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Events for Thursday, February 18, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Big Will and Friends Syracuse University School of Art and Design

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Blades for Art La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others ArtRage Gallery

5:45 PM-11:00 PM Between Species Urban Video Project

6:30 PM Seeing is Believing, or Is It? The Science of Art and Illusion Everson Museum of Art

6:45 PM Fiddler on the Loose Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora: Hip Hop Cypher Community Folk Art Center

8:00 PM First Date Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

Events for Friday, February 19, 2016

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Blades for Art La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others ArtRage Gallery

5:45 PM-11:00 PM Between Species Urban Video Project

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz@Sitrus: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM Author Sarah Yaw Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM The Colored Museum Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

7:00 PM Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:30 PM The Lion in Winter Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Steel Magnolias Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM First Date Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Cadleys and Maria Gillard Trio Folkus Project

8:00 PM Bullshot Crummond LeMoyne College (Read a review!)

8:00 PM His AIm is True: The Singular Songs of Elvis Costello Redhouse, featuring Karen Oberlin

8:00 PM Preview: Punk Rock Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

Events for Saturday, February 20, 2016

9:00 AM-6:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Alice in Wonderland Magic Circle Children's Theatre

2:00 PM Bubblemania Central New York Playhouse

5:45 PM-11:00 PM Between Species Urban Video Project

7:00 PM The Colored Museum Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

7:30 PM The Lion in Winter Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Steel Magnolias Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM First Date Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Bullshot Crummond LeMoyne College (Read a review!)

8:00 PM His AIm is True: The Singular Songs of Elvis Costello Redhouse, featuring Karen Oberlin

8:00 PM Opening: Punk Rock Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

Events for Sunday, February 21, 2016

9:00 AM-6:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM Steel Magnolias Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

2:00 PM First Date Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Sunday Musicale: Grupo Pagan Lite led by Edgar Pagan Fayetteville Free Library

2:00 PM Origins of Jazz Series: From Ragtime to Swing Liverpool Public Library

2:00 PM The Lion in Winter Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Punk Rock Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

3:00 PM Adventures In Life University Neighbors Lecture Series, featuring Marvin Druger

4:00 PM Ladies of the Big Bands LeMoyne College, featuring Jazzuits with Kim Nazarian

4:00 PM Organ Recital: Nathan Laube Malmgren Concert Series

4:00 PM Vision of Sound: New Music with Modern Dance Society for New Music

5:00 PM Black History Month Cabaret with Jackiem Joyner CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band with Colleen Kattau

Events for Monday, February 22, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

Events for Tuesday, February 23, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

7:00 PM Nigger: A Documentary by Thea St. Omer ArtRage Gallery

7:30 PM Cinemagogue: Cupcakes Temple Society of Concord

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: SU Wind Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Wednesday, February 24, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: Grupo Lite CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Alma Mahler Syracuse Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM Artist Panel Discussion: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

7:30 PM Preview: To Kill a Mockingbird Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Punk Rock Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

Events for Thursday, February 25, 2016

9:00 AM-4:00 PM A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Star Trek vs Star Wars: A Logical Choice Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton Westcott Community Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Dutch Master Prints and Drawings Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Responsive Eyes Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM The Way I See It Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Helen Levitt: In the Street Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Artist Talk: Catalina Schliebener Point of Contact Gallery

6:15 PM-11:00 PM Between Species Urban Video Project

6:45 PM Fiddler on the Loose Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Blackface: A Presentation by Dick Ford ArtRage Gallery

7:30 PM Preview: To Kill a Mockingbird Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM First Date Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Bullshot Crummond LeMoyne College (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Punk Rock Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

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Thursday, February 18, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, February 18



Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 18



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



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

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

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


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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



Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, February 18



Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 18



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

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

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


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



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 18



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

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

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


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



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 18



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 18



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 18



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 18



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

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 18



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 18



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, February 18



Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 18



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, February 18



Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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


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5:45 PM - 11:00 PM, February 18



Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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


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Lecture
 

6:30 PM, February 18



Seeing is Believing, or Is It? The Science of Art and Illusion
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join us for a unique talk offered in partnership with SUNY Upstate Medical University, led by Dr. William Brunken, Director of the Center for Vision Research at SUNY Upstate. Everson Curatorial Assistant Steffi Chappell will join the discussion to provide an art historical context.

