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Events for Wednesday, June 24, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Mind's Eye Gallery 4040

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-11:00 PM Flicks Al Fresco: Drive

7:00 PM Grit N Grace Liverpool is the Place

7:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: North By Northwest (1959) Landmark Theatre

8:00 PM Todd Snider Westcott Theater

Events for Thursday, June 25, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-6:00 PM New Growth Gandee Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Mind's Eye Gallery 4040

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong ArtRage Gallery

6:45 PM Death Takes a Bow Acme Mystery Company

7:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: North By Northwest (1959) Landmark Theatre

8:00 PM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

9:00 PM-11:00 PM Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, June 26, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-6:00 PM New Growth Gandee Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Mind's Eye Gallery 4040

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Imagine Me... Point of Contact Gallery

12:15 PM TGIF Tour Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong ArtRage Gallery

4:00 PM-11:00 PM Jamesville Balloon Festival

5:30 PM Henry V Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Opening: Beneath the Clouds Edgewood Gallery

7:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: 12 Angry Men (1957) Landmark Theatre

8:00 PM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Ed Blaze and Friends

8:00 PM The Melvins, with Le Butcherettes Westcott Theater

9:00 PM-11:00 PM Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, June 27, 2015

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Beneath the Clouds Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM Summer Classic Film Series: Cartoon Classics Landmark Theatre

11:00 AM-6:00 PM New Growth Gandee Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Mind's Eye Gallery 4040

12:30 PM Beauty and the Beast Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM-11:00 PM Jamesville Balloon Festival

2:00 PM Summer Classic Film Series: Breathless (1960) Landmark Theatre

5:30 PM Henry V Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: 12 Angry Men (1957) Landmark Theatre

8:00 PM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

9:00 PM-11:00 PM Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, June 28, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

11:00 AM-4:00 PM New Growth Gandee Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

1:00 PM-10:00 PM Jamesville Balloon Festival

2:00 PM Summer Classic Film Series: Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Landmark Theatre

2:00 PM Henry V Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park (Read a review!)

6:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Landmark Theatre

Events for Monday, June 29, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM Just Joe Liverpool is the Place

Events for Tuesday, June 30, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Beneath the Clouds Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM See Me Too Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM An Evening with John Dau and the John Dau Foundation ArtRage Gallery

7:30 PM Heart

Events for Wednesday, July 1, 2015

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Letha Wilson: Sight Specific Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Id/Ego/SuperEgo Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Beneath the Clouds Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM See Me Too Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-4:00 PM With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bricks and Blocks Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Play! Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM The Mind's Eye Gallery 4040

2:00 PM-7:00 PM Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Dancin' in the Park: Mood Swing

7:00 PM Soul Mine Liverpool is the Place

7:30 PM Summer Classic Film Series: Some Like It Hot (1959) Landmark Theatre

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 24



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 24



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 24



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

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

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

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


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



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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



The Mind's Eye
Gallery 4040

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

"The Mind's Eye", a group exhibition featuring works by Arlene Abend (flame-painted copper sculpture), Katya Bratslavsky (acrylic paintings), Mark Raush (acrylic paintings), and Walter Melnikow (acrylic/mixed media paintings), is centered on artists creating works through an internal and individual response to the external, including physical locations or objects, and proceeding beyond direct observation. These works aren't necessarily a translation, but how the artist's mind chooses to respond visually through their chosen materials.


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



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, June 24



Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Impressions: South Sudan" features photographs by Michelle Gabel, a photojournalist with the Syracuse Media Group and graduate student at SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Bruce Strong, a multimedia storyteller and Newhouse School professor. Maureen Sieh's commentary provides a background for the photographs. Now an independent journalist based in Africa, Sieh is a former reporter and editor for Syracuse Newspapers, where she focused on ethnic community issues. Made on separate trips, Strong's and Gabel's photographs represent specific conditions and struggles of the South Sudanese before the formation of an autonomous South Sudan in 2011.

