Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Homa Delvaray, Overgrowing
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Autumn Soliloquy
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

Green Jobs and Sustainability
University Lectures
Featuring Van Jones

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

Americana
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers

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

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

Los Lonely Boys
Creative Concerts

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Cherub, with Ghost Beach, Gibbz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Opening: The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-7:30 pm, and will especially honor the participants and their families.

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

Lightness: In the Air with William Faulkner and Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
2014 Syracuse Symposium
Featuring Alexander Nemerov

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alexander Nemerov will examine two great figures of the 1930s who do not seem to go together, the novelist William Faulkner and the photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Considering aerial moments in Faulkner's novels Absalom, Absalom!, The Wild Palms, and Pylon, he will also speak of Bourke-White's cult of heights, her dizzying vantages far above the streets of Manhattan.

This event forms part of the Special Collections Research Center's Critical Connections lecture and mini-seminar series and celebrates two exhibitions focusing on Bourke-White on view at SU Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center in the fall of 2014.

Gerald Zampino, clarinet; Ann McIntyre, violin; Maryna Mazhokhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music of Milhaud and Menotti.

SU Guest Artist Series: Poister winner Amanda Mole, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Hollins Concert Overture in F Minor
Messiaen, L'Ascension excerpt
Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593
Bach Allegro
Schumann Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form excerpts
Bruhns Präludium in E Minor, "Großes"
Bolcom Sweet Hour of Prayer
Vierne Symphonie No. 2, "Allegro"

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

Brillz, with Snails, Quazarr, Stone Sound, Sawface
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, October 2, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Materiality and Poetry: The Visual and the Verbal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for a conversation about the poetic influence behind the current exhibition LAST by Dorene Quinn. Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate, Pablo Neruda, considered one the greatest poet of the 20th century, is one of the main sources of inspiration behind Quinn's current body of work, which expresses the physicality of the natural world in both verbal and visual contexts. Panelists will share thoughts and insights on this topic and will encourage audience members to participate in the dialogue with comments and questions.

The panel will consist of five individuals including Dorene Quinn, exhibiting artist; Nancy Keefe Rhodes, author of The Last of Follies: The Art of Dorene Quinn; Colleen Kattau, musician, activist and Professor of Spanish at SUNY College at Cortland; Michael Burkard, poet and professor of English at Syracuse University; and Maura Brewer, artist and professor specializing in the nature of identity and perception.

Our Turn to Decide: The Music of Jason Robert Brown
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A cabaret of songs from Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist behind such major Broadway hits as The Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, and 13.

Murder Most Faire
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $20 (plus suggested $5 donation to Barnes Foundation)
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

Just in time for the spookiest month of the year, Lizzie Borden is back in Syracuse with her NYC cast "intact." Garrett Heater's award-winning play will receive its sixth national production since 2010, but this time the venue has been made a little more...intimate. The play will be performed throughout the ornate rooms of the stunning Barnes Hiscock Mansion. Known to many locals as the Corinthian Club, this gorgeous antebellum home will serve as the backdrop for the most infamous double axe murder in history -- truly a Fall thrill (and chill)! Don't miss the opportunity to see the events of the Lizzie Borden case unfold before you--within arms reach of the notorious lady herself.

Tickets on sale at Covey's website or by phone at 315-420-3729. Capacity is limited -- reservations recommended.

Possessing Harriet: The Story of How a Fugitive Slave Inspired a Women who Changed the World
Onondaga Historical Association
Robert Moss, director

Price: $40 includes gala reception
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Onondaga Historical Association (OHA) has commissioned award-winning playwright and Syracuse Stage dramaturge Kyle Bass to write a new play that will bring to life the compelling story of fugitive slave Harriet Powell and her momentous meeting with famous abolitionist and women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady-Stanton, which occurred 175 years ago this October.

During Harriet Powell's daring escape from bondage and search for freedom on the Underground Railroad, she met Elizabeth Cady-Stanton at a safe house belonging to famous abolitionist and Cady-Stanton's close cousin, Gerrit Smith, in Peterboro, NY. Smith's introduction of Elizabeth and Harriet led to an emotional, private discussion between the two women. Though no details were ever revealed, both women later credited the conversation as one that changed both of their lives.

Following the stage reading, we will celebrate and honor several anniversaries with a gala party at the Redhouse Café, including the 175th anniversary of the events depicted in the play, the 150th anniversary of the National Convention of Colored Men held in Syracuse on Oct. 4, 1864, and the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights legislation.

Tickets can be purchased through the Redhouse Box Office. For more information, visit www.theredhouse.org or call 315-362-2785.

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

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

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

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Friday, October 3, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KaleidoScapes: Works by Pamela Johnson
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Opening: Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm as part of the village's First Friday art celebration. Come meet the artist and enjoy wine tastings and light refreshments.

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

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $10 (donation for kids' programs)
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A one-man play written and performed by Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado.

October Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store!

Rebel
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Historic account of a Cuban woman who fought in the American Civil War. Screening followed by discussion with writer, director and protagonist María Agui Carter.

Moonshine Musical Mania: Little Shop of Horrors
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

The Moonshine Musical Mania series includes film screenings, live readings (sometimes in drag!) and audience participation ... and drinking rules apply! Your first drink (alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, tea, or coffee) is on us with admission to the event.

Fayetteville Phantoms Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: OHA members $12, non-members $15
Fayetteville Village Hall
425 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Return to the streets of the village to visit with a number of the residents of days gone by and hear the stories of their lives.

Tours leave every 15 minutes from Fayetteville Village Hall. Last tour leaves at 8:00 pm.

Reservations are required. For more information or to reserve, call Karen at 315-428-1864 x312. If calling on the weekend for reservations, please call 315-428-1864 x321.

Artist Talk and Reception
Urban Video Project

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

The artist talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)."

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Landmark Theatre

Price: $25 regular, $55.50 VIP
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Special guests include Soft Spoken and Stroke, with music by DJ Showcase.

Our Turn to Decide: The Music of Jason Robert Brown
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A cabaret of songs from Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist behind such major Broadway hits as The Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, and 13.

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, with Root Shock, Subsoil
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Matthew Gavin Frank
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (W.W. Norton: Liveright),
Pot Farm, and Barolo, and the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop.

He teaches creative writing in the MFA Program at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction Editor of Passages North. This winter, he prepared his first batch of whitefish liver ice cream. It paired well with onion bagels.

Die Mommie Die
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Retired singing star, Angela Arden heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a tennis instructor, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspects foul play and wants Lance's help in proving mom's guilt. Lance, who loves his mother deeply, is conflicted. Will Edith succeed? Does love lurk somewhere? And what about Angela's long dead sister, Barbara?

If you liked last season's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (also by Charles Busch), then you'll love the murder, intrigue and craziness that is Die Mommie Die!

Mature themes -- no children admitted.

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

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

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

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

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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

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

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

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

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

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

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

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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OnLine/OffLine
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Last: Works by Dorene Quinn
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

This SUArt Kids program will explore the work of groundbreaking photo-journalist Margaret Bourke-White. The program will include a gallery tour where we will look at Bourke-White's contribution to history and photography. Children will have the opportunity to engage with the photographs through discussion and critical thinking exercises. The program will also include a hands on activity where families can create and decorate their own pin-hole camera to take home with them. Designed for children ages 5-10.

Let us know you're interested! Please contact us at suart@syr.edu
or RSVP to this event on Facebook.

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

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 at the door, $7 in advnace
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

This comic showcase allows for local comics to compete for cash prize and glory. Six comics will each get 10 minutes to compete and show off their best stuff. The audience determines the winner. Winner gets to headline in a future Comedy Showcase as well.

Tonight's lineup: Steven Rogers, Maryanne Donnelly, Lauren Turczak, Nick Galoni, Bryan VanCampen RJ McCarthy, with headiner Nick Marra

Advance ticket price only available online at www.cnyplayhouse.com/comedy or by visiting CNY Playhouse at least 24 hours before show, 1:00-6:00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays.

Fayetteville Phantoms Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: OHA members $12, non-members $15
Fayetteville Village Hall
425 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Return to the streets of the village to visit with a number of the residents of days gone by and hear the stories of their lives.

Tours leave every 15 minutes from Fayetteville Village Hall. Last tour leaves at 8:00 pm.

Reservations are required. For more information or to reserve, call Karen at 315-428-1864 x312. If calling on the weekend for reservations, please call 315-428-1864 x321.

Our Turn to Decide: The Music of Jason Robert Brown
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A cabaret of songs from Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist behind such major Broadway hits as The Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, and 13.

Our Turn to Decide: The Music of Jason Robert Brown
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A cabaret of songs from Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist behind such major Broadway hits as The Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, and 13.

Mary Fahl (formerly of October Project) with Mark Doyle and Groupo Pagan
Redhouse

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

"Sounding like no other singer of her generation" (Allmusic.com), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s chamber-pop group October Project. As a solo artist, Mary has released several compelling albums, including a fantastic re-working of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" for V2 Records and her critically acclaimed studio album "The Other Side of Time" on Sony Odyssey. She has also written and performed songs for several major motion pictures, including the lead song ("Going Home") for the Civil War epic Gods and Generals. Her band features seven-time SAMMY Award winner Mark Doyle as music director/guitarist/pianist and Grupo Pagan band members Joshua Dekaney on drums, Edgar Pagan on bass, and Bill DiCosimo on keyboards.

Project Xx 20th Anniversary Celebration, with Grupo Vena, 2voz, DJ C-Lo, DJ Babyface
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Pirate, the Princess, and the Pea
Open Hand Theater
Crabgrass Puppet Theatre

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

A pirate and a princess open our series with a search for hidden treasure. The princess stays one step ahead of the pirate with every clue. But how can she get him out of the way long enough to dive for the treasure? Join Crabgrass Puppet Theatre on a thrilling voyage chock full of sea monsters, sharks and side-splitting action!

Crabgrass Puppet Theatre has twice been awarded the prestigious Citation of Excellence from the American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA-USA), the highest honor in American puppetry. They have performed in venues including the World Trade Center, the Philadelphia Museum, the North Carolina Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the California Academy of Sciences, the Detroit Institute for the Arts, and hundreds of schools, museums, and theaters across the country.

Crabgrass founders Jamie Keithline and Bonnie Hall perform more than 200 shows each year, reaching over 100,000 people throughout the US.

New this fall: Up Close -- A Look Inside the Story
Join us at 10:00 am for a hands-on story hour suitable for children as young as 3 years (with an accompanying parent) and anyone who wants a more in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance. Cost is an additional $5 per child, accompanying adult is free.

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

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

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

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Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $20 (plus suggested $5 donation to Barnes Foundation)
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

Just in time for the spookiest month of the year, Lizzie Borden is back in Syracuse with her NYC cast "intact." Garrett Heater's award-winning play will receive its sixth national production since 2010, but this time the venue has been made a little more...intimate. The play will be performed throughout the ornate rooms of the stunning Barnes Hiscock Mansion. Known to many locals as the Corinthian Club, this gorgeous antebellum home will serve as the backdrop for the most infamous double axe murder in history -- truly a Fall thrill (and chill)! Don't miss the opportunity to see the events of the Lizzie Borden case unfold before you--within arms reach of the notorious lady herself.

Tickets on sale at Covey's website or by phone at 315-420-3729. Capacity is limited -- reservations recommended.

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $20 (plus suggested $5 donation to Barnes Foundation)
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

Just in time for the spookiest month of the year, Lizzie Borden is back in Syracuse with her NYC cast "intact." Garrett Heater's award-winning play will receive its sixth national production since 2010, but this time the venue has been made a little more...intimate. The play will be performed throughout the ornate rooms of the stunning Barnes Hiscock Mansion. Known to many locals as the Corinthian Club, this gorgeous antebellum home will serve as the backdrop for the most infamous double axe murder in history -- truly a Fall thrill (and chill)! Don't miss the opportunity to see the events of the Lizzie Borden case unfold before you--within arms reach of the notorious lady herself.

Tickets on sale at Covey's website or by phone at 315-420-3729. Capacity is limited -- reservations recommended.

Die Mommie Die
Rarely Done Productions

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Retired singing star, Angela Arden heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a tennis instructor, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspects foul play and wants Lance's help in proving mom's guilt. Lance, who loves his mother deeply, is conflicted. Will Edith succeed? Does love lurk somewhere? And what about Angela's long dead sister, Barbara?

If you liked last season's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (also by Charles Busch), then you'll love the murder, intrigue and craziness that is Die Mommie Die!

Mature themes -- no children admitted.

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

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

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

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

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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

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

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

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Tammy Renée Brackett: Dear Deer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLOBALissues. CLIMATEmatters. SocialCHANGE.
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

This SUArt Kids program will explore the work of groundbreaking photo-journalist Margaret Bourke-White. The program will include a gallery tour where we will look at Bourke-White's contribution to history and photography. Children will have the opportunity to engage with the photographs through discussion and critical thinking exercises. The program will also include a hands on activity where families can create and decorate their own pin-hole camera to take home with them. Designed for children ages 5-10.

Let us know you're interested! Please contact us at suart@syr.edu
or RSVP to this event on Facebook.

Social Justice Showcase: Sidewalk Stories
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $12 ($75 full festival pass)
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Written/produced/directed by and starring Charles Lane, with original music by Marc Marder, photography by Bill Dill (1989, 98 minutes)

On a wintry Greenwich Village street, portrait artist Charles Lane battles a bullying, giant fellow artist, strokes attractive businesswoman Sandye Wilson's cheek a little more than needed to get those proportions right, then gets stuck with adorable tot Nicole Alysia when her gambler dad gets knifed — all in black and white silence, and without the use of a single intertitle. An homage to Chaplin's The Kid (and other movies) set in a then-tough Village environment--Lane squats in a wreck slated for demolition--and clearly capturing the plight of the homeless, Sidewalk Stories retains a magical sense of the fable, until a final, startling switch...

Winner of the Prix du Public at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a 15-minute ovation, Sidewalk Stories became a hit independent film around the world, but then disappeared: It's never been on DVD or home video.

Live! At the Everson: Sounds and Imagination
Civic Morning Musicals
Amida (Amy Heyman and Ida Trebicka, piano)

Price: $20 regular, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Amida (Amy Heyman and Ida Trebicka) perform 4-hand piano music in collaboration with an SU Faculty Vocal Octet (Janet Brown, Julianna Sabol, Kathleen Roland, Carolyn Weber, Jon English, Bruce Campbell, Eric Johnson, Michael Hanly).

Mozart-Busoni Fantasie, K. 608
Phillip Glass Movements for two pianos
Schubert Fantasie, D 940
Brahms Neues Liebeslieder Waltzes
Milhaud Scaramouche, op. 165b

OnCenter garage parking is $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Sunday Musicale: Drew Fresch
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Join us for Drew Fresch and friends, featuring banjo music.

Youth Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

International Guitar Duo: Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb
Signature Music

Price: $15
Sky Armory
315 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Their last upstate performance of 2014 -- a benefit concert for Signature Music.

Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com

The New Women
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Armory Square Playhouse opens its season with a staged reading of a new full-length play, The NEw Women, by Janice Scully.

What's the matter at Port Manly University Hospital? All the women doctors in the emergency department are quitting! Are they just lazy? Is the boss off her rocker? Will young Dr. Markus quit too, or can find happiness against the odds? The reading will be directed by Peter Moller and features David Baker, Jenifer Breyer, Richard Harris, Ed Mastin, Mary Nowyj, Donna O'Mahoney, Steve Smith, and Donna Stuccio.

Playwright Janice Scully writes fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children. Her work is due to appear in the upcoming December 2014 issue of "Highlights for Children." She is a physician and also has an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College.

There will be a talkback with the playwright after the performance.

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

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

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

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

For tickets, phone 315-727-5494.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $20 (plus suggested $5 donation to Barnes Foundation)
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

Just in time for the spookiest month of the year, Lizzie Borden is back in Syracuse with her NYC cast "intact." Garrett Heater's award-winning play will receive its sixth national production since 2010, but this time the venue has been made a little more...intimate. The play will be performed throughout the ornate rooms of the stunning Barnes Hiscock Mansion. Known to many locals as the Corinthian Club, this gorgeous antebellum home will serve as the backdrop for the most infamous double axe murder in history -- truly a Fall thrill (and chill)! Don't miss the opportunity to see the events of the Lizzie Borden case unfold before you--within arms reach of the notorious lady herself.

Tickets on sale at Covey's website or by phone at 315-420-3729. Capacity is limited -- reservations recommended.

Monday, October 6, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

Alison Rossiter: Revive
Light Work Gallery

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

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

The BCA Project: Portraits of Breast Cancer Survivors
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

A.E. André, co-owner of Aesthetica Salon Spa in Camillus, talented stylist, colorist, and photographer, has created an exhibit of local breast cancer survivors. Whether cured, in remission, or still undergoing treatment, the participants in The BCA Project have shared amazing and inspiring stories about their fight against breast cancer.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Flashback Mondays: Full Metal Jacket
Palace Theatre

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:
When constructing my college paintings, I focus on capturing the element of time by painting color and light shifts at different times of the day. In order to record hourly atmospheric changes, I complete a vast assortment of paintings on paper during three different time periods: morning, midday, and evening. I then cut these paintings into small pieces, which I use as my pallet for each garden scene. I collage these smaller pieces into one, large cohesive work that is an all-inclusive reflection of "A Day in the Garden."

James A. Ridlon, artist/athlete, has achieved fame in both these pursuits. He played in the NFL eight years--six with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Dallas Cowboys, being named All-Pro as defensive safety with the latter team in 1964. After retiring from pro football he returned to Syracuse University, his alma mater, to complete graduate studies and coach defensive backs on the football team. He is now a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse.

Ridlon has completed many sports-related commissions, including large assemblages for ABC Television to commemorate Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He also fashioned the Outland Trophy, awarded each year to the premier college football lineman. He was named "Sport Artist of the Year" for 1989 by the U.S. Sports Academy.

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

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

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

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

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

Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Character & Collaboration: Maria Marrero Costume Design Retrospective
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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