Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

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

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

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

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

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

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

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

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

"What If...?" Film Series: Divide in Concord (2014)
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Divide in Concord is a documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America. In 1775, Concord patriots fired the infamous "shot heard round the world" that began a Revolution and defined a nation. Now a local 84-year-old woman has waged another seemingly unwinnable battle. For three years Jean Hill has been trying to rid the town of single-serve plastic bottles of water. Complete with strong opposition from local merchants and the bottled water industry, Jean is once again leading the controversial crusade.

Moderated discussion will follow.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Harper Lee's classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus' children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town. Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This inspiring truth underlies To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Scholastic Art Awards Show
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A selection of student artwork from the annual Scholastic Art Awards.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

Berry's collection highlights how ordinary household artifacts have distorted how generations of Americans view people of African descent as somehow less than human. Mainstream media may refer to a post-racial 21st-century America, but stereotypes and distortions of Black people persist nonetheless. This exhibition invites viewers to confront how everyday objects support and perpetuate racism. "I remember at a certain point in time there was an argument that Black people should seek to have this stuff destroyed," says Berry. "My position was that you always want to remember what happens when you allow someone to define who you are."

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Anouk Lenormand, cello; Sarah Thune, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Come enjoy your lunch hour with a recital filled with beautiful classical repertoire performed by two good friends sharing their passion.

Experience Hendrix
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Hailed by critics and fans alike as the "Guitar Event Of The Year," the multi-artist celebration known as the Experience Hendrix Tour presents legendary artists who join together to pay homage to Jimi Hendrix. Now in its second decade, the tour celebrates the musical genius of Jimi Hendrix by bringing together a diverse array of extraordinary musicians, ranging from blues legend Buddy Guy to Black Label Society and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, as well as Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa, and many others.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Harper Lee's classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus' children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town. Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This inspiring truth underlies To Kill a Mockingbird.

Read a Review!

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

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

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

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

Scholastic Art Awards Show
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A selection of student artwork from the annual Scholastic Art Awards.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

Berry's collection highlights how ordinary household artifacts have distorted how generations of Americans view people of African descent as somehow less than human. Mainstream media may refer to a post-racial 21st-century America, but stereotypes and distortions of Black people persist nonetheless. This exhibition invites viewers to confront how everyday objects support and perpetuate racism. "I remember at a certain point in time there was an argument that Black people should seek to have this stuff destroyed," says Berry. "My position was that you always want to remember what happens when you allow someone to define who you are."

Third Thursday Tour
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join us for a docent tour to get familiar with our temporary exhibitions and permanent collection.

Between Species
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Between Species" features work exploring the idea of "the animal" and attempts to imagine and engage with nonhuman animals through visual technologies. The group exhibition includes Sam Easterson's "Burrow-Cams," Leslie Thornton's "Binocular Menagerie," Robert Todd's "Undergrowth," and Maria Whiteman's "Touching Grizzly (Far from your home)" and "Loved you right up to the end."

Glengarry Bhoys
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dead Silent: Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

It's 1927 and local radio personality Nevelle Haspin invites you to the broadcast of a gala reception for silent film diva Lorraine Bowes who is making a film portraying hometown hero and notorious WWI spy Florence Goode a.k.a. Hata Mahma. Joining Lorraine will be her leading man, if he's sober, Roland DeHay, and Lorraine's agent, Harold "Hawk" Toohey. Arriving without an invitation is nationally syndicated gossip columnist Helena Handbasquet. Be careful. These celebrities autograph with poisoned pens.

Our Town
Central New York Playhouse
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

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

Thornton Wilder's classic drama follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually — in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre — die. Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.

Read a Review!

The God of Hell
Rarely Done Productions
C.J. Young, director

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

Set on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, the play follows the travails of a quiet Midwestern couple whose lives—and cattle—are sorely abused after the arrival of a nefarious government official. By Sam Shepard. Mature themes.

Read a Review!