While these images are specific to a time and place--after the second Sudanese civil war, which ended in 2005--the photographs reflect the rampant poverty and public health crisis as well as the dignity and grace of a people who persevere despite centuries of conflict. Sieh's commentary is based on her 2009 trip to South Sudan and her decade-long experience reporting on the Lost Boys, dating from their arrival in Syracuse in 2001. The exhibition reminds us of the debilitating effects of all wars--those in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and other nations including South Sudan, where the situation remains in flux and renewed violence continues today.


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Film
 

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 24



Flicks Al Fresco: Drive

Price: $2 per car; $1 bike or walk in donation
Cosmopolitan Building parking lot
1153 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Flicks Al Fresco outdoor movie series invites you to enjoy screenings in a parking lot that's been transformed into a cultural venue for Summer 2015. Bring your blanket or lawn chair, walk, bike or carpool. Enjoy local food trucks, listen to local bands, and then at dusk, watch films under the stars.


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7:30 PM, June 24



Summer Classic Film Series: North By Northwest (1959)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, June 24



Grit N Grace
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Modern country


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8:00 PM, June 24



Todd Snider
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Thursday, June 25, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 25



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 25



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 25



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, June 25



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 25



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 25



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 25



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 25



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 25



New Growth
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Artwork that celebrates the innate beauty of nature, created by Central New York artists, including Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Momoko Takeshita Keane, Colleen McCall, Maria Rizzo, Lucie Wellner, and Pualani Wiley.

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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 25



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 25



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 25



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 25



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 25



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 25



The Mind's Eye
Gallery 4040

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

"The Mind's Eye", a group exhibition featuring works by Arlene Abend (flame-painted copper sculpture), Katya Bratslavsky (acrylic paintings), Mark Raush (acrylic paintings), and Walter Melnikow (acrylic/mixed media paintings), is centered on artists creating works through an internal and individual response to the external, including physical locations or objects, and proceeding beyond direct observation. These works aren't necessarily a translation, but how the artist's mind chooses to respond visually through their chosen materials.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 25



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, June 25



Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Impressions: South Sudan" features photographs by Michelle Gabel, a photojournalist with the Syracuse Media Group and graduate student at SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Bruce Strong, a multimedia storyteller and Newhouse School professor. Maureen Sieh's commentary provides a background for the photographs. Now an independent journalist based in Africa, Sieh is a former reporter and editor for Syracuse Newspapers, where she focused on ethnic community issues. Made on separate trips, Strong's and Gabel's photographs represent specific conditions and struggles of the South Sudanese before the formation of an autonomous South Sudan in 2011.

While these images are specific to a time and place--after the second Sudanese civil war, which ended in 2005--the photographs reflect the rampant poverty and public health crisis as well as the dignity and grace of a people who persevere despite centuries of conflict. Sieh's commentary is based on her 2009 trip to South Sudan and her decade-long experience reporting on the Lost Boys, dating from their arrival in Syracuse in 2001. The exhibition reminds us of the debilitating effects of all wars--those in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and other nations including South Sudan, where the situation remains in flux and renewed violence continues today.


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 25



Summer Review 2015
Urban Video Project

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

UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future."

The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem."

"Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, June 25



Summer Classic Film Series: North By Northwest (1959)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, June 25



Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London, yet a place everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title of this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes, and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: At this showplace greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.


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8:00 PM, June 25



Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Central New York Playhouse
Roy Van Norstrand, director

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

Tennesee Williams' classic drama. In a plantation house, a family celebrates the 65th birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past, and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.

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Friday, June 26, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 26



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 26



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 26



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 26



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 26



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 26



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 26



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 26



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 26



New Growth
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Artwork that celebrates the innate beauty of nature, created by Central New York artists, including Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Momoko Takeshita Keane, Colleen McCall, Maria Rizzo, Lucie Wellner, and Pualani Wiley.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



The Mind's Eye
Gallery 4040

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

"The Mind's Eye", a group exhibition featuring works by Arlene Abend (flame-painted copper sculpture), Katya Bratslavsky (acrylic paintings), Mark Raush (acrylic paintings), and Walter Melnikow (acrylic/mixed media paintings), is centered on artists creating works through an internal and individual response to the external, including physical locations or objects, and proceeding beyond direct observation. These works aren't necessarily a translation, but how the artist's mind chooses to respond visually through their chosen materials.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 26



Imagine Me...
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Imagine Me... is a showcase of original children's stories, music and illustration.

Thirty-five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse are the featured authors, illustrators and composers. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact's art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.

Imagine Me... is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children's narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, June 26



Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Impressions: South Sudan" features photographs by Michelle Gabel, a photojournalist with the Syracuse Media Group and graduate student at SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Bruce Strong, a multimedia storyteller and Newhouse School professor. Maureen Sieh's commentary provides a background for the photographs. Now an independent journalist based in Africa, Sieh is a former reporter and editor for Syracuse Newspapers, where she focused on ethnic community issues. Made on separate trips, Strong's and Gabel's photographs represent specific conditions and struggles of the South Sudanese before the formation of an autonomous South Sudan in 2011.

While these images are specific to a time and place--after the second Sudanese civil war, which ended in 2005--the photographs reflect the rampant poverty and public health crisis as well as the dignity and grace of a people who persevere despite centuries of conflict. Sieh's commentary is based on her 2009 trip to South Sudan and her decade-long experience reporting on the Lost Boys, dating from their arrival in Syracuse in 2001. The exhibition reminds us of the debilitating effects of all wars--those in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and other nations including South Sudan, where the situation remains in flux and renewed violence continues today.


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, June 26



Opening: Beneath the Clouds
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jay Hart: large format geographic compositions using natural and custom-colored elevation surfaces
Vicki Thaler: fine jewelry
John Franklin: vessels turned from found Texan woods
June Szabo: layered wood wall and standing sculpture


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 26



Summer Review 2015
Urban Video Project

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

UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future."

The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem."

"Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.


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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, June 26



Ed Blaze and Friends

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

Fresh from sold-out engagements in Boston, Ed Blaze and Friends are bringing their must-see show to Syracuse. Blaze, who rose from humble beginnings in Tanzania to opening for Bill Cosby, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan and Ralphie May, delivers jokes on a wide array of topics—including African culture, politics, pop culture, race and human sexuality. Ed Blaze and Friends features a revolving lineup of other stand-up comedians—a mixture of headliners who have been featured on STARZ, BET, Comedy Central and HBO—ready to bring their A-game to make you laugh.

Performance rescheduled from March 27. Original tickets purchased will be honored.

Tickets are available in person at The Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State St., Syracuse), charge by phone at 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.


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Festival
 

4:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 26



Jamesville Balloon Festival

Price: Free admission ($10 parking)
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features balloons, non-stop musical entertainment, arts, crafts, food, beverages and more!

Balloon Field
6:00-7:30 pm: Balloon Launches (weather permitting)

Main Stage
6:00 pm: Dan Elliott and the Monterays
7:15 pm: Letizia and the Z Band
9:00 pm: Prime Time Horns


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Film
 

7:30 PM, June 26



Summer Classic Film Series: 12 Angry Men (1957)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam.


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Lecture
 

12:15 PM, June 26



TGIF Tour
Everson Museum of Art

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

Start your weekend early with the Everson TGIF Tour, led by a member of the Everson's talented staff. After a 30-minute tour, stay to chat and eat your brown bag lunch, or purchase one from the Everson Lunch Cart, with the Museum's pros in the Everson Lounge.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, June 26



The Melvins, with Le Butcherettes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

5:30 PM, June 26



Henry V
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sharee Pierce, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

King Henry IV has died, and his son, the young King Henry V, has just assumed the throne. Several bitter civil wars have left the people of England restless and dissatisfied. Furthermore, in order to gain the respect of the English people and the court, Henry must live down his wild adolescent past, when he used to consort with thieves and drunkards at the Boar's Head Tavern on the seedy side of London.

Food and ice cream available for purchase. Free parking.

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8:00 PM, June 26



Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Central New York Playhouse
Roy Van Norstrand, director

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

Tennesee Williams' classic drama. In a plantation house, a family celebrates the 65th birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past, and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.

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Saturday, June 27, 2015


Art
 

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, June 27



Beneath the Clouds
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jay Hart: large format geographic compositions using natural and custom-colored elevation surfaces
Vicki Thaler: fine jewelry
John Franklin: vessels turned from found Texan woods
June Szabo: layered wood wall and standing sculpture


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 27



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 27



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 27



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 27



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 27



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 27



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 27



New Growth
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Artwork that celebrates the innate beauty of nature, created by Central New York artists, including Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Momoko Takeshita Keane, Colleen McCall, Maria Rizzo, Lucie Wellner, and Pualani Wiley.

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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 27



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 27



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, June 27



Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Impressions: South Sudan" features photographs by Michelle Gabel, a photojournalist with the Syracuse Media Group and graduate student at SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Bruce Strong, a multimedia storyteller and Newhouse School professor. Maureen Sieh's commentary provides a background for the photographs. Now an independent journalist based in Africa, Sieh is a former reporter and editor for Syracuse Newspapers, where she focused on ethnic community issues. Made on separate trips, Strong's and Gabel's photographs represent specific conditions and struggles of the South Sudanese before the formation of an autonomous South Sudan in 2011.

While these images are specific to a time and place--after the second Sudanese civil war, which ended in 2005--the photographs reflect the rampant poverty and public health crisis as well as the dignity and grace of a people who persevere despite centuries of conflict. Sieh's commentary is based on her 2009 trip to South Sudan and her decade-long experience reporting on the Lost Boys, dating from their arrival in Syracuse in 2001. The exhibition reminds us of the debilitating effects of all wars--those in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and other nations including South Sudan, where the situation remains in flux and renewed violence continues today.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 27



The Mind's Eye
Gallery 4040

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

"The Mind's Eye", a group exhibition featuring works by Arlene Abend (flame-painted copper sculpture), Katya Bratslavsky (acrylic paintings), Mark Raush (acrylic paintings), and Walter Melnikow (acrylic/mixed media paintings), is centered on artists creating works through an internal and individual response to the external, including physical locations or objects, and proceeding beyond direct observation. These works aren't necessarily a translation, but how the artist's mind chooses to respond visually through their chosen materials.


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 27



Summer Review 2015
Urban Video Project

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

UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future."

The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem."

"Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.


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Festival
 

1:00 PM - 11:00 PM, June 27



Jamesville Balloon Festival

Price: Free admission ($10 parking)
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features balloons, non-stop musical entertainment, arts, crafts, food, beverages and more!

Balloon Field
6:00 am: Balloon Launches (weather permitting)
2:00-4:00 pm: Balloon Walk
6:00-7:30 pm: Balloon Launches (weather permitting)

Main Stage
1:00 pm: Payton Bird
2:00 pm: Dr. Kildean
3:30 pm: Mike Johnson and Country Swag
5:00 pm: Custom Taylor Band
6:30 pm: Grit-n-Grace
8:00 pm: Brickyard Rd
9:30 pm: TJ Sacco Band


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Film
 

10:00 AM, June 27



Summer Classic Film Series: Cartoon Classics
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A compilation of some of the most beloved and classic Warner Bros. cartoons of all time. Starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam.


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2:00 PM, June 27



Summer Classic Film Series: Breathless (1960)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policemen. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Daniel Boulanger.


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7:30 PM, June 27



Summer Classic Film Series: 12 Angry Men (1957)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam.


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, June 27



Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic children's story.


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5:30 PM, June 27



Henry V
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sharee Pierce, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

King Henry IV has died, and his son, the young King Henry V, has just assumed the throne. Several bitter civil wars have left the people of England restless and dissatisfied. Furthermore, in order to gain the respect of the English people and the court, Henry must live down his wild adolescent past, when he used to consort with thieves and drunkards at the Boar's Head Tavern on the seedy side of London.

Food and ice cream available for purchase. Free parking.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, June 27



Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Central New York Playhouse
Roy Van Norstrand, director

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

Tennesee Williams' classic drama. In a plantation house, a family celebrates the 65th birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past, and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.

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Sunday, June 28, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 28



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 28



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 28



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 28



New Growth
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Artwork that celebrates the innate beauty of nature, created by Central New York artists, including Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Momoko Takeshita Keane, Colleen McCall, Maria Rizzo, Lucie Wellner, and Pualani Wiley.

Read a review!


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 28



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 28



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, June 28



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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Festival
 

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM, June 28



Jamesville Balloon Festival

Price: Free admission ($10 parking)
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features balloons, non-stop musical entertainment, arts, crafts, food, beverages and more!

Balloon Field
6:00 am: Balloon Launches (weather permitting)
2:00-4:00 pm: Balloon Walk
6:00-7:30 pm: Balloon Launches (weather permitting)

Main Stage
4:00 pm: The Blacklites
7:00 pm: Beatlemania in Concert


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Film
 

2:00 PM, June 28



Summer Classic Film Series: Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. Starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo.


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6:30 PM, June 28



Summer Classic Film Series: Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. Starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, June 28



Henry V
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Sharee Pierce, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

King Henry IV has died, and his son, the young King Henry V, has just assumed the throne. Several bitter civil wars have left the people of England restless and dissatisfied. Furthermore, in order to gain the respect of the English people and the court, Henry must live down his wild adolescent past, when he used to consort with thieves and drunkards at the Boar's Head Tavern on the seedy side of London.

Food and ice cream available for purchase. Free parking.

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Monday, June 29, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 29



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 29



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 29



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 29



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 29



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 29



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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Music
 

7:00 PM, June 29



Just Joe
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Modern rock


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Tuesday, June 30, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 30



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 30



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, June 30



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, June 30



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, June 30



Beneath the Clouds
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jay Hart: large format geographic compositions using natural and custom-colored elevation surfaces
Vicki Thaler: fine jewelry
John Franklin: vessels turned from found Texan woods
June Szabo: layered wood wall and standing sculpture


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 30



See Me Too
Community Folk Art Center

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

A collaboration with NAMI Syracuse, whose mission is to support families of persons with mental illness, fight stigma, advocate for services, and educate the community about mental illness.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, June 30



Tim See: Wood Fired Pottery
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Tim See creates industrial-inspired tableware, including complex pouring vessels composed of both wheel-thrown and hand-built parts. Many of the porcelain pots are decorated with hand-painted illustrations, some of which depict scenes from his Buckethead Story, an original parable of an apocalyptic future. Tim's work has been shown at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, as well as in many other galleries and shows.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, June 30



Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, June 30



An Evening with John Dau and the John Dau Foundation
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary film, Duk County: Peace is in Sight in the New South Sudan (2013, 37min), that spotlights the important work of the John Dau Foundation. It features John Dau, Dr. David Reed of Cazenovia, and other staff from the Duk Lost Boys Clinic. Following the film John Dau will give us an update on the current condition of his home village of Duk Payuel and the clinic.

Recent violence in South Sudan compromised the Duk Lost Boys Clinic. For nearly 10 days in late February and early March 2014, rebels occupied the facility causing extensive damage and looting vital goods. They looted items including food, solar units which power the clinic, medicine, fuel, beds, chairs, tables and other essential equipment. The need for health care in South Sudan is greater now than ever, and JDF is doing all that is possible to provide care to help those suffering due to conflict.

The John Dau Foundation is a non-profit led by a dynamic refugee, John Dau. He has inspired business and non-profit leaders to help him establish the Foundation and create the first comprehensive & sustainable community medical clinic in his home village of Duk Payuel. Called the Duk Lost Boys Clinic, it has been in operation since 2007 and served more than 32,000 people.?


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Music
 

7:30 PM, June 30



Heart

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

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ann and Nancy Wilson first showed the world that women can rock when their band, Heart, stormed the charts in the 1970s with hits like "Crazy on You," "MagicMan," "Barracuda," "Straight On," and so many more. Not only did the Wilson sisters lead the band, they wrote the songs and played the instruments too, making them the first women in rock to do so. Heart continued topping the charts through the '80s and '90s with huge hits like "These Dreams," "Alone," "What About Love," "If Looks Could Kill," "Never," and a string of other hits that showcased the sisters' enormous talents as musicians, singers and songwriters.

Along the way, music by Ann and Nancy Wilson and their band Heart sold more than 35 million albums, sold out arenas worldwide, and found their way into the soundtrack of American life through radio, motion pictures,television, and associations with branded sponsors. Today, songs made famous by Heart are heard in every aspect of contemporary culture.

Tickets are available in person at The Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State St., Syracuse), charge by phone at 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.


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Wednesday, July 1, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, July 1



Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Read a review!


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9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, July 1



Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, July 1



Id/Ego/SuperEgo
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art exploring the psychological self, featuring works by Julie Angerosa, Lauren Bristol, Kathy Donovan, Christopher Farrell, Cathy Marsh, Jenn Massi, Jenna North, Flora May Nyland, Steve Nyland, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Beth Post, Timothy Rand, Steven Specht, James Thatcher, Tony Thompson, Jonathan Vaughn, Kayla Cady Vaughn, and Catherine Wright.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, July 1



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, July 1



Beneath the Clouds
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jay Hart: large format geographic compositions using natural and custom-colored elevation surfaces
Vicki Thaler: fine jewelry
John Franklin: vessels turned from found Texan woods
June Szabo: layered wood wall and standing sculpture


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, July 1



See Me Too
Community Folk Art Center

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

A collaboration with NAMI Syracuse, whose mission is to support families of persons with mental illness, fight stigma, advocate for services, and educate the community about mental illness.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, July 1



With Open Arms: The Story of Armenians in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Syracuse's rich Armenian history is a little known story that can be discovered in this exhibit.

Syracuse has a long historical legacy with the people of Armenia. There is a vibrant community here today of Armenian-Americans, some recent arrivals and others whose ancestors came to Central New York in the late 19th century.

This year, 2015, holds special significance for that community because of the atrocities Armenian suffered in their homeland, inside the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago during World War I. Those hardships led many Armenian families to relocate to Syracuse, where there already was a small but vigorous Armenian community. After World War I, Syracuse Armenians were also active participants with international efforts to establish an independent Armenian nation. That would not become reality, however, until 1992 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The exhibit will feature many images and artifacts that explore the saga of the local Armenian community from the 1890s to the present:
* The assistance that local Syracusans, such as SU Chancellor James Day played in helping Armenian refugees
* Businesses and industries that Armenians created here
* The importance of their religious and social identity
* Involvement that Syracuse Armenians had with national leaders in trying to establish an independent Armenia in 1918-1920


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, July 1



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth
Everson Museum of Art

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

This major exhibition surveys more than 40 years of work produced by the Canastota-based artist, ranging from her early stain paintings influenced by the Color Field painters to recent works in powder-coated steel. Roth's abstract, shaped canvases are composed of layers of color which often take on three-dimensional, sculptural forms. These innovative works are made possible through the use of acrylic products that Roth has had a hand in developing over the years in collaboration with Golden Artist Colors, a Central New York-based company that specializes in acrylic colors and mediums. Roth's restless experimentation has resulted in a body of work that pushes painting to the limits and has repeatedly opened new areas for exploration. Featuring more than 30 works from private and public collections, "Handmade" connects works across various periods in order to highlight the material and conceptual concerns that have remained constant throughout Roth's long career but which also continues to evolve.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



Bricks and Blocks
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Bricks and Blocks" combines two seemingly dissimilar mediums, LEGOs and quilts, to celebrate color, pattern and construction and to take play and ingenuity to new heights. The exhibition features original small-scale LEGO designs alongside works by some of the finest quilters in the region.

The LEGO Design Challenge: Build Your Syracuse called upon the community to reimagine Syracuse and its structures. Working in small scale, contributors of all ages gave a fresh look to Syracuse through the magic of LEGOs, considering new and improved buildings and modes of transportation they wish to see in their city. A panel of professional architects and local government officials carefully evaluated and selected submissions based on the creative application of LEGO bricks, imaginative design and concept, as well as difficulty of execution and vision.

Concurrently, Central New York quilters were invited to submit original, contemporary quilts whose vibrant fabric narratives treat the eye to the themes of color, play and geometry and whose work demonstrates original feats of fiber engineering.

Creativity comes in many forms. Together, the beauty and artistry of quilts and the innovation and imagination of the LEGO constructions entwine to create a vivid and playful presentation.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Higher Ground
Everson Museum of Art

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

This husband-and-wife artistic team explores the domestic side of life using their Houston home and its contents (including the kids and family dog) as both inspiration and material. Part performance and part installation, the artists record their process through videos and photographs that comment on family dynamics, life in the suburbs, and American consumerism. Their recent project, "Higher Ground," documents the family's efforts to build a spaceship in their backyard and then pilot it to the moon. Through video, sculpture, and photographs, visitors will follow their humorous yet poignant journey into outer space.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



Let's Play!
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Let's Play!" presents a selection of ceramic works from the Everson's renowned collection that embodies a playful spirit, whether through subject or form. Spanning more than 60 years, the works on view represent a vast diversity of ceramic materials, techniques, styles, and forms utilized by some of the most influential international practitioners of the medium. Reflecting the often colorful, humorous, and whimsical imaginations of the artists, these works remind us that play is a critical part of the creative process and that art can also make us smile.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, July 1



The Mind's Eye
Gallery 4040

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

"The Mind's Eye", a group exhibition featuring works by Arlene Abend (flame-painted copper sculpture), Katya Bratslavsky (acrylic paintings), Mark Raush (acrylic paintings), and Walter Melnikow (acrylic/mixed media paintings), is centered on artists creating works through an internal and individual response to the external, including physical locations or objects, and proceeding beyond direct observation. These works aren't necessarily a translation, but how the artist's mind chooses to respond visually through their chosen materials.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, July 1



Impressions: South Sudan: The Photographs of Michelle Gabel and Bruce Strong
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Impressions: South Sudan" features photographs by Michelle Gabel, a photojournalist with the Syracuse Media Group and graduate student at SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Bruce Strong, a multimedia storyteller and Newhouse School professor. Maureen Sieh's commentary provides a background for the photographs. Now an independent journalist based in Africa, Sieh is a former reporter and editor for Syracuse Newspapers, where she focused on ethnic community issues. Made on separate trips, Strong's and Gabel's photographs represent specific conditions and struggles of the South Sudanese before the formation of an autonomous South Sudan in 2011.

While these images are specific to a time and place--after the second Sudanese civil war, which ended in 2005--the photographs reflect the rampant poverty and public health crisis as well as the dignity and grace of a people who persevere despite centuries of conflict. Sieh's commentary is based on her 2009 trip to South Sudan and her decade-long experience reporting on the Lost Boys, dating from their arrival in Syracuse in 2001. The exhibition reminds us of the debilitating effects of all wars--those in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and other nations including South Sudan, where the situation remains in flux and renewed violence continues today.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, July 1



Summer Classic Film Series: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 for 10-ticket strips
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, July 1



Dancin' in the Park: Mood Swing

Price: Free
Lonergan Park
Route 11, just north of Taft Road, North Syracuse

Outdoor concert — bring lawn chairs or blankets. If cancelled due to rain, concerts will be
held on the following evening. A decision will be made by 4pm. Call 315-458-8050 for details or check the village website.


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7:00 PM, July 1



Soul Mine
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Rhythm and blues


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