Saturday, October 22, 2016

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

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

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

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

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

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Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

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

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

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

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Shaping Sound: Dance Reimagined

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

Under the Artistic Direction of Emmy Award-winner Travis Wall, and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson, Shaping Sound is an electrifying mash-up of dance styles and musical genres brought fully to life on stage by a dynamic company of contemporary dancers.

Audiences of all ages will experience the exhilarating collaboration of these visual musicians whose explosive choreography, dynamic rhythm, speed and physical strength give shape and form to sound.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.com.

Seleccion Canina
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
The MOST (Museum of Science & Technology)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Soccer-playing dogs must learn the value of teamwork in this Mexican CGI sports comedy film, produced by Vero Arceo and Ricardo Arnaiz. The film features a large ensemble voice cast of Mexican actors led by Fernando Luján, Plutarco Haza, Raúl Araiza, Maite Perroni, Pierre Angelo, Sergio Corona, Manuel "Loco" Valdés and Gaspar Henaine "Capulina", with Mexican soccer players, Jorge Campos, and Alberto García Aspe. (2015, Mexico, animation, 90 minutes, by Carlos Pimentel and Nathan Sifuentes, with guest Michael Olmos)

David and Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A selection of the best short films made by SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Transmedia BFA and MFA film students and Newhouse TRF film students. (2015-16, multiple countries, 90 minutes)

Siyang Zhang: The Stranger (20 minutes)
In the journey of life, what happens is not always what we expect.

Wei Jiao: Teeth (3 minutes)
The director creates a connection between two worlds that are not connectable. Two characters intervene on the space, and a voiceless dispute between them leads to a dramatic ending.

Yifeng Chen: Light 8 minutes)
A chance encounter helps a girl discover that light is not actually outside but can be ignited from within.

Carlton Daniel: Monoogemish (17 minutes)
Twenty-five-year-old Cooper Riley, an emerging poet and hopeless romantic, attempts to alter his life after discovering his boyfriend wants an open relationship.

Zachary Antell: Player Two (4 minutes)
A short animation that explores the relationship that develops between two brothers of differing ages growing up and how video games foster that bond.

Donato Rossi: The Day I Began to Love Myself (9 minutes)
A man living a rigid, methodical, and unexciting suburban life is intrigued by the presence of a new neighbor.

Spencer Garrison: Nothing is Nothing
Sam reflects on the various occurrences of death in his life.

Prash Sampathkumaran: The Legend of Scotty Watts
Scotty Watts is a frontman in a popular high school band, and Julian is his number one fan. When a young girl named Marcy barges into Julian's life, he begins to realize that his interest might also be an obsession that he cannot escape.

Monica Bermudez and Matthew Fernandes: American Voices (21 minutes)
A docudrama studying the men and women who escaped slavery in the 19th century to become autobiographers, abolitionists, and famous historical figures.

The Good Mind
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The sovereign Onondaga Nation in central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which inspired American democracy. The Onondagas advocate for the environment while engaged in a battle with the U.S. government over ancestral lands stolen in defiance of a treaty with George Washington. By Gwendolen Cates. (2015, USA, documentary, 70 minutes)

SIFF Sophia Award winner Oren Lyons and others from the Onondaga Nation will participate in a post screening discussion with the audience.

El Americano
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
The MOST (Museum of Science & Technology)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Starring Edward James Olmos (Gayo), and Rico Rodriquez (Cuco). Cuco is a Mexican boy parrot that would rather imitate the crazy stunts of his TV super-parrot hero, El Americano, than help with his chores at the family bird circus. Yet when a gang of bully birds threatens his ringmaster father and takes over the circus, Cuco sets off on a hilarious and perilous journey to Hollywood to enlist his hero in his fight, only to discover the true hero within himself. (2016, Mexico, animation, 98 minutes, by Ricardo Arnaiz, Mike Kunkel, and Raul Garcia, with guest Michael Olmos)

Nighthawks on the Blue Highway
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Nighthawks inhabit the soul of blues music. Founded in Washington, DC, more than 40 years ago by Little Walter-disciple Mark Wenner and guitar wizard Jimmy Thackery, the band thrives on its direct link to the great blues masters, having played with legends such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Gregg Allman, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, and John Lee Hooker.

The film celebrates the band's joyous blues music and its deep roots in Washington, DC, while spelling out the struggles of keeping a band afloat for more than four decades. Scheming record producers, weary days on the road, the changing fortunes of the blues, and conflict in the band threaten to sink the band. But The Nighthawks soldier on, carrying the torch of the blues into the 21st century. Featuring original interviews with blues legends, critics, and Nighthawks past and present, the film is the first of its kind about this band. (2016, USA, documentary, 75 minutes)

Q&A to follow with director Michael Streissguth.

Imaging Disability in Film Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Autism In Love
Finding love can be hard enough for anyone, but for those with an autism spectrum disorder, the challenges may seem overwhelming. The disorder can jeopardize the core characteristics of a successful relationship—communication and social interaction. The film offers a warm and stereotype-shattering look at four people as they pursue and manage romantic relationships. By Matt Fuller with producer Carolina Groppa. (2015, USA, documentary, 76 minutes)

Harmonies
Laura, opera singer, has lost her voice. She meets Lorenzo, a deaf comedian who expresses himself in sign language. By Eurydice Calmejane. (2015, France, drama, 21 minutes)

Aloft
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Manlius Art Cinema
135 E. Seneca St., Manlius

As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence.

In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths. By Claudia Llosa. (2015, Spain, Canada, France, drama, 112 minutes)

Bari Luys
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Sometimes the most important answers lie where the childhood memories lead to the disclosure and acceptance of oneself. Tangled up in his own self, Arshak is looking for the answers in his childhood memories. He's as close to the self-acceptance as to the running in circles. What will he choose? And how will the memories from the '90s define his life? (2016, Armenia, drama, 110 minutes)

First-time director Anna Arevshatyan will lead a Q&A after the screening.

Miles Ahead
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
The MOST (Museum of Science & Technology)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Skipping around in time, the film depicts Miles Davis' (played by by Don Cheadle) attempts to get his career back on track following a period of inactivity and drug addiction in the 1970s, his adventures with a fictional journalist (played by Ewan McGregor) who wants to profile him, and his troubled marriage to a former dancer. The film's score covers, in non-linear fashion, Davis' actual recordings throughout his career. (2015, drama, 100 minutes, USA)

On the Map and An Average Story
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dani Menkin's On the Map recounts the story of the underdog 1976-77 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team who toppled the four-time defending Soviet Union team, and put Israel firmly "on the map." Israel then defeated Italy in the finals, and won the historic European Cup Basketball Championship title. When the team returned to Israel, 200,000 fans were celebrating in Tel Aviv to welcome them home. Featuring interviews with the American and Israeli athletes who made history, On the Map combines the pulse-pounding action of a high-stakes basketball game with an incendiary political situation during the Cold War. (2016, Israel/USA, documentary, 78 minutes)

Menkin will be present for a Q&A after the screening.

In An Average Story, by Yaniv Segalovich, Avi Cohen has just been informed that he is the most average man who ever lived. Overnight, he reluctantly becomes a national icon and instant celebrity. With his wife's enthusiastic urging, they translate the situation into a business venture that goes surprisingly awry. (2016, Israel, 20 minutes)

Three Shorts by Russian Filmmaker Elena Gladkova
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Three shorts by Russian filmmaker Elena Gladkova followed by a Q&A with Ms. Gladkova. Her most recent film, Palace For the People is a musical/visual poem tribute to the Moscow Metro from the Stalinist to contemporary eras.

