Friday, February 13, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibition: Carving Through Borders
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Carving Through Borders is a collaboration between the Syracuse University Printmaking Program and CultureStrike, a San Francisco based non-profit whose mission is to leverage culture and the arts to raise awareness about immigration policies in the United States in support of cultural change.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron. Organized by Dr. Jennifer L. Streb, Curator at the Juniata College Museum of Art, with assistance from Christiane Citron, the exhibition presents over 50 paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media constructions.

American painter and printmaker Minna Citron's (1896–1991) New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad. Citron was an artist at the forefront of major artistic movements of the 20th century, as well as directly connected to the central figures of those movements, and she was a well-known figure in the New York art world.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino, the award-winning youth theater program of The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an exhibition of memorabilia, photos, handcrafted props and costumes that document an extraordinary 15-year trajectory.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Black Bullets" (2012) by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers is an architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art, beginning at dusk. This exhibition is presented as part of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Jeannette Ehlers' haunting piece is inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791, which resulted in the world's first black republic. Filmed on location at La Citadelle in Haiti, the piece is a tribute to the act of revolt.

Jeannette Ehlers is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A 2006 graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Ehlers' works revolve around the Danish slave trade in the colonial era. She is of Danish and Trinidadian parentage.

Ensemble Series: What the Funk?
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

OrangeNote at the Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

*SOLD OUT* Loren Barrigar & Mark Mazengarb
Folkus Project

Price: $18 regular, $15 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Concert rescheduled from Jan. 9. If you bought a ticket for the original Jan. 9 show, that ticket is still good. If you now need a refund, e-mail tickets@folkus.org.

The area's favorite international guitar duo is moving over to May Memorial for this year's annual show.

The international duo of Loren Barrigar (from Central New York) and Mark Mazengarb (from New Zealand) first met at a guitar camp with Tommy Emmanuel in 2005 and have been touring extensively on both the USA and Europe ever since. They share a unique musical chemistry and stage presence seldom found among musicians. Their varied repertoire of original and arranged music consists of stunning guitar duets as well as songs, giving them wide appeal. Their music is influenced by Bluegrass, Jazz, and Old-time/Country; their style of guitar playing is largely built upon the thumb-picking techniques pioneered by guitar greats Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, and their songs feature Loren's superb vocals and some beautiful harmonies from Mark. Loren and Mark have headlined guitar festivals in both the USA and Europe and their fan base is rapidly increasing. In the short time the pair have been together, they have attracted the attention of several notable industry artists which has seen them perform with guitar sensation Tommy Emmanuel and record with five-time Grammy winner Lloyd Maines.

Loren and Mark recorded their first album together in the summer of 2011 which won a SAMMY (Syracuse Area Music Awards) for Best Album at the Northeast Music Industry Conference, and their most recent album Onward (released August 2012) also won a SAMMY for Best Americana Album. The title track Onward won first place at the International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA 2013) for best instrumental.

Marissa Mulder: Live In Concert
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Marissa Mulder grew up in Syracuse, moved to New York City in 2007, and has gone on to become one of the most successful young cabaret artists on the NY scene. In 2011, she beat out 60 other singers to win the MetroStar Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, an American Idol type contest for up-and-coming cabaret artists. Since then she has performed in several of her own shows. She is the winner of the 2013 Noel Coward and Julie Wilson Award which were presented to her at Lincoln Center where she also sang. She was the winner of the 2014 MAC award for Major Artist and Album Of The Year (Tom Waits...In His Words). At the end of 2013, TimeOut NY named Marissa, "Rising Star of The Year". She was a featured guest and singer on Piano Jazz hosted by Jon Weber on NPR. In New York City, She has performed at The Carlyle, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Algonquin Hotel, 54 Below, Joe's Pub, and many others.

A Little Night Music
Syracuse Opera

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

With a score by Stephen Sondheim, February in Syracuse heats up with an enchanting new production of A Little Night Music. Filled with memories of past loves and lost worlds, this charming piece is full of love, regret, and desire. The beloved ballad, Send in the Clowns, is featured alongside other familiar and evocative tunes to capture the wit and sophistication of this epic tale. Whether it is presented on the Broadway or operatic stage, the work remains breathtaking.

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Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $7-$15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Is Hamlet a grieving son? A doting lover? A leader of the people? Or is he no more than a self-indulgent youth wreaking havoc wherever he goes? Who can you trust when power, money, and love are on the line? Join us as we bring Shakespeare's classic revenge tragedy into today's world, where the banks hold the power and everyone is struggling to find their place. Pick your side.

Free child care for all ticket holders.

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RFK
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

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

By late summer, 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was a deeply wounded man. Still in shock and consumed with grief and guilt over the assassination of his older brother, he was at a crossroads. The 1964 presidential election was approaching and President Lyndon Johnson, who had been dangling the possibility of a vice-presidential role to RFK, finally called Kennedy over to the White House to tell him his decision. Written by Jack Holmes.

