Wednesday, October 15, 2014

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

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

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

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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In The Body of Justice
University Lectures
Featuring Eve Ensler

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler's work The Vagina Monologues has been translated into over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment), and has run for 10 years in Mexico City and Paris. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls which raises funds and awareness through benefit productions and other artistic works. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions. Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive. V-Day's newest campaign, ONE BILLION RISING launched in February 2012, and has been active on the Syracuse University campus through the student group Students Advocating Sexual Safety and Empowerment (SASSE).

Ensler travelled to Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007 to meet with and learn from women survivors of violence. It was these women who birthed the idea of the City of Joy, a place to live in community so that they could heal. V-Day opened the City of Joy with a high-profile ceremony in February 2011 and the first class of women began in June 2011.

Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle
Civic Morning Musicals
Megan Nielson, soprano; Zachary James, bass; Jonathan Rose, piano

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

One-act opera.

SU Faculty Recital Series: Steve Heyman, piano; Harumi Rhodes, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Papadosio, with Twiddle
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

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

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

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

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Ruth Putter: A Photography Retrospective
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 as part of Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art walk.

Ruth Putter (1919-2014) was a talented photographer, committed social justice activist and feminist. As a young photographer living in New York City, Ruth was influenced by the "Decisive Moment" work of Henri Cartier Bresson, and she joined the progressive Photo League.

In Syracuse, she worked with Fred Demarest of Syracuse University. Her photographs have been published in national photography and feminist publications, and she is the co-author of "The Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice." Her body of work documents more than 70 years of peace and social justice movements, civil rights and feminism.

Shining Water's Eastern Shore: Oil Paintings by Bob Niedzwiecki
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

This exhibition is a series of paintings inspired by 30 years of observation of the beauty, variety and magic of the Eastern Shore of Lake Ontario.

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

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00, as part of Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art walk.

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

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

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

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

Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

An Evening with David Sedaris

Price: $38-$53
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The celebrated NPR humorist comes Syracuse for an evening of cutting wit, social satire, and riveting conversation, including a question and answer session. In celebration of his latest bestselling New York Times release Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, experience live the hilarious brilliance that created the national bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When Your Are Engulfed in Flames and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.

Tickets are available at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State St.), by phone at 315-435-2121, or online at ticketmaster.com.

Sound Remedy, with Dasiii, DG, DJ Dezz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Murder Most Faire
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Henry King the Eighth is experiencing a royal pain. His Sperling Renaissance Faire is failing and with it his family fortune. Ye Goode Olde Days seem gone for good but his scheming lawyer has come up with a knavish plan that just might save him. He now must match wits with a fortune teller in search of fortune, a queen who will do anything to keep her throne, and a preening knight with a serious case of lance envy. Drink deeply from your mead and hang onto your codpiece. The affairs of this Faire may soon turn deadly.

The Last Five Years
Encore Presentations

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine's 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show's longevity and spurred by the show's regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

For more information, phone 315-455-8654.

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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Friday, October 17, 2014

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

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

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

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

Lewis Black: The Rant is Due

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

Grammy Award-winning stand-up comedian Lewis Black is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today. He executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Receiving critical acclaim, his live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. He is a passionate performer who is a more pissed-off optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon. Lewis is the rare comic who can cause an audience to laugh themselves into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world.

Lewis Black came into national prominence with his appearances on The Daily Show in 1996. Those appearances led to comedy specials on HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime and Epix. In 2001, he won the Best Male Stand-Up at the American Comedy Awards. He has released eight comedy albums, including the 2007 Grammy Award-winning "The Carnegie Hall Performance." Lewis Black won his second Grammy Award for his album "Stark Raving Black." Lewis has published three bestselling books: Nothing's Sacred (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Me of Little Faith (Riverhead Books, 2008) and I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas (Riverhead Books, 2010).