Palace For the People (2016, 36 minutes)
Jazz Etude (2015, 8 minutes)
Summer Day (2015, 13 minutes)

Dark Around the Stars
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A man (CNY-native Mark Kassen) embarks on a drunken road trip which he plans to end in a suicide on his birthday, but the trip becomes a journey of self-discovery as his past comes to light. Filled by a wonderful cast including Kathryn Hahn, Illeana Douglas, Vinessa Shaw, and Don McManus. By Derrick Borte, and featuring SIFF Honorary Board President Tom Bower who will be present for a Q&A after the screening. (2013, USA, drama, 94 minutes)

Citizen Soldier
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Citizen Soldier is a dramatic feature film, told from the point of view of a group of soldiers in the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, known since World War II as the Thunderbirds.

Set in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan at the height of the surge, it is a heart-pounding, heartfelt grunts'-eye-view of the war.

A modern day Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldier tells the true story of a group of soldiers and their lifechanging tour of duty in Afghanistan, offering an excruciatingly personal look into modern warfare, brotherhood, and patriotism. Using real footage from multiple cameras, including helmet cams, these citizen soldiers give the audience an intimate view into the chaos and horrors of combat and, in the process, display their bravery and valor under the most hellish of conditions. By David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud. Q&A with the filmmakers follows. (2016, USA, drama/documentary, 105 minutes)

The Exchange
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lydia is in anguish over her breakup with Frank. Haunted, sleepless, and desperate, she agrees to a blind date set up by a friend. The man she meets, a handsome actor, is used to having women fall in love with him. Attracted by his intelligence and naive gamesmanship, Lydia enters into a deadly serious bargain with the "professional liar" trying to seduce her: She'll do whatever he asks as he tries to make her fall in love with him. As they "go through the motions" of being lovers, they interrogate their own frustrated desires and masochistic dynamic in witty and wounded dialogue. Perhaps history can repeat itself, but to what end? By Robert Arnold with screenplay writer and co-director Cynthia Mitchell, and co-director Rachel Krief. (2016, France, drama, 79 minutes)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Fireworks (Archives)
Urban Video Project

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

"Fireworks (Archives)" is an installation-based short-form work by internationally acclaimed Thai filmmaker and installation artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This piece acts as a counterpoint and pendant to Apichatpong's latest feature film, Cemetery of Splendor, an official selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (Total run time: 6:41)

Filly Brown
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Majo Tonorio (Gina Rodriguez), a talented hip-hop artist, is offered a record deal from a sleazy producer. She faces a difficult choice between selling out for money or staying true to herself and her music. By Youssef Delara and Michael Olmos, with Michael Olmos present for Q&A. (2013, USA, Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, drama, 90 minutes)

Sunflower
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) get married to delay Antonio's deployment during World War II. After that buys them 12 days of happiness, they try another scheme, in which Antonio pretends to be a crazy man. Finally, Antonio is sent to the Russian Front. When the war is over, Antonio does not return and is listed as missing in action. Despite the odds, Giovanna is convinced her true love has survived the war and is still in Russia. Determined, she goes to Russia to find him. (1970, Italy, by Vittorio De Sica, 107 minutes)

Almost Sunrise
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Two friends, in an attempt to put their haunting combat experiences behind them, embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. Their odyssey across snowy mountains and vast deserts inspires an inner journey that culminates in a remarkable spiritual transformation that could light the way for other veterans seeking to reclaim their lives. Suicide among military veterans has reached epidemic proportions and can be the result of what mental health professionals call "moral injury"—lasting wounds to the soul caused by participation in events that go against one's deeply held sense of right and wrong. Almost Sunrise is an intimate, vérité film that eschews stereotypes, and instead, captures an unprecedented portrait of veterans—one of hope, potential and untold possibilities.

By Syracuse University alum Michael Collins, with Michael Collins leading a discussion after the screening. (2016, USA, documentary, 110 minutes)

Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A white author is sucked into a road trip through the heart on Native American Country by a Lakota elder and his best friend forcing the author into a deep understanding of contemporary native life. (2016, USA, 110 minutes, by Steven Lewis Simpson)

Captain Fantastic
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Ben Cash raises his six children off the grid by himself after his wife was hospitalized for bipolar disorder.

