Saturday, September 17, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Syriously? The Art of Comedy (And Rage)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stand up comedy crawls out from the dank beer soaked nightclubs and into the refreshing rarefied air of the ArtRage Gallery. Syriously? presents Central New York's finest stand up comedians including Corey Smithson, James Fedkiw, Abdulkadir Hadi, and Justin Jackson.

Pork Pie Hat
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Welcome Home! Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat, returns to home base, after a summer of "away" shows.

Festa Italiana

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

MAIN STAGE
2:00 pm: Dance Centre North
3:30 pm: Ruby Shooz
5:30 pm: Dominic Mantuano
7:30 pm: The Blacklites
9:30 pm: Stroke

SMALL STAGE
1:30 pm: The Tommy Z Band
4:00 pm: The Bad Husbands Club
6:30 pm: Joey & John
9:00 pm: Jerry Cali

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Parties in the Plaza: Jason Bean
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

For the last 12 years, Jason Bean has been writing and performing his original music throughout the Northeast in venues ranging from coffee houses to festivals. His songs are laced with conversational lyrics, strong hooks, and resonating vocals. His fifth album, "Black then Blue then Gray", was released in November 2015 and earned him his third Syracuse Area Music Award nomination.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

World of Puppets: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Open Hand Theater
The Puppet People

Price: $10 adults, $6 children, free for children under 2
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Ever a crowd pleaser, this show is a thrilling comic rendition of Washington Irving's No. 1 haunting tale. Focusing on themes of bullies, jealousy, and superstition, this show features hand-crafted marionettes, two life-sized puppets, special lighting and smoke effects, and both classical and traditional folk music.

Join The Puppet People in this masterful Marionette production, but be careful...not to lose your head! ?

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

Read a Review!

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

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

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 18, 2016

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Politics on Paper: Art with Agenda
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

Festa Italiana

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

MAIN STAGE
12:30 pm: Federico School of Music
2:00 pm: CMC School of Dance
3:30 pm: Dominic Mantuano
5:30 pm: Under the Gun

SMALL STAGE
1:00 pm: T. J. Sacco Band
3:30 pm: The Mickey Vendetti Band

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

Center Stage (Dorian's)
12:30-1:10 pm: Joe Driscoll
1:25-2:15 pm: Mark Hoffmann & the Hoffmann Family Band
2:45-3:35 pm: Sophistafunk
4:00-5:00 pm: Grupo Pagan
5:30-6:30 pm: The Blacklites

Westcott Acoustic Stage (Taps)
12:45-1:30 pm: Jess Novak
1:45-2:20 pm: Dana Cooke with a Side of Stantons
2:35-3:05 pm: Bog Brothers
3:20-4:05 pm: Chris James and Mama G
4:20-4:50 pm: All Poets & Heroes
5:05-5:45 pm: Charley Orlando

Dell Stage
12:30-1:15 pm: Earth Jam
1:45-2:30 pm: Akuma Roots
3:00-3:45 pm: Jane Zell & the Zelltones Band
4:15-5:00 pm: Major Player
5:30-6:15 pm: The Lightkeepers

Kids' Stage (Petit Library)
12:30-1:00 pm: Savana Juvanis
1:10-1:40 pm: The McCarthy Family
1:50-2:25 pm: DDI's Beat Squad
2:30-3:15 pm: Kids' Races
3:30-4:10 pm: Open Hand Theater
4:25-5:00 pm: Bells and Motley

Harvard Dance Stage (Wacheva)
12:30-1:00 pm: Drumcliffe Irish Dancers
1:10-1:40 pm: Bassett St. Hounds & Thornden Park Morris Dancers
1:50-2:20 pm: St. Sophia's Greek Dancers
2:30-3:00 pm: Dance Theater of Syracuse
3:10-3:40 pm: South Indian classical dance
3:50-4:20 pm: Nottingham & SU Freestyle Squad
4:30-5:00 pm: La Familia de la Salsa
5:15-6:15 pm: Wacheva Multicultural Dancers and Drummers

Belly Dance Stage (Clutter Closet)
12:30-1:30 pm: 3 Early Girls
1: 30-2:00 pm: Little Egypt East
2:00-3:00 pm: Ionah & the Head over Heels
3:00-3:30 pm: Tribal Tantra
3:30-4:30 pm: Maya Tribe
4:45-5:30 pm: Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble

For more information, visit westcottstreetfair.org.

Sub Rosa Sessions
Subcat Studios

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

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

For tickets, contact amandaspiano@gmail.com.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

Read a Review!

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Monday, September 19, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Mystery Double Feature
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
Director: Noel M. Smith
Cast: William Lundigan, Eddie Foy, Jr., Maris Wrixon, Paul Cavanagh
A reporter (Lundigan) investigates the case of an antique cabinet that causes the mysterious death of anyone who touches it.

The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson visit Canada and become involved with a gruesome series of murders. Considered to be one of the best entries in Universal's Holmes series.

Goldenberg Series: An Evening of Broadway Jazz
Temple Society of Concord
Featuring Mary Sugar and The Usual Suspects

Price: Free
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Hot jazz from the Broadway stage, performed by some of CNY's finest musicians, including Mary Sugar, conductor, piano; Joe Carello, reeds; Darryl Pugh, bass; Doug DiGennaro, drums; Melissa Gardiner, trombone; Irwin Goldberg, synthesizer; and Jeffrey Stockham, trumpet.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons" is a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities, authors and noted personalities such as Bill Clinton, Spike Jonze, and author Tony M. DiTerlizzi. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Where the Wild Things Are with original drawings, prints, posters and more from one of the greatest children's authors of the 20th century.

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Roth and Reggie Harris In Concert
Syracuse Community Choir

Price: $12-$25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

David Roth's music has made it to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, the Kennedy Center, NASA's Space Shuttle "Atlantis", Peter, Paul, & Mary and Kingston Trio CDs, and 13 of his own CDs.

Reggie Harris is a vibrant, singer/songwriter who performs all over the U.S, Canada, and Europe and is a lecturer and cultural ambassador on songs of the Underground Railroad, civil rights, singing at arts centers, schools, music and storytelling festivals, inspiring hope for positive change in our diverse global community.

These two longtime friends share a passion for writing and performing songs that inspire people to share in the effort to make the world just a little bit more joyful. With great harmonies, funny stories and insightful lyrics, wrapped inside magical arrangements, you will leave with a smile that you can share and with a song in your heart.

All proceeds go to support the Syracuse Community Choir Children's Program.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons" is a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities, authors and noted personalities such as Bill Clinton, Spike Jonze, and author Tony M. DiTerlizzi. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Where the Wild Things Are with original drawings, prints, posters and more from one of the greatest children's authors of the 20th century.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Jazz at the Plaza: John Spillett
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Trombone en France
Civic Morning Musicals
Nicholas Abelgore, trombone; Sabine Krantz, piano

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

Music of Bizet, Dutilleux, Debussy, Guilmant, and others.

Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

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

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons" is a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities, authors and noted personalities such as Bill Clinton, Spike Jonze, and author Tony M. DiTerlizzi. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Where the Wild Things Are with original drawings, prints, posters and more from one of the greatest children's authors of the 20th century.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Opening: We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:30 pm. The artists will be in attendance, light refreshments will be served, and costuming or the wearing of Bowie fan apparel is highly encouraged. With Bowie music by Parlor Games in the lobby area staring at 6:00 pm.

Featuring works by more than 30 artists from artists across CNY and beyond celebrating the influence of David Bowie by visualizing his music and legacy as a pop culture icon.

An Intimate Evening with Syracuse City Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $22.50
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

If you like to be close to the action, hear the breathing of the dancers, and see the sweat, this performance is designed for you! Get a close look at Syracuse City Ballet dancers in a unique one-hour performance.

Kicking off the fall season, the show will premiere a new work co-choreographed by Rachael Cierniakoski and Stephanie Dattellas, featuring members of the Corps de Ballet and OCC Drum Ensemble directed by Robert Bridge.

The company welcomes guest performer Zachary Downer, who recently just ended his contract with Disney Cruise Line and was featured on the hit TV series, "So You Think You Can Dance", SCB Alumni Jake Casey, now performing with the Cincinnati Ballet, and Claire Rathbun, former dancer of the Washington Studio Ballet Company to grace Syracuse with their amazing talents.

Sidewalk Prophets Prodigal Tour
CNY Crossroads

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $30 VIP
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

A Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora: Gospel
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

CFAC's Journey through the Music of the African Diaspora kicks off its 2016-2017 season with our annual Gospel Musical showcase in honor of Gospel Heritage Month. Join us for a fun night of praise, worship and song. Performances by Joan Hillsman and the Syracuse Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, Jamel Jett & Breakthrough, Tamar Smithers and many more local singers!

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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

Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

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

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

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

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

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Friday, September 23, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by more than 30 artists from artists across CNY and beyond celebrating the influence of David Bowie by visualizing his music and legacy as a pop culture icon.

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons" is a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities, authors and noted personalities such as Bill Clinton, Spike Jonze, and author Tony M. DiTerlizzi. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Where the Wild Things Are with original drawings, prints, posters and more from one of the greatest children's authors of the 20th century.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Balcón Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Such comedy. Many laugh.

Liverpool Lakeside Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Return to the village famous for salt brine and willow baskets to hear tales told near the shores of Onondaga Lake. The walking tours leave every 15 minutes from Liverpool Library, and last about 90 minutes. Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled. Tours go on rain or shine.

Reservations recommended. Reserve at www.cnyhistory.org/calendar.

Truth Teller Speaker Series: Nicole and Jonas Maines
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Nicole Maines has become a powerful role model for transgender teens and ArtRage is bringing her to Syracuse to share her story with our community. Nicole will share the empowering story of finding the courage to be her true self, overcoming obstacles from both within and outside of her family. Nicole and Jonas became nationally known in 2015 when the book, Becoming Nicole, about Nicole's transition as a transgender teen, was published. Soon after, artist Robert Shetterly chose to paint their portrait as part of his Americans Who Tell the Truth series. The exhibit at ArtRage Gallery will be the first time the portrait is exhibited.

Springsteen Tribute: Jungle Land Band
Palace Theatre

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Jamie Notarthomas hosts his annual Springsteen Birthday Tribute! There will be 14 piece band: Liz Friedel and Kristen B Kopf, strings; Don Williams, Nick Fields, and Melissa Gardiner, horns; Thomas Westcott, bass; Jeff Tripoli, drums; Mark Nanni and B Kelly Wilcox, organ and keys. There will be appearances from Joanna Nix Jewett, David DeSantis, and others.

Tickets available at Soundgarden and online.

Barbara's Venice
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Barbara Strozzi was the most prolific composer in mid-17th century Venice; we showcase her unique passionate voice along with music of her male contemporaries. Sacred, secular, vocal and instrumental music by Strozzi, Cavalli, Castello, and others, performed by Laura Heimes, soprano; Luthien Brackett, alto; Andrew Fuchs, tenor; Andrew Padgett, bass; Boel Gidholm, Mary Riccardi, violins; David Morris, gamba/lirone; Dan Swenberg, Deborah Fox, theorbos.

Terra Sangue Mare
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Sicilian folk singer Michaela Musolino and her group, Terra Sangue Mare, will perform traditional and contemporary Sicilian folk music selections.

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

Happy Traum: Coming of Age in the Folk Revival
Folkus Project

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

Harry Traum's "Coming of Age" show at May Memorial will be a very different experience, with tales of activism, civil disobedience, and friendship punctuating the evening. The audience will be entertained with a combination of song and narrative, aided by vintage photos and music clips related to Traum's participation in the New York Folk revival, including the legendary 1961 "Folk Riot" in which musicians protested for the right to perform in Washington Square Park. His eloquent memories of the history he helped to make will be punctuated with powerful renditions of songs and guitar solos from the "folk era" and beyond.

Given the name Harry Peter Traum at birth, Traum instead goes by his nickname "Happy", and that name says it like it is! A more genial and generous soul you'll never meet in the often otherwise world of music. Traum spreads that same emotion and feeling to his decades of listeners and fans, longtime and new.

Traum has been performing, recording, and treating as both a pleasure and a profession the music he loves since the 1950s. He entertains with guitar picking and singing blues, old-time country, ballads, contemporary songs, and originals. His finger style acoustic guitar playing is always a highlight.

He has performed extensively worldwide and has recorded and/or performed with many top artists, including Bob Dylan, Chris Smither, Maria Muldaur, Eric Andersen, Jerry Jeff Walker and numerous others.

Aside from a distinguished solo career, Traum and his late brother Artie played regularly as a duo for more than 40 years. Their first two Capitol albums, "Happy and Artie Traum" and "Double Back" are widely considered to be classics. In 2015 he released his latest CD to rave reviews. It contains songs he loves and is aptly titled "Just For The Love of It."

The Elephant Man
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
William Edward White, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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

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

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

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Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

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

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Composure: Photos by Dan Roche
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons" is a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities, authors and noted personalities such as Bill Clinton, Spike Jonze, and author Tony M. DiTerlizzi. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Where the Wild Things Are with original drawings, prints, posters and more from one of the greatest children's authors of the 20th century.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Salt City Adventure Fest
Palace Theatre

Price: $25
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Salt City Adventure Fest features seven action/adventure films on 35mm film:
Back to the Future (1985)
Batman (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Spaceballs (1987)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Alien (1979)

The festival is open to all ages, but anyone younger than 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Tickets are available online through ticketfly.com and by phone at 877-435-9849.

Liverpool Lakeside Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Return to the village famous for salt brine and willow baskets to hear tales told near the shores of Onondaga Lake. The walking tours leave every 15 minutes from Liverpool Library, and last about 90 minutes. Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled. Tours go on rain or shine.

Reservations recommended. Reserve at www.cnyhistory.org/calendar.

MG3 Does Gospel
Featuring Gabrielle Gorman

Price: Free
First Baptist Church of Camillus
23 Main St., Camillus

Melissa Gardiner's MG3 organ trio featuring William Gorman on organ and Byron Cage on drums with special guest Gabrielle Gorman on vocals is putting on a special show of all gospel music, but with a jazz flavor.

An audience of quite vocal and attentive regulars at a local jazz club in Harlem NYC really helped to shape the sound and concept for Melissa Gardiner's MG3 Jazz Organ Trio. The result is an engaging and soulful musical experience that reflects the energy of a heartfelt and artistic community. The group's mantra is jazz.soul.funk, with influences like Roy Hargrove, Robert Glasper, Trombone Shorty, and Wycliffe Gordon.

A singer of great depth, Gabrielle Gorman has a wide range of influences. Although rooted in gospel and jazz, she went on to pursue both an undergrad and graduate degree in musical theatre from University at Buffalo. A Syracuse native, she has been in many local productions and has sang with a variety of different bands, most recently the Skunk City tribute to Michael Jackson. Since moving to New York City, she has been in numerous cabarets and performances.

Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $20 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Singer/songwriters, playing across soul, rhythm & blues, roots and world rhythms.

Pops Series: Ann Hampton Callaway Sings Streisand
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

Platinum Award Winning singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway celebrates the music of one of America's most powerful and enduring musical artists. Singing classics from five decades of Barbra Streisand's multi-faceted career, Callaway crafts a loving musical portrait of the icon who began as her role model.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

The Elephant Man
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
William Edward White, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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

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

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

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Avenue Q
Redhouse
Kate Sullivan Gibbens, director

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

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

Read a Review!