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Events for Sunday, May 17, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM *SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical Redhouse (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:30 PM Children's Cancer Gone Country: Craig Morgan, with TJ Sacco, PEP, Dirt Road Ruckus Paper Mill Island

1:00 PM-4:00 PM The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone Studio 24

2:00 PM Romeo and Juliet Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Live! At the Everson: Program of American Music Civic Morning Musicals

2:30 PM Scott Harrison Syracuse Wurlitzer

6:00 PM Ruddy Well Band and TBA Subcat Studios

7:30 PM The Accompanied Clavecin Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Events for Monday, May 18, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-7:30 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM Flashback Monday: My Cousin Vinny Palace Theatre

7:30 PM Dreamboat (1952) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, May 19, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

7:00 PM Goldenberg Cultural Series: Syracuse Pops Chorus Temple Society of Concord

7:30 PM Erik Larson Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Events for Wednesday, May 20, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Jacob Dalager, trumpet; Sabine Krantz, piano Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-11:00 PM Flicks Al Fresco: Ratatouille

7:00 PM Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman Listening Room Acoustic Music Series

8:00 PM Brit Floyd Space & Time World Tour

Events for Thursday, May 21, 2015

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

5:00 PM-7:30 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

5:00 PM-7:00 PM The Adventures of Ignatius the Iguana: Illustrations by Sarah Haig SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

6:30 PM Taiwanese Aboriginal Dance Performance Central New York Chinese Culture Center

6:30 PM "What If..." Film Series: The Barefoot Artist Gifford Foundation

6:45 PM Death Takes a Bow Acme Mystery Company

7:30 PM Murder at Cafe Noir Theatre Du Jour

8:00 PM Romeo and Juliet Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Acting Out

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, May 22, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

5:00 PM Cabaret Performance: Moe Harrington & Jeff Unaitis

7:00 PM Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" Gifford Family Theatre (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Always a Bridesmaid Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Romeo and Juliet Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, May 23, 2015

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit Petit Branch Library

10:00 AM-2:00 PM The Sum of Its Parts Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Beauty and the Beast Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM-4:00 PM The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone Studio 24

2:00 PM Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" Gifford Family Theatre (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Always a Bridesmaid Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Romeo and Juliet Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, May 24, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

1:00 PM-4:00 PM The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone Studio 24

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Sunday, May 17, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 17



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 17



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 17



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 17



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 17



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 17



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 17



The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stephen Perrone's paintings reflect the hardships that confront homeless peoples experiencing isolation while still recognizing the hopes and dreams of each individual.

Gallery open other times by appointment.


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Music
 

12:30 PM, May 17



Children's Cancer Gone Country: Craig Morgan, with TJ Sacco, PEP, Dirt Road Ruckus
Paper Mill Island

Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Proceeds benefit The Jonathan Cancer Fund and Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital.


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2:00 PM, May 17



Live! At the Everson: Program of American Music
Civic Morning Musicals
Janet Brown, soprano; Jonathan English, tenor; Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: $20 regular, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music of Stephan Prock, Alan Louis Smith, Samuel Barber, George Whitefield Chadwick, Ben Moore, Ricky Ian Gordon, John Musto, and William Schuman.

OnCenter garage parking is $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.


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2:30 PM, May 17



Scott Harrison
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Scott Harrison has been performing on theatre organs since 1987 and has performed in New Zealand, the United States, England, and his home in Australia. His first position as 'City Organist' was for the City of Moorabbin (now City of Kingston) Victoria, Australia from 1987 to 1993 presiding over their magnificent 4/21 Wurlitzer. During this period he spent two years with the Theatre Organ Society of Australia Victoria's 3/15 Dendy Wurlitzer. In 1993 Scott began organ studies with the late Father Jim Miller at his home in Fenton, MI. Since then he has enjoyed many return visits to the US, playing some wonderful instruments in Northern California as well as those in Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Indianapolis, Boston and Wichita. Scott has three commercial Wurlitzer recordings currently available. This year's USA tour includes the New York State concert circuit performing in North Tonawanda, Rochester, Binghamton and Syracuse making his debut appearance on our Wurlitzer organ.


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6:00 PM, May 17



Ruddy Well Band and TBA
Subcat Studios

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

Admission includes unique and intimate studio session concert; professionally recorded, mixed, and limited pressed CD; artist meet & greet; and wine and refreshments following the concert.

Attendance limited to 30, so advance ticket purchase is recommended at www.subcat.net. For more information, contact amandaspiano@gmail.com.


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7:30 PM, May 17



The Accompanied Clavecin
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students, children free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Music for harpsichord with violin, voice, and viol, from Couperin through the English virginalists, to the early sonatas of Mozart composed at the court of Louis XV--including works of J.J.C. Mondonville, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Jacques DuPhly, and J.S. Bach.

Performed by Joscelyn Godwin and Toby Weinberg of The Severall Friends and guest tenor Timothy Beck.


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Theater
 

11:00 AM, May 17



*SOLD OUT* Seussical The Musical
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, music By Stephen Flaherty, lyrics By Lynn Ahrens, conceived By Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, based on the works of Dr. Seuss.

Read a Review!


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2:00 PM, May 17



Romeo and Juliet
Central New York Playhouse
Daniel Rowlands, director

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

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly--and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. Contrast and conflict are running themes this play--one of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies.

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Monday, May 18, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 18



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 18



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, May 18



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 18



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 18



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 18



Flashback Monday: My Cousin Vinny
Palace Theatre

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


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7:30 PM, May 18



Dreamboat (1952)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Claude Binyon. Cast: Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Elsa Lanchester, Anne Francis, Fred Clark, Jeffrey Hunter

Fun and witty comedy of a distinguished college professor (Webb) who years ago had a career as a romantic heartthrob in silent films. He has been able to keep his embarrassing past a secret ... until his former leading lady (Rogers) begins hosting a TV show that shows their old movies!


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Tuesday, May 19, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 19



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 19



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 19



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


Back to list
 

 

9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 19



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 19



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 19



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 19



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, May 19



Erik Larson
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Price: $55, $40, $35, $30 adults, $10 students with ID
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

American journalist and nonfiction author of Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, May 19



Goldenberg Cultural Series: Syracuse Pops Chorus
Temple Society of Concord

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

The Syracuse Pops Chorus, formerly the Syracuse Symphony Pops Chorus, has been singing under the direction of Lou Lemos since 2004. Repertoire consists largely of new choral arrangements of old standards: patriotic anthems, Broadway and American Songbook.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 20



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 20



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 20



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 20



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 20



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 20



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 20



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 20



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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Film
 

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM, May 20



Flicks Al Fresco: Ratatouille

Price: $2 per car; $1 bike or walk in donation
Cosmopolitan Building parking lot
1153 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Flicks Al Fresco outdoor movie series invites you to enjoy screenings in a parking lot that's been transformed into a cultural venue for Summer 2015. Bring your blanket or lawn chair, walk, bike or carpool. Enjoy local food trucks, listen to local bands, and then at dusk, watch films under the stars.


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Music
 

12:30 PM, May 20



Jacob Dalager, trumpet; Sabine Krantz, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

A journey through Western Art Music, from a Romantic French etude, a Spanish folk song, a Swiss concertante, a contemporary American scherzo, a jazz-influence flugelhorn solo, and a Russian concerto -- there is something for everyone to enjoy.


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7:00 PM, May 20



Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman
Listening Room Acoustic Music Series

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Small Plates
116 Walton St., Syracuse

Grit and sensitivity. Percussion and groove. Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman are sinuous as two skaters gliding on ice as they play across soul, r&b, roots and world rhythms, conjuring a communion between audience and stage.

Karen Savoca pours her heart into a song the way a great actor throws herself into a role. Her songs draw you into a world of
humor and compassion, shared with grace and ease, as though you've been invited to her table for supper. Born in northern NJ, the daughter of a big band singer, Karen's baby diary reads "20 months, knows 6 songs." At the age of eight she asked for piano lessons, and at 13 began composing on a guitar she bought with saved birthday money. She attended Syracuse University, where she studied music and elementary education.

Pete Heitzman, a Syracuse native, was playing in clubs at the age of 15. He carved out a reputation as an ace guitarist
capable of playing many styles, touring across the country with a variety of bands. He met Savoca during a return trip to his home town, invited out by friends to hear a new singer. They jammed the night away, and he joined her group the next day.
The duo have released eight CDs on their own Alcove Records label, the latest of which is "Promise", recorded in their 19th-century church studio nestled deep in the hills of upstate NY.

Karen & Pete have won 7 SAMMY awards. They are also independent record producers and have scored several feature length films and documentaries.

Tickets available online.


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8:00 PM, May 20



Brit Floyd Space & Time World Tour

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

Brit Floyd, the world's greatest Pink Floyd show, returns to North America in 2015 to launch its Space & Time World Tour, its most ambitious show to date, with a spectacular new light show and an even bigger stage production.

Paying attention to every musical detail and faithfully recreating the "true" live Pink Floyd concert experience, Brit Floyd will take you on an amazing musical journey, featuring the best moments from the incredible Pink Floyd back catalog, and combine the latest state-of-the-art sound and light technology to create a performance that is as sonically perfect as it is visually awesome.

Tickets are available at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (315-435-2121), or online at Ticketmaster.


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Thursday, May 21, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 21



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 21



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 21



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 21



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 21



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 21



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 21



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 21



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 21



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 21



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 21



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, May 21



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 21



The Adventures of Ignatius the Iguana: Illustrations by Sarah Haig
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5;00-7:00 pm.

Ignatius just wanted to be the famous for something good, so he ran away from home. This series is an ongoing tale of Ignatius and his pal, Pedro, as they work their way through the challenges the world throws their way.


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, May 21



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Crows are well known for their mythological reputation as tricksters and harbingers of death, but less for the reality that they are creatures of remarkable intelligence who lead complex social lives. Cauleen Smith became fascinated by these misunderstood animals when she noticed the massive flock of crows roosting outside her bedroom window during her artist residency at Light Work. She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state-sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of these two cities, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. "Crow Requiem" connects this history to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state. Shot on location in Central New York, and featuring selections from Onondaga Historical Association's extensive archive of 19th-century stereoscopic images.


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Dance
 

6:30 PM, May 21



Taiwanese Aboriginal Dance Performance
Central New York Chinese Culture Center

Price: $10 adults, $6 students with ID, children under 15 free, VIP $25
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Central New York Chinese Culture Center invites you to an evening of cultural encounter with an aboriginal dance troupe from Taiwan. Come enjoy the sight and sound of the performance as the dancers retell the beauty of the music and dance traditions of the Taiwanese indigenous tribes.

VIP tickets are available that include admission to the show and a pre-show craft workshop (you get to take home a Taiwanese indigenous craft!) and meet-and-greet the performers.

For tickets or more information, email info@cnyccc.org or call 315-634-9494.


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Film
 

6:30 PM, May 21



"What If..." Film Series: The Barefoot Artist
Gifford Foundation

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

Lily Yeh is a global artist who has committed herself to creating community-based art projects in some of the world's most troubled areas. She is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as constant traveler, the world is her canvas. (Directed by Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub, 2014, 83 minutes)


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 21



Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London, yet a place everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title of this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes, and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: At this showplace greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.


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7:30 PM, May 21



Murder at Cafe Noir
Theatre Du Jour
Stephfond Brunson, director

Price: $60 includes dinner, and show
Mohegan Manor
58 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

6:30 pm cash bar cocktail hour, followed by dinner and show at 7:30 pm.

The most popular mystery dinner show in the country, Murder at Cafe Noir has enjoyed weekly productions coast to coast since its premiere in 1989. This forties detective story come to life features Rick Archer, P.I., out to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten island of Mustique, a place stuck in a black and white era. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed ashore, murdered, and Rick's quarry was the last person seen with him. He employs his hard boiled talents to find the killer. Was it the French madame and club manager, the voodoo priestess, the shyster British attorney, the black marketeer or the femme fatale? The audience votes twice on what they want Rick to do next and these decisions change the flow of this comic tribute to the Bogart era.

For more information, visit http://www.dujourcny.com/event-details.php?id=9.


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8:00 PM, May 21



Romeo and Juliet
Central New York Playhouse
Daniel Rowlands, director

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

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly--and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. Contrast and conflict are running themes this play--one of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies.

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8:00 PM, May 21



Acting Out
Peter King, director
Featuring Siobhan Fallon Hogan

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

Siobhan Fallon Hogan, a native of Cazenovia and a 1983 LeMoyne College graduate, will be performing her new one-woman show Acting Out. In the show, Fallon Hogan depicts 10 different characters who are helped by a Conflicts Resolutions Therapist. She sings many hilarious songs as she spins a tale in a self-deprecating fashion. Fallon Hogan plays a mother, a football coach, a cheerleader, a jacked-up boy, a former La Maz instructor, and many more zany characters. The show is a roller-coaster ride that is not to be missed.

Tickets are available at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone 315-435-2121, or online here.


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Friday, May 22, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 22



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 22



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 22



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 22



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 22



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 22



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 22



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 22



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 22



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 22



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 22



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 22



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, May 22



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Crows are well known for their mythological reputation as tricksters and harbingers of death, but less for the reality that they are creatures of remarkable intelligence who lead complex social lives. Cauleen Smith became fascinated by these misunderstood animals when she noticed the massive flock of crows roosting outside her bedroom window during her artist residency at Light Work. She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state-sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of these two cities, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. "Crow Requiem" connects this history to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state. Shot on location in Central New York, and featuring selections from Onondaga Historical Association's extensive archive of 19th-century stereoscopic images.


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Theater
 

5:00 PM, May 22



Cabaret Performance: Moe Harrington & Jeff Unaitis

Price: Donation
Q Center @ AIDS Community Resources
627 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

If you missed the sold-out performances benefiting ArtRage at the Bear Garden in March, then come see Jeff Unaitis & Moe Harrington for a one-night-only repeat performance, this time benefiting ACR Health, the Q Center, and the AIDS Walk/Run. Come early for cupcakes and champagne at 5:00, with an hour-long performance to follow. You'll laugh, you'll cry...It's better than Cats!


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7:00 PM, May 22



Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!"
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The new smash hit children's musical commissioned and first produced by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, We Are in a Play! is based on several of the books in the popular and award-winning Elephant & Piggie children's book series written by Mo Willems. This rollicking musical adventure featuring beloved characters and lively songs is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

With book and lyrics by Mo Willems and music by Deborah Wicks Le Puma, this vaudevillian romp features best, best, "bestus" friends Gerald and Piggie singing and dancing their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense.

Read a review!


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7:30 PM, May 22



Always a Bridesmaid
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings ... no matter what. More than 30 years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, determined to honor that vow.

Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes—in spite of all evidence to the contrary—that her friends can find the very same happiness. Headstrong Deedra's "rock-solid" union hangs by a thread when she discovers her husband of many years not only has a wandering eye, but the hands to match. Monette, flashy, high-spirited and self-involved, continues to test her friends' love and patience with all-too-frequent trips down the aisle. And salt-of-the-earth, tree-hugging Charlie discovers—the hard way—that marital bliss is not the end of her rainbow and panics in outrageous style when the opportunity presents itself.

Hop on this marriage-go-round for a laugh-out-loud journey with these beleaguered bridesmaids as they navigate the choppy waters of love and matrimony.

Read a Review!


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8:00 PM, May 22



Romeo and Juliet
Central New York Playhouse
Daniel Rowlands, director

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

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly--and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. Contrast and conflict are running themes this play--one of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies.

Read a Review!


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Saturday, May 23, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 23



Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together local poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city's sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. Each year since its founding in 2001, the project has produced 16 unique posters. Each poster features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city or nearby countryside. The annual release of the poster series in April, culminates nearly a year of work. Now see the artwork gathered at Petit!


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 23



The Sum of Its Parts
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Evamaria Hardin: metal sculpture and mixed media wall hangings
Ann Skiold: abstract oil paintings and paper collage using watercolor and mixed media
Susan Machamer,"Puzzle Wear" series: wearable, interactive jewelry using sterling silver, gold and gemstones

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 23



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 23



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 23



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 23



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 23



Capillary Reaction: Hydrofracking and Irrevocable Loss--The Paintings of Ron Throop
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Oswego, Ron Throop is a prolific expressionist painter. This exhibition is selected from his ongoing Fracking Series. Throop began painting on the subject in 2009, concerned that the process of hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas has the potential of poisoning the groundwater for hundreds of thousands of people for many generations. He says, "Art and artists must take up the moral torch. We have the ability to create an imagined memory before it's too late to turn back. The 21st century artist has a mission to make sense common once again."


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 23



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 23



The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stephen Perrone's paintings reflect the hardships that confront homeless peoples experiencing isolation while still recognizing the hopes and dreams of each individual.

Gallery open other times by appointment.


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, May 23



Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Crows are well known for their mythological reputation as tricksters and harbingers of death, but less for the reality that they are creatures of remarkable intelligence who lead complex social lives. Cauleen Smith became fascinated by these misunderstood animals when she noticed the massive flock of crows roosting outside her bedroom window during her artist residency at Light Work. She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state-sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of these two cities, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. "Crow Requiem" connects this history to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state. Shot on location in Central New York, and featuring selections from Onondaga Historical Association's extensive archive of 19th-century stereoscopic images.


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, May 23



Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic children's story.


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2:00 PM, May 23



Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!"
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The new smash hit children's musical commissioned and first produced by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, We Are in a Play! is based on several of the books in the popular and award-winning Elephant & Piggie children's book series written by Mo Willems. This rollicking musical adventure featuring beloved characters and lively songs is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

With book and lyrics by Mo Willems and music by Deborah Wicks Le Puma, this vaudevillian romp features best, best, "bestus" friends Gerald and Piggie singing and dancing their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense.

Read a review!


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7:30 PM, May 23



Always a Bridesmaid
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings ... no matter what. More than 30 years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, determined to honor that vow.

Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes—in spite of all evidence to the contrary—that her friends can find the very same happiness. Headstrong Deedra's "rock-solid" union hangs by a thread when she discovers her husband of many years not only has a wandering eye, but the hands to match. Monette, flashy, high-spirited and self-involved, continues to test her friends' love and patience with all-too-frequent trips down the aisle. And salt-of-the-earth, tree-hugging Charlie discovers—the hard way—that marital bliss is not the end of her rainbow and panics in outrageous style when the opportunity presents itself.

Hop on this marriage-go-round for a laugh-out-loud journey with these beleaguered bridesmaids as they navigate the choppy waters of love and matrimony.

Read a Review!


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8:00 PM, May 23



Romeo and Juliet
Central New York Playhouse
Daniel Rowlands, director

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

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly--and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. Contrast and conflict are running themes this play--one of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies.

Read a Review!


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Sunday, May 24, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 24



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 24



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 24



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 24



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 24



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 24



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 24



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 24



The Homeless: Paintings by Stephen Perrone
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stephen Perrone's paintings reflect the hardships that confront homeless peoples experiencing isolation while still recognizing the hopes and dreams of each individual.

Gallery open other times by appointment.


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