Monday, October 26, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

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

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.

My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Halloween Horror Double Feature: The Mummy’s Hand and The Black Cat
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, Tom Tyler, Peggy Moran, Cecil Kellaway, George Zucco, Eduardo Ciannelli

The first in Universal's "Kharis" series of "Mummy" films is an entertaining story of archeologists seeking a lost tomb and finding a deadly mummy that comes to life!

The Black Cat (1934)
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells, Henry Armetta

This first teaming of Karloff and Lugosi is a stylish, eerie, and bizarre tale, with the two masters of horror at their best.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

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

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

Read a review!

My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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The 46ers
Palace Theatre

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

This documentary by Blake Cortright will tell the stories of many ordinary men and women who have done the extraordinary. Through extensive nature footage this documentary will highlight the inspiring beauty of Upstate New York, educate the public about environmental conservation, and encourage people of all ages to explore the beauty of these natural wonders.

Bill Horace Jazz Trio
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

AbdulKarim Al Makadma, Palestinian author
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

AbdulKarim Al Makadma, the author of The Tears of Olive Trees will read passages from his book about growing up in Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza. The book is a multi-generational non-fiction memoir of a Palestinian family's heroic struggle against poverty, violence and oppression.

The Producers
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A scheming producer and his mousy accountant aim to produce the biggest flop on Broadway in Mel Brooks' laugh-out-loud spectacle.

Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with Mel Brooks' classic cult comedy film. Now as a big Broadway musical, The Producers once again sets the standard for modern, outrageous, in-your-face humor. It is a truly "boffo" hit, winning a record 12 Tony Awards and wowing capacity crowds night after night.

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Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

Read a review!

My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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The Signs of Cross-Culture
Point of Contact Gallery

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

An informal discussion with guest artists, scholars, poets, and curators about Point of Contact's artistic vision.

Jazz at the Plaza: Melissa Gardiner
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Highland Winds Clarinet Quartet
Civic Morning Musicals

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

John Flaver, Tom Soccocio, Ed O'Rourke, and Tom McKay present works from Bach to Piazzolla with stops in between—a diverse concert of music for clarinet quartet.

Grace Potter
Landmark Theatre

Price: $25.50-$51.00
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

After a two year gap, Grace Potter will be sharing her talent with Syracuse, right on the Landmark Theatre stage. With her recent album, "Midnight," Grace will rock the house. This is a show you do not want to miss! Tickets available in person at the Landmark Theatre box office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at Ticketmaster.

The Producers
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A scheming producer and his mousy accountant aim to produce the biggest flop on Broadway in Mel Brooks' laugh-out-loud spectacle.

Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with Mel Brooks' classic cult comedy film. Now as a big Broadway musical, The Producers once again sets the standard for modern, outrageous, in-your-face humor. It is a truly "boffo" hit, winning a record 12 Tony Awards and wowing capacity crowds night after night.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Opening: Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:30 pm, featuring performances by Allison Sarenski and Catherine Wright with projections by Lumina-Picturea and live audio score by musician Andrew Sblendorio.

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

There will be reception for "A Life in Art: Women Artists of OHA's Collection," this afternoon, 4:00-7:00 pm, with a gallery talk by the exhibition's curator, recent Syracuse University M.A. recipient Erica Jensen. Artists featured in the exhibit will also be in attendance.

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

Read a review!

Halloween Beer Garden
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 members, $15 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for this spirited evening of art, local craft brews, and Halloween treats. Come as you aren't — costumes encouraged, but not required. Take a tour to hear dark stories about works of art in our permanent collection, or haunt the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and Monster Mash the night away with our DJ below the installation art of Three Graces. Get your fortune told by a psychic medium, if you dare, or try your hand at designing a pumpkin. Prizes for best costume and top pumpkin design; drinks, music and fun for all!

Dr. Temple Grandin: Reflections on Autism
Landmark Theatre

Price: $6-$40
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

New York Farm Bureau® presents an Evening with Temple Grandin, hosted by the Kelberman Center

Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism as a child and went on to pursue work in psychology and animal science. She has become a leading advocate for autistic communities and has also written books and provided consultation on the humane treatment of animals. In 2010, HBO released an Emmy Award winning film on Grandin's life.

Patrons in the Premiere $40 section are invited to attend an exclusive Meet and Green with Dr. Grandin before the lecture. This event will take place 5:30-6:40 p.m. on the balcony lobby of the Landmark Theatre. An invitation to the event will follow. All patrons are invited to stay after the lecture for a book signing with Dr. Grandin.

This presentation is for students, parents, family members, educators, service providers and the community at large. For more information about the Kelberman Center and the services provided, please visit kelbermancenter.org.

Tickets are available in person at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or at Ticketmaster.com.

5th Annual Halloween Extravaganza
Westcott Theater
Dieselboy with special guests Direktor x Quazarr, Peeps & Captain Munch

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Face Your Fear: A Halloween Organ Concert
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU student organists present an evening of live organ music, special effects, and refreshments.

Alumni Poetry Reading
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

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

The Saltonstall Foundation hosts its first-ever event in Syracuse with an alumni poetry reading.

The reading will feature poets based in and around Syracuse: Jessica Cuello, David Lloyd, Devon Moore, and Jesse Nissim.

Readings will begin at 6:30 pm, but come at 6:00 pm and enjoy refreshments with Saltonstall staff and our poet alums.

For more information, visit the website or join the Facebook event.

A Tomb With A View
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The megacorporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, sight of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and plan a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk, and let the battle begin!

The Producers
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A scheming producer and his mousy accountant aim to produce the biggest flop on Broadway in Mel Brooks' laugh-out-loud spectacle.

Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with Mel Brooks' classic cult comedy film. Now as a big Broadway musical, The Producers once again sets the standard for modern, outrageous, in-your-face humor. It is a truly "boffo" hit, winning a record 12 Tony Awards and wowing capacity crowds night after night.

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Little Shop of Horrors
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $22
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theater goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II", after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination!

Choreography by Jessie Dobryzinski, music direction by Abel Searor.

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*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
LeMoyne College

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

In Shakespeare's most fantastical tale, Pericles embarks on a tempest-tossed quest in search of adventure, wealth and love. On his odyssey to parts unknown, our hero is confronted by villains, pirates, goddesses and kings. In the end, he discovers an essential truth—the renewal of love and life itself.

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Friday, October 30, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.

Opening: Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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Beta Test Comedy Night
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Join us for our monthly comedy showcase. The Beta Test Comedy Night is a variety of all things comedic: stand-up, sketch, and improv — as long as it's funny, it will be in the show. It's a cornucopia of comedy! A potpourri of parody! A, well, you get the idea. This show is a way for new performers to show off their talents, and for experienced performers to try some different, edgy, sometimes experimental comedy.

Symphoria Wind Quintet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Disco Biscuits, with Ichisan
Creative Concerts

F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

With nearly 20 years of history together as a band, The Disco Biscuits are innovators of the "trancefusion" movement in modern rock. That said, they're not the same band they were when they began in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania. They still remain rock pioneers whose soul belongs as much to marathon dance parties as it does to live improvisational journeys. They still employ emerging technologies to help them create music that is 100 percent human although, perhaps, not entirely of this earth.

Ichisan is the moniker of Igor Skafar, a Slovenian DJ and Photographer whose relationship with music began by playing the guitar in various bands, which later developed into a preference for electronic music.

Ensemble Series: SU Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, with The Simpkin Project, Ocular Panther & Haewa
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

Says You

Price: $35
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A live performance of Says You!, a radio game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy, heard locally on WRVO Saturdays at noon. Your host for this season is Barry Nolan. Two shows will be taped live with a brief intermission. We promise—no tricks, just a great treat. Come join the fun!

Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.saysyou.net.

Hand in Hand Mystery Theater
Open Hand Theater

Price: $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

This one-of-a-kind mystery show is developed and performed by our Hand-in-Hand Youth Group. Celebrate Halloween with this spooky, special performance.

Little Shop of Horrors
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theater goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II", after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination!

Choreography by Jessie Dobryzinski, music direction by Abel Searor.

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*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
LeMoyne College

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

In Shakespeare's most fantastical tale, Pericles embarks on a tempest-tossed quest in search of adventure, wealth and love. On his odyssey to parts unknown, our hero is confronted by villains, pirates, goddesses and kings. In the end, he discovers an essential truth—the renewal of love and life itself.

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

Read a review!

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Dreams & Found Objects
Studio 24

Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Original art work from local artist Marylou Colgin, and installations by Kathy Rabuzzi and JT Lee.

Exhibit is also open by appointment.

The Disco Biscuits

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

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

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Says You

Price: $35
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A live performance of Says You!, a radio game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy, heard locally on WRVO Saturdays at noon. Your host for this season is Barry Nolan. Two shows will be taped live with a brief intermission. We promise—no tricks, just a great treat. Come join the fun!

Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.saysyou.net.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
LeMoyne College

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

In Shakespeare's most fantastical tale, Pericles embarks on a tempest-tossed quest in search of adventure, wealth and love. On his odyssey to parts unknown, our hero is confronted by villains, pirates, goddesses and kings. In the end, he discovers an essential truth—the renewal of love and life itself.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

Little Shop of Horrors
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theater goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II", after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination!

Choreography by Jessie Dobryzinski, music direction by Abel Searor.

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
LeMoyne College

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

In Shakespeare's most fantastical tale, Pericles embarks on a tempest-tossed quest in search of adventure, wealth and love. On his odyssey to parts unknown, our hero is confronted by villains, pirates, goddesses and kings. In the end, he discovers an essential truth—the renewal of love and life itself.

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Sunday Musicale: Longwood Jazz Project
Fayetteville Free Library

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

The B Side -- Hits of the '60s and '70s
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Joseph Leo Bwarie, Debra Barsha

Price: $35 regular, $25 students/seniors
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Celebrate the era of 45-rpm records with Joseph Leo Bwarie, currently starring on Broadway as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys, and Debra Barsha, Jersey Boys' Associate Conductor.

Specal Event: An Afternoon with Itzhak Perlman
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Itzhak Perlman, violin

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

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish"
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Presented by Temple Concord in collaboration with Symphoria.

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All Souls' Evensong and Organ Recital
Featuring Glenn Kime, organ; Christopher Dranchek, flute

Price: Free
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Evensong featuring Geraint Lewis The Souls of the Righteous, Orlando Gibbons Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and music by Nicholson, Reading, and Longhurst.

Organ recital featuring Edward Elgar Organ Sonata in G Major and a Bach trio sonata.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Jazz Vespers services are a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources. The concert is open to all faiths.

Strange Talk, with Intergalactix, Mind the Gap, Shiffley, and The Weather Machine
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

Read a Review!

The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

Read a Review!

Monday, November 2, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

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

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

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Mannequin (1937)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Leo Gorcey, Elisabeth Risdon

A strong yet sensitive drama of a poor working girl (Crawford) who marries a shady good-for-nothing (Curtis) and then meets a powerful but lonely tycoon (Tracy). Fine performances by the entire cast in this excellent MGM production.