Friday, March 18, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Scholastic Art Awards Show
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A selection of student artwork from the annual Scholastic Art Awards.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

Berry's collection highlights how ordinary household artifacts have distorted how generations of Americans view people of African descent as somehow less than human. Mainstream media may refer to a post-racial 21st-century America, but stereotypes and distortions of Black people persist nonetheless. This exhibition invites viewers to confront how everyday objects support and perpetuate racism. "I remember at a certain point in time there was an argument that Black people should seek to have this stuff destroyed," says Berry. "My position was that you always want to remember what happens when you allow someone to define who you are."

Between Species
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Between Species" features work exploring the idea of "the animal" and attempts to imagine and engage with nonhuman animals through visual technologies. The group exhibition includes Sam Easterson's "Burrow-Cams," Leslie Thornton's "Binocular Menagerie," Robert Todd's "Undergrowth," and Maria Whiteman's "Touching Grizzly (Far from your home)" and "Loved you right up to the end."

Jazz@Sitrus: Longwood Jazz Project
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Magpie
Folkus Project

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

With two strong voices in harmony and superb instrumental arrangements, their sound is powerful and moving.

With a career that has spanned 40 years, Magpie has traveled the globe, bringing its unique sound and breathtaking versatility to audiences everywhere. Award-winning recording artists, songwriters, musical historians, and social activists, Greg Artzner (vocals, harmony vocals, guitar, and English concertina) and Terry Leonino (vocals, harmony vocals, harmonica, mandolin, dulcimer, guitar, hand drum, and Native American flute) always promise a presentation that is highly entertaining as well as provocative and deeply moving.

Magpie performs various folk music styles, including traditional, classic blues, country, jazz, and Celtic, as well as songs by musical heroes including Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Jean Ritchie, Tom Paxton, Buffy St. Marie, etc. Magpie also writes and sings songs they have written, many of historical, cultural, and social interest, and with a large selection of songs focusing on Civil Rights and the environment. Terry and Greg's sound is that of two very strong voices, one female, one male, in powerful leads and two-part harmony, accompanied principally by Greg's virtuoso guitar arrangements, embellished by excellent complement from Terry's second guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and dulcimer. Theirs is a powerful sound, full of passion and fire, with a tremendous range and versatility.

John 5 and The Creatures, with After Earth, The Clocktown Giants
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Vince Gotera
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Vince Gotera is editor of the North American Review. He also teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Northern Iowa. His several poetry collections include Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, and the upcoming Pacific Crossing. He is also the author of Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans. His blog is The Man With the Blue Guitar. A Vietnam-era veteran, he served in the US Army during 1972-1975.

Pippin
Nottingham High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $10
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

For tickets or more information, visit www.jecsd.org/drama or call 315-689-8500, ext. 1701.

Our Town
Central New York Playhouse
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

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

Thornton Wilder's classic drama follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually — in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre — die. Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.

Read a Review!

The God of Hell
Rarely Done Productions
C.J. Young, director

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

Set on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, the play follows the travails of a quiet Midwestern couple whose lives—and cattle—are sorely abused after the arrival of a nefarious government official. By Sam Shepard. Mature themes.

Read a Review!

To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Harper Lee's classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus' children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town. Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This inspiring truth underlies To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Scholastic Art Awards Show
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A selection of student artwork from the annual Scholastic Art Awards.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

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

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

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

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

Berry's collection highlights how ordinary household artifacts have distorted how generations of Americans view people of African descent as somehow less than human. Mainstream media may refer to a post-racial 21st-century America, but stereotypes and distortions of Black people persist nonetheless. This exhibition invites viewers to confront how everyday objects support and perpetuate racism. "I remember at a certain point in time there was an argument that Black people should seek to have this stuff destroyed," says Berry. "My position was that you always want to remember what happens when you allow someone to define who you are."

Between Species
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Between Species" features work exploring the idea of "the animal" and attempts to imagine and engage with nonhuman animals through visual technologies. The group exhibition includes Sam Easterson's "Burrow-Cams," Leslie Thornton's "Binocular Menagerie," Robert Todd's "Undergrowth," and Maria Whiteman's "Touching Grizzly (Far from your home)" and "Loved you right up to the end."

One Take Super 8: Take Nine!

Price: $5 regular, filmmakers and children under 12 free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

This ninth annual One Take Super 8 showcase provides amateur and experienced filmmakers alike the opportunity to work in the near-extinct medium of Super 8 film.

Participants are given one reel of film (color or black & white), a Super 8 camera to borrow, and just one week to shoot their ideas, come hell or high water. Filmmakers have only "one take," or one chance, to get each shot in their film. There are no opportunities to re-take a shot, there is no editing, and the films are not previewed before the event, not even by the organizers.

"The limitations are what makes the event special", says festival co-organizer Tim Ferlito, "What goes into the camera, is what comes out. Nobody gets any second chances. If someone trips and falls in the middle of your shot—well, now that is part of your film! Special effects don't come from a computer, they come from toy models and your memory of how to make a science-class volcano. All of the filmmakers love seeing what creative solutions to storytelling the other participants have come up with."

For more information, visit the One Take Super 8 Event website.

Honoring Female Directors: Antonia's Line (1995)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Antonia's Line is a 1995 Dutch film written and directed by Marleen Gorris. The film, described as a "feminist fairy tale," tells the story of the independent Antonia who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community. The film covers a breadth of topics, with themes ranging from death and religion to sex, intimacy, lesbianism, friendship, and love. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards.

Pops Series: Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A multimedia event featuring the original scores paired with footage from Disney movies.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Harper Lee's classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus' children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town. Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This inspiring truth underlies To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Pippin
Nottingham High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $10
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

For tickets or more information, visit www.jecsd.org/drama or call 315-689-8500, ext. 1701.

Our Town
Central New York Playhouse
Liam Fitzpatrick, director

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

Thornton Wilder's classic drama follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually — in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre — die. Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

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

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

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

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

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

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

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

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Scholastic Art Awards Show
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A selection of student artwork from the annual Scholastic Art Awards.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Architect and Artist Jason Evans
Strathmore Speakers Series

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

Spring Sunday Showcase
Central New York Flute Choir

Price: Free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

It's time for our semi-annual Sunday Showcase! Members of the Central New York Flute Choir present an informal salon-style gathering, where we can show the music we are creating outside of the flute choir.

Origins of Jazz Series: From Ragtime to Swing
Liverpool Public Library
The Bear Cat Jass Band

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Classic jazz tunes from the 1920s, performed by Dick Ames (bandleader), Jeff Stockham (trumpet, cornet, valve trombone), Rob Robson (trumpet), Bill Palange (trombone), Jerry Exline (piano), Drew Frech (banjo), Mark Adamski (drums), Michael Cirmo (drums), Carl Borek (reeds), Tom McKay (reeds).

Introducing Ola Onabule
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

British-Nigerian soul-jazz singer Ola Onabule brings his singular life journey to our series. This artist, trained in law, builder of recording studios and record labels, has been presented to UNESCO and is now being considered as Peace/Goodwill Ambassador for Nigeria. He is still widening his American audience, and we are honored to be among that number. This will be his first appearance in Syracuse.

Allegro Youth Wind Ensembles
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Allegro Youth Wind Ensembles, part of the Setnor School of Music's community music division, are comprised of the Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble for high school students and the Poco Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble for middle school students. Allegro is directed by Terry Caviness, high school band director in Fulton, and Professor Justin Mertz of the Setnor School of Music. Poco Allegro is directed by Elizabeth Buell, band director in the Westhill School District. These varied groups of professionals, who participate in rehearsal and performance collaborations with students, make playing in the Allegro and Poco Youth Wind Ensembles a unique experience.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Sub Rosa Sessions: Tas Cru/Mary Ann Casale
Subcat Studios

Price: $20
SubCat Studios
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Sub Rosa Sessions are a live-recorded music series hosted every third Sunday of the month by singer-songwriter Amanda Rogers. Each month showcases two original artists—one local and one national. The admission charge includes the live intimate (30 capacity) acoustic concert, a professionally mixed and packaged limited-pressed CD immediately following the concert, and free wine and refreshments.

Pippin
Nottingham High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Monday, March 21, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

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

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

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

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

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

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

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

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

Three Blind Mice (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver, Pauline Moore, Binnie Barnes, Jane Darwell.

Three Kansas sisters travel to a California luxury resort in search of wealthy husbands in this fun comedy with an excellent cast.

Plus extra added comedy short: The Three Stooges in In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941). Three single sisters must quickly find husbands in order to collect a large inheritance...Enter Curly, Larry and Moe!

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of photographs by Irene Liu documenting a local youth football team over two seasons as it pursues wins and cultivates the virtues of sportsmanship.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring the works of over two dozen local artists from the Central New York area working in a variety of styles and materials and celebrating the friendly rivalry between the endearing pop culture icons of our era. The zaniest art show yet at The Tech Garden.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

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

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

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

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

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

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

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

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

It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California
914Works

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

In "It Could Be Paradise, But It's Only California," artist Tom Hall takes on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new, wild world that he recently moved to from England and where he has built himself the basics to survive.

Hall's journey takes a fresh look at the American myth. In the exhibition, he points to the false romantic past propagated by former President Theodore Roosevelt in his book, "The Winning of the West," which romanticizes the reality of the wild frontier; actor and former President Ronald Reagan living out a cowboy dream in the movies; and former President George W. Bush referencing the West and "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters in remarks following 9/11.

A resident of Syracuse, Hall graduated from London's Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an M.A. at London's Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and international shows since 1994, including exhibitions at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France; Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and commissions for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and a large roundabout for Eastbourne Council.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Between Us/Entre Nos: Installation Art by Alexis Disselkoen
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Between Us/Entre Nos" is a three-part installation and performance by artist Alexis Disselkoen. A flower-covered wall looms over the room as coffee-soaked sheets of paper cover the floor, shifting as bodies move through the space. Guests leave a footprint, and may take home the gift of a friendship bracelet, in matching pairs to be worn both by the artist and the viewer.

Disselkoen has long been fascinated with the research of human DNA migration patterns from all over the world. Using flowers as stand-ins, she examines ancestry and how each of us journeyed to be where where we are. With paper, she creates a ground surface that moves, shifts, recedes from view. This simple act asks: What happens when borders shift and the ground beneath us is politicized to create otherness among those who stand on it? A gift rounds off the experience by the simple act of exchange. What is at stake in everyday trades of commercial and non commercial goods?

All three elements work together in this installation to produce an experience that is directed by the spectator. What is the result when the audience can participate in the creation of a work? Using both the space and viewership generates a setting of artistic and interpersonal exchange where one's single interpretation is not the precedent. It is about all the makers of meaning (the artist and the viewer) coming together to trade their experiences.

An Evening with Don Garber
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sports fans and those interested in the business of sports are in for a treat with Don Garber, commissioner of Major League Soccer (MLS) and CEO of Soccer United Marketing. During Garber's tenure (since 1999) of North America's premier professional soccer league, MLS has expanded from 10 to 23 teams and added 20 new owners. Garber has also led the development of more than a dozen soccer-specific stadiums in the United States and Canada. In 2002, he created Soccer United Marketing (SUM), an affiliate of MLS and one of the world's leading commercial soccer companies, representing the U.S. Soccer Federation, the Mexican Soccer Federation and CONCACAF. In 2014, Garber secured landmark television and media rights agreements for MLS with ESPN, FOX Sports and Univision Deportes, an unprecedented accomplishment for the sport in the United States.

Phi Mu Alpha Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Syracuse University chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national fraternity for men of music, will present a recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.