When Ben receives notice that his wife has killed herself, he takes his children on a road trip to New Mexico to attend their mother's funeral, despite warnings that his father-in-law will have him arrested if he disrupts the ceremony. Events surrounding the funeral, including one of his children being severely injured, one of them wishing to go to college, and one of them siding with his father-in-law, force Ben to reevaluate his choices regarding his children's upbringing and education. By Matt Ross, with SU alum and producer Monica Levinson, and starring CNY actor Vigo Mortensen. (2016, USA, drama, 118 minutes

Special Day
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Two neighbors—a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife—meet during Hitler's visit in Italy in 1938. The 4th and final film of the tribute to Sophia Loren. By Ettore Scola. (1977, Italy, drama, 106 minutes)

Tudo Bem! A Celebration of Latin American Music
Syracuse Children's Chorus

H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Profs. Elisa and Josh Dekaney of Syracuse University lead the Chorus and guests in a Latin music workshop culminating in a concert.

Maria Gillard Trio
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Maria Gillard with Perry Cleaveland and Elaine Verstraete, playing folk, with a mingling of jazz, swing, blues.

Let There Be Peace on Earth
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Yunn-Shan Ma, conductor

Plymouth Church
232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse

SVE and orchestra present music on the themes of peace and hope, including Faure's Requiem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and a cappella works including Clare MacLean's Hope There Is and Eleanor Daley's In Remembrance.

Evolution Cabaret
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Briana Maia

Price: $20
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Evolution takes you on a musical journey into the lives of women, through the voice Briana Maia, who is accompanied on keyboard by local musician and music director Jeff Unaitis.

The Orient Express: Venice, Istanbul, Mumbai--A Journey Through Time
Malmgren Concert Series
Il Giardino d'Amore

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hailed as playing with "electrifying energy and passion," Il Giardino d'Amore delights audiences around the world with its programs of Baroque music performed on period instruments. This
young group from Poland led by violinist Stefan Plewniak has a growing discography and an enthusiastic following in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Their program will include works by Vivaldi, Mielczewski, Fux, and others.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

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*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

Price: $20
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

A multiple-award winner, Garrett Heater's Lizzie Borden Took an Axe utilizes court transcripts and inquest testimonies to bring the drama to life in a chronologically faithful adaptation. Striving to be the most historically accurate play written regarding the notorious events, the audience is challenged in an unbiased manner to come to their own conclusions as to who perpetrated the crimes.

Set throughout the rooms of the mansion, the play recreates scenes leading up to and immediately after the 1892 double-murder of wealthy businessman Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden. Both were found mutilated in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, by hatchet or axe and Andrew's 32 year old daughter Lizzie (step-daughter of Abby) was indicted and stood trial for the crime. She was eventually acquitted of the gruesome homicides and the crime has remained unsolved for over 120 years. Following her acquittal, Lizzie Borden remained in Fall River. Her friends and neighbors, once staunch supporters of her innocence, quickly left her side after the trial and she became a social pariah.

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe will thrill audiences once again this fall, having sold out of all performances at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion over the past two years.

Tickets are available at 315-422-2445 or online at www.grbarnes.org/lizzie-borden-took-an-axe.

Night of the Living Dead
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Adaptation by Lori Allen Ohm, based on George Romero and John Russo's original film.

Fall-out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. A gripping terror-filled monochromatic play that brings all the fright of the cult classic to life. This blend of thrilling horror laced with touches of black humor envelops the audience in the action and unfolds into a shocking theatrical ending.

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Taming of the Shrew
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, described as an epic battle of the sexes, will combine comedy with controversy in a fast and fizzy production reimagined as a "play within a play" performed in an Italian restaurant.