The Onondaga Historical Association is co-producing the historical dramas Mrs. Lincoln and RFK, which will perform in repertoire, Feb. 15 through March 1.

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Clybourne Park
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

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

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron. Organized by Dr. Jennifer L. Streb, Curator at the Juniata College Museum of Art, with assistance from Christiane Citron, the exhibition presents over 50 paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media constructions.

American painter and printmaker Minna Citron's (1896–1991) New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad. Citron was an artist at the forefront of major artistic movements of the 20th century, as well as directly connected to the central figures of those movements, and she was a well-known figure in the New York art world.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Black Bullets" (2012) by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers is an architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art, beginning at dusk. This exhibition is presented as part of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Jeannette Ehlers' haunting piece is inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791, which resulted in the world's first black republic. Filmed on location at La Citadelle in Haiti, the piece is a tribute to the act of revolt.

Jeannette Ehlers is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A 2006 graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Ehlers' works revolve around the Danish slave trade in the colonial era. She is of Danish and Trinidadian parentage.

Mark Allnatt Bluegrass
Steeple Coffee House

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

New and traditional bluegrass

Spark Concert: Sweet Encounters: Music & Art
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Featuring Ken Meyer, guitar

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faure Pavane
Mahler Symphony No. 5, "Adagietto"
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Tchaikovsky Serenade

Marissa Mulder: Live In Concert
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Marissa Mulder grew up in Syracuse, moved to New York City in 2007, and has gone on to become one of the most successful young cabaret artists on the NY scene. In 2011, she beat out 60 other singers to win the MetroStar Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, an American Idol type contest for up-and-coming cabaret artists. Since then she has performed in several of her own shows. She is the winner of the 2013 Noel Coward and Julie Wilson Award which were presented to her at Lincoln Center where she also sang. She was the winner of the 2014 MAC award for Major Artist and Album Of The Year (Tom Waits...In His Words). At the end of 2013, TimeOut NY named Marissa, "Rising Star of The Year". She was a featured guest and singer on Piano Jazz hosted by Jon Weber on NPR. In New York City, She has performed at The Carlyle, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Algonquin Hotel, 54 Below, Joe's Pub, and many others.

Second Saturday Series: Merry Mischief and Genesee Ted
Westcott Community Center

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

A double-bill combining two of the area's most musically uplifting acts--Merry Mischief's renaissance-ready period music meets Ted's combo of old-timey bluegrass and classic country.

A World of Puppets TBA
Open Hand Theater

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

An exciting puppet performance for kids of all ages. Join us for a surprise story with all of your favorite things: puppets, music, and lively entertainment.

UP CLOSE: A Look Inside the Story
Join us at 10:00 am for a hands-on activity hour suitable for children as young as 3, with an accompanying parent, and anyone who wants a more in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance. Cost is $5 per child, free for accompanying parent.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

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Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $7-$15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Is Hamlet a grieving son? A doting lover? A leader of the people? Or is he no more than a self-indulgent youth wreaking havoc wherever he goes? Who can you trust when power, money, and love are on the line? Join us as we bring Shakespeare's classic revenge tragedy into today's world, where the banks hold the power and everyone is struggling to find their place. Pick your side.

Free child care for all ticket holders.

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RFK
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

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

By late summer, 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was a deeply wounded man. Still in shock and consumed with grief and guilt over the assassination of his older brother, he was at a crossroads. The 1964 presidential election was approaching and President Lyndon Johnson, who had been dangling the possibility of a vice-presidential role to RFK, finally called Kennedy over to the White House to tell him his decision. Written by Jack Holmes.

The Onondaga Historical Association is co-producing the historical dramas Mrs. Lincoln and RFK, which will perform in repertoire, Feb. 15 through March 1.

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Clybourne Park
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

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

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron. Organized by Dr. Jennifer L. Streb, Curator at the Juniata College Museum of Art, with assistance from Christiane Citron, the exhibition presents over 50 paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media constructions.

American painter and printmaker Minna Citron's (1896–1991) New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad. Citron was an artist at the forefront of major artistic movements of the 20th century, as well as directly connected to the central figures of those movements, and she was a well-known figure in the New York art world.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Tracing Italian Immigrant History to the Italian American Present
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Salvatore Primeggia

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

From those who established Little Italy "villages" within our cities, to the fourth-generation upholders of ethnic neighborhoods, businesses, and traditions, the Italian immigrant legacy is a cultural imprint that continues to enrich the physical and social landscapes of our nation. What pushed so many Italians to leave their country between 1880 and 1924? What pulled these immigrants to New York City, as well as other American destinations? How did Old World attachments shape their responses to New World challenges? These questions are addressed as we examine the issues and impacts, past and present, of Italian immigration to the United States.

