musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment in search of his life's purpose. On his quest, he befriends the zany inhabitants of Avenue Q and, together, the group of misfits muddle through the trials and tribulations of adult life. Featuring a delightfully catchy score, the puppets—and humans—of Avenue Q sing their way through lay-offs, heartbreak, one-night stands, and more! Musical direction by Jacob Carll, choreography by Stephfond Brunson.

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Jersey Boys is the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the true story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide—all before they were 30! Jersey Boys features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

The Jersey Boys creative team comprises two-time Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bob Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

Jersey Boys is not recommended for children under the age of 12 due to strong "profane, authentic Jersey" language. The show also involves smoking, strobe lights, gun shots, and has a 2 hour and 35 minute run time (including a 15-minute intermission).

Read a review!

Friday, September 16, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs that capture moments of pause, concentration, single-mindedness and meditation.

leaves upon leaves: Acrylic Paintings by Dan Bacich
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Imagine the satisfying rustle as you walk through a pile of leaves or the compelling desire to pick up and examine each most beautiful one. The upcoming exhibit at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is guaranteed to awaken the memory of these autumnal joys.

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Terry McMaster: small acrylic paintings
Clare Willson: whimsical wall pieces comprised of various materials
Arlene Abend: sculptural pendants in a variety of metals
Talking Trickster Studios: ceramic pieces by Amy Komar and Sheila Roock

Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.

Finger Lakes Impressions: Pastels and Oil Paintings by Adriana Meiss
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Costa Rican-born Adriana considers herself a self-taught artist. Right after obtaining a BA degree in biology she took art courses at the University of Costa Rica for a year, but left that behind to continue her science studies in the United States. After a very long hiatus, she rediscovered the artist within and found that her experience and the intervening years of observation allowed her to undertake painting in a different way. She finds inspiration in nature and the way man has changed the environment. Her preferred medium is pastel and her favorite subjects are landscapes and flowers. Adriana lives in Syracuse and is a member of the Onondaga Art Guild and the Adirondack Pastel Society. She has won many awards in local and national shows. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

2016 Light Work Grants: Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, Marion Wilson
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 42nd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2016 recipients are Robert Knight, Lida Suchy, and Marion Wilson. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography.

Robert Knight received an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a BA in Architecture and Economics from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the LaGrange Museum in Georgia, The Bascom in North Carolina, the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and at photography festivals in Nantes, Le Mans and Arles, France. Recent solo exhibitions include Rated G at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA; In God's House at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica, NY; and Class of 2015 at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other private collections. Robert is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American, born into a refugee family and often draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. She earned a BA in cultural anthropology from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Suchy taught photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Hartwick College, she has led master workshops in the USA, Italy and Ukraine. She currently teaches at Onondaga Community College and mentors students both at home and abroad. In recognition of her creative work, Suchy's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, a Light Work Artist Residency and a Light Work Grant, a NYSCA Grant, an ArtsLink Grant, and an International Research and Exchanges Fellowship. Suchy has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe. Her work is included in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, George Eastman Museum, the Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Marion Wilson has built collaborative partnerships with botanists, homeless people, students, and neighbors—accessing individual expertise and working non-hierarchically. Her own studio work uses artifacts of the photography industry in sculpture, painting and printed photographs; specifically researching and classifying endangered landscapes and useful and stress tolerant botanies. Wilson recently drove MossLab/The Mobile Field Station (a renovated RV as a mobile art and botany viewing lab) 1,600 miles from Syracuse to Miami as a special project for PULSE ART Fair 2015 collecting moss species and experiences of "first looking encounters" with species along the way. Wilson will have upcoming exhibitions and residencies at Schuykill Center for Art and Environment; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, NC and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Light Work Gallery

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

For his exhibition, "A Place That Looks Like Home," artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over 40 years of his career as a photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

His unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and "my own position in the diaspora." Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles, and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an "ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history."

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda" examines the long-established bond between the printed image and social commentary. Curated by assistant director Andrew Saluti, this exhibition presents over 50 original works on paper. Included in the show are drawings, cartoons, and illustrations from important cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Paul Szep, Alan Dunn, and Barry Blitt, as well as prints and photographs by Francisco de Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Barbara Morgan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works on paper selected reflect a variety of social motives including politics, war, race inequality, and gender issues.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

La Casita Cultural Center, a program of the College of Arts and Sciences at SU, commemorates Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with back-to-back events devoted to Latinos in Baseball and a "Familia" themed community collective in its annual signature show, the "Balcón Criollo".

The Balcón Criollo 2016 exhibit features a gallery-wide installation of community-sourced photographs, family keepsakes, and meaningful pieces that celebrate our Latino family traditions, history and culture. This year, the show also features a new mural by local artist and Westside resident Juan A. Cruz, joined by Triana, a talented artist recently arrived from Cuba, now living in Syracuse.

The project also explores baseball, the national pastime, as a social and cultural force within U.S. Latino communities and across Latin America, as it advances into the second year of its ongoing program: "Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues." This is part of a national community collecting and research initiative involving La Casita and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Robert Shetterly's portraits highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. We bring back this popular series with an entirely different collection of portraits from those we exhibited in 2010. This work, selected from over 200 paintings in the Americans Who Tell The Truth series, centers around the theme of "Finding Your Power" and includes portraits of several Central New York activists painted as a result of Shetterly's time in Syracuse. It highlights many individuals of humble beginnings who, despite their circumstance, or in some cases because of it, realized their power to affect change through their activism.

WOE: Globalized Sadness: Works by Juan Cavaellero
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

"WOE: Globalized Sadness" is an exhibition by Argentine artist Juan Cavallero that explores the borderless nature of human desperation and poverty. In this exhibition, Cavallero uses both photography and video to compel viewers to confront uncomfortable situations that are often ignored. By doing so, Cavallero aims to give back identify to countless individuals from around the world that have become invisible and forgotten.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
5:00 pm: Mood Swing
7:00 pm: Prime Time Horns
9:15 pm: Atlas

SMALL STAGE
11:30 am: Just Joe
4:30 pm: The Strangers
7:30 pm: Howie Bartolo

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

"What If...?" Film Series: Red, White and Blueprints (2013)

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

A Rust Belt documentary, directed by Jack Storey.

People in the Rust Belt are thick-skinned. After years of being mocked as a dried-up region with nothing left to offer America, its cities are now rising from the ashes of the past, looking ahead to their role in the future of the country. Red, White and Blueprints examines how cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Detroit have reinvented themselves and how they've partnered together to do it. Instead of competing, they're sharing ideas, working for a cause bigger than their own city limits. This new energy comes from an abundance of vibrant young adults whose hometown pride has motivated them to make a difference. Red, White and Blueprints is proof of the Rust Belt's incredible resiliency. With all the innovation and ingenuity this documentary spotlights, the region's best days may still be ahead.

The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion.

The Mellits Consort
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
OCC Recital Hall
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Mellits Consort is an ensemble devoted to the music of Marc Mellits. The music is both hard edged and rhythmic as well as lyrical and sultry. The repetitive nature of the sounds often propels the music forward, spiraling into groove patterns with soaring lyricism. The combinations of instrumentation and timbre results in a unique scoring always aware of moving the music forward. The ensemble has thrilled audiences throughout the US and in Europe, sometimes incorporating video.

Kevin Gallagher, electric guitar; Danny Tunick, amplified marimba; Cristina Buciu, amplified violin; Elizabeth Simkin, amplified cello; Marc Mellits, keyboard

Jazz@Sitrus: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Jersey Boys is the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the true story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide—all before they were 30! Jersey Boys features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

The Jersey Boys creative team comprises two-time Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bob Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

Jersey Boys is not recommended for children under the age of 12 due to strong "profane, authentic Jersey" language. The show also involves smoking, strobe lights, gun shots, and has a 2 hour and 35 minute run time (including a 15-minute intermission).

Read a review!

Witness for the Prosecution
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Pierce, director

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

Witness for the Prosecution centers on the case of Leonard Vole, an easy going, down-on-his-luck young man whose only crime is helping lonely, wealthy Emily French retrieve her packages from the street. The two become friends but after an evening of playing double solitaire, Miss French is found murdered and Vole is charged with the crime. Wilfred Robarts, the defense attorney for Vole matches wits with prosecutor Myers to prove Vole's innocence. Witnesses of all authorities testify, but it is the prosecution's witness who brings the case to an astonishing end. Known for her plot twists and surprise endings, Agatha Christie does not disappoint in this tightly woven courtroom drama.

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From Cuba to 'Cuse
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $10
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Cuba to 'Cuse is Jose Miguel's story of his journey from his homeland Cuba to Syracuse. His one-man play will take you through his transition and culture shock in the United States.

Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

This humorously irreverent musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment in search of his life's purpose. On his quest, he befriends the zany inhabitants of Avenue Q and, together, the group of misfits muddle through the trials and tribulations of adult life. Featuring a delightfully catchy score, the puppets—and humans—of Avenue Q sing their way through lay-offs, heartbreak, one-night stands, and more! Musical direction by Jacob Carll, choreography by Stephfond Brunson.

Read a Review!