Sordid Lives
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A "colorful" family from a small Texas town must come to grips with the accidental death of the family matriarch during a clandestine meeting in a seedy motel room with her much younger, married neighbor. The woman's family must deal with their own demons while preparing for what could be an embarrassing funeral. For mature audiences. By Del Shores.

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Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

#YA
First it's paint bombs, followed hard by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young activists meet amid turbulent events. They dance. The city belongs to them. By Ygor Gama and Florencia Rovlich. (2015, Argentina/Germany/Chili, drama/documentary, 15 minutes)

A Veteran's Story
Patrick Heagerty (father of Michael Heagerty of the Palace Theater) tells about his experiences in WWII. Patrick just celebrated his 90th birthday. He is a very good story teller. The film is full of humor and emotion. Since the film's premiere Pat Heagerty has passed. By David Gandino. (2016, USA, documentary, 26 minutes)

Apolinaire a Stavelot
Between documentary and fiction, the film explores the unique history of Guillaume Apollinaire, the great French poet who stayed in Stavelot in the Belgium Ardennes in the summer of 1899. We become aware of this stay only in 1934, 16 years after his death. His time in Stavelot had an immense influence on his literary work. By Paolo Zagaglia. (2016, Belgium, documentary/fiction, 52 minutes)

Nothing Escapes My Eyes
Inspired by the famous opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, the film depicts in a metaphoric way current issues of cultural identity, loss and the pressures to conform. Aida premiered in Cairo in 1871 at the Khedivial Opera House. One hundred years later, the building was completely destroyed by fire. In its place a big parking garage was built — nevertheless, to this day the place is still named Opera Square: Meidan el'Opera. By David Krippendorff. (2014, Egypt/Germany, drama, 14 minutes)

Quenottes
Quenottes (Pearlies) is a story about a little mouse, but not just any mouse. It is THE little mouse, or tooth fairy, of your childhood. The one that brought you your first coin in exchange for the tooth under your pillow. In everybody's mind, the little mouse is a benevolent and generous character. What if it isn't ? What if it is actually a neurotic psychopath obsessing about its collection of dental trophies? If a tooth is missing, it simply must be replaced. By any means necessary... By Pascal Thiebaux and Gil Pinheito. (2015, Luxembourg/France, drama, 12 minutes)

Cartel Land
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy—the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across the border.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. Cartel Land is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil. By Matthew Heineman. (2015, USA, Oscar nominated documentary, 100 minutes)

Ghost Town to Havana
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A street-level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. A baseball coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana.

The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue, and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city. By Eugene Corr. (2015, USA/Cuba, documentary, 86 minutes)

On the Map and An Average Story
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Dani Menkin's On the Map recounts the story of the underdog 1976-77 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team who toppled the four-time defending Soviet Union team, and put Israel firmly "on the map." Israel then defeated Italy in the finals, and won the historic European Cup Basketball Championship title. When the team returned to Israel, 200,000 fans were celebrating in Tel Aviv to welcome them home. Featuring interviews with the American and Israeli athletes who made history, On the Map combines the pulse-pounding action of a high-stakes basketball game with an incendiary political situation during the Cold War. (2016, Israel/USA, documentary, 78 minutes)

Menkin will be present for a Q&A after the screening.

In An Average Story, by Yaniv Segalovich, Avi Cohen has just been informed that he is the most average man who ever lived. Overnight, he reluctantly becomes a national icon and instant celebrity. With his wife's enthusiastic urging, they translate the situation into a business venture that goes surprisingly awry. (2016, Israel, 20 minutes)

Abbas Kiarostami Tribute: Certified Copy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Manlius Art Cinema
135 E. Seneca St., Manlius

While touring Tuscany promoting his new book, English author James (William Shimell) meets French store owner Elle (Juliette Binoche), and the two hit it off, deciding to spend a free day together. They travel to a nearby town, get coffee, visit a museum, and pretend to be recently married in what turns out to be a popular wedding destination. As they get to know each other it becomes clear there's more to their new relationship than meets the eye. Cannes Film Festival winner for Abbas Kiarostami and Juliette Binoche. (2010, Iran, drama, 106 minutes)

Deadlock
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Deadlock is the second installment in the five-documentary film series dedicated to the Armenian diaspora by filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan. The film's main character is a longtime friend of the director. After having obtained a green card for the United States, he leaves his homeland to search for a brighter future in the land of the free and the brave. Unfortunately, the USA is not what it pretends to be through advertisement and pop culture.

A world dominated by the rule of profit constantly crushes hopes and lives. Working in a car yard and barely scraping by the necessary to survive on a daily basis, he starts longing for his birthplace. Even though he yearns to go back to Armenia and works relentlessly and tirelessly, he cannot afford it. Deadlock is a painful musing on exile and disillusionment as well as a political inquiry into what it means to live in a capitalist country. Khachatryan's approach is a deeply humanistic one and his sensitive observational way of filming allows the material to resonate and reverberate in all its poetic and political complexity. (2016, Armenia, documentary, 115 minutes)

Listopad
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Based on the events and protests of the historic Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the film tells a story of living under Communism in 1989 from the perspective of students, artists and dissidents. In November of 1989, three friends Jiri (Filip Cil), Petr (Filip Tomsa), and Ondrej (Pavel Richta) take part in listening to banned music from the United States, create works of art, and wish to leave Czechoslovakia and the ideals of Communism far behind them.

Unfortunately for the trio, no one can leave the country unless they wish to be branded as traitors to the Communist Empire and will be arrested on return to Czechoslovakia. In order to keep themselves sane, Jiri, Petr, and Ondrej play hockey for the Red Stars and join in the rebel protests every night in hopes of making a difference. Along with their friend Martina (Anita Krausova), the boys soon entangle themselves into the heart of the Velvet Revolution and become wanted captives of the Communist Officers. By Gary Griffin, and Josef Lustig and Jan Tesitel with guest Gary Griffin. (2014, Czech Republic, drama, 90 minutes)

Snow Monkey
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

George Gittoes' documentary about street kids in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, focuses on three gangs: the Snow Monkeys, who sell ice creams from handcarts; the Ghostbusters, who wave smoke into cars to exorcise spirits and extract small tips; and a posse of thugs headed by razor-wielding 10-year-old Steel. They're all old before their time, and Gittoes' mission is to give them back some small part of their childhood while offering a glimpse of an adult life beyond the street.

Towards the end there's shocking footage of a bomb blast, filmed by a 13-year-old Snow Monkey. That such things happen is reason to despair; that a street kid has been empowered to show them to the world is some small reason to hope. (2015, Australia/Norway/Afghanistan, 150 minutes)

Jazz on a Summer's Day
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 individual (multi-film passes available)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Arguably the greatest concert film, set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, the film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration and features performances by Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Mahalia Jackson. In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (1959, USA, documentary, 85 minutes, by Bert Stern and George Avakian)

Javon Jackson, jazz sax player and University of Hartford's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Chair, will host the introduction and Q&A and end this joyous festival-closing event with a jazz performance.

Syracuse City Water Supply: Threats from Invasive Aquatic Species
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Buzz Roberts, MD

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

Buzz Roberts is a retired urologist from the Syracuse area. Currently, Buzz is the Vice President of the Skaneateles Lake Association and Co-Coordinator of the Prevention of Aquatic Invasive Species Program on Skaneateles Lake. As an expert on invasive aquatic species, Buzz will focus on the water supply for the city of Syracuse, the threat of both land-based and aquatic invasive species, and the short- and long-term impact on our local environment.

Gentlemen of the Big Band Era
LeMoyne College
Jazzuits

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

Join the Jazzuits as they perform popular jazz hits made famous by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and gentlemen of the big band era. Special guest Ronnie Leigh will join. Seating is limited. Reservations recommended.

Jazz on Tap: Steve Brown/Greg Chako Jazz Guitar Duo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Let There Be Peace on Earth
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Yunn-Shan Ma, conductor

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

SVE and orchestra present music on the themes of peace and hope, including Faure's Requiem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and a cappella works including Clare MacLean's Hope There Is and Eleanor Daley's In Remembrance.

Chamber Singers Performance
MasterWorks Chorale
Kip Coerper, conductor

Price: Donations accepted
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

Presented as part of St. Stephen's Arts and Music Festival.

Gentlemen of the Big Band Era
LeMoyne College
Jazzuits

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

Join the Jazzuits as they perform popular jazz hits made famous by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and gentlemen of the big band era. Special guest Ronnie Leigh will join. Seating is limited. Reservations recommended.

Student Recital Series: Katie Henderson, 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 this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

End Game
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A staged reading of a new play by local author, John Sheedy.

Night of the Living Dead
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Adaptation by Lori Allen Ohm, based on George Romero and John Russo's original film.

Fall-out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. A gripping terror-filled monochromatic play that brings all the fright of the cult classic to life. This blend of thrilling horror laced with touches of black humor envelops the audience in the action and unfolds into a shocking theatrical ending.

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Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

Price: $20
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

A multiple-award winner, Garrett Heater's Lizzie Borden Took an Axe utilizes court transcripts and inquest testimonies to bring the drama to life in a chronologically faithful adaptation. Striving to be the most historically accurate play written regarding the notorious events, the audience is challenged in an unbiased manner to come to their own conclusions as to who perpetrated the crimes.

Set throughout the rooms of the mansion, the play recreates scenes leading up to and immediately after the 1892 double-murder of wealthy businessman Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden. Both were found mutilated in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, by hatchet or axe and Andrew's 32 year old daughter Lizzie (step-daughter of Abby) was indicted and stood trial for the crime. She was eventually acquitted of the gruesome homicides and the crime has remained unsolved for over 120 years. Following her acquittal, Lizzie Borden remained in Fall River. Her friends and neighbors, once staunch supporters of her innocence, quickly left her side after the trial and she became a social pariah.

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe will thrill audiences once again this fall, having sold out of all performances at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion over the past two years.

Tickets are available at 315-422-2445 or online at www.grbarnes.org/lizzie-borden-took-an-axe.

Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

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Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: David Butler
Cast: Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak, Victor McLaglen

A cowardly actor (Hope) and a runaway princess (Mayo) flee from a bloodthirsty pirate captain (McLaglen) and encounter wild and hilarious adventures along the way. Considered by many to be one of Hope's finest comedies. In Technicolor.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

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

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

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

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

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

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

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Bill Horace Jazz Trio
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 this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

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

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

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

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

Read a review!

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

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

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Artist Talk
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring James Ransome

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

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Ahreum Kim, violin; Sophie Jiehea Hong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Works by Szymanowski, Sarasate, Bolcom, and Lutoslawski.

Annie Liontas
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Annie Liontas is the author of Let Me Explain You.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

Read a Review!

Thursday, October 27, 2016

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

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

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

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

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

Read a review!

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

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

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Fireworks (Archives)
Urban Video Project

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

"Fireworks (Archives)" is an installation-based short-form work by internationally acclaimed Thai filmmaker and installation artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This piece acts as a counterpoint and pendant to Apichatpong's latest feature film, Cemetery of Splendor, an official selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (Total run time: 6:41)

Ensemble Series: Saxophone 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. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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

Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

Read a Review!

Night of the Living Dead
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Adaptation by Lori Allen Ohm, based on George Romero and John Russo's original film.

Fall-out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. A gripping terror-filled monochromatic play that brings all the fright of the cult classic to life. This blend of thrilling horror laced with touches of black humor envelops the audience in the action and unfolds into a shocking theatrical ending.

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Taming of the Shrew
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, described as an epic battle of the sexes, will combine comedy with controversy in a fast and fizzy production reimagined as a "play within a play" performed in an Italian restaurant.

Friday, October 28, 2016

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

Read a review!

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

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

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country.

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Folk Art Guild Festival of Crafts

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Featuring natural fiber clothing, books for all ages, greeting cards, oriental rugs, woodworking, folk toys, pottery, and weaving.

Finding Your Power: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Fantasticus
NYS Baroque

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

String music of the 17th century in the Fantastic Style, by Rosenmüller, Schmelzer, Buxtehude, and others, including newly rediscovered works from manuscripts edited by Julie Andrijeski. Performers include Julie Andrijeski, Boel Gidholm, violins; Beiliang Zhu, gamba; Leon Schelhase, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo

Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz 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. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Syracuse Opera

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

Rossini's version of the classic tale, sung in Italian with projected titles.

Jackie Warren-Moore Poetry Reading and Book Publication Event
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Nine Mile Press, the publisher of Jackie Warren-Moore's new book, Where I Come From, will host a poetry reading and book signing event. "Jackie Warren-Moore's poems take a good, clear look at our world and its 'passing of civility.' She writes with passion and rage about 'Uncle Joe' and his stealing of her innocence, and can take on the voice of a Trayvon or a Grandmother with equal force and insight. Her concluding poem, where 'the women gather in circles' and 'make plans to rock the world,' speaks to the passion and fervor with which she takes on that world, and pushes us to do the same. These poems are humble and proud and full of the power of change." -poet, Rachel Guido deVries

Night of the Living Dead
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Adaptation by Lori Allen Ohm, based on George Romero and John Russo's original film.

Fall-out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. A gripping terror-filled monochromatic play that brings all the fright of the cult classic to life. This blend of thrilling horror laced with touches of black humor envelops the audience in the action and unfolds into a shocking theatrical ending.

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Taming of the Shrew
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, described as an epic battle of the sexes, will combine comedy with controversy in a fast and fizzy production reimagined as a "play within a play" performed in an Italian restaurant.

Great Expectations
Syracuse Stage
Michael Bloom, director

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

Experience Charles Dickens' great novel (arguably his greatest) in one energetic and sweeping evening of theatre. This compact adaptation cuts right to the narrative core of Pip's unexpected journey from orphan to gentleman as aided and inhibited by three memorable Dickens characters: the escaped convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and the lonely, embittered Miss Havisham. Six actors create an atmospheric Victorian world in this fast-paced classic coming-of-age adventure.

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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Vessels for Use and Contemplation: Ceramics of David MacDonald
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

In Praise of Shadows: Works by Ben Schwab
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of original paintings and drawings by artist Ben Schwab reflects the never-ending cycle of movement, especially in large, urban environments, where populations, landscapes and economic conditions are constantly evolving.

Diversity
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jim Ridlon: constructions in conjunction with poems, experimental prints, intimate collages and paintings; with a large scale outdoor installation titled "Nature's Marketplace"

Donna Smith: jewelry with a narrative quality using found objects and vintage pieces

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Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 43rd Annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes the outstanding works by employees of 16 Central New York companies and organizations participating in On My Own Time 2016.

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tattooed Foods: Illustrations by Lisa Jane Smith
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It would be difficult to be more straight-forward in describing Lisa Jane Smith's work than she is herself, calling it "sophisticated doodling." Lisa's art is often available at Rochester-area art festivals. She also licenses her art to manufacturers and had her kitchenware debut this past summer. Her work will also be available in a collection of fabric this fall.

The artwork included in the Gallery 54 show will feature illustrations of common fruits and vegetables along with the tea towels and books regularly available in this popular upscale gallery of fine art and crafts. All her work is sure to find its way into Central New York homes.

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.

Folk Art Guild Festival of Crafts

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Featuring natural fiber clothing, books for all ages, greeting cards, oriental rugs, woodworking, folk toys, pottery, and weaving.

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

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

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

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country.

It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum