Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

Artist Talk: Ronnie-Leigh Goeman
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Each One, Inspired" exhibiting artist Ronnie-Leigh Goeman (Onondaga) will offer a lunchtime lecture about her artwork on display, as well as show examples of her other basketry work and discuss the various materials including samples of the tree and grass used.

Jazz at the Cavalier: Ronnie Leigh
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse Cavalier Room
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Guest Artist Series: Awadagin Pratt, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Awadagin Pratt will perform works by Philip Glass, Francois Couperin, Peteris Vasks, Fred Hersch, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt.

Livestream

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

Reception:: James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be an exhibit reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, with an artist talk at 6:00 pm.

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

Reception:: 2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Mitros's work combines multiple materials and techniques, using 3D-printed elements, slip-casting, and found objects.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Victoria Schonfeld (1950-2019) was a prominent New York lawyer, collector, and philanthropist whose discerning eye was matched only by the fierceness of devotion to her friends. From the time she began collecting ceramics in the 1990s, Schonfeld developed lasting friendships with the artists who caught her eye. Schonfeld was particularly devoted to championing female artists, including Betty Woodman, Alison Britton, and Carol McNicoll, as well as younger artists like Lauren Mabry and Rain Harris. Her taste encompassed everything from classical beauty to pointedly political works, all linked by her boundless curiosity.

Long before her untimely death, Schonfeld began donating works by artists she admired to museums across the United States, including the Everson Museum of Art. It is with the deepest gratitude that the Everson accepts key works from the Schonfeld collection that will endure as a tribute to her generosity and lasting network of friendships. Mutual Affection marks the debut of the Victoria Schonfeld Collection at the Everson, fleshed out by additional works loaned by her family and friends. Each object in this exhibition stands on its own merit, but also represents a node in Schonfeld's vast network of reciprocal relationships.

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition features a range of works that address a basic human necessity: food and drink. Whether attending a formal meal or a casual picnic, browsing the grocery aisle or grabbing a snack, eating and drinking is a part of our shared humanity. Including paintings, photographs, prints, and ceramics, "From Soup to Nuts" is an eclectic multi-course artistic feast.

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2002, while a resident at the Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts, filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn documented "Free Basin," a sculptural project created by the multidisciplinary art collective Simparch. "Free Basin" was a large elevated, kidney-shaped skate bowl that was fully accessible to skaters in the community to use during gallery hours. Dunn's 15-minute film Licking the Bowl captures the energy of Free Basin using lyrical passages of skaters in motion punctuated with interviews and stark black and white still photographs.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded features 10 contemporary American artists — Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Sanford Biggers, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Rachel B. Hayes, Elana Herzog, Anne Lindberg, Sheila Pepe, and Sarah Zapata — who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within today's digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

Steyerl's work explores late capitalism's social, cultural, and financial imaginaries. Strike is a short, humorous film squarely in the tradition of Fluxus performance and wordplay. The title of the work plays on the double meaning of the word "strike." Most obviously, a strike is a physically violent gesture, in this case against a flatscreen monitor, both a commodity and an object that, when working, "disappears" behind the spectacle it presents. On the other hand, a strike is a strategic refusal to work. The double meaning here short circuits our contemporary split identity as consumer-workers.

Screening begins at dusk.

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Welcome to Hadleyville, the most lawless place in the whole Territory of New Mexico. What makes this place so bad? Why, that would be you, pardner, and all the other low-down snakes that live here. Problem is that Statehood is coming and the Federales are looking to pull this place right out from under you. The undertaker, Ewell Dye, has called a town meeting at the Ramirez Saloon to figure out what to do. Watch your back, buckaroo. Folks are about to get even nastier.

The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

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

Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines).

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Friday, November 5, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Mitros's work combines multiple materials and techniques, using 3D-printed elements, slip-casting, and found objects.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

221 Walton St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit facebook.com/artmartsyracuse.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded features 10 contemporary American artists — Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Sanford Biggers, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Rachel B. Hayes, Elana Herzog, Anne Lindberg, Sheila Pepe, and Sarah Zapata — who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within today's digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2002, while a resident at the Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts, filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn documented "Free Basin," a sculptural project created by the multidisciplinary art collective Simparch. "Free Basin" was a large elevated, kidney-shaped skate bowl that was fully accessible to skaters in the community to use during gallery hours. Dunn's 15-minute film Licking the Bowl captures the energy of Free Basin using lyrical passages of skaters in motion punctuated with interviews and stark black and white still photographs.

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition features a range of works that address a basic human necessity: food and drink. Whether attending a formal meal or a casual picnic, browsing the grocery aisle or grabbing a snack, eating and drinking is a part of our shared humanity. Including paintings, photographs, prints, and ceramics, "From Soup to Nuts" is an eclectic multi-course artistic feast.

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Victoria Schonfeld (1950-2019) was a prominent New York lawyer, collector, and philanthropist whose discerning eye was matched only by the fierceness of devotion to her friends. From the time she began collecting ceramics in the 1990s, Schonfeld developed lasting friendships with the artists who caught her eye. Schonfeld was particularly devoted to championing female artists, including Betty Woodman, Alison Britton, and Carol McNicoll, as well as younger artists like Lauren Mabry and Rain Harris. Her taste encompassed everything from classical beauty to pointedly political works, all linked by her boundless curiosity.

Long before her untimely death, Schonfeld began donating works by artists she admired to museums across the United States, including the Everson Museum of Art. It is with the deepest gratitude that the Everson accepts key works from the Schonfeld collection that will endure as a tribute to her generosity and lasting network of friendships. Mutual Affection marks the debut of the Victoria Schonfeld Collection at the Everson, fleshed out by additional works loaned by her family and friends. Each object in this exhibition stands on its own merit, but also represents a node in Schonfeld's vast network of reciprocal relationships.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

Manlius Historical Society Fine Art and Craft Show

Price: $5
Manlius Village Center
1 Arkie Albanese Ave., Manlius

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

Steyerl's work explores late capitalism's social, cultural, and financial imaginaries. Strike is a short, humorous film squarely in the tradition of Fluxus performance and wordplay. The title of the work plays on the double meaning of the word "strike." Most obviously, a strike is a physically violent gesture, in this case against a flatscreen monitor, both a commodity and an object that, when working, "disappears" behind the spectacle it presents. On the other hand, a strike is a strategic refusal to work. The double meaning here short circuits our contemporary split identity as consumer-workers.

Screening begins at dusk.

Live at Jazz Central: Ricky Ford Quartet
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Acoustic Guitar Project
Folkus Project

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Once again Folkus will host this special night featuring five notable area songwriters — Lauren Wallace and Taylor Ricks, Corey Paige, William James Nicholson, Zoë Mullan Stout, and Austin MacRae. Each artist will perform his or her original composition (each written on the same guitar, one week after another), plus a few other of their original songs.

Student Recital Series: Madeline Caruso, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

Watch the livestream.

Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and other honors. Her award-winning books include The New Nudity; Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Rilke Prize; The Frame Called Ruin, Editor's Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Hadara is currently Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Zoom registration

Rockin' the Redhouse Benefit Concert
Redhouse

Price: $10 online, $15 at the door
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Rockin' the Redhouse is a battle of corporate bands. Fellow employees and friends have a great time cheering on their bands and audience participation is part of the judging criteria. This event is a great employee morale building event where the "garage bands" get to play on the big stage at the Landmark Theater. Each band has 12-15 minutes of stage time. This year, eight bands will entertain over 1,000 audience members and fans raising over to support Redhouse programming.

I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10-$30
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A modern farce, by Paul Rudnick, about a TV star, Andrew Rally, who has been cast to play Hamlet in NYC's Shakespeare-in-the-Park but doesn't want to do it. Upon uttering, "I Hate Hamlet," he is visited by the ghost of John Barrymore whose sole mission is to get him to play Hamlet. Hilarity ensues as we meet Andrew's real estate agent, two theatrical agents competing for Andrew, Andrew's girlfriend and Barrymore's former lover as they push and pull Andrew in many directions simultaneously.

Tickets.

The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

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

Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines).

Tickets

Read a review!

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

David MacDonald Bowl Sale
ArtRage Gallery

ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

David MacDonald, an internationally renowned artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the
Studio Museum in Harlem, Montclair Art Museum, and the Everson Museum of Art, has donated 100 handcrafted and signed bowls to be sold for the benefit of ArtRage Gallery.

This is a one-day-only in-person sale. All bowls are priced at $50.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition features a range of works that address a basic human necessity: food and drink. Whether attending a formal meal or a casual picnic, browsing the grocery aisle or grabbing a snack, eating and drinking is a part of our shared humanity. Including paintings, photographs, prints, and ceramics, "From Soup to Nuts" is an eclectic multi-course artistic feast.

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2002, while a resident at the Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts, filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn documented "Free Basin," a sculptural project created by the multidisciplinary art collective Simparch. "Free Basin" was a large elevated, kidney-shaped skate bowl that was fully accessible to skaters in the community to use during gallery hours. Dunn's 15-minute film Licking the Bowl captures the energy of Free Basin using lyrical passages of skaters in motion punctuated with interviews and stark black and white still photographs.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded features 10 contemporary American artists — Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Sanford Biggers, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Rachel B. Hayes, Elana Herzog, Anne Lindberg, Sheila Pepe, and Sarah Zapata — who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within today's digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Victoria Schonfeld (1950-2019) was a prominent New York lawyer, collector, and philanthropist whose discerning eye was matched only by the fierceness of devotion to her friends. From the time she began collecting ceramics in the 1990s, Schonfeld developed lasting friendships with the artists who caught her eye. Schonfeld was particularly devoted to championing female artists, including Betty Woodman, Alison Britton, and Carol McNicoll, as well as younger artists like Lauren Mabry and Rain Harris. Her taste encompassed everything from classical beauty to pointedly political works, all linked by her boundless curiosity.

Long before her untimely death, Schonfeld began donating works by artists she admired to museums across the United States, including the Everson Museum of Art. It is with the deepest gratitude that the Everson accepts key works from the Schonfeld collection that will endure as a tribute to her generosity and lasting network of friendships. Mutual Affection marks the debut of the Victoria Schonfeld Collection at the Everson, fleshed out by additional works loaned by her family and friends. Each object in this exhibition stands on its own merit, but also represents a node in Schonfeld's vast network of reciprocal relationships.

Manlius Historical Society Fine Art and Craft Show

Price: $5
Manlius Village Center
1 Arkie Albanese Ave., Manlius

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Mitros's work combines multiple materials and techniques, using 3D-printed elements, slip-casting, and found objects.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

221 Walton St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit facebook.com/artmartsyracuse.

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

Steyerl's work explores late capitalism's social, cultural, and financial imaginaries. Strike is a short, humorous film squarely in the tradition of Fluxus performance and wordplay. The title of the work plays on the double meaning of the word "strike." Most obviously, a strike is a physically violent gesture, in this case against a flatscreen monitor, both a commodity and an object that, when working, "disappears" behind the spectacle it presents. On the other hand, a strike is a strategic refusal to work. The double meaning here short circuits our contemporary split identity as consumer-workers.

Screening begins at dusk.

Student Recital Series: Mark Olesh, clarinet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

Watch the livestream.

Student Recital Series: Ronald Ditchek and Amanda Becker, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

Watch the livestream.

Colin & Max
The 443 Social Club

Price: $5 cover
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Max Eyle and Colin Aberdeen draw on the great wealth of early American roots music, with a blend of material that ranges from country blues and jazz to R&B and soul.

Colin Aberdeen is a multiple SAMMY award-winning artist who has toured nationally and recorded with Grammy award-winning musicians. The two have been entertaining audiences for years, drawing on their experience and friendship to create warm and engaging performances.

This show will be held outside on the patio, weather permitting.

Attendees must show proof of vaccination at the door upon arrival.

(In-person concert SOLD OUT) Masterworks Series: In the New World
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Rubén Rengel, violin

Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Hailstork An American Fanfare
Korngold Concerto for Violin in D major, op. 35
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95, B. 178

Buy tickets for in-person or livestream concert.

Fabolous Live in Concert
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The New York fashion and music icon is making his presence felt in Syracuse, with an unforgettable performance to come. Fabolous has been at the top of the music industry for over a decade with hits such as "Into You," "Make Me Better," "Throw It In The Bag," and many more Top 10 Billboard Singles.

Tickets

The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

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

Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines).

Tickets

Read a review!

I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10-$30
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A modern farce, by Paul Rudnick, about a TV star, Andrew Rally, who has been cast to play Hamlet in NYC's Shakespeare-in-the-Park but doesn't want to do it. Upon uttering, "I Hate Hamlet," he is visited by the ghost of John Barrymore whose sole mission is to get him to play Hamlet. Hilarity ensues as we meet Andrew's real estate agent, two theatrical agents competing for Andrew, Andrew's girlfriend and Barrymore's former lover as they push and pull Andrew in many directions simultaneously.

Tickets.

Chelsea Handler: Vaccinated & Horny Tour
The Oncenter

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

Chelsea Handler is a comedian, television host, best-selling author and advocate whose humor and candor have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in entertainment and pop culture.

After a strong seven-year run as the host of E!'s top-rated Chelsea Lately, a tenure in which Handler was the only female late-night talk show host on-air, she then launched her documentary series Chelsea Does followed by her talk show Chelsea on Netflix in 2016. She has penned six best-selling books, five of which have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, including 2019's Life Will Be the Death of Me. Most recently, she released her first stand-up special in over 6 years, the critically acclaimed Chelsea Handler: Evolution on HBO Max, and launched her iHeart Radio advice podcast, Dear Chelsea.

Handler has been honored by TIME magazine as one of its annual "TIME 100;" Glamour Magazine as one of their Women of the Year; and the Human Rights Campaign, which gave her its Ally for Equality Award. Handler's wide appeal and multi-platform success have been highlighted by publications all over the world.

Tickets

The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

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

Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines).

Tickets

Read a review!

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Mitros's work combines multiple materials and techniques, using 3D-printed elements, slip-casting, and found objects.

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Victoria Schonfeld (1950-2019) was a prominent New York lawyer, collector, and philanthropist whose discerning eye was matched only by the fierceness of devotion to her friends. From the time she began collecting ceramics in the 1990s, Schonfeld developed lasting friendships with the artists who caught her eye. Schonfeld was particularly devoted to championing female artists, including Betty Woodman, Alison Britton, and Carol McNicoll, as well as younger artists like Lauren Mabry and Rain Harris. Her taste encompassed everything from classical beauty to pointedly political works, all linked by her boundless curiosity.

Long before her untimely death, Schonfeld began donating works by artists she admired to museums across the United States, including the Everson Museum of Art. It is with the deepest gratitude that the Everson accepts key works from the Schonfeld collection that will endure as a tribute to her generosity and lasting network of friendships. Mutual Affection marks the debut of the Victoria Schonfeld Collection at the Everson, fleshed out by additional works loaned by her family and friends. Each object in this exhibition stands on its own merit, but also represents a node in Schonfeld's vast network of reciprocal relationships.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded features 10 contemporary American artists — Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Sanford Biggers, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Rachel B. Hayes, Elana Herzog, Anne Lindberg, Sheila Pepe, and Sarah Zapata — who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within today's digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2002, while a resident at the Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts, filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn documented "Free Basin," a sculptural project created by the multidisciplinary art collective Simparch. "Free Basin" was a large elevated, kidney-shaped skate bowl that was fully accessible to skaters in the community to use during gallery hours. Dunn's 15-minute film Licking the Bowl captures the energy of Free Basin using lyrical passages of skaters in motion punctuated with interviews and stark black and white still photographs.

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition features a range of works that address a basic human necessity: food and drink. Whether attending a formal meal or a casual picnic, browsing the grocery aisle or grabbing a snack, eating and drinking is a part of our shared humanity. Including paintings, photographs, prints, and ceramics, "From Soup to Nuts" is an eclectic multi-course artistic feast.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

Masterworks Series: In the New World
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Rubén Rengel, violin

Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Hailstork An American Fanfare
Korngold Concerto for Violin in D major, op. 35
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95, B. 178

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Piano Recital
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Price: Free
OCC Recital Hall
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Mozart Rondo in A minor, K. 511
Mozart Sonata for two pianos in D major, K. 448, with Katharine Ciarelli
Chopin Nocturne in E major, op. 62, no. 2
Chopin Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58

Musicians’ Choice Pops Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Andrea Schiebel, xylophone

New Life CNY
4617 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Copland Fanfare fo the Common Man
Suppé Light Cavalry Overture
Mendelssohn Nocture from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Green/Lawitts Spanish Waltz
Green/Lawitts Log Cabin Blues
Kondo/Soto The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Medley
Lloyd Webber/Custer Phantom of the Opera
Aaron Copland Corral Nocturne and Hoedown

Note: Masks required for all attendees, regardless of vaccination status.

I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10-$30
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A modern farce, by Paul Rudnick, about a TV star, Andrew Rally, who has been cast to play Hamlet in NYC's Shakespeare-in-the-Park but doesn't want to do it. Upon uttering, "I Hate Hamlet," he is visited by the ghost of John Barrymore whose sole mission is to get him to play Hamlet. Hilarity ensues as we meet Andrew's real estate agent, two theatrical agents competing for Andrew, Andrew's girlfriend and Barrymore's former lover as they push and pull Andrew in many directions simultaneously.

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Monday, November 8, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

221 Walton St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit facebook.com/artmartsyracuse.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

The Fighting 69th (1940)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, William Lundigan, Jeffrey Lynn, Dick Foran, Dennis Morgan
Director: William Keighley

In honor of Veterans Day we present this Warner Brothers drama about the famed regiment during WWI. Great cast, excellent performances and exciting battle action make this a classic tribute to the U.S. military.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Art Exhibit: Master Printmaking by the Asociacion de Gradadores de Cuba
LeMoyne College

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

The Asociacion de Grabadores de Cuba (Association of Recorders of Cuba or AGC) was a collective of printmakers residing in Havana. These works of art were created between 1949 to 1968 (pre, during, and post Cuban Revolution) as a means to share cultural, political, social, spiritual, and artistic perspectives both domestically and internationally. This exhibition examines various printmaking techniques. This art show is the first exhibition of this many works of these 16 artists of the AGC in the United States to date.

Masks are required.

Visitor parking available in Lot EE, Salt Springs Road. Handicapped parking available in Lot C, Springfield Road.

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Black and white photography of "Little Odessa", Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Willson Cummer: Series of black and white photography based on the pandemic notion of 6-foot distancing
Michael Hughes: Elegant black or white porcelain vessels
Sam Graceffo: Uniquely handcrafted sterling silver jewelry

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Syracuse Urban Sketchers, a group of local artists who sketch the beautiful and varied landscapes of Central New York, will be showcasing a number of their Erie Canal inspired images.

2021 Light Work Grants: Carla Liesching, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Paul Pearce
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 47th annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2021 recipients are Carla Liesching (Ithaca), Jessica Magallanes Martinez (Syracuse), and Paul Pearce (Mattydale). Nidaa Aboulhosn (Ithaca) and Zaire Knight (Syracuse) each received Honorable Mention recognitions.

The Light Work Grants in Photography provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse, New York. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

This year's judges were Ryan Arthurs (visual artist, co-founder of Rivalry Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Buffalo), Ashlyn Davis (writer, editor, and the former executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography, chief editor of spot magazine, and co-founder of Assembly), Courtney Reid-Eaton (creative director for the Documentary Diversity Project at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies).

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents "Object Lessons" by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work together and seems to stubbornly insist on resurfacing.

Whatever is discarded, broken, and damaged draws Henkel to it. The objects he collects, assembles, or deconstructs are humble, common, and often no more than the scale of the human hand. Both the patina of wear and the handling that was often the source of the object's destruction are clearly present. He presents pieces of ceramic pots, bowls, bricks, toys, combs, and well-worn books in their broken fragments. Completely useless now, they remain a testimony to someone's life. This is what Henkel elevates by photographing these found objects so directly. Tension abounds in his work between the humble and the monumental, between play and decay, between high and low. The artist cross-references grander ideas from art history, painting, and sculpture, while also pointing back to the simpler but profound experience of photographing an ordinary life.

Each One, Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Composed of over 52 contemporary artworks by Haudenosaunee artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York, this exhibit takes a closer look at the multiple sources of inspiration in contemporary Haudenosaunee art including: treaties, the natural world, community and family members, ancestors, oral histories, and connection to land. Collectively, the artworks in this exhibit break convention by challenging the expected, disrupting stereotypes and non-Haudenosaunee historical narratives.

Richard Koppe: American Painting and the New Bauhaus
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An instrumental member of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, Richard Koppe's artwork demonstrates complex compositions of structured lines, geometry, and color. This exhibition draws from the museum's large collection of Koppe artwork to explore his unique approach to line, plane, color and form in the evolution of his paintings.

Collection Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include many never-before-seen works of art and new acquisitions. In place of a traditional chronological organization, this new installation places artworks from across the globe and time in conversation with one another.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

221 Walton St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit facebook.com/artmartsyracuse.

Noli Me Tangere: Works by Kelvin Burzon
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Noli Me Tangere, "touch me not" or "don't tread on me," (Latin) is a series of photographs that examines an internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. The photographs address, but don't aim to solve, the contentions between religion and homosexuality. Utilizing appropriated religious imagery and language, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists posing as Catholic deities. Themes, lighting and color treatment are adopted from the works of Renaissance Artists. The photographs are then presented as polyptychs in mimicry of Catholic altar-pieces.

Yaa Gyasi
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, Yaa Gyasi is the author of the highly acclaimed novel Homegoing and a recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel. Gyasi's stunning follow-up novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about salvation, family progress and the immigrant experience. Transcendent Kingdom was an instant New York Times bestseller.