Salvatore Primeggia, who received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, presently holds the position of Professor of Sociology at Adelphi University. Dr. Primeggia has served as a contributor and participant in PBS Channel 21's widely acclaimed videos, The Italian-Americans: Part 1, and Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July. Primeggia has been a co-editor of The Italian-American Experience: An Encyclopedia; Saints in the Lives of Italian-Americans; and Models and Images of Catholicism in Italian-Americana: Academy and Society.

For more information about this event contact Dennis Connors by phone at 315-428-1864 by email at Dennis.Connors@cnyhistory.org.

Sing the 60's with Folkstrings, and special guest Alan Taylor
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sing-a-long with songs by Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, John Denver, The Beatles, and more.

Black History Month Cabaret with Antoinette Montague
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Solomon Hicks

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

This time (her third visit) Antoinette brings her new A-list band including Danny Mixon on piano and the great Bobby Sanabria on drums. She'll be ripping it up with selections from her upcoming recording, and unveiling 19-year-old protégé Solomon Hicks on guitar and vocals. Think Etta James and an emerging George Benson and you'll get a feel for how exciting this gig will be, hosted by Antoinette, the original "NY Jazz, Blues & Beyond" entertainer! And we've added an opening act--Main Squeeze, Redemption, and Groovestand--not one or two, but three of S.U.'s finest a cappella groups!

Student Recital Series: Guy Johanson, oboe/horn
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

A Little Night Music
Syracuse Opera

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

With a score by Stephen Sondheim, February in Syracuse heats up with an enchanting new production of A Little Night Music. Filled with memories of past loves and lost worlds, this charming piece is full of love, regret, and desire. The beloved ballad, Send in the Clowns, is featured alongside other familiar and evocative tunes to capture the wit and sophistication of this epic tale. Whether it is presented on the Broadway or operatic stage, the work remains breathtaking.

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Clybourne Park
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $17
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

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Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $7-$15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Is Hamlet a grieving son? A doting lover? A leader of the people? Or is he no more than a self-indulgent youth wreaking havoc wherever he goes? Who can you trust when power, money, and love are on the line? Join us as we bring Shakespeare's classic revenge tragedy into today's world, where the banks hold the power and everyone is struggling to find their place. Pick your side.

Free child care for all ticket holders.

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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

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What's Love Got To Do With It: The Morning After Valentine's Day
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring Bob Brown, Cathy O'Brien Brown, Erin & Ben Sills, Stephond Brunson and Donnie Williams, with Abel Searor.

Monday, February 16, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibition: Carving Through Borders
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Carving Through Borders is a collaboration between the Syracuse University Printmaking Program and CultureStrike, a San Francisco based non-profit whose mission is to leverage culture and the arts to raise awareness about immigration policies in the United States in support of cultural change.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino, the award-winning youth theater program of The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an exhibition of memorabilia, photos, handcrafted props and costumes that document an extraordinary 15-year trajectory.

Remembering Why We Struggle: Reflections on Selma Then & Now
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

As a complement to our current exhibition, "Selma to Montgomery at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron," we have invited CNY residents who can honestly be called Civil Rights Veterans, to join us in a panel discussion and presentation. We will look at the lessons of the 60s Civil Rights Movement and what it means to our country's streets, schools and lives today.

Panelists are retired Judge Langston McKinney, Civil Rights activist John Brulé and SU Professor/Director of the Cold Case Initiative, Paula Johnson. The evening will be moderated by CNY ACLU Director, Barrie Gewanter.

Flashdance The Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With electrifying dance at its core, Flashdance The Musical tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel mill welder by day and a bar dancer by night with dreams of one day becoming a professional performer. When romance with her steel mill boss threatens to complicate her ambitions, Alex learns the meaning of love and its power to fuel the pursuit of her dream.

Flashdance The Musical features a score that includes the biggest hit songs from the movie, including the Academy Award-winning title song "Flashdance--What a Feeling," "Maniac," "Gloria," "Manhunt," and "I Love Rock & Roll."

In addition to these hits, 16 brand new songs have been written for the musical with music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth. The show features a book by Tom Hedley (co-writer of the original screenplay), and Robert Cary with direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibition: Carving Through Borders
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Carving Through Borders is a collaboration between the Syracuse University Printmaking Program and CultureStrike, a San Francisco based non-profit whose mission is to leverage culture and the arts to raise awareness about immigration policies in the United States in support of cultural change.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron. Organized by Dr. Jennifer L. Streb, Curator at the Juniata College Museum of Art, with assistance from Christiane Citron, the exhibition presents over 50 paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media constructions.

American painter and printmaker Minna Citron's (1896–1991) New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad. Citron was an artist at the forefront of major artistic movements of the 20th century, as well as directly connected to the central figures of those movements, and she was a well-known figure in the New York art world.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino, the award-winning youth theater program of The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an exhibition of memorabilia, photos, handcrafted props and costumes that document an extraordinary 15-year trajectory.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Goldenberg Cultural Series: Postcards From Around the World
Temple Society of Concord
Martha Grener, flute; Ida Tili Trebicka, piano

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

An evening of tone tasting from the USA to Europe to China and back home again, performed by SAMMY-award-winning flutist Martha Grener and pianist Ida Tili Trebicka, piano professor at SU and much sought-after collaborative artist. There will be beautiful sounds for everyone to enjoy!

Flashdance The Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With electrifying dance at its core, Flashdance The Musical tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel mill welder by day and a bar dancer by night with dreams of one day becoming a professional performer. When romance with her steel mill boss threatens to complicate her ambitions, Alex learns the meaning of love and its power to fuel the pursuit of her dream.

Flashdance The Musical features a score that includes the biggest hit songs from the movie, including the Academy Award-winning title song "Flashdance--What a Feeling," "Maniac," "Gloria," "Manhunt," and "I Love Rock & Roll."

In addition to these hits, 16 brand new songs have been written for the musical with music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth. The show features a book by Tom Hedley (co-writer of the original screenplay), and Robert Cary with direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibition: Carving Through Borders
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Carving Through Borders is a collaboration between the Syracuse University Printmaking Program and CultureStrike, a San Francisco based non-profit whose mission is to leverage culture and the arts to raise awareness about immigration policies in the United States in support of cultural change.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron. Organized by Dr. Jennifer L. Streb, Curator at the Juniata College Museum of Art, with assistance from Christiane Citron, the exhibition presents over 50 paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media constructions.

American painter and printmaker Minna Citron's (1896–1991) New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad. Citron was an artist at the forefront of major artistic movements of the 20th century, as well as directly connected to the central figures of those movements, and she was a well-known figure in the New York art world.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino, the award-winning youth theater program of The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an exhibition of memorabilia, photos, handcrafted props and costumes that document an extraordinary 15-year trajectory.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the Worlds Greatest Art Heist
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Stephen Kurkjian

Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The definitive story of one of the greatest art thefts in history. Stephen Kurkjian's reporting is responsible for some of the biggest breaks in this story, including a meticulous reconstruction of what happened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that night in 1990. Kurkjian reveals the identities of those he believes plotted the heist, the motive for the crime, and yet undisclosed details. Taking you on a journey deep into the gangs of Boston, Kurkjian emerges with the most complete and compelling account of this infamous crime yet to be told.

Stephen Kurkjian is one of the most acclaimed investigative reporters in the country. A veteran of The Boston Globe, he is the paper's former Washington Bureau Chief and a founding member of its investigative Spotlight Team. Kurkjian has won more than 25 national and regional awards including the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions. He is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and lives in Boston.

Lunchtime Lecture: Lucinda Edingerg, Pushing the Line Gallery Tour
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Music School of CNY Guitar Ensemble with John Ferrara
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Renaissance and baroque music as well as Spanish and Latin American favorites.

Above & Beyond
Creative Concerts

F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Flashdance The Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With electrifying dance at its core, Flashdance The Musical tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel mill welder by day and a bar dancer by night with dreams of one day becoming a professional performer. When romance with her steel mill boss threatens to complicate her ambitions, Alex learns the meaning of love and its power to fuel the pursuit of her dream.

Flashdance The Musical features a score that includes the biggest hit songs from the movie, including the Academy Award-winning title song "Flashdance--What a Feeling," "Maniac," "Gloria," "Manhunt," and "I Love Rock & Roll."

In addition to these hits, 16 brand new songs have been written for the musical with music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth. The show features a book by Tom Hedley (co-writer of the original screenplay), and Robert Cary with direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

Local Color: Watercolors by Ceil Pigula
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibition: Carving Through Borders
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Carving Through Borders is a collaboration between the Syracuse University Printmaking Program and CultureStrike, a San Francisco based non-profit whose mission is to leverage culture and the arts to raise awareness about immigration policies in the United States in support of cultural change.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Inside/Out
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Provocateur: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of the Civil War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Assistant Professor of American art history Sascha Scott and her graduate students, in consultation with Curator of Collections David Prince, developed this exhibition of Homer's Civil War illustrations as part of a seminar entitled Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

The Shadow of Industry: The Prints of Carol Wax
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibit is curated by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti.

This presentation continues the yearlong celebration of women and the arts at the SU Art Galleries. Smaller in-depth examinations of women drawn from the permanent collection will be installed in the Study Galleries, including three shows that focus on female sculptors, master photographer Barbara Morgan, and important printmaking workshops that each were founded by women in the 1950s and 1960s.

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
Syracuse University Art Museum