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Events for Friday, October 31, 2014

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Against the Grain: Works in Wood by Fred Weisskopf Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-7:00 PM Early American Decorative Arts The Art Store Gallery

11:00 AM-6:00 PM Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank Gandee Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

4:30 PM Legends of Jazz Series: The Heath Brothers Onondaga Community College

7:00 PM Legends of Jazz Series: The Heath Brothers Onondaga Community College

7:30 PM Drafters: A Parable Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Diary of Anne Frank Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Pillowman Black Box Players

8:00 PM Evil Dead: The Musical Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Penguin Tango Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Saturday, November 1, 2014

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-3:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Beyond the Pale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-6:00 PM Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM Ghouls, Ghosts and Goblins Open Hand Theater

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Little Red Riding Hood Magic Circle Children's Theatre

2:00 PM The Pillowman Black Box Players

2:00 PM The Penguin Tango Redhouse (Read a review!)

3:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

6:00 PM Suitehearts Onondaga Hillplayers (Read a review!)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Back to the Garden: The Songs of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro Onondaga Community College, featuring Debra Barsha

7:30 PM Spark Concert: Music of Machines Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

8:00 PM The Diary of Anne Frank Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Pillowman Black Box Players

8:00 PM Evil Dead: The Musical Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Lincoln's Blood Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Penguin Tango Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Sunday, November 2, 2014

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-2:00 AM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

12:00 PM Suitehearts Onondaga Hillplayers (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

2:00 PM Lincoln's Blood Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

2:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Fall Showcase Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

3:00 PM The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein Baldwinsville Theatre Guild (Read a review!)

3:00 PM All Saint's Day Concert

3:00 PM Sound Perspectives, East and West Society for New Music

4:00 PM Fall Concert Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra

7:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Monday, November 3, 2014

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

7:00 PM Flashback Mondays: THX 1138 Palace Theatre

7:00 PM Breath in a Ram's Horn: The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music Temple Society of Concord

7:30 PM Outcast (1937) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, November 4, 2014

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Gallery Exhibit: James A. Ridlon, A Day in the Garden Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Beyond the Pale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

6:00 PM Tommy Castro & the Painkillers

7:30 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Wednesday, November 5, 2014

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Beyond the Pale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln Onondaga Historical Association

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Stephanie Mata, flute; Sabine Krantz, piano Civic Morning Musicals

5:30 PM Daisy Fried Raymond Carver Reading Series

6:00 PM Artist Talk with Gwenn Thomas and Panelists Point of Contact Gallery

7:30 PM Mark Bittman Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

7:30 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Carnage, with Paris Blohm, Dzeko & Torres, Junkie Kid Creative Concerts

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: SU Contemporary Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Thursday, November 6, 2014

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Beyond the Pale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-6:00 PM Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake Urban Video Project

6:30 PM Artist Talk with Bayeté Ross Smith Community Folk Art Center

6:45 PM Murder Most Faire Acme Mystery Company

7:30 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Pillowman LeMoyne College

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: Chamber Music Ensembles Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:00 PM Rusko, with Direktor, Rump$tep Westcott Theater

Events for Friday, November 7, 2014

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928) LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-8:00 PM Beyond the Pale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Painting Alumni Retrospective 914Works

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover Dalton's American Decorative Arts

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Culture of the Cocktail Hour Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-6:00 PM Taking Turns: New Work by Chandra DeBuse and Tommy Frank Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM 60th Annual Holiday Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Shadows: Fernando Orellana Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Balcon Criollo La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas Point of Contact Gallery

1:00 PM-1:00 AM Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

5:00 PM-8:00 PM Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson Gallery 54

5:00 PM-8:00 PM Pottery Plus Show and Sale Syracuse Ceramic Guild

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake Urban Video Project

5:30 PM Ensemble Series: Jazz Improvisation Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz @ Sitrus: The Djangoners CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

6:00 PM Suitehearts Onondaga Hillplayers (Read a review!)

7:00 PM The Laramie Project

7:30 PM Pepys' Pajamas NYS Baroque

8:00 PM Lincoln's Blood Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Boxcar Lilies Folkus Project

8:00 PM The Pillowman LeMoyne College

8:00 PM Be Our Guest: Disney Through the Ages Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM BowSmack Redhouse

8:00 PM Doubt Salt City Center for the Performing Arts (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: SU Baroque Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM Rl Grime Westcott Theater

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Friday, October 31, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 31



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 31



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.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 31



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 31



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 31



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 31



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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 31



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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 31



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 31



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 31



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 31



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.


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10:00 AM - 7:00 PM, October 31



Early American Decorative Arts
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD) holds an exhibition of Early American Decorative Arts. You can see the spectacular early-American decoration these artists have created on tins, trays, glass panels, boxes, and more! There will also be an artist demonstration presented during the reception, so you can witness the skill and techniques used in creating these beautiful pieces.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 31



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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Music
 

4:30 PM, October 31



Legends of Jazz Series: The Heath Brothers
Onondaga Community College

Price: $40
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse


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7:00 PM, October 31



Legends of Jazz Series: The Heath Brothers
Onondaga Community College

Price: $40
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, October 31



Drafters: A Parable
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Ryan Hope Travis, director

Price: $20 at the door, $15 in advance, $8 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Stallions, a semi-professional football team based in Syracuse, is yet again caught up in another scandal. Swarming allegations about the Stallion's complicated domestic violence history threaten the team's morale and the loyalty of their most adoring fan, the water boy.

This is the world premiere of the show, conceived and directed by Ryan Hope Travis. Co-sponsored by Vera House, Inc. and Onondaga Community College.

Subject matter will appeal to mature teenagers and up.

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8:00 PM, October 31



The Diary of Anne Frank
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and 22 days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam.

Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

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8:00 PM, October 31



The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Heather Jensen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

IT'S ALIVE! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy.

With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment ... and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made.

Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

Musical Director: Dan Williams; choreographer: Korrie Taylor

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8:00 PM, October 31



The Pillowman
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Box Players presents its production of playwright Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.

To register, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com.


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8:00 PM, October 31



Evil Dead: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Based on Sam Raimi's 80s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. Evil Dead: The Musical unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," "Look Who's Evil Now" and "Do the Necronomicon."

Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt, music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Music directed by Abel Searor.

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8:00 PM, October 31



The Penguin Tango
Redhouse

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

In this side-splitting, screwball comedy by Stephen Svoboda, inspired by actual events at the Bremerhaven, Brooklyn, and Central Park Zoos, a community of penguins is hilariously turned upside down by sex, stereotypes, and soggy sardines. Broadway World called The Penguin Tango "...sweet, charming, winsome and utterly enjoyable." Don't miss the chance to see the play Backstage Magazine calls "...a parachute ride into an anthropomorphic amusement park." Rated PG-13.

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8:00 PM, October 31



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Saturday, November 1, 2014


Art
 

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, November 1



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 1



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, November 1



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, November 1



Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits


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



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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



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.


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



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.


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



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.


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



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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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 1



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm.

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 1



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 1



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 1



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 1



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 1



Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, November 1



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.


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



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, November 1



Back to the Garden: The Songs of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Debra Barsha

Price: $25 at the door; $15-$20 in advance
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For tickets or more information, visit the Jerry Barsha Foundation website.

Proceeds fund a scholarship given annually to a student wishing to pursue a career in electronic media at Onondaga Community College.


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7:30 PM, November 1



Spark Concert: Music of Machines
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Heather Buchman, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $16 seniors, $5 for students with college ID, kids under 18 free
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Each Spark concert is a unique and informal experience created by partnering with the performance venue. For Music of Machines, Symphoria will perform two sets of music for full orchestra at the beginning and end of the event. These sets include the second movement of Haydn's Clock Symphony, Mosolov's Iron Foundry, Anderson's Typewriter, Honnegger's Pacific 231, the first movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and more. Between orchestral sets, patrons are invited to browse the museum where they will encounter multiple performances and demonstrations. Light refreshments and cash bar will also be available to enjoy during the event.

Performances stationed throughout the museum feature bassoonist Jessica Wooldridge performing a set of music with electronic tape and multi-media projections in the IMAX Theater, Symphoria's string trio will perform excerpts from Bach's Goldberg Variations, and Julie Bridge and Greg Wood will be performing works centering on perpetual motion in music. Hamilton College professor Sam Pellman will also be on hand with a demonstration of his Tesla Coil.


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Theater
 

11:00 AM, November 1



Ghouls, Ghosts and Goblins
Open Hand Theater
Dan Butterworth

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

Ghouls, ghosts and goblins, grand sets, special effects and puppet staging surround the exquisitely moving marionettes and shadow puppets in the world of Dan Butterworth. One of America's leading puppeteers, Dan will use his highly sophisticated puppets to create some amusing, cute and slightly scary Halloween antics. Appropriate for all ages.

