Saturday, February 20, 2016

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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."

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.

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."

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

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

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.

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.

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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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!

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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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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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

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.

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.

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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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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Read a review!

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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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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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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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.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Read a review!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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.

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.

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

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

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

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

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."

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.

Jazz at the Plaza: Grupo Lite
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

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.

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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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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

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.

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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

Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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Friday, February 26, 2016

Opening: Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.

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

For information, call 315-445-4153.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Opening: World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

TGIF Tour
Everson Museum of Art

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

Start your weekend early with the Everson TGIF Tour, led by a member of the Everson's talented staff with a special point-of-view. After a 30-minute tour, stay to chat and eat lunch with the Museum's pros in the Everson Lounge.

Blackout: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.

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

Between Species
Urban Video Project

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

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

3rd Annual Spark Jazz Cabaret
Jamesville-DeWitt High School

Price: $5
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

A wonderful night of music featuring JDHS's show choir SPARK and JDHS's Jazz Ensemble. There will also be a special appearance by JDMS's Good Time Singers. It promises to be an entertaining evening for all ages.

Tickets are available at jdmusic.ticketleap.com or at the door.

*SOLD OUT* Soul Steps
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Soul Steps, using the body as a percussive instrument, embraces the rich African-American college tradition known as "stepping" to present work that explores the universality and language of rhythm. Soul Steps has performed nationally and internationally, presenting its work to communities from Brooklyn to Kosovo to Ireland and beyond.

Fire and Ice
Salt City Burlesque

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

Join us as we present the next installment of our Avant Garde variety show featuring performers from CNY and beyond, as well as our very special guest out of town professionals who will bring you an evening you won't soon forget! Flow arts, classic burlesque, comedy, classical dance, neo-burlesque, musical entertainment and more await you.

A portion of ticket sales benefit the CNY Jazz & Arts Foundation.

Honors Capstone Recital: Carolyn Goldstein, baroque violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Carolyn Goldstein, a senior string performance major in the Setnor School of Music, will present her Baroque violin capstone recital as part of Syracuse University's Renee Crown University Honors Program.

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.

Author Megan Davidson
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Megan Davidson worked for many years in advertising and marketing. After obtaining her MFA in English Writing (University of Pittsburgh), she spent 14 years as an editor for a small publishing house in Pittsburgh. She has taught at DWC for five years and also copyedits the Stone Canoe literary journal. She has authored three historical romances—Road to the Isles, The Song Within, and Once a Rogue—all published by Kensington Publishing, and has also co-authored two books on fiction writing. Her newest book is a suspense novel, The Thundering, published by Champlain Avenue Books.

The Wedding Singer
Solvay High School

Price: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

Don Quixote
Open Hand Theater

Price: $20 adults, $15 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The Man of La Mancha will return with his squire, Sancho Panza, to find adventure and woo the elusive Dulcinea. Master puppeteer Vladimir Vasyagin and artistic coordinator Peter Fekete will perform this classic puppet show.

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.

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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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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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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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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 27, 2016

Photography Exhibit: The Thornden Park Bulldogs
LeMoyne College

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

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

For information, call 315-445-4153.

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.

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse