Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

Five Finger Death Punch and Volbeat, with Hellyeah and Nothing More

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Global Rock heavyweights Five Finger Death Punch and Volbeat have joined forces to bring fans one of the biggest rock tours of the year. Special guests on the tour will be Hellyeah and Nothing More.

Five Finger Death Punch, one of the most successful rock bands globally, dominated 2013 with the releases "The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell," Volumes 1 and 2. Both volumes debuted on the U.S. Billboard album chart at No. 2 and in the top 10 mainstream charts across the globe. The two albums feature two No. 1 radio hit singles ("Lift Me UP" and "Battle Born"). Five Finger Death Punch is Ivan Moody (vocals), Zoltan Bathory (guitar), Jeremy Spencer (guitar), Jason Hook (guitar), and Chris Kael (bass).

Volbeat, a Danish quartet, received their first Grammy nomination in the "Best Metal Performance" category for "Room 24" (Volbeat featuring King Diamond), and won Germany's Echo Award for "Best International Alternative Act." The band's repertoire has become a staple at Active Radio, cementing their relevance with five consecutive No. 1 singles at the format. Since forming in Copenhagen in 2000, Volbeat has released five studio albums, and two live offerings that have turned the band into superstars, collecting platinum discs and prestigious awards making them one of the most talked-about bands around the world.

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office (inside the State St. entrance of The Oncenter War Memorial Arena), by phone at 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

The Big Break! Night 5
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tedeschi Trucks Band, with Alan Evans, Playonbrother
Creative Concerts

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

Tedeschi Trucks Band

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

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $75
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, features the animated film's Academy Award-winning score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman, with additional songs with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. The book is written by Linda Woolverton. The original creators of the Broadway production are together again for this new touring production!

Tickets may be purchased by visiting the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at TicketMaster.com.

SPECIAL EVENT: Enchanted Royal Celebration

The Court of The Landmark Theatre formally invites you to attend an Enchanted Royal Celebration before the presentation of the show tonight only. This royal "to do" will take place in the gilded upper mezzanine from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Honored attendees will enjoy preshow royal treats and punch, music for royal hopping, enchanted games and our young royal Princes and Princesses will receive a special enchanted gift bag. A post show "meet and greet" will take place for our royal celebration attendees only.

Please call the box office at 315-475-7979 to purchase tickets.

The cost for this additional event is $20 per person.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Lunchtime Lecture: Gallery Tour of Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, for a tour through Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945, an exhibition of over 150 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England, and Italy in the 1930s and 40s.

20th Century American Music for Violin and Piano
Civic Morning Musicals
Linda Carmona, violin; Yoolung Kim, piano

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

Works by Gershwin, Foss, Copland, and Korngold.

SU Guest Artist Series: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is considered to be one of the most highly respected and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. She will be performing songs of the French cabaret and early 20th century Tin Pan Alley, including works by Poulenc, Ferre, Bre, Coward, Porter and DeSylva.

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

Edan Lepucki
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $75
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, features the animated film's Academy Award-winning score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman, with additional songs with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. The book is written by Linda Woolverton. The original creators of the Broadway production are together again for this new touring production!

Tickets may be purchased by visiting the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at TicketMaster.com.

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Preview: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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Dirty Bee: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Redhouse

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

Featuring a "dirty bee" on Wednesday nights, where the improv is rated R!

In this delightful musical six quirky adolescents compete in the Putnam Valley Middle School Bee and learn that winning isn't everything! Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. Rated PG13.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Costume designer Maria Marrero, a professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, has taught at Syracuse University for more than 30 years. She has designed costumes for productions at leading professional and regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Apollo Theater in Chicago, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, ESIPA "The Egg" in Albany, Playmakers Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Rochester's GEVA Theater and Buffalo Studio Arena, the Vineyard Theater and the Baroque Opera Company in New York City.

Marrero has designed regional and national tours, including the premiere production of "Handy Dandy" and "Of Mice and Men." She was a founding member and resident costumer/designer of the second Florida State Regional Theater, Players State Theater at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Her designs for "A Flea in Her Ear" won the Best Costume Design award from the Miami Critics Circle. Her designs for "Life with Father"and for "A Christmas Carol," both at the Coconut Grove, were nominated for Carbonell Awards in the category of Best Costume Design.

The resident costumer/designer at Syracuse Stage for 12 years, Marrero designed costumes for 36 productions, including "Putting It Together"and "The Fantasticks." She was a draper at Eaves-Brooks Costume Company in New York City and has worked on film and television projects for PBS and independent companies.

The exhibition, which will include costumes and sketches, is presented in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Gallery Talk and Reception: Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery talk this evening at 6:00 pm, with a reception 5:00-7:00 pm.

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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

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

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

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

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, stars of the Emmy nominated Whose Line Is It Anyway? have teamed up to present an evening with extraordinary improvisational comedy.

Using their quick wit, Colin and Brad take contributions from the audience to create hilarious and original scenes...just like the live version of Whose Line! Throughout the evening, the show becomes truly interactive as audience members are called to the stage to participate in the fun. Their high-profile presentations have played in sold-out venues all over the country. Don't miss the most exciting comedy event of the year!

Tickets are available at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), by phone at 315-435-2121, or online at ticketmaster.com.

"What If..." Film Series: Growing Cities
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
Southwest Community Center
401 South Ave., Syracuse

In their search for answers, filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette take a road trip and meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop garden, and backyard chicken coop at a time. Join them as they discover that good food isn't the only crop these urban visionaries are harvesting. They're producing stronger and more vibrant communities, too. With special guest Chef Will Lewis. (60 minutes)

Murder Most Faire
Acme Mystery Company

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

Henry King the Eighth is experiencing a royal pain. His Sperling Renaissance Faire is failing and with it his family fortune. Ye Goode Olde Days seem gone for good but his scheming lawyer has come up with a knavish plan that just might save him. He now must match wits with a fortune teller in search of fortune, a queen who will do anything to keep her throne, and a preening knight with a serious case of lance envy. Drink deeply from your mead and hang onto your codpiece. The affairs of this Faire may soon turn deadly.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Redhouse

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

In this delightful musical six quirky adolescents compete in the Putnam Valley Middle School Bee and learn that winning isn't everything! Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. Rated PG13.

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Preview: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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The Laramie Project
Central New York Playhouse
Justin Polly, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In October 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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Friday, September 26, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Costume designer Maria Marrero, a professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, has taught at Syracuse University for more than 30 years. She has designed costumes for productions at leading professional and regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Apollo Theater in Chicago, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, ESIPA "The Egg" in Albany, Playmakers Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Rochester's GEVA Theater and Buffalo Studio Arena, the Vineyard Theater and the Baroque Opera Company in New York City.

Marrero has designed regional and national tours, including the premiere production of "Handy Dandy" and "Of Mice and Men." She was a founding member and resident costumer/designer of the second Florida State Regional Theater, Players State Theater at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Her designs for "A Flea in Her Ear" won the Best Costume Design award from the Miami Critics Circle. Her designs for "Life with Father"and for "A Christmas Carol," both at the Coconut Grove, were nominated for Carbonell Awards in the category of Best Costume Design.

The resident costumer/designer at Syracuse Stage for 12 years, Marrero designed costumes for 36 productions, including "Putting It Together"and "The Fantasticks." She was a draper at Eaves-Brooks Costume Company in New York City and has worked on film and television projects for PBS and independent companies.

The exhibition, which will include costumes and sketches, is presented in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Film Party: Black Flag
Echo

Price: $5
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The first in a series of punk film screenings.

Screening of "Reality 86'd" followed by Damaged III performing a Black Flag tribute

The excellent documentary "Reality Eighty-Six'd" trails Black Flag, Painted Willie, and Gone through BF's last US tour in 1986, followed by a performance from Damaged III (featuring members of Mandate of Heaven, Night Owls, Dialysis, and Rejouissance), playing your favorite Black Flag cuts.

Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

Jazz @ Sitrus: Donna Alford JASSBand
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

A night of sweet melodies and sultry soulful vocal jazz.

The Acoustic Guitar Project
Folkus Project

Price: $10 regular, $8 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Folkus Project presents one of the most usual concerts it has ever presented. Ten local songwriters will all be on hand to perform their contribution to the Acoustic Guitar Project (and other songs from their repertoires).

The Acoustic Guitar Project is an international songwriting project that originated in New York City and has spread around the world. This past summer, it came to Syracuse. Ten area songwriters took turns with a brand new guitar, donated to the Project by Minor Bird Instruments, and used it to write a brand new song. They were given a week each to complete this assignment. They then signed the guitar and passed it on to the next songwriter in line. Now all ten new songs will be performed on our stage, by their authors. Filling out the show, the songwriters will each perform one additional song from their repertoire, often accompanied by one of the other musicians on hand. All ten will then combine for a grand finale performance of a cover song particularly apt for the occasion.

The ten songwriters participating are Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Colin Aberdeen, Tim Burns, John Cadley, Dana "Short Order" Cooke, Ashley Cox, Gary Frenay, Arty Lenin, Colleen Kattau, and Wendy Ramsay.

2014 "DWC PRO" Graduate Reading
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us for a reading by 2014 DWC PRO graduates Michelle Coolbeth and Michael Seperack. Each of these terrific authors will read from their completed thesis manuscripts. A reception will follow.

The Laramie Project
Central New York Playhouse
Justin Polly, director

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

In October 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Redhouse

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

In this delightful musical six quirky adolescents compete in the Putnam Valley Middle School Bee and learn that winning isn't everything! Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. Rated PG13.

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Fiddler on the Roof
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Cathleen O'Brien Brown, director

Price: $30
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original Broadway production, Fiddler tells the story of a poor Russian dairyman trying to raise his family of five daughters while he struggles to find a balance between their beloved Jewish traditions and adapt to an ever-changing world around him. Come relive the Tradition!

Starring Bob Brown as Tevye, with music direction by Abel Searor, and choreography by Cathleen O'Brien Brown and Jennifer Fricano.

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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Opening: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Costume designer Maria Marrero, a professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, has taught at Syracuse University for more than 30 years. She has designed costumes for productions at leading professional and regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Apollo Theater in Chicago, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, ESIPA "The Egg" in Albany, Playmakers Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Rochester's GEVA Theater and Buffalo Studio Arena, the Vineyard Theater and the Baroque Opera Company in New York City.

Marrero has designed regional and national tours, including the premiere production of "Handy Dandy" and "Of Mice and Men." She was a founding member and resident costumer/designer of the second Florida State Regional Theater, Players State Theater at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Her designs for "A Flea in Her Ear" won the Best Costume Design award from the Miami Critics Circle. Her designs for "Life with Father"and for "A Christmas Carol," both at the Coconut Grove, were nominated for Carbonell Awards in the category of Best Costume Design.

The resident costumer/designer at Syracuse Stage for 12 years, Marrero designed costumes for 36 productions, including "Putting It Together"and "The Fantasticks." She was a draper at Eaves-Brooks Costume Company in New York City and has worked on film and television projects for PBS and independent companies.

The exhibition, which will include costumes and sketches, is presented in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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

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

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

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

A contemporary drawing show featuring works by Anne Novado, Donalee Peden Wesley, Elena Peteva, and Melissa Zarem.

This exhibition focuses on some of the different approaches artists have in the practice of drawing. At times the immediacy of the mark made by drawing material is enough to convey a response, thought or idea, whereas other times the artist becomes absorbed in the process of layering, adding and subtracting to arrive at the image they were compelled to find. What is so fascinating is even with all the technology around us, the practice of drawing is still very fresh and ongoing.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014-15 programming year with this exhibition by world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Video projection begins at dusk.

This exhibition marks the beginning of "Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

"Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)" concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean by so-called "clandestines" who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines. They can be seen as economic migrant workers, along with certain Europeans--"Angels" in Walter Benjamin's terms--who bear witness to modernity's failed hopes and dreams, and who now travel across oceanic spaces some never to arrive or return.

Isaac Julien (b. 1960) lives and works in London. He first rose to prominence for his feature-length and short-form films. He received a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film on Derek Jarman, called "Derek" (2008), created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Julien's most recent work has focused on immersive single- and multi-channel video installations. His work was part of Documenta XI (2002), and he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MOCA Miami (2005) and most recently at SESC Pompeia in Brazil (2012), among others. Julien is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Guggenheim Collection; and the Hirshhorn Collection. He has taught at Harvard University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts, professor of media art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London.

The Misfits (1962)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Directed by John Huston and featuring Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable.

Vastly praised yet rarely seen, this powerful drama was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller as a gift for then-wife Monroe. The one-and-only Marilyn shines as a disillusioned divorcee in 1960s Nevada who falls for an aging cowboy even as he struggles to sustain his romantic lifestyle. Beautifully shot and scored it is at once a haunting elegy for a lost era and a brave portrait of flawed people scrambling for self-worth. Gable and Monroe give what many critics consider their best performances...in their last screen roles!

Craig Morgan
Creative Concerts

Price: Children 15 and under free with guardian.
Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Rain or shine event.

The Elements of Bluegrass Music with The Mark Allnatt Band
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Spend some time with The Mark Allnatt Band enjoying the distinctive sounds of bluegrass while learning about the instruments and history of this truly American music.

Chad Darou & Stealing Time
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Original interpretations of Bluegrass--with "their hearts in traditional music and heads in the 21st century."

Masterworks: Music of Three Centuries
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Stefan Jackiw, violin

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

Torke Javelin
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven Symphony No. 5

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Redhouse

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

In this delightful musical six quirky adolescents compete in the Putnam Valley Middle School Bee and learn that winning isn't everything! Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. Rated PG13.

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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The Laramie Project
Central New York Playhouse
Justin Polly, director

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

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

In October 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Redhouse

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

In this delightful musical six quirky adolescents compete in the Putnam Valley Middle School Bee and learn that winning isn't everything! Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. Rated PG13.

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Fiddler on the Roof
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Cathleen O'Brien Brown, director

Price: $30
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original Broadway production, Fiddler tells the story of a poor Russian dairyman trying to raise his family of five daughters while he struggles to find a balance between their beloved Jewish traditions and adapt to an ever-changing world around him. Come relive the Tradition!

Starring Bob Brown as Tevye, with music direction by Abel Searor, and choreography by Cathleen O'Brien Brown and Jennifer Fricano.

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank are both ceramic artist based in Kansas City, MO.

Debuse's functional pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and "candy colors" and explores worlds of imagination with determined characters and landscapes of leisure. Her aim is to "amuse and delight the user, imparting a sense of play." She is a full-time studio potter and educator, and received a MFA from the University of Florida in 2010.

Frank's work combines "humor, function and a love of ceramic materiality" and often "satirizes the state of the American economy." It is inspired by George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, with the different characters exposing our own place in the socio-economic narrative. He earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently works for Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

G.C.C. is the first juried exhibition hosted by the ArtRage Gallery. The submission process was open to all contemporary artists, including Central New York artists, who are creating work that fits the ArtRage mission to inspire resistance, promote social awareness, support social justice, challenge preconceptions, and encourage cultural change. The result is an exhibition of the work of 24 artists, one-third of whom are from Central New York, that reveals their diverse talent and demonstrates the range of social and environmental issues that concern many of today's artists. The exhibition had three jurors: Mary Murray, the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Debora Ryan, an independent curator whose more than two decades of museum experience include 13 years as the curator at the Everson Museum of Art; and Rose Viviano, ArtRage Gallery's curator and director.

Exhibiting artists include Ben Altman, Marlena Buczek Smith, Christine Chin, Paula Everitt, Justyne Fischer, Aaron Greiner, Kathe A. Harrington, Ruth A. Keitz, Mollie Kellogg, Robert Knight, Stephen Koharian, Pam McLaughlin, Richard Meyer, Bobbette M. Morgan, Andrew Oritz, Paul W. Pearce, Jim Ridlon, Elizabeth S. Riker, Stone Riley, Debra Roach, Justin Wayne Shaw, James Skvarch and Katelyn Tudi.

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Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Iver Johnson: Celebrating 25 years of Open Figure Drawing
University Neighbors Lecture Series

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

Iver Johnson has supported drawing in CNY for over twenty years. He has degrees from Oswego and Syracuse University. He was the 2012 Syracuse New Times figure competition winner and one of the Westcott honorees in 2013 for his work with youth, elders, artists, and neighbors.

Pacificus Ictus Arcus
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

"The peaceful arc of the bow:" music for three or four bass viols and lute, by Frescobaldi, Nicolai, Hingeston and J.S. Bach, featuring Alex Korolov and Kate Cushing with guest artists Alex Rakov and Tom Klenck.

Fiddler on the Roof
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Cathleen O'Brien Brown, director

Price: $30
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original Broadway production, Fiddler tells the story of a poor Russian dairyman trying to raise his family of five daughters while he struggles to find a balance between their beloved Jewish traditions and adapt to an ever-changing world around him. Come relive the Tradition!

Starring Bob Brown as Tevye, with music direction by Abel Searor, and choreography by Cathleen O'Brien Brown and Jennifer Fricano.

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

2013 Tony Award, Best Play. This raucous comedy by Christopher Durang smashes together Chekhov's classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney's Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.

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Monday, September 29, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Costume designer Maria Marrero, a professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, has taught at Syracuse University for more than 30 years. She has designed costumes for productions at leading professional and regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Apollo Theater in Chicago, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, ESIPA "The Egg" in Albany, Playmakers Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Rochester's GEVA Theater and Buffalo Studio Arena, the Vineyard Theater and the Baroque Opera Company in New York City.

Marrero has designed regional and national tours, including the premiere production of "Handy Dandy" and "Of Mice and Men." She was a founding member and resident costumer/designer of the second Florida State Regional Theater, Players State Theater at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Her designs for "A Flea in Her Ear" won the Best Costume Design award from the Miami Critics Circle. Her designs for "Life with Father"and for "A Christmas Carol," both at the Coconut Grove, were nominated for Carbonell Awards in the category of Best Costume Design.

The resident costumer/designer at Syracuse Stage for 12 years, Marrero designed costumes for 36 productions, including "Putting It Together"and "The Fantasticks." She was a draper at Eaves-Brooks Costume Company in New York City and has worked on film and television projects for PBS and independent companies.

The exhibition, which will include costumes and sketches, is presented in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Crime of the Century (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Jean Hersholt, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, Robert Elliott, Wynne Gibson, David Landau.

A doctor (Hersholt) conducts an experiment in which he hypnotizes his subject to rob a bank, but things do not go as planned. An unusual and well-done mystery with some very interesting touches.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Works by Adriana Meiss and Maureen Barcza
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Costa-Rican born Adriana Meiss says that she finds inspiration in nature and the way that man has changed the environment, with her favorite subjects being landscapes and flowers. She most often works on location, having to work quickly because of changes in light, and then all from memory, she completes the work in her studio.

Maureen Barcza, like Meiss, prefers working directly from life and on site when something catches her interest. Feelings conveyed in the painting are also of paramount importance. She believes that she has the best of both worlds, i.e. working directly from nature when weather permits and indulging her love of still life and portraiture when confined to the studio.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

Attempts to discover the so-called "Iranian Identity" has always been the major concern of Iranian graphic designers. Since 1970s, they have been trying to bridge the gap between their native culture and tradition and visual aesthetics of the western world.

Homa Delvaray, who breathes in a country where culture is intertwined simultaneously with history and modern technology, has successfully created a brilliant visual approach which is rooted in her sharp instincts and intensive passion. She has retained the Iranian visual tradition, disguised in a modern appearance.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

John Fitzsimmons: skyscape oil paintings contemplating issues of mortality
Rob Glisson: landscape oil paintings portraying abstract realism through poetic strokes of color
John Lombardi: abstracted figurative stone sculpture
Heather Hennigan: mixed media jewelry

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Costume designer Maria Marrero, a professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama, has taught at Syracuse University for more than 30 years. She has designed costumes for productions at leading professional and regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Apollo Theater in Chicago, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, ESIPA "The Egg" in Albany, Playmakers Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Rochester's GEVA Theater and Buffalo Studio Arena, the Vineyard Theater and the Baroque Opera Company in New York City.

Marrero has designed regional and national tours, including the premiere production of "Handy Dandy" and "Of Mice and Men." She was a founding member and resident costumer/designer of the second Florida State Regional Theater, Players State Theater at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Her designs for "A Flea in Her Ear" won the Best Costume Design award from the Miami Critics Circle. Her designs for "Life with Father"and for "A Christmas Carol," both at the Coconut Grove, were nominated for Carbonell Awards in the category of Best Costume Design.

The resident costumer/designer at Syracuse Stage for 12 years, Marrero designed costumes for 36 productions, including "Putting It Together"and "The Fantasticks." She was a draper at Eaves-Brooks Costume Company in New York City and has worked on film and television projects for PBS and independent companies.

The exhibition, which will include costumes and sketches, is presented in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with SU Office of Program Development, Community Folk Art Center will be displaying the artwork of 20 alumni artists. The exhibition is part of the Black and Latino Homecoming Weekend, Coming Back Together, sponsored by The Office of Program Development. This exhibition will be curated by alumna Dr. Redell R. Hearn, museologist.

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The September exhibit features painted glass by Nella Joseph and ceramics by Terry Askey-Cole.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

Alison Rossiter makes photographs without using a camera. Captivated by the mechanics and materials of pre-digital photography, she collects decades-expired photographic paper—the oldest dating to 1900—which she develops in her darkroom, coaxing out of each sheet the gorgeous composition of lights and shades it holds within. Though Rossiter has used a camera, and has made photograms of books and light drawings of horses, she focuses on her experiments with expired paper. Her intimate compositions often resemble moody landscapes or Abstract Expressionist paintings. With titles like Eastern Kodak Royal Bromide, expired March 1919, processed in 2010, Rossiter documents the paper she uses and its expiration and processing dates, emphasizing its history. "It's time travelling," she explains. "I can hold a Fuji paper that I know was made between the wars and I'm transported to pre-World War II Japan."

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Curated by SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David L. Prince, Brackett's recent work combines the digital and natural world to explore humans' relationship with animals. The exhibition focuses on the white-tailed deer, posing questions about population control, loss of habitat, and mortality. Presented concurrently with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945," this exhibition is the first in a series of presentations that celebrate women and the arts at the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Brackett took a doe in her second season as a hunter and learned from a neighbor how to stretch and tan the hide. She then designed small light silhouettes that replicated running deer. Using computer software, Brackett multiplied the silhouettes into virtual herds, running in place on the tanned deer skin. An accompanying audio soundtrack describes the many manmade sounds heard by wildlife in the woods. Bracket's soundtrack raises the question of who, humans or deer, has a larger environmental impact.

Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History 1930-1945
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SU Art Galleries, in collaboration with the SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, presents an exhibition of over 180 vintage photographs taken in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and Italy in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will also feature original Life and Fortune magazines, in addition to correspondence related to Bourke-White's photography and projects. This is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating women in the arts.

In the male-dominated world of early 20th-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign photojournalist in the city. Many of her images are unforgettable, like the ones she took following the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops.

Margaret Bourke-White was not just a passionate and gifted photographer; she was, above all, the 'eye' of her time. She was prepared to do whatever it took to capture current events and she photographed the most remarkable moments in 20th century history. As a young photographer, she barely survived a German torpedo attack, shot pictures from Allied bombers and teetered on a projecting roof-top ledge to photograph New York from the dizzy heights of the Chrysler Building.

This exhibition was curated by Oliva María Rubio of La Fábrica, Spain, and is a co-production by the Hague Museum of Photography, La Fábrica (Spain), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany), Preus-Museum (Norway), and Syracuse University Libraries (United States). The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the closing venue for this monumental exhibition that has toured throughout Europe for the past two years.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In her exhibition "Last," Dorene Quinn uses visual forms and diverse materials to create memorials to nature that speak of our relationship to the earth. The dual meaning of the word "last" is the genesis of her current body of work, engaging with humanity in an act of counting down, last one of species, last fateful decades of rising temperatures, last chance to contain the damage. The artificiality and imperfection of the works reflect the futility in acting too late, to repair or preserve. By working in fragile environments, Quinn calls attention to her experience and presence in hopes that these places can remain.

Quinn currently teaches sculpture at Syracuse University and founded a non-for-profit educational program for inner city teens to gain access to college art and design programs.

Green Jobs and Sustainability
University Lectures
Featuring Van Jones

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Recently named a co-host to CNN's Crossfire reboot, Van Jones is president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has written two New York Times Best Sellers: The Green Collar Economy, the definitive book on green jobs, and Rebuild the Dream, a roadmap for progressives in 2012 and beyond. In 2009, Jones worked as the green jobs advisor to the Obama White House. There, he helped run the inter-agency process that oversaw $80 billion in green energy recovery spending.

Jones is the founder of Green For All, a national organization working to get green jobs to disadvantaged communities. He was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." Under the Obama administration, the Green Jobs Act has resulted in $500 million for green job training nationally. Jones had also worked in social justice for nearly two decades and is the co-founder of two social justice organizations—the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change.

Americana
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers

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

Join the Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers for a memorable night of traditional American music from gospel to bluegrass, including "Ashokan Farewell," John Rutter's arrangement of "Go Tell It On the Mountain," and much more.

Los Lonely Boys
Creative Concerts

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Cherub, with Ghost Beach, Gibbz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse