Saturday, March 21, 2015

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

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

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

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

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

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

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

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

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Black Bullets" (2012) by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers is an architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art, beginning at dusk. This exhibition is presented as part of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Jeannette Ehlers' haunting piece is inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791, which resulted in the world's first black republic. Filmed on location at La Citadelle in Haiti, the piece is a tribute to the act of revolt.

Jeannette Ehlers is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A 2006 graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Ehlers' works revolve around the Danish slave trade in the colonial era. She is of Danish and Trinidadian parentage.

Cinefest 35
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30 per day; $85 full festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Smoking Guns (1934), the last film made by Ken Maynard on his contract with Universal.
10:00 am: Welcome Danger! (1929), the long unseen SILENT version of Harold Lloyd's first talkie. With Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent
12:00 pm: The Dawn of Technicolor: Early Technicolor Musicals

LUNCH BREAK

1:10 pm: Florida studio films From the Library of Congress. Rob Stone and Steve Massa will present two programs of short comedies from the archives of The Library Of Congress. One show will spotlight the Florida Fun Factories and highlight the comedies shot down there in the teens. The program will include:
An Expensive Visit (1915), starring Babe Hardy
A Bath Tub Elopement (1916), Eagle Film starring Marcel Perez, with Louise Carver and Tom Murray
A Vim made Pokes and Jabbs short, and others
2:15 pm: The New Klondike (1926), based on a short story by Ring Lardner, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan
3:25 pm: Sea Sore (1933) with Arthur Tracy, Baby Rose Marie
3:45 pm: My Lips Betray (1933) - starring Lillian Harvey and John Boles.
4:50 pm: Tess Of The Storm Country - (1914) with Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood. New restoration.

DINNER BREAK

8:00 pm: We! We! Marie! (1930) with Slim Summerville, Eddie Gribbon
8:20 pm: Gerry Orlando comments
8:30 pm: Tea Making Tips (1925)
8:45 pm: Colleen Moore Home Movies
8:50 pm: Synthetic Sin (1929), the recently restored Colleen Moore film.
10:05 pm: The Danger Game (1918). Film Historian Richard Koszarski will introduce a new restoration of the long unseen Goldwyn romantic comedy filmed in Ft. Lee, NJ, directed by Harry Pollard and starring Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore.
11:10 pm: Babies, They're Wonderful (1947), with Patsy Kelly
11:20 pm: Three Kisses (1955), Paramount Topper
11:35 pm: The Back Page (1933), with Peggy Shannon, Russell Hopkin

Student Recital Series: Cody Engstrom, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Schubert Schwanengesang
Dvorak Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Let the Children Sing Choral Festival and Concert
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Price: $18-$22 regular, $15-$20 students/seniors
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

*SOLD OUT* It Might As Well Be Spring! Cabaret at the Bear Garden
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Moe Harrington and Jeff Unaitis

Price: Donation to benefit ArtRage
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Jeff Unaitis is Executive Director of the Onondaga County Bar Association. Prior to that, he was spokesman for Time Warner Cable in Central New York for nearly 20 years. He's a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is currently a member of the ArtRage Board of Directors. Jeff has been playing piano since the age of 5, and keeps his musical chops fresh by performing occasionally with local community theatre groups – and accompanying Moe Harrington for worthwhile community fund-raising events!

Moe Harrington has been a performer for over 30 years. With Jeff Unaitis, she has performed for and raised money for many not-for-profits in the Syracuse area, including the Red Cross, The Children's Consortium, Northside Franciscan Ministries and the Poverillo Health Clinic, AIDS Community Resources, Make-A-Wish, and many others. Moe has done voice-over work for over 20 titles for Full Cast Audio, including the voice of Rosethorn in the Tamora Pierce Circle of Magic series. She is a four time Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) award winner.

The Bear Garden is a tiny "night club" that is hidden away in a Hawley-Green home. Hors d'oeuvres and desserts will be served cabaret Style.

Seating is limited so reservations are required. Phone 315-424-0783 for reservations and location information.

Student Recital Series: Kirstin Ariel Marsh, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Vincenzo Bellini "Ah! No Credea...Ah! Non giungi" from La Sonnambula
Leo Delibes Le Rossignol
Cécile Chaminade "Portrait Valse Chantee" from Trios for Flute, Piano, and Voice
Dominick Argento selections from Six Elizabethan Songs
Argento selections from Songs About Spring
Argento "Lady With A Hand Mirror" from Postcard From Morocco
Hugo Wolf Das Verlassene Mägdlein
Felix Mendelssohn Herbstlied Op. 63, No. 4
Franz Schubert Frühlinsglaube Op. 20, No. 2
Ned Rorem I Strolled Across an Open Field
Rorem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Rorem "Emily's Aria" from Our Town
Amy Beach Ah, Love, but a Day

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

*SOLD OUT* It Might As Well Be Spring! Cabaret at the Bear Garden
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Moe Harrington and Jeff Unaitis

Price: Donation to benefit ArtRage
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Jeff Unaitis is Executive Director of the Onondaga County Bar Association. Prior to that, he was spokesman for Time Warner Cable in Central New York for nearly 20 years. He's a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is currently a member of the ArtRage Board of Directors. Jeff has been playing piano since the age of 5, and keeps his musical chops fresh by performing occasionally with local community theatre groups – and accompanying Moe Harrington for worthwhile community fund-raising events!

Moe Harrington has been a performer for over 30 years. With Jeff Unaitis, she has performed for and raised money for many not-for-profits in the Syracuse area, including the Red Cross, The Children's Consortium, Northside Franciscan Ministries and the Poverillo Health Clinic, AIDS Community Resources, Make-A-Wish, and many others. Moe has done voice-over work for over 20 titles for Full Cast Audio, including the voice of Rosethorn in the Tamora Pierce Circle of Magic series. She is a four time Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) award winner.

The Bear Garden is a tiny "night club" that is hidden away in a Hawley-Green home. Hors d'oeuvres and desserts will be served cabaret Style.

Seating is limited so reservations are required. Phone 315-424-0783 for reservations and location information.

Unity Through Diversity: Le Moyne College Steppers
LeMoyne College

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

The Le Moyne Steppers present their first full performance in the Jesuit Theatre. The Steppers use various creative mediums, including step routines, to help bring about a greater understanding and appreciation for diversity on campus and the surrounding community.

New York Woodwind Quintet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, students free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Appointed ensemble-in-residence at Juilliard in 1987, this celebrated quintet has been performing to critical acclaim throughout the world for decades. The ensemble's exquisite musicality has inspired more than twenty composers to create new works for it to premiere. Many of these have become classics of the woodwind repertoire.

Reicha Quintet in D Major, Op. 100, No. 3
Pavel Haas Quintet, Op. 10
Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Gesualdo Madrigals
Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik

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Student Recital Series: Jaclyn Clark, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Giovanni Battista-Bononcini "Per La Glorida d'adorarvi" from Griselda
George Frideric Handel "V'adoro Pupille" from Guilio Cesare
Alessandro Parisotti Se tu m'ami
Gustav Mahler Frülingsmorgen
Richard Strauss Schlagende Herzen
Gustav Mahler Liebst du um Schönheit
Hugo Wolf Er Ist's
Jules Massenet Elégie
Georges Bizet Ouvre ton Coeur
Émile Paladilhe Psyche
Léo Delibes Les filles de Cadix
Tom Cipullo Late Summer
Carlisle Floyd "Ain't it a pretty night?" from Susannah

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, with Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People, High Hopes Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Broadway Bound
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rib-tickling and heart-wrenching play tells the story a young man who tries to tackle television as a comedy writer while watching the deteriorating marriage of his parents and a grandfather who marches to his own drummer. Truly one of Neil Simon's finest plays. PG-13.

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The Addams Family
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Caryn Patterson, director

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Tickets can be ordered online at www.nscsd.org or by calling 315-218-4100 during school hours. Tickets will also be available at the door on the evenings of the performances.

Kiss Me Kate
Jordan-Elbridge Central High School
Denise Deapo, director

Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

Combine Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew with Cole Porter's music and lyrics to get Kiss Me, Kate, an instant success with every cast and audience. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage. The show is fun, melodious and sophisticated. It has music and lyrics by Cole Porter and is based on a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The students will be performing the 1999 revival version of the show.

Tickets and information can be found at www.jecsd.org/drama or by calling 315-689-8500 ext. 1700. Tickets will also be available at the door on both nights of the performances. The Box Office will be open at 6 p.m. each night.

Jekyll & Hyde
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $23 in advance, $26 at the door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical.

The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and Tony nominated Frank Wildhorn & double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll & Hyde has mesmerized audiences the world over.

An evocative tale of two men--one a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman--and two women--one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women in love with the same man. Both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind's most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.

Conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn, book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, music by Frank Wildhorn, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson

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God's Favorite
Central New York Playhouse
Heather J. Roach, director

Price: $34.95 dinner theater, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

The classic Neil Simon comedy of Biblical proportions. Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day "Job" with a demanding wife, ungrateful children and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton, aka A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe's faith and report back to "The Boss.". The jokes and tests of faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.

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The New Century
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

"The one-liners fly like rockets in The New Century, the rollicking bill of short plays by Paul Rudnick ... Building on time-honored traditions within gay and Jewish humor, Mr. Rudnick turns stereotypes into bullet-deflecting armor and jokes into an inexhaustible supply of ammunition ... Frivolity for his characters is a solid existential choice in a threatening universe." —NY Times

Starring Nora O'Dea, Frederick Morse, Alan Stillman, Patricia Catchouny and Gina Fortino.

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Broadway Bound
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rib-tickling and heart-wrenching play tells the story a young man who tries to tackle television as a comedy writer while watching the deteriorating marriage of his parents and a grandfather who marches to his own drummer. Truly one of Neil Simon's finest plays. PG-13.

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

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

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Cinefest 35
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30 per day; $85 full festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: The Big Broadcast (1932), with Bing Crosby, Burns & Allen, Stu Erwin, Sharon Lynn
10:35 am: U (2015), hosted by Leonard Maltin and George Read
12:00 pm: History and Development of the 35mm Projector
12:30 pm: Once A Sinner (1931), starring Dorothy McKaill is on the schedule courtesy of UCLA Film And Television Archives
1:40 pm: Calgary Stampede (1925), with Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown
2:35 pm: Dick Bann's Hal Roach Show #2, hosted by Dick Bann.
3:40 pm: Code Of The Sea (1924), with Rod LaRocque, Jacqueline Logan
4:40 pm: The Sea Lion (1921) -- this was the first silent feature ever screened at the first Cinefest in 1981.

Faculty Recital Series: Ronald L. Caravan, clarinet and saxophone
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

*SOLD OUT* It Might As Well Be Spring! Cabaret at the Bear Garden
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Moe Harrington and Jeff Unaitis

Price: Donation to benefit ArtRage
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Jeff Unaitis is Executive Director of the Onondaga County Bar Association. Prior to that, he was spokesman for Time Warner Cable in Central New York for nearly 20 years. He's a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is currently a member of the ArtRage Board of Directors. Jeff has been playing piano since the age of 5, and keeps his musical chops fresh by performing occasionally with local community theatre groups – and accompanying Moe Harrington for worthwhile community fund-raising events!

Moe Harrington has been a performer for over 30 years. With Jeff Unaitis, she has performed for and raised money for many not-for-profits in the Syracuse area, including the Red Cross, The Children's Consortium, Northside Franciscan Ministries and the Poverillo Health Clinic, AIDS Community Resources, Make-A-Wish, and many others. Moe has done voice-over work for over 20 titles for Full Cast Audio, including the voice of Rosethorn in the Tamora Pierce Circle of Magic series. She is a four time Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) award winner.

The Bear Garden is a tiny "night club" that is hidden away in a Hawley-Green home. Hors d'oeuvres and desserts will be served cabaret Style.

Seating is limited so reservations are required. Phone 315-424-0783 for reservations and location information.

Student Recital Series: Eshan Escoffery, trombone
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

J.S. Bach "Air on the G String" from Suite No. 3 in D Major
Josef Rheinberger Abendlied Op. 69, No. 3
J.J. Johnson Lament
Slide Hampton Precipice
Luiz Bonfa Black Orpheus
George Gershwin Summertime
Duke Ellington Solitude
Gerald Marks & Seymour Simons All of Me

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Kevin Metzger, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

God's Favorite
Central New York Playhouse
Heather J. Roach, director

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

The classic Neil Simon comedy of Biblical proportions. Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day "Job" with a demanding wife, ungrateful children and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton, aka A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe's faith and report back to "The Boss.". The jokes and tests of faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.

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Jekyll & Hyde
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $23 in advance, $26 at the door, $21 seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical.

The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and Tony nominated Frank Wildhorn & double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll & Hyde has mesmerized audiences the world over.

An evocative tale of two men--one a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman--and two women--one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women in love with the same man. Both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind's most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.

Conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn, book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, music by Frank Wildhorn, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Monday, March 23, 2015

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

None of That/Nada de eso, works by Juan Cruz
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

In his exhibition None of That (in Spanish, Nada de eso), Juan Cruz reflects on his discontent, on what he describes as a futile attempt to communicate something, constantly seeking and not finding a more far-reaching meaning in his work.

The creative process has led the artist to reexamine his body of work from decades of painting and cut it to pieces. Cruz has been slicing many of his signature pieces, large canvases full of color in motion, and recomposing them into new works that combine bits from past works. The notion of the artist destroying his own work may seem a like a sort of violent act, but for Juan it is more of a calculated, profoundly meditated process.

Cruz seems to be expressing what comes from a deeply felt stir that is shared by so many of us in our own lives at certain times, when we try to make sense, searching for the meaning of it all, and finding none of that.

Juan Alberto Cruz was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico in 1941. His work has been recognized and presented in museums and galleries locally and statewide, as well as in his native Puerto Rico.

Flashback Monday: Say Anything
Palace Theatre

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

The Addams Family Preview
First Year Players

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

First Year Players is an entirely student-run musical theater organization at Syracuse University that provides first-year and transfer students with the opportunity to perform in an annual musical. Cast members will perform selections from the upcoming FYP production of The Addams Family.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

None of That/Nada de eso, works by Juan Cruz
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

In his exhibition None of That (in Spanish, Nada de eso), Juan Cruz reflects on his discontent, on what he describes as a futile attempt to communicate something, constantly seeking and not finding a more far-reaching meaning in his work.

The creative process has led the artist to reexamine his body of work from decades of painting and cut it to pieces. Cruz has been slicing many of his signature pieces, large canvases full of color in motion, and recomposing them into new works that combine bits from past works. The notion of the artist destroying his own work may seem a like a sort of violent act, but for Juan it is more of a calculated, profoundly meditated process.

Cruz seems to be expressing what comes from a deeply felt stir that is shared by so many of us in our own lives at certain times, when we try to make sense, searching for the meaning of it all, and finding none of that.

Juan Alberto Cruz was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico in 1941. His work has been recognized and presented in museums and galleries locally and statewide, as well as in his native Puerto Rico.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm In Therapy!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Steve Solomon's two-time award winning show has met with rave reviews and great audience acclaim throughout the country, becoming one of the longest-running one-man shows in Broadway history. Once again, we meet the people that we're all too familiar with: the family members that make you remember why you left home in the first place. It's a laugh-filled fest of everybody you know, have known, and some you'd want to forget but can't, all brought to life on stage by the comic magic of Steve Solomon.

From Photojournalist to Photo Activist: The Ripple Effects Images Project
University Lectures
Featuring Annie Griffiths

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

One of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic, Annie Griffiths has photographed on six of the world's seven continents during her illustrious career.

She has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for the Society, including stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Galilee, Petra, Sydney, New Zealand and Jerusalem.

In addition to her magazine work, Griffiths is deeply committed to photographing for aid organizations around the world. She is the executive director of Ripple Effect Images, a collective of photographers who document the programs that are empowering women and girls in the developing world, especially as they deal with the devastating effects of climate change.

Griffiths' work has also appeared in LIFE, Geo, Smithsonian, Fortune, Merian, Stern, and many other publications. With author Barbara Kingsolver, she produced Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands, a book celebrating the last pristine wilderness in North America. Proceeds from the book have raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for grassroots land conservation. In 2008, Griffiths published A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel, a photo memoir about balance and the joy of creating a meaningful life. In 2010, she published Simply Beautiful Photographs, which was named the top photo/art book of the year by Amazon and by Barnes and Noble. Griffiths has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization of Women, The University of Minnesota and the White House News Photographers Association.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

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

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

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

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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None of That/Nada de eso, works by Juan Cruz
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

In his exhibition None of That (in Spanish, Nada de eso), Juan Cruz reflects on his discontent, on what he describes as a futile attempt to communicate something, constantly seeking and not finding a more far-reaching meaning in his work.

The creative process has led the artist to reexamine his body of work from decades of painting and cut it to pieces. Cruz has been slicing many of his signature pieces, large canvases full of color in motion, and recomposing them into new works that combine bits from past works. The notion of the artist destroying his own work may seem a like a sort of violent act, but for Juan it is more of a calculated, profoundly meditated process.

Cruz seems to be expressing what comes from a deeply felt stir that is shared by so many of us in our own lives at certain times, when we try to make sense, searching for the meaning of it all, and finding none of that.

Juan Alberto Cruz was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico in 1941. His work has been recognized and presented in museums and galleries locally and statewide, as well as in his native Puerto Rico.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm In Therapy!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Steve Solomon's two-time award winning show has met with rave reviews and great audience acclaim throughout the country, becoming one of the longest-running one-man shows in Broadway history. Once again, we meet the people that we're all too familiar with: the family members that make you remember why you left home in the first place. It's a laugh-filled fest of everybody you know, have known, and some you'd want to forget but can't, all brought to life on stage by the comic magic of Steve Solomon.

Artist Talk: Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"As a photographer, I walked backwards for five days, watching events unfold through my camera lenses. This was a march for ordinary people, not the leaders. Northern activists and intellectuals mixed easily with people from rural Alabama. In this spirit, I photographed two women throughout the march: Iris Jones, a housewife from suburban Philadelphia, and Doris Wilson, a teenage mother from Selma. At night we slept on the ground in tents that magically appeared and ate food prepared by armies of volunteers working anonymously to support the march." -Matt Herron

Herron's photographs have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60's, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Katie Nicole Weiser, soprano; Angky Budiardjono, baritone; Sabine Krantz, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music of Mozart, Mahler, Debussy, and Menotti's The Telephone

E.C. Osondu
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Readings are preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm.

Poets Ken Weisner and Andrea Scarpino
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Ken Weisner lives in Santa Cruz and teaches writing at De Anza Community College in Cupertino where he edits Red Wheelbarrow. For 15 years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. His most recent collection of poems is Anything on Earth (2010, Hummingbird Press). His work has been featured on Sam Hamill's "Poets Against the War" website, in The Music Lovers Poetry Anthology (Persea, 2007), and on The Writer's Almanac (2010).

Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press) and the poetry collection Once, Then (Red Hen Press). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University and has published in numerous journals including The Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, and Prairie Schooner. She contributes weekly to the blog Planet of the Blind.

Broadway Bound
Redhouse

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

This rib-tickling and heart-wrenching play tells the story a young man who tries to tackle television as a comedy writer while watching the deteriorating marriage of his parents and a grandfather who marches to his own drummer. Truly one of Neil Simon's finest plays. PG-13.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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None of That/Nada de eso, works by Juan Cruz
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

In his exhibition None of That (in Spanish, Nada de eso), Juan Cruz reflects on his discontent, on what he describes as a futile attempt to communicate something, constantly seeking and not finding a more far-reaching meaning in his work.

The creative process has led the artist to reexamine his body of work from decades of painting and cut it to pieces. Cruz has been slicing many of his signature pieces, large canvases full of color in motion, and recomposing them into new works that combine bits from past works. The notion of the artist destroying his own work may seem a like a sort of violent act, but for Juan it is more of a calculated, profoundly meditated process.

Cruz seems to be expressing what comes from a deeply felt stir that is shared by so many of us in our own lives at certain times, when we try to make sense, searching for the meaning of it all, and finding none of that.

Juan Alberto Cruz was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico in 1941. His work has been recognized and presented in museums and galleries locally and statewide, as well as in his native Puerto Rico.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Opening: Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Black Bullets" (2012) by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers is an architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art, beginning at dusk. This exhibition is presented as part of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Jeannette Ehlers' haunting piece is inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791, which resulted in the world's first black republic. Filmed on location at La Citadelle in Haiti, the piece is a tribute to the act of revolt.

Jeannette Ehlers is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A 2006 graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Ehlers' works revolve around the Danish slave trade in the colonial era. She is of Danish and Trinidadian parentage.

Convo Performance: Bridgid Bibbens, electric violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

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

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

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

Pizza Party, with Otto Tunes, Ricky Smith, Lipstik
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Wee Bit O' Murder
Acme Mystery Company

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

Holy St. Patrick on a stick! Someone has stolen the pot of gold and now you and all the other leprechauns of Clover Union Local Number 7 have your little tails in a spin. The president of your local, Jimmy Jack Daniels O'Toole, is demanding that you get your wee bottoms over to the pub as fast as your little feet can go. If the International Fellowship of Little Knickers finds out about this, you'll all be turned into garden gnomes!

Broadway Bound
Redhouse

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

This rib-tickling and heart-wrenching play tells the story a young man who tries to tackle television as a comedy writer while watching the deteriorating marriage of his parents and a grandfather who marches to his own drummer. Truly one of Neil Simon's finest plays. PG-13.

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God's Favorite
Central New York Playhouse
Heather J. Roach, director

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

The classic Neil Simon comedy of Biblical proportions. Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day "Job" with a demanding wife, ungrateful children and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton, aka A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe's faith and report back to "The Boss.". The jokes and tests of faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Side by Side: Paintings by Claire Stankus
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Side by Side features paintings created in pairs. Spanning the last two years, these portraits, still life, and landscapes showcase the interaction between similar and repeated imagery. These paintings work together to identify relationships, and document subtle changes in time and mood. The figurative works explore parallel mannerisms in posed and candid portraits, while the landscapes and still life result from repeated observations of everyday perspectives. Routinely observing the same scenes everyday can illuminate how constant, mundane habits or surroundings develop new significance over time. Noticing these patterns in our lives reminds us how small and daily occurrences can become more memorable than a singular event, and encourages us to examine our environment a bit more closely.

Claire Stankus studied painting and ceramics at Syracuse University. In her junior year she traveled to Florence, Italy for a semester abroad to study painting and art history. She graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2012. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Chautauqua Institution in 2012, and in 2013 spent a month painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She plans to enter an MFA program in the fall.

Apartheid and Identity: Race. Place. Being.
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The multimedia exhibition, under the direction of Oswego art department chair Cynthia Clabough, will explore the convergences between South Africans' struggles against apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, part of a collaboration titled "Race. Place. Being.," will pick up on themes raised by the play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" at Syracuse Stage and a display of Rochester native Matt Herron's civil rights-era photos at ArtRage Gallery.

The work of Herron, whose photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and other pivotal civil rights events have appeared in publications around the world, will appear at "Race. Place. Being." venues on large banners on loan from the Birmingham Civil Right Institute.

Other artists represented in the SUNY Oswego Metro Center exhibition will include Ellen M. Blalock, Mike Greenlar, Dale Pierce, Mary Stanley, and Vanessa Johnson.

Though oceans separated apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement, both struggles hinged on how those seeking freedom succeeded in visually defining who they were. Each movement echoed the other's successes and setbacks. "Apartheid and Identity" focuses on such events as Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, begun in 1964, and the Soweto uprising; the 1965 Selma march and earlier violent attempts in the South to quell desegregation, and voting rights for African Americans.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

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

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

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

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

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

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

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

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

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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None of That/Nada de eso, works by Juan Cruz
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

In his exhibition None of That (in Spanish, Nada de eso), Juan Cruz reflects on his discontent, on what he describes as a futile attempt to communicate something, constantly seeking and not finding a more far-reaching meaning in his work.

The creative process has led the artist to reexamine his body of work from decades of painting and cut it to pieces. Cruz has been slicing many of his signature pieces, large canvases full of color in motion, and recomposing them into new works that combine bits from past works. The notion of the artist destroying his own work may seem a like a sort of violent act, but for Juan it is more of a calculated, profoundly meditated process.

Cruz seems to be expressing what comes from a deeply felt stir that is shared by so many of us in our own lives at certain times, when we try to make sense, searching for the meaning of it all, and finding none of that.

Juan Alberto Cruz was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico in 1941. His work has been recognized and presented in museums and galleries locally and statewide, as well as in his native Puerto Rico.

Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Selma to Montgomery March at 50: Civil Rights Photographs by Matt Herron
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama's denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron's powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.

Herron's photos have appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. Based in Mississippi in the early 60s, he covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as providing pictures for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Black Bullets" (2012) by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers is an architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art, beginning at dusk. This exhibition is presented as part of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Jeannette Ehlers' haunting piece is inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791, which resulted in the world's first black republic. Filmed on location at La Citadelle in Haiti, the piece is a tribute to the act of revolt.

Jeannette Ehlers is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A 2006 graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Ehlers' works revolve around the Danish slave trade in the colonial era. She is of Danish and Trinidadian parentage.

Everson TGIF Tour
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Members free, included with exhibition admission for non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Start your weekend early with our Everson TGIF Tour, informative and fun tours led by a member of the Everson's talented staff with a special point-of-view. After a 30-minute tour of Prendergast to Pollock, stay to chat and eat your brown bag lunch with the Museum's pros in the newly opened Everson Lounge.

Legends of Jazz Series: The Rebirth Brass Band
Onondaga Community College

Price: $30
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Legends of Jazz Series: The Rebirth Brass Band
Onondaga Community College

Price: $30
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Spring Break Clothing Launch Bash Party, with Ca$h Out, Oxburg, Sean Mags, DJ Big Boy, DJ Merc, DJ DG
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Author John Vanderslice
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

John Vanderslice teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Arkansas, where he also serves as associate editor of Toad Suck Review magazine. His stories have appeared in Seattle Review, Sou'wester, Laurel Review, Exquisite Corpse, Crazyhorse, and more than 60 other publications. His new book of short stories, Island Fog, has been named by Library Journal as one of the Top 15 Indie Fiction titles of 2014.

Legend
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Ryan Hope Travis, director

Price: $10-$20 sliding scale
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse