Th3 Events for Thursday, May 17, 2012

Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009, 100 min, documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger)
Crude concentrates on the dire results of burning fossil fuels; the terrible, frequently unacknowledged costs of extracting oil from the ground.

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Nives Marzocchi is a Tuscan-born artist from Pontremoli, Italy. She has studied painting at the Skylark Studios with Carolyn Berry, and graduated with a degree in sculpture at Syracuse University. Her work reflects her enduring love of her homeland.

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild will present a Group Exhibition. Take this great opportunity to meet the Guild's talented ceramic artists and view their unique and diverse work. A wide range of work will be showcased, and many items will be available for purchase.

Patrons should use the SCG's entrance on the Wyoming St. side of the Delavan Center, where free parking is available.

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

There will be entertainment by organist Bob Carbone from 5:00–6:00 pm and readings by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Sheila Byrnes, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins and special guests from 6:00-8:00 pm.

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.