This cross-disciplinary opportunity compliments the Everson's current exhibition, Responsive Eyes, which features Op Art from the Museum's permanent collection. Science, art and illusion all play a role in how we see—that is, how the human eye and brain collect and process light to generate a representation of the world around us. Brunken and Chappell will use their expertise and unique perspectives to discuss how what we see is not always an accurate rendering of the world—or of art. The evening will include both scientific and artistic demonstrations and examples. Discover why we are forever destined to fight over whether the dress is blue or gold.

Seeing is Believing will take place in the Everson Lounge, adjacent to the Responsive Eyes gallery.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, February 18



Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora: Hip Hop Cypher
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us for a lyrical evening with rappers C-Nube, HaLS, and World Be Free featuring DJ Seth Marcel.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, February 18



Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

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

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and immigrate to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian mafia! At last he is a rich man but how long can it last? Remember: you're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.


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8:00 PM, February 18



First Date
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $22
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers, and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Music Direction by Dan Williams.

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Friday, February 19, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 19



Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.


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



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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



Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 19



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 19



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 19



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

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

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


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 19



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, February 19



Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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


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5:45 PM - 11:00 PM, February 19



Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, February 19



Jazz@Sitrus: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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7:00 PM, February 19



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

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

The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble provides both music majors and non-music majors the opportunity to perform traditional, modern, jazz, pop, and contemporary compositions throughout the year. The ensemble performs under the direction of Professor John Coggiola.

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


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8:00 PM, February 19



The Cadleys and Maria Gillard Trio
Folkus Project

Price: $12 regular, $10 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Following in the tradition of great male-female duets like Ian & Sylvia and Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons, John and Cathy Cadley show how the simplicity of two voices and two acoustic instruments can produce powerful music. Their live concerts feature everything from traditional mountain ballads and bluegrass classics like "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" and "Blue and Lonesome," to Alison Krauss' "The Lucky One," to the Louvin Brother's "Cash on the Barrelhead." And just to add a few surprises, you'll also hear a great acoustic rendition of Paul McCartney's "I Will," a few of John's originals from his Nashville produced solo CD "The Closer I Get", and Cathy's knockout version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

The Cadleys repertoire draws on the bluegrass of Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers, the tight harmonies of the Louvin Brothers, as well as the "new acoustic" sounds of Alison Krauss and Claire Lynch. John's own originals have been recorded by national bluegrass artists such as Tony Trischka, Jim Hurst, Missy Raines, and Lou Reid, who, with Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs singing harmony, took John's song, "Time," to the #1 spot on the national bluegrass charts for three consecutive months.

Maria Gillard is a talented singer/songwriter from the Finger Lakes Region. She is revered in folk and bluegrass circles, often toting a mandolin and singing impeccable harmonies. Her trio — with Elaine Verstraete (vocals and bass) and Perry Cleaveland (vocals, fiddle and mandolin) — play Gillard's original songs, which offer a mix of folk and bluegrass as well as swing and jazz. Gillard's compelling voice draws you into her lyrics which, when combined with memorable melodies, head straight for the heart. Maria's songs offer wise, humorous, and sometimes painful observations on life and relationships. She tells stories through her music in ways that are soul stirring, evocative, contagious, lively and energizing.


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8:00 PM, February 19



His AIm is True: The Singular Songs of Elvis Costello
Redhouse
Featuring Karen Oberlin

Price: $25 non-members, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Karen Oberlin has been a fan of Elvis Costello since her early teens, when his young angst, disillusionment, and vulnerable heart seemed perfectly in sync with her own. For her new show, Karen brings forth a collection of material from her more than 30 years of following his eclectic, fascinating career to express some of the most intriguing elements of this unique singer/songwriter's work and life.

With Tedd Firth, piano/musical director; Sean Harkness, guitar; Steve Doyle, bass


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, February 19



Author Sarah Yaw
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sarah Yaw's novel You Are Free To Go (Engine Books, 2014) was the winner of the 2013 Engine Books Novel Prize, and also the 2015 CNY Book Award for Fiction. Her short work has appeared in Salt Hill. Sarah received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and is now associate professor and coordinator of Cayuga Advantage at Cayuga Community College.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, February 19



The Colored Museum
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Jackie Warren-Moore, director

Price: $10 at the door. Seating is limited.
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Colored Museum, by Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, is this year's featured play under the Project1VOICE initiative to "Strengthen African American Theater and Playwrights."

The Colored Museum is an outrageous play which explores contemporary African-American cultural identity, while, at the same time, revisiting and reexamining the African American theatrical and cultural past. The performances at ArtRage will preview the full upcoming production.



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7:30 PM, February 19



The Lion in Winter
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This fabulous modern classic Broadway play won three Oscars in 1966 and a Golden Globe for the 1968 film version starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. The show informs us about the origins and precursors of Shakespeare's age and is a powerful and compelling drama. Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene.

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8:00 PM, February 19



Steel Magnolias
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The drama by Robert Harling has become a part of our American culture. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, February 19



First Date
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

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

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers, and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Music Direction by Dan Williams.

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8:00 PM, February 19



Bullshot Crummond
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin

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

The man, the myth, the legend! Monty Python meets James Bond in this hilarious spoof of B-movie adventure films.

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8:00 PM, February 19



Preview: Punk Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

Propelled by an anxious momentum, Punk Rock is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence at the breaking point. In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their A-Level mock exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, nothing can forestall the underlying tension that becomes increasingly pronounced as the play moves from comic beginnings to a serious and troubling conclusion. Playwright Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) ear for teen conversations, shifting alliances, and fundamental fears is spot-on. Gripping, insightful, and excitingly theatrical.

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Saturday, February 20, 2016


Art
 

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



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 20



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 20



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 20



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 20



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 20



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 20



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 20



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 20



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 20



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 20



Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 20



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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5:45 PM - 11:00 PM, February 20



Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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


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Music
 

8:00 PM, February 20



His AIm is True: The Singular Songs of Elvis Costello
Redhouse
Featuring Karen Oberlin

Price: $25 non-members, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Karen Oberlin has been a fan of Elvis Costello since her early teens, when his young angst, disillusionment, and vulnerable heart seemed perfectly in sync with her own. For her new show, Karen brings forth a collection of material from her more than 30 years of following his eclectic, fascinating career to express some of the most intriguing elements of this unique singer/songwriter's work and life.

With Tedd Firth, piano/musical director; Sean Harkness, guitar; Steve Doyle, bass


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, February 20



Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, February 20



Bubblemania
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $2.50
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Doug the Bubbleman Rougeoux comes back in time for midwinter break. Bring your kids down for a special Saturday afternoon show to celebrate his 25th year of Bubblemania.


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7:00 PM, February 20



The Colored Museum
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Jackie Warren-Moore, director

Price: $10 at the door. Seating is limited.
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Colored Museum, by Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, is this year's featured play under the Project1VOICE initiative to "Strengthen African American Theater and Playwrights."

The Colored Museum is an outrageous play which explores contemporary African-American cultural identity, while, at the same time, revisiting and reexamining the African American theatrical and cultural past. The performances at ArtRage will preview the full upcoming production.



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7:30 PM, February 20



The Lion in Winter
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This fabulous modern classic Broadway play won three Oscars in 1966 and a Golden Globe for the 1968 film version starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. The show informs us about the origins and precursors of Shakespeare's age and is a powerful and compelling drama. Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene.

Read a Review!


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8:00 PM, February 20



Steel Magnolias
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The drama by Robert Harling has become a part of our American culture. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, February 20



First Date
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

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

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers, and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Music Direction by Dan Williams.

Read a Review!


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8:00 PM, February 20



Bullshot Crummond
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin

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

The man, the myth, the legend! Monty Python meets James Bond in this hilarious spoof of B-movie adventure films.

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8:00 PM, February 20



Opening: Punk Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

Propelled by an anxious momentum, Punk Rock is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence at the breaking point. In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their A-Level mock exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, nothing can forestall the underlying tension that becomes increasingly pronounced as the play moves from comic beginnings to a serious and troubling conclusion. Playwright Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) ear for teen conversations, shifting alliances, and fundamental fears is spot-on. Gripping, insightful, and excitingly theatrical.

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Sunday, February 21, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, February 21



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 21



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

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

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


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



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 21



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 21



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 21



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 21



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 21



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 21



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 21



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

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

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


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Dance
 

4:00 PM, February 21



Vision of Sound: New Music with Modern Dance
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors, $30 family, free for ages 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New music for dance performed by dancers and musicians from along the Erie Canal cultural corridor.

Music by Peter Allen, Michael Burritt, Ryan Carter, Diane Jones, Marc Mellits, and Mark Olivieri, collaborating with Upstate NY's finest choreographers: Allison Bohman, Dominique Dawkins, N'jelle Gage-Thorne, Michelle Ikle, Cheryl Johnson, Kelly Johnson, Alaina Olivieri, Missy Pfohl Smith, Cadence Whittier, and Cheryl Wilkins-Mitchell.


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Lecture
 

3:00 PM, February 21



Adventures In Life
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Marvin Druger

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

Marvin Druger is Professor Emeritus of Biology and Science Education at Syracuse University. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Genetics at Columbia University. He has had a remarkably varied career and received many awards for teaching excellence and service to science education. Having retired in 2009, he currently teaches a First Year Forum class at SU; gives personalized tours of the SU campus; has "Science on the Radio" program on WAER-FM; is a columnist for 55-Plus magazine; and directs "Frontiers of Science", a Saturday science enrichment program, for talented high school students. He wrote a children's book, Mr. Moocho and the Lucky Chicken and two poetry books for all ages Strange Creatures and Other Poems and Even Stranger Creatures and Other Poems. Another recent book is Misadventures of Marvin, published by Syracuse University Press.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, February 21



Sunday Musicale: Grupo Pagan Lite led by Edgar Pagan
Fayetteville Free Library

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


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2:00 PM, February 21



Origins of Jazz Series: From Ragtime to Swing
Liverpool Public Library
The Carolyn Kelly Blues Band

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

Real blues performed by Carolyn Kelly (vocals), Jim Pavente (bass), Terry Mulhauser (guitar), Jerry Neely (piano), Don Sollars (drums), Doug Egling (saxophone).


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4:00 PM, February 21



Ladies of the Big Bands
LeMoyne College
Featuring Jazzuits with Kim Nazarian

Price: Reserved tables: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students. General admission: $5
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A selection of Big Band music featuring Kim Nazarian from New York Voices.


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4:00 PM, February 21



Organ Recital: Nathan Laube
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Nathan Laube has quickly earned a place among the organ world's elite performers. A talented virtuoso, Mr. Laube is in high demand as a concert organist, performing between 40 and 50 solo programs a year. His brilliant playing and gracious demeanor have thrilled audiences and presenters across the United States and in Europe, and his creative programming of repertoire spanning five centuries, including his own virtuoso transcriptions of orchestral works, have earned high praise from critics and peers alike.


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5:00 PM, February 21



Black History Month Cabaret with Jackiem Joyner
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular, $25 for advance subscribers and donors
Drumlins Country Club
800 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse

We continue to celebrate by bringing back another of our old friends, the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart-topping Jackiem Joyner, Fowler H.S. grad, bootstrap music biz success story and scintillating saxophonist. He's also headlined our downtown festival, and has officially received the keys to our city at a Jazz in the City concert. There will be plenty of parking and Pascale's famous food and drink will be featured. The show will open with mini-sets by "a cappella" vocal groups from S.U. as well.


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7:00 PM, February 21



Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band with Colleen Kattau

Price: $10
Funk 'n Waffles Downtown
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

A special collaborative show by the Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band, 2015 Sammy winners for Best Americana, with bilingual singer-songwriter Colleen Kattau.

The JPR Band features John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Wendy Ramsay, Josh Dekaney (Mary Fahl, Samba Laranja, Mark Doyle) on percussion kit, and Sammy Hall of Famer John Dancks on upright bass.

Colleen Kattau will be performing selections from her new album, So Much Going On, nominated for a 2016 Sammy Award for Best Folk.

Josh Dekaney is nominated for a Sammy this year, too, for his album Reel Time Evolution.

Tickets available at Ticketfly.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, February 21



Steel Magnolias
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students; $12 seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The drama by Robert Harling has become a part of our American culture. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching.

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2:00 PM, February 21



First Date
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $22
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers, and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Music Direction by Dan Williams.

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2:00 PM, February 21



The Lion in Winter
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This fabulous modern classic Broadway play won three Oscars in 1966 and a Golden Globe for the 1968 film version starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. The show informs us about the origins and precursors of Shakespeare's age and is a powerful and compelling drama. Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene.

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2:00 PM, February 21



Punk Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

Propelled by an anxious momentum, Punk Rock is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence at the breaking point. In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their A-Level mock exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, nothing can forestall the underlying tension that becomes increasingly pronounced as the play moves from comic beginnings to a serious and troubling conclusion. Playwright Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) ear for teen conversations, shifting alliances, and fundamental fears is spot-on. Gripping, insightful, and excitingly theatrical.

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Monday, February 22, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 22



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 22



Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 22



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 22



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

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

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


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 22



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 22



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

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

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


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Tuesday, February 23, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 23



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 23



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 23



Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 23



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

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

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


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 23



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, February 23



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 23



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, February 23



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 23



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 23



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 23



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 23



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, February 23



Nigger: A Documentary by Thea St. Omer
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

ArtRage hosted one of the first pubic screenings of late filmmaker Thea St.Omer's documentary Nigger in the fall of 2009, so we are pleased to show this film again as part of the programming for the William Berry exhibition, "Blackout." Nigger explores the power of this much-maligned word through a series of interviews that explore its history, meanings, and impact. We will show the 2011 revised final cut, introduced by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.


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7:30 PM, February 23



Cinemagogue: Cupcakes
Temple Society of Concord

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

Set in contemporary Tel Aviv, six diverse best friends gather to watch the wildly popular UniverSong competition. Appalled by the Israeli entry, they decide to create their own and record it on a mobile phone. Unbeknownst to them, their performance is seen by the UniverSong judges and selected as Israel's entry for next year's competition. This hilarious comedy is a refreshing ode to music and friendship.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, February 23



Ensemble Series: SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Wind Ensemble is Syracuse University's premiere concert band and is primarily made up of musicians from within the Setnor School of Music. The ensemble performs under the direction of Professor Bradley P. Ethington.

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


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Wednesday, February 24, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 24



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 24



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 24



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 24



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, February 24



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

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

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


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



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 24



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, February 24



Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM, February 24



Artist Panel Discussion: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

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

A discussion featuring artists Delita Martin and Nina Buxembaum and moderated by Dr. Linda Carty, talking about their relations with Black womanhood.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, February 24



Jazz at the Plaza: Grupo Lite
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:30 PM, February 24



Alma Mahler Syracuse
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Robert Brophy, actor; Julia Ebner, soprano; Kevan Spencer, tenor and piano; Susan Wolstenholme, mezzo-soprano; and Carmen Viviano-Crafts, soprano and actor present this one-act play dramatizing Alma Mahler's brief appearance in Syracuse in December of 1910, when Gustav Mahler played.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, February 24



Preview: To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

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

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8:00 PM, February 24



Punk Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

Propelled by an anxious momentum, Punk Rock is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence at the breaking point. In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their A-Level mock exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, nothing can forestall the underlying tension that becomes increasingly pronounced as the play moves from comic beginnings to a serious and troubling conclusion. Playwright Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) ear for teen conversations, shifting alliances, and fundamental fears is spot-on. Gripping, insightful, and excitingly theatrical.

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Thursday, February 25, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, February 25



CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 25



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



Transitions: Works by Seth A. Crayton
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of Asian-inspired ink and charcoal drawings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, February 25



2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, February 25



Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 25



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 25



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 25



Pin the Tail: Works by Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Pin the Tail is a site-specific installation based on four photographs found by the artist, Catalina Schliebener, at a garage sale in New York City in 2014. The photographs, which depict children playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, became the catalyst for this exhibition with the addition of other found objects that relate symbolically or in form. The concept of Pin the Tail started to arise through the discovery of these objects and the potential formal and semantic relationships among them.

Just as in children's stories and songs, children's games involve a subtle normative character through which children indirectly learn rules of behavior, socialize, and acquire specific roles that will later be reproduced in the adult world. Schliebener is interested in working with icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class. In Pin the Tail, she analyzes and deconstructs the normative character and functionality of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. By doing so, Schliebener calls into question the nature of these objects by practicing new discourses in which they are not dependent upon the system that produced them.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, February 25



Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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


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6:15 PM - 11:00 PM, February 25



Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, February 25



Artist Talk: Catalina Schliebener
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery will be hosting a talk with Chilean artist Catalina Schliebener to discuss her work and her current exhibition "Pin the Tail."

Free parking available in the Syracuse University lot on the corner of West Street and Fayette Street.


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7:00 PM, February 25



Blackface: A Presentation by Dick Ford
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Long before TV, LPs, and CDs, the promotion of songs was through sheet music, theatre, radio, and the 78-rpm recordings played on a Victrola. Millions of families owned as piano and someone played church hymns and/or popular songs. Race-themed songs were popular and profitable for composers, lyricists, artists, and music publishers. Verses and cover art caricatures projected African-American men and women as ignorant, lazy, lustful or, in contrast, as mellow citizens basking in the South (Dixieland).

Musician and head of Signature Music in Syracuse, Dick Ford, will lead a discussion, play songs ranging from the civil war era to the Roaring 20s and display over 100 images from sheet music which helped popularize racism in our culture. Dick has played jazz and dance music since the 1950s. He has received awards for his contributions in music education, community leadership, and social justice.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, February 25



Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

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

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and immigrate to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian mafia! At last he is a rich man but how long can it last? Remember: you're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.


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7:30 PM, February 25



Preview: To Kill a Mockingbird
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

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

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8:00 PM, February 25



First Date
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $22
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers, and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Music Direction by Dan Williams.

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8:00 PM, February 25



Bullshot Crummond
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin

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

The man, the myth, the legend! Monty Python meets James Bond in this hilarious spoof of B-movie adventure films.

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8:00 PM, February 25



Punk Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

Propelled by an anxious momentum, Punk Rock is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence at the breaking point. In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their A-Level mock exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, nothing can forestall the underlying tension that becomes increasingly pronounced as the play moves from comic beginnings to a serious and troubling conclusion. Playwright Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) ear for teen conversations, shifting alliances, and fundamental fears is spot-on. Gripping, insightful, and excitingly theatrical.

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