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

La Camioneta
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Donations
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Engineers Without Borders Syracuse Professionals is showing the multi-award-winning documentary film, "La Camioneta" as a fundraiser for its sanitation project in the rural community of Las Majadas, Guatemala, to help provide bathrooms and hand-washing facilities for 300+ children who attend the local school.

Before the film there will be Guatemalan snacks (and beverages), a rolling slide show of images from the project site, and a chance to learn more about the project from the EWB participants. "La Camioneta" follows the journey of a decommissioned American school bus on its transformative journey to Guatemala: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.

Jazz @ Sitrus: E.S.P.
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Performing original jazz tunes rooted in bebop, groove and world music traditions, this Syracuse-based quartet is the real deal. E.S.P.'s captivating recordings have played on radio stations in over 120 cities worldwide. The group's last recording, "Time's Up!," became a #3 hit on the jazz charts and was featured in JAZZIZ Magazine. Its album of the same name won a SAMMY award for best jazz CD of the year in 2010.

In addition to putting on their own sell-out shows, the members of E.S.P. have opened for many big names in jazz such as Chris Botti, The Rippingtons and Jeff Kashiwa's Sax Pack. They have also backed jazz greats like New York Voices, Joey DeFrancisco and Martha Reeves.

Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Kung Fu, with Gridline, Chop Shop
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Christine Kitano
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Christine Kitano is the author of Birds of Paradise (Lynx House, 2011). Her work has earned several awards, most recently an Emerging Writer Fellowship from The Writer's Center. She graduated from the MFA program at Syracuse University and is completing a PhD at Texas Tech University. She teaches creative writing at Ithaca College where she is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Recent poems are published or forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, and Miramar.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

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

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and 22 days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam.

Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

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Evil Dead: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Based on Sam Raimi's 80s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. Evil Dead: The Musical unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," "Look Who's Evil Now" and "Do the Necronomicon."

Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt, music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Music directed by Abel Searor.

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The Last Five Years
Encore Presentations

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine's 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show's longevity and spurred by the show's regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

For more information, phone 315-455-8654.

Ballad of the Sad Cafe
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This haunting Americana classic spins the strange and captivating story of the rise and fall of a small depression-era town and the doomed romance that poisons it. Featuring live music by the Salt City Gentleman Ramblers, this southern gothic tale is an unforgettable tribute to the power of story-telling. Adapted to the stage by Edward Albee from the novella by Carson McCullers.

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Die Mommie Die
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Retired singing star, Angela Arden heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a tennis instructor, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspects foul play and wants Lance's help in proving mom's guilt. Lance, who loves his mother deeply, is conflicted. Will Edith succeed? Does love lurk somewhere? And what about Angela's long dead sister, Barbara?

If you liked last season's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (also by Charles Busch), then you'll love the murder, intrigue and craziness that is Die Mommie Die!

Mature themes -- no children admitted.

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Lab Series: A Number
Redhouse
Kyle Bass, director

Price: $10 (only 40 seats available)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

When a father is confronted by his three sons, including two clones of the original, issues of guilt, regret, parental failing, and accountability tear open the father-son relationship and jar notions of human individuality. By Caryl Churchill.

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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Saturday, October 18, 2014

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

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

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

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

Annual Pottery Garage Sale
Independent Potters Association

Shenfeld Studio
6361 Thompson Rd., Syracuse

The IPA's annual pottery garage sale features 22 participating artists.

For those who have never been to the garage sale, it goes like this: There's an 8:30 am preview for you to scope out the pots and spot the best bargains. These pots will be priced to SELL -- mostly seconds and older stock. At 9:00 am, the bell rings, and it's a mad dash! Please bring boxes to carry home your treasures. Cash or check only.

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

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

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

6th Annual Salt Market

Price: $2 suggested donation
Sky Armory
315 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

At this year's market you'll discover an incredible selection of handmade wares from 55+ exhibiting artists and designers, including 16 first-time Salt vendors, plus local music spread over both floors.