Dan has performed internationally in operas and classical music festivals, film and television. He picks varied projects, often which involve collaboration, such as constructing a puppet theater around an adult tricycle, helping to create an Inuit show in Nunavut, Canada, and designing sets for the St. Petersburg, Florida production of Strauss' comic opera "Die Fledermaus".

Dan has been supported by the National Foundation for the Arts since 1979, and in 2005 he was honored with the Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, for which he humbly allowed his puppets to take the bow.

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.


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12:30 PM, November 1



Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, November 1



The Pillowman
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Box Players presents its production of playwright Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.

To register, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com.


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2:00 PM, November 1



The Penguin Tango
Redhouse

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

In this side-splitting, screwball comedy by Stephen Svoboda, inspired by actual events at the Bremerhaven, Brooklyn, and Central Park Zoos, a community of penguins is hilariously turned upside down by sex, stereotypes, and soggy sardines. Broadway World called The Penguin Tango "...sweet, charming, winsome and utterly enjoyable." Don't miss the chance to see the play Backstage Magazine calls "...a parachute ride into an anthropomorphic amusement park." Rated PG-13.

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3:00 PM, November 1



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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6:00 PM, November 1



Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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8:00 PM, November 1



The Diary of Anne Frank
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and 22 days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam.

Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

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8:00 PM, November 1



The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Heather Jensen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

IT'S ALIVE! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy.

With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment ... and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made.

Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

Musical Director: Dan Williams; choreographer: Korrie Taylor

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8:00 PM, November 1



The Pillowman
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Box Players presents its production of playwright Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.

To register, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com.


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8:00 PM, November 1



Evil Dead: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Based on Sam Raimi's 80s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. Evil Dead: The Musical unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," "Look Who's Evil Now" and "Do the Necronomicon."

Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt, music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Music directed by Abel Searor.

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8:00 PM, November 1



Lincoln's Blood
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies concerning those most closely associated with the crime. Mary Todd Lincoln (Kate Huddleston) found her manic depression and financial disarray pushing her further from her beloved dress maker Elizabeth Keckley (Karin Franklin-King) and closer to the asylum. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt (Karis Wiggins), entangled in the machinations of assassin John Wilkes Booth (Ryan Santiago), grows increasingly aware of the danger she is in. Ford's Theatre guests Major Henry Rathbone (Darian Sundberg) and his fiance Clara Harris (Maya Dwyer) found their domesticity shattered in the wake of the murder and dogged by years of guilt and madness.

With sumptuous costumes by Debbie Ritchey of CNY Costumes, sound design by Tony Vadala, lighting by Bob Dwyer, stage management by Jeff Riegelman, direction by Garrett Heater, production by Susan Blumer and Michael Penny, this is a world premiere performance.

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8:00 PM, November 1



The Penguin Tango
Redhouse

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

In this side-splitting, screwball comedy by Stephen Svoboda, inspired by actual events at the Bremerhaven, Brooklyn, and Central Park Zoos, a community of penguins is hilariously turned upside down by sex, stereotypes, and soggy sardines. Broadway World called The Penguin Tango "...sweet, charming, winsome and utterly enjoyable." Don't miss the chance to see the play Backstage Magazine calls "...a parachute ride into an anthropomorphic amusement park." Rated PG-13.

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8:00 PM, November 1



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014


Art
 

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 2



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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 2



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 2



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 2



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 2



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 2



Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 2



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 2



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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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 2



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 2



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 2



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.


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12:00 PM - 2:00 AM, November 2



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, November 2



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.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, November 2



Fall Showcase
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Since 2008, Central New York musicians have gathered once a month for the Words and Music Songwriter Woodshed, in which they share new and in-progress songs with fellow songwriters and help each other improve the words and music. Hundreds of songs of all styles have been shared for the first time in this group, which now meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Liverpool Public Library. today, Woodshed participants will present a group concert of original songs, hosted by John Lennon Songwriting Contest grand prize winner Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.


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3:00 PM, November 2



All Saint's Day Concert
Abel Searor, conductor

Price: $10 suggested donation
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Poulenc Gloria
Durufle Requiem


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3:00 PM, November 2



Sound Perspectives, East and West
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; SU students and faculty free with ID
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Zhou Tian Clarinet Quintet, 2014 (The piece will be repeated after intermission with projections -- a response or different "perspective" -- by installation/sound artists Lorne Covington and Douglas Quin.)
Zhou Long Pianogongs, 2005
Guo Wenjing Drama, 1995
Rob Deemer Cantos, 2012
Dan Asia Amichai Songs


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4:00 PM, November 2



Fall Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students, free for children under 9
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Beethoven Overture to Coriolanus
Concerto(s) TBA with Youth Concerto Competition Winners
Schubert Symphony No. 3


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Theater
 

12:00 PM, November 2



Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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2:00 PM, November 2



Lincoln's Blood
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies concerning those most closely associated with the crime. Mary Todd Lincoln (Kate Huddleston) found her manic depression and financial disarray pushing her further from her beloved dress maker Elizabeth Keckley (Karin Franklin-King) and closer to the asylum. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt (Karis Wiggins), entangled in the machinations of assassin John Wilkes Booth (Ryan Santiago), grows increasingly aware of the danger she is in. Ford's Theatre guests Major Henry Rathbone (Darian Sundberg) and his fiance Clara Harris (Maya Dwyer) found their domesticity shattered in the wake of the murder and dogged by years of guilt and madness.

With sumptuous costumes by Debbie Ritchey of CNY Costumes, sound design by Tony Vadala, lighting by Bob Dwyer, stage management by Jeff Riegelman, direction by Garrett Heater, production by Susan Blumer and Michael Penny, this is a world premiere performance.

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2:00 PM, November 2



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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3:00 PM, November 2



The New Mel Brooks' Musical Young Frankenstein
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Heather Jensen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

IT'S ALIVE! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy.

With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment ... and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made.

Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

Musical Director: Dan Williams; choreographer: Korrie Taylor

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7:00 PM, November 2



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Monday, November 3, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, November 3



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 3



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.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 3



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.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 3



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 3



Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 3



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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 3



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.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, November 3



Flashback Mondays: THX 1138
Palace Theatre

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


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7:30 PM, November 3



Outcast (1937)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Robert Florey. Cast: Warren William, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Jackie Moran, Esther Dale.

Powerful drama about a doctor (William) who is acquitted of killing a patient. The doctor relocates and sets up a practice in a small town, and all goes well until his past returns to cause trouble. Excellent writing and performances make this a fine film not to be missed.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, November 3



Breath in a Ram's Horn: The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Renowned classical composer Daniel Asia in "Breath in a Ram's Horn: The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music," an audience-interactive presentation that delves into the mysteries of Judaism and classical music, their interrelationships, and includes a deep listening of his award winning music. Asia will be joined by Cantors Kari Siegel-Eglash, Robert Lieberman, and Paula Pepperstone.


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Tuesday, November 4, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, November 4



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 4



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.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, November 4



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.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, November 4



Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 4



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 4



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 4



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 4



Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 4



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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 4



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 4



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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Music
 

6:00 PM, November 4



Tommy Castro & the Painkillers

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Upstairs at the Dino
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

A fundraiser for NYS Blues Festival.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, November 4



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, November 5



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, November 5



Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 5



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 5



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 5



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 5



Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 5



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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 5



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 5



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 5



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 5



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 5



Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 5



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM, November 5



Artist Talk with Gwenn Thomas and Panelists
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for a discussion with exhibiting artist Gwenn Thomas and panelists Saul Ostrow and Deanna Sheward as they discuss themes of perspective, perception, and the viewer's gaze in regards to the current exhibition Moments of Place.

For more information, visit the Facebook event page.


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7:30 PM, November 5



Mark Bittman
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Price: $55, $40, $35, $30 adults, $10 students with ID
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Chef, cookbook author, op-ed columnist and the Times magazine's food columnist.


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Music
 

12:30 PM, November 5



Stephanie Mata, flute; Sabine Krantz, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Prokofiev Flute Sonata and Bizet Carmen Fantasie


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8:00 PM, November 5



Carnage, with Paris Blohm, Dzeko & Torres, Junkie Kid
Creative Concerts

Price: $25-$60
F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, November 5



Ensemble Series: SU Contemporary 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.


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Poetry/Reading
 

5:30 PM, November 5



Daisy Fried
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, November 5



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

Read a Review!


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Thursday, November 6, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, November 6



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, November 6



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.


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



Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 6



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 6



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 6



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 6



Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 6



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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 6



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 6



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 6



Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 6



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 6



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.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 6



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.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, November 6



Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 6



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 6



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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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 6



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.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 6



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.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 6



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 6



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 6



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, November 6



Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment 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.

Screening begins at dusk.


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Lecture
 

6:30 PM, November 6



Artist Talk with Bayeté Ross Smith
Community Folk Art Center

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

In conjunction with the fall exhibition "Question Bridge: Syracuse," we are pleased to have visual artist Bayeté Ross Smith here to discuss his work and the Question Bridge project.

Bayeté Ross Smith is a visual artist, multi-media artist and photographer. His career began as a photojournalist with the Knight Ridder Newspaper Corporation. Bayeté's work has been shown with the 2008 and 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Oakland Museum of California, the Brooklyn Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, the Goethe Institute (Ghana), and Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Poland). Community engagement is critical to Bayeté's art practice. He has had fellowships with the Jerome Foundation, the McColl Center for Visual Art, the Kala Art Institute and the Laundromat Project. His photographs have been published in numerous books most notably the cover of DisIntegration: The Splintering of Black America. He has worked as a faculty member at the International Center of Photography, The New School and New York University. Bayeté is Associate Program Director of the Kings Against Violence Initiative, a violence prevention program based out of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, November 6



Ensemble Series: Chamber Music Ensembles
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.


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8:00 PM, November 6



Rusko, with Direktor, Rump$tep
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, November 6



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.


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7:30 PM, November 6



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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8:00 PM, November 6



The Pillowman
LeMoyne College

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

By Martin McDonagh. A viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of murders.


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Friday, November 7, 2014


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, November 7



Robert Hofmann: A View of the Middle East (1914-1928)
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of Robert Hofmann's paintings, pastels and sketches from World War I and after. Hofmann's work, consisting of paintings and drawings, provides viewers with dramatic visual representations of the personalities and landscapes of the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Robert Hofmann studied art at the Vienna Academy after serving in the Austrian and Ottoman armies during World War I. After completing his training he returned to the Middle East further developing his unique body of work. Following a career that took him from Vienna, to London and Australia, Hoffman subsequently settled in Syracuse in the 1950s where he maintained a studio and taught painting until his passing in the 1980s.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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.


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9:30 AM - 8:00 PM, November 7



Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 7



Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 7



Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, November 7



Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 7



Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 7



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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



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.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, November 7



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, November 7



60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, November 7



Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 to help local businesses identify, celebrate and promote creativity among their employees. Over the years the program has uncovered thousands of artists, creating countless rewards for the employees and their sponsoring companies. This unique program is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiative Commendation awarded by The President of the United States.

On My Own Time's popularity and success has spread across the country, to cities where it has been replicated, name and all. On My Own Time is a program that makes artistic talents that might otherwise go unnoticed visible. It recognizes a most precious gift - creativity.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



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.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, November 7



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


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1:00 PM - 1:00 AM, November 7



Geisha's Dream: A Kimono Exhibition

Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, visit the Facebook page.


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5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 7



Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles


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5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, November 7



Pottery Plus Show and Sale
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, November 7



Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment 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.

Screening begins at dusk.


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Music
 

5:30 PM, November 7



Ensemble Series: Jazz Improvisation
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse


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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, November 7



Jazz @ Sitrus: The Djangoners
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The great gyspy guitarist Django Reinhardt's music is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and The Djangoners are carrying on his legacy. The group features Bobby Henrie on lead guitar, Eric Aceto on violin, Harry Aceto on "Manouche" rhythm guitar, and Brian Williams on upright bass. These fine players came together with a common love of Django's music and the amazing chops necessary to recreate it. Come check them out on this rare excursion to Syracuse playing in the style of Stephane Grapelli and the Hot Club of Detroit.


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7:30 PM, November 7



Pepys' Pajamas
NYS Baroque

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

"And so to bed..." English music from the 17th century, with reference to the diaries of Samuel Pepys. A Lawes harp consort, songs by Lanier, a sonata by Enrico Butler, Playford dance tunes, and other English treats.

Performers include Laura Heimes, soprano; Christa Patton, harp; Boel Gidholm, violin; Lisa Terry, viol; Deborah Fox, theorbo.


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8:00 PM, November 7



The Boxcar Lilies
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The darlings of last year's Falcon Ridge new-talent showcase make their Folkus debut.

The Boxcar Lilies have quickly made a name for themselves with their signature mix of folk, country, and bluegrass-tinged Americana music featuring spine-tingling, innovative harmonies and top-notch songwriting. Accompanying themselves on guitar, clawhammer banjo, ukulele, electric bass, and washboard, they have brought their uniquely warm sound and energetic stage presence to venues up and down the Eastern seaboard, including The Birchmere Music Hall, Club Passim, and Philadelphia's Tin Angel, and opening for legendary performers like Bill Staines and The Seldom Scene. In 2012, they were selected to perform an official showcase at the International Folk Alliance Conference and in 2013 won the audience voting in the Emerging Artist Showcase.


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8:00 PM, November 7



BowSmack
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Nationally known duo BowSmack is the fusion of Mike Block's versatile cello playing with Tupac Mantilla's "anything goes" percussion approach, featuring explorations of pop music from today, yesterday, and the future.

Michael Block is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the ideal musician of the 21st century" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble.

Tupac Mantilla is an internationally known Grammy Nominee percussionist/drummer. His work as a performer, educator, producer, and clinician has been recognized worldwide and has appeared in major festivals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Newport Jazz Festival to name a few. Mantilla is also the Director of the Children's Program for the Panama Jazz Festival and the Founder and Artistic Director and Founder of Columbia's Percussion Group TEKEYE.


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8:00 PM, November 7



Ensemble Series: SU Baroque 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.


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8:30 PM, November 7



Rl Grime
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:00 PM, November 7



Suitehearts
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Course
2814 W. Seneca Turnpike, Marcellus

A dinner theater production of Suitehearts, a hilarious comedy. For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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7:00 PM, November 7



The Laramie Project

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

The story of Matthew Shepard, by Moises Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Group.

The play contains mature content.

For more information, phone 315-435-4389.


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8:00 PM, November 7



Lincoln's Blood
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies concerning those most closely associated with the crime. Mary Todd Lincoln (Kate Huddleston) found her manic depression and financial disarray pushing her further from her beloved dress maker Elizabeth Keckley (Karin Franklin-King) and closer to the asylum. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt (Karis Wiggins), entangled in the machinations of assassin John Wilkes Booth (Ryan Santiago), grows increasingly aware of the danger she is in. Ford's Theatre guests Major Henry Rathbone (Darian Sundberg) and his fiance Clara Harris (Maya Dwyer) found their domesticity shattered in the wake of the murder and dogged by years of guilt and madness.

With sumptuous costumes by Debbie Ritchey of CNY Costumes, sound design by Tony Vadala, lighting by Bob Dwyer, stage management by Jeff Riegelman, direction by Garrett Heater, production by Susan Blumer and Michael Penny, this is a world premiere performance.

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8:00 PM, November 7



The Pillowman
LeMoyne College

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

By Martin McDonagh. A viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of murders.


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8:00 PM, November 7



Be Our Guest: Disney Through the Ages
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cast comprised of Rarely Done favorites and newcomers to our stage raises their voices in celebration of the best of the Disney music songbook. Disney has been adding their distinct, much-loved, often-sung music to the American musical canon for years, and with Be Our Guest, Rarely Done shares the very best of Disney with our audiences. Appropriate for the entire family!

Starring Julia Berger, Rachel Boucher, David Cotter, Liam Fitzpatrick, Corey Hopkins, Colin Keating, Cathleen O'Brien Brown, and Jennifer Pearson, this production features musical direction by Abel Searor and musical staging by Jimmy Curtin. This family-friendly show will leave you tapping your toes and humming your favorite classic Disney songs.

Throughout performances of Be Our Guest, we will be accepting donations of cash and new, unwrapped toys in our lobby, in support of our friends at The Salvation Army.

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8:00 PM, November 7



Doubt
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Dan Stevens, director

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

Doubt, A Parable is a riveting story of suspicion and moral uncertainty. Featuring only four characters -- Sister Aloysius, the conservative and skeptical principal of St. Nicholas School; Father Flynn, the sociable priest who may or may not hold a dark secret; the novice teacher Sister James; and Mrs. Muller, the nervous mother of the school's first African-American student -- the drama uncovers a captivating study of the nature of truth.

Though set in 1964 in a Catholic school in the Bronx, the story could not be more fitting or timely. Less about scandal than about these four characters' assumptions, the show raises questions about moral certainty and remains full of empathy for all sides. Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, is a drama the feeling of a good thriller at heart.

Starring Nora O'Dea, Lynn Elizabeth King, Michael Richard King, and Kim Rowe. Tickets available at www.cnyplayhouse.com/doubt.

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8:00 PM, November 7



The Piano Lesson
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.

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