Music:
10:00 am: John McConnell music
11:30 am: The Witching Hour
1:00 pm: Papership
2:30 pm: Greg Maslyn
4:00 pm: The Nudes

For more information, visit www.saltmarketsyracuse.com.

Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

Ivy (1947)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Ivy ... pity the men in her life! In this Gothic/film noir hybrid, Ivy spells chills as a reckless Edwardian beauty with a poisonous hunger for seduction and wealth. Dazzlingly shot and costumed gaslight melodrama with a "tour de force performance" (NY Times) by its Oscar-winning star. A forgotten film gem, and Cannes Film Festival entry. Directed by Sam Wood with Joan Fontaine.

John Carpenter's Halloween
Palace Theatre

Price: $10-$15
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Digitally restored and remastered by the film's cinematographer Dean Cundey.

Little Red Riding Hood
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse Opera

Price: $10 each, or $25 for a family of four or more
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Enjoy a special performance by Syracuse Opera, just for families. See the story of Little Red Riding Hood brought to life through song.

Stop by before the performance for hands-on art making! Use your creativity to transform yourself into characters from the show by making your very own mask of Little Red Riding Hood or the big bad wolf.

Tickets available at syracuseopera.com.

Masterworks: Colleagues Across Borders
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Featuring Alexander Kobrin, piano

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

Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 19
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 7
Dvorak Symphony No. 7
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Here we have a kind of teacher-student relationship (or at least a mentor relationship): Brahms helped Dvorak get published. Dvorak modeled this symphony after Brahms and was inspired to write his Slavonic Dances by Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Dvorak also orchestrated some of the Brahms Dances, including the one on this concert.

Psalms and Poetry
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
John Warren, conductor
Featuring Ken Meyer, guitar

Price: $20 adults, $18 seniors, $5 students
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Psalm settings from across the ages open this concert filled with poetry old and new. Featured composers include Schutz, Palestrina, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Stanford, Knauf, Clausen, and Dello Joio. Settings of Walt Whitman poetry complete this presentation. The concert's centerpiece, Jeffrey Van's A Procession Winding Around Me: Four Civil War Poems, features Kenneth Meyer on guitar.

Electron, with Solaris, Horizon Wireless, Ocupanther
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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My Name is Rachel Corrie
CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel
Featuring Ashley Malloy

Price: $8-$15 sliding scale
University United Methodist Church
1085 E. Genesee St. (corner of University Ave.), Syracuse

An intense one-woman drama about the death of a young American woman in Palestine at the hands of Israelis.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

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

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and 22 days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam.

Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

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Evil Dead: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Based on Sam Raimi's 80s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. Evil Dead: The Musical unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," "Look Who's Evil Now" and "Do the Necronomicon."

Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt, music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Music directed by Abel Searor.

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The Last Five Years
Encore Presentations

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine's 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show's longevity and spurred by the show's regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

For more information, phone 315-455-8654.

Ballad of the Sad Cafe
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This haunting Americana classic spins the strange and captivating story of the rise and fall of a small depression-era town and the doomed romance that poisons it. Featuring live music by the Salt City Gentleman Ramblers, this southern gothic tale is an unforgettable tribute to the power of story-telling. Adapted to the stage by Edward Albee from the novella by Carson McCullers.

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Die Mommie Die
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Retired singing star, Angela Arden heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a tennis instructor, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspects foul play and wants Lance's help in proving mom's guilt. Lance, who loves his mother deeply, is conflicted. Will Edith succeed? Does love lurk somewhere? And what about Angela's long dead sister, Barbara?

If you liked last season's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (also by Charles Busch), then you'll love the murder, intrigue and craziness that is Die Mommie Die!

Mature themes -- no children admitted.

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Lab Series: A Number
Redhouse
Kyle Bass, director

Price: $10 (only 40 seats available)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

When a father is confronted by his three sons, including two clones of the original, issues of guilt, regret, parental failing, and accountability tear open the father-son relationship and jar notions of human individuality. By Caryl Churchill.

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Rosemary DeHoog: So You Want to be a Pro?
University Neighbors Lecture Series

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

In her 30 years of experience as the head tennis professional at Drumlins Tennis Club, Rosemary DeHoog has been responsible for providing high-level teaching and programming services. She also taught private lessons at all levels, ranging from pee-wee programs on up. In 2007, DeHoog became just the 13th woman in the United States Professional Tennis Association to attain master professional certification.

Sunday Musicale: Jim Spadafore and friends
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Featuring Jim Spadafore on saxophone, Joe Carfagno on piano, Jim Herkimer on bass, and Dave Baker on drums and vocals.

The Hanna Richardson Trio
Liverpool Public Library

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

The trio, comprised of Hanna Richardson (guitar & vocals), Brian Earle (clarinet), and Harry Aceto (bass), will perform classic American music from the great songwriters of the Swing Era.

Organ Recital: Jillian Gardner

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Columbus Circle, Syracuse

Jillian Gardner, of Lee Center, is a senior at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, where she is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Organ Performance with James David Christie and a minor in historical performance, harpsichord, with Webb Wiggins. She has also studied with Jack Mitchener and the distinguished visiting professor of organ, Marie-Louise Langlais. She began her study of organ at age 14 with Stephen Best of Utica.

In competition, Gardner has won the first place award in the Buffal, NY,o American Guild of Organists Quimby chapter level competition in 2013. In 2014, she also won first place in the Tuesday Musical Club Association Scholarship competition in Akron, OH. As an active recitalist, Gardner has performed in notable venues including Grace Episcopal Church in Utica, St. Joseph's Cathedral in Buffalo, and the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford, CT. She was an artist at the 2014 Organ Historical Society Convention holiday in Syracuse and looks forward to a concert tour in the United Kingdom in July of 2015.

Psalms and Poetry
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
John Warren, conductor
Featuring Ken Meyer, guitar

Price: $20 adults, $18 seniors, $5 students
University United Methodist Church
1085 E. Genesee St. (corner of University Ave.), Syracuse

Psalm settings from across the ages open this concert filled with poetry old and new. Featured composers include Schutz, Palestrina, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Stanford, Knauf, Clausen, and Dello Joio. Settings of Walt Whitman poetry complete this presentation. The concert's centerpiece, Jeffrey Van's A Procession Winding Around Me: Four Civil War Poems, features Kenneth Meyer on guitar.

A Fall Festival of Choirs
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Price: $15-$22
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The Skaneateles Middle School Select Choir, directed by Colleen Anna, and Main Squeeze, Syracuse University Women's A Cappella ensemble, directed by Rachel Heyman, will share the stage with the Syracuse Children's Chorus for an uplifting afternoon of song.

Audience members will enjoy musical selections from a variety of genres and marvel at the sound of over 150 voices joining together for a combined finale, On Top of the World, arranged by Da'Jon James, Director of SCC's Young Men's Ensemble, Tenuto.

Evil Dead: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Based on Sam Raimi's 80s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. Evil Dead: The Musical unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," "Look Who's Evil Now" and "Do the Necronomicon."

Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt, music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Music directed by Abel Searor.

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Lab Series: A Number
Redhouse
Kyle Bass, director

Price: $10 (only 40 seats available)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

When a father is confronted by his three sons, including two clones of the original, issues of guilt, regret, parental failing, and accountability tear open the father-son relationship and jar notions of human individuality. By Caryl Churchill.

Parade
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Daring, innovative, and bold, Parade won well-earned Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story. As Frank seethes with the injustice of his conviction, his wife Lucille finds untapped reserves of love and strength to become his greatest champion. A passionate and powerful work of musical theater. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived by Harold Prince.

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The Last Five Years
Encore Presentations

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine's 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show's longevity and spurred by the show's regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

For more information, phone 315-455-8654.

Monday, October 20, 2014

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

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Flashback Mondays: Argo
Palace Theatre

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

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery