Friday, September 9, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Über Urban
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Über Urban is youth driven exhibition of street and graffiti inspired artwork that will take place at Company Gallery in One Lincoln Center. The show features innovative street and graffiti inspired artwork by Central New York artists. Über Urban explores and exposes the core of our urban environment. The artists use canvas, wood, and even found objects as a platform through which they express themselves as city dwellers. The show highlights the work of Peter Baldwin, Bore, Camp, Chem One, Benjamin E. Critton, Dan Dippel, Dr. Jules, LaVigne, and Sosa.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arthur Brangman: landscapes and still lifes
Karen Burns: natural forms, paintings
Frank Calidonna: gravestone and statuary pPhotography
Andrea Hall: cemetery photography
Cathy Wilkinson: paintings in acrylic and oil

Sandip Burman in Concert
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

World-renown tabla player Sandip Burman combines classical Indian tabla with jazz fusion, vocals, guitar, strings and woodwinds.

The Magic of Broadway
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $25
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An evening of magical moments with ballads, barbershop and bravura singing from great Broadway shows like Pippin, Street Scene, 1776, Candide, The Fantastiks, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Phantom of the Opera, Titanic and more.

Hosted by Richard McKee, Artistic Director of Syracuse Opera, and featuring Bill Black, Carol Brzozowski, Susan Crocker, Phil Eisenman, Jon English, Rod Etzel, Jerry Exline, Esa Jaffee, Lisa Kisselstein, Mark Lawrence, Kelly McDonald, Pam McLaughlin, Ken Pease, Tessa Romano, Gayle Ross, Julianna Sabol, Calli Seigart, Steven Seigart, John Spradling, Colby Thomas, Ida Trebicka, and Steve Zumchak.

A portion of the ticket price is a tax deductible donation to CMM's Annual Fund underwriting over 60 concerts, master classes, competitions for young artists, awards, and more.

Redhouse
Eye Level

Price: $20; advance sale $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This concert by Syracuse's premiere contemporary jazz group will showcase material featured on the band's CD, In Focus. Eye Level is the sum of Mark Copani on guitar, Ron France as bassist, Jimmy Johns on drums, John Rohde on sax, and Andy Rudy at keyboards. The combined history of these noted musicians is a Who's Who of both local jazz standouts and national icons of the music industry. Collectively, the talent that is Eye Level has toured and/or recorded with Doc Severinson, Cedar Walton, Cabo Frio, Benny Mardones, Nancy Kelly and more. They have been the backbones of many of the best-loved bands of Central New York since the 70s, including Atlas, Ronnie Leigh and Alliance, Mr. Gone, Blue Food, Heitzman and Savoca, and Out of the Blue, to name a few.

Carla Bianco In Concert
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $16
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Carla Bianco starred on Broadway as Maureen in Rent. She starred Off-Broadway in Tick, Tick ... Boom! She's the creator of Kaleidoscope and she is singing her favorite tunes from the stage with an amazing live band. One weekend only!

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

David lost his wife in a boating accident, but he still talks to her and his family is worried about him. So now, on Gillian's 37th birthday, David's sister and daughter band together to bring a new woman into his life, to help him leave the past behind. The show deals with how people cope with the loss of a loved one. Each of the characters work toward helping David cope with that loss and realize that there are people who love him, care about him, and need him to be there for them.

Read a Review!

Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Says Jason Robert Brown, the author of this gripping modern musical revue, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." The Tony Award winning author (Parade, The Last Five Years) chronicles the wonder, excitement, and sometimes despair associated with discovery.

The cast features Dana Sovocool, Lilli Melnikow, Josh Mele, and Dani Gottuso.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arthur Brangman: landscapes and still lifes
Karen Burns: natural forms, paintings
Frank Calidonna: gravestone and statuary pPhotography
Andrea Hall: cemetery photography
Cathy Wilkinson: paintings in acrylic and oil

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Über Urban
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Über Urban is youth driven exhibition of street and graffiti inspired artwork that will take place at Company Gallery in One Lincoln Center. The show features innovative street and graffiti inspired artwork by Central New York artists. Über Urban explores and exposes the core of our urban environment. The artists use canvas, wood, and even found objects as a platform through which they express themselves as city dwellers. The show highlights the work of Peter Baldwin, Bore, Camp, Chem One, Benjamin E. Critton, Dan Dippel, Dr. Jules, LaVigne, and Sosa.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Remembering the Heroes: A Musical Tribute to the Victims of 9/11

Price: Free-will offering
Andrews Memorial United Methodist Church
106 Church St., North Syracuse

A memorial concert performed by local professional musicians in honor of those whose lives were lost during the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The program will include works by Samuel Barber and Georg Phillip Telemann. A free will offering will be collected for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund. According to their web site, "The Twin Towers Orphan Fund was founded on September 12, 2001 for the sole purpose of providing educational and welfare assistance to the children who were orphaned (who lost one or both parents) by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001."

Refreshments will be served following the concert.

For more information, contact John Harnois at 315-452-5376.

Carla Bianco In Concert
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $16
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Carla Bianco starred on Broadway as Maureen in Rent. She starred Off-Broadway in Tick, Tick ... Boom! She's the creator of Kaleidoscope and she is singing her favorite tunes from the stage with an amazing live band. One weekend only!

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

David lost his wife in a boating accident, but he still talks to her and his family is worried about him. So now, on Gillian's 37th birthday, David's sister and daughter band together to bring a new woman into his life, to help him leave the past behind. The show deals with how people cope with the loss of a loved one. Each of the characters work toward helping David cope with that loss and realize that there are people who love him, care about him, and need him to be there for them.

Read a Review!

Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

Says Jason Robert Brown, the author of this gripping modern musical revue, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." The Tony Award winning author (Parade, The Last Five Years) chronicles the wonder, excitement, and sometimes despair associated with discovery.

The cast features Dana Sovocool, Lilli Melnikow, Josh Mele, and Dani Gottuso.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 11, 2005

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Forms of Memory consists of four recent works -- The Hampton Project, a large scale gallery installation with audio, and three video projections: In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Time; A Woman on a Journey; and Speak to Me, Say Something. Each artwork is thematically engaged with various aspects of memory.

The Hampton Project is Weems' response to photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1899 for Johnston's project, The Hampton Album. Using these vintage images as a starting point, Weems questions Hampton University's role in mainstreaming Native Americans and freed African slaves as well as addressing the larger issue of the need to maintain one's own heritage while becoming a member of a diverse culture through force or free will. It consists of 26 digitally reproduced photographs printed with ink on semi-transparent muslin scrims and canvas. This creates an installation in which visitors move around and between the images; there is also a sound component to the work.

Two video pieces from the series Coming Up for Air (2003-04) will be shown. In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Times is a 15-minute piece referencing Bergman's film classic Cries and Whispers, in which Weems produces a video trilogy that explores the discomfort of love and longing among three embattled sisters. A Woman on a Journey is a 5-minute piece about a woman on a journey back to reclaim herself, who has failed to calculate the true price of the ticket.

The third artwork, Speak to Me, Say Something, (2005), is a 4-minute powerful narrative using singular images of local Syracuse activists that explores the difficult questions of a struggling community situated on the edge. In this work, Weems asks, "What did you know and when did you know it?" in order to further the notion of personal responsibility.

Borders and Memory: Works by Chien-Chi Chang, Chan Chao, Jeeyun Kim, Bari Kumar, and Daniel Lee
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Borders and Memory, a selection of works by artists born in Asia but who now live in the United States, includes artists working in different media, from different countries, at different points in the trajectory of their careers. Each artist deals with borders and memory, although in profoundly different ways as judged by content, imagery, materials, and techniques. Yet within this diversity, there is this common thread: each of these artists, either in obvious or subtle ways, using direct evidence or working through more metaphorical means, examines the continuum where border and memory merge.

We live in a country filled in large part with immigrants and their descendants. This population, whether through choice, necessity, or force, has come to settle and live in a land that for them or their ancestors was not originally theirs. To reach this place they have crossed physical, cultural, and political borders sometimes at enormous risk. We have come to think of this process as intrinsic to the American Dream.

What our country has experienced, however, is part of a larger narrative, as hundreds of millions of people across the globe move, relocate, or travel to destinations that were not the places where they were born. From the executive looking for business or the student seeking an education to the peasant driven from the land by political and religious oppression or lack of economic opportunity, people are on the move.

Whether tourist, traveler, or refugee, crossing borders - political, ethnic, religious, or geographic - has become a way of life.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The award-winning Vive L'Amour, directed by Tsai-Ming-Liang, is a heartbreaking comedy about longing in a fast modern city. The story unfolds in an upscale abandoned apartment in Taipei while three people pass through its empty rooms. Real estate agent May, punky street vendor Ah-Jung, and shy burial plot salesman Shiao-Kang; together they create a funny and riveting portrait of isolation, despair, selfishness and love. (Not Rated; Adult themes and language; Mandarin with English subtitles; 118 minutes.)

Seafood Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Sherwood Inn
26 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An annual tradition of of jazz and seafood on the west lawn.
Information: 315-685-3405.

Master's Touch Chorale

Price: Freewill offering
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1601 Park St., Syracuse

Information: 315-471-1587.

Interactive Indian Music Clinic
LeMoyne College
Featuring Sandip Burman, tabla master

Price: $10 participation fee
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

All audience members will be invited to participate openly in an exploration of Indian rhythms and scales, as well as ways to meld these sounds with the temperament of the Western ear.

Sandip's performances are marked with spontaneous innovation and tonal purity, even when he is delivering complex rhythmic patterns at dazzling speeds. His repertoire is vast, including both commonly and rarely played rhythms. Sandip has toured North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle and Far East, including appearances at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, solo performances at the Kennedy Center and Wolftrap in Washington D.C., the Ravinia Festival and the House of Blues in Chicago, Street Scene (San Diego), First Night Providence, Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Colorado), and the Sterngrove Festival (San Francisco).

Recently Sandip has been collaborating and touring with Bela Fleck. He is one of the guest artists on the Flecktone's new Grammy award-winning album Outbound. He has also had the honor of playing with jazz legends Jack DeJohnette and Al DiMeola and recently completed an all-star tour titled "East Meets Jazz" with Victor Bailey (Weather Report), Randy Brecker (Brecker Brothers), Howard Levy (Flecktones), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), and several others. Always in search of new challenges, Sandip worked with Danny Elfman and contributed to the soundtrack of Tim Burton's film, Mars Attacks.

For additional information, phone 315-445-4523.

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Price: $35, $50, $65
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Presented by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park.

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

David lost his wife in a boating accident, but he still talks to her and his family is worried about him. So now, on Gillian's 37th birthday, David's sister and daughter band together to bring a new woman into his life, to help him leave the past behind. The show deals with how people cope with the loss of a loved one. Each of the characters work toward helping David cope with that loss and realize that there are people who love him, care about him, and need him to be there for them.

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Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

Says Jason Robert Brown, the author of this gripping modern musical revue, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." The Tony Award winning author (Parade, The Last Five Years) chronicles the wonder, excitement, and sometimes despair associated with discovery.

The cast features Dana Sovocool, Lilli Melnikow, Josh Mele, and Dani Gottuso.

Read a Review!

Monday, September 12, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Million Dollar Baby
Beyond Borders: The Illusion of Normalcy in Film

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

An ex-fighter is approached by a young woman who is determined to establish herself as a boxer.

For more information, visit the website at bccc.syr.edu.

Beyond Borders: The Illusion of Normalcy in Film is a semester-long film series sponsored by the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee (BCCC) and the Center on Disability Studies, Law, and Human Policy of Syracuse University. The goal of this year's film series is to challenge the idea of "normal."

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Borders and Memory: Works by Chien-Chi Chang, Chan Chao, Jeeyun Kim, Bari Kumar, and Daniel Lee
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Borders and Memory, a selection of works by artists born in Asia but who now live in the United States, includes artists working in different media, from different countries, at different points in the trajectory of their careers. Each artist deals with borders and memory, although in profoundly different ways as judged by content, imagery, materials, and techniques. Yet within this diversity, there is this common thread: each of these artists, either in obvious or subtle ways, using direct evidence or working through more metaphorical means, examines the continuum where border and memory merge.

We live in a country filled in large part with immigrants and their descendants. This population, whether through choice, necessity, or force, has come to settle and live in a land that for them or their ancestors was not originally theirs. To reach this place they have crossed physical, cultural, and political borders sometimes at enormous risk. We have come to think of this process as intrinsic to the American Dream.

What our country has experienced, however, is part of a larger narrative, as hundreds of millions of people across the globe move, relocate, or travel to destinations that were not the places where they were born. From the executive looking for business or the student seeking an education to the peasant driven from the land by political and religious oppression or lack of economic opportunity, people are on the move.

Whether tourist, traveler, or refugee, crossing borders - political, ethnic, religious, or geographic - has become a way of life.

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Forms of Memory consists of four recent works -- The Hampton Project, a large scale gallery installation with audio, and three video projections: In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Time; A Woman on a Journey; and Speak to Me, Say Something. Each artwork is thematically engaged with various aspects of memory.

The Hampton Project is Weems' response to photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1899 for Johnston's project, The Hampton Album. Using these vintage images as a starting point, Weems questions Hampton University's role in mainstreaming Native Americans and freed African slaves as well as addressing the larger issue of the need to maintain one's own heritage while becoming a member of a diverse culture through force or free will. It consists of 26 digitally reproduced photographs printed with ink on semi-transparent muslin scrims and canvas. This creates an installation in which visitors move around and between the images; there is also a sound component to the work.

Two video pieces from the series Coming Up for Air (2003-04) will be shown. In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Times is a 15-minute piece referencing Bergman's film classic Cries and Whispers, in which Weems produces a video trilogy that explores the discomfort of love and longing among three embattled sisters. A Woman on a Journey is a 5-minute piece about a woman on a journey back to reclaim herself, who has failed to calculate the true price of the ticket.

The third artwork, Speak to Me, Say Something, (2005), is a 4-minute powerful narrative using singular images of local Syracuse activists that explores the difficult questions of a struggling community situated on the edge. In this work, Weems asks, "What did you know and when did you know it?" in order to further the notion of personal responsibility.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The award-winning Vive L'Amour, directed by Tsai-Ming-Liang, is a heartbreaking comedy about longing in a fast modern city. The story unfolds in an upscale abandoned apartment in Taipei while three people pass through its empty rooms. Real estate agent May, punky street vendor Ah-Jung, and shy burial plot salesman Shiao-Kang; together they create a funny and riveting portrait of isolation, despair, selfishness and love. (Not Rated; Adult themes and language; Mandarin with English subtitles; 118 minutes.)

Artist Lecture
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Wendy Ewald

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lecture, book signing and reception in conjunction with the exhibit Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children

For over 30 years, Ewald, a MacArthur fellow, has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained, evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world, working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Mexico and the United States.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all of these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Wendy Ewald, international documentary photographer
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Challenging traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist, Ewald uses creative collaboration to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. A MacArthur Fellow, Ewald encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community and to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. She has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Appalachia, South America, India, Saudi Arabia, Holland, and Mexico.

This appearance is part of Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival celebrating interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. The theme this fall is "borders."

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Forms of Memory consists of four recent works -- The Hampton Project, a large scale gallery installation with audio, and three video projections: In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Time; A Woman on a Journey; and Speak to Me, Say Something. Each artwork is thematically engaged with various aspects of memory.

The Hampton Project is Weems' response to photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1899 for Johnston's project, The Hampton Album. Using these vintage images as a starting point, Weems questions Hampton University's role in mainstreaming Native Americans and freed African slaves as well as addressing the larger issue of the need to maintain one's own heritage while becoming a member of a diverse culture through force or free will. It consists of 26 digitally reproduced photographs printed with ink on semi-transparent muslin scrims and canvas. This creates an installation in which visitors move around and between the images; there is also a sound component to the work.

Two video pieces from the series Coming Up for Air (2003-04) will be shown. In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Times is a 15-minute piece referencing Bergman's film classic Cries and Whispers, in which Weems produces a video trilogy that explores the discomfort of love and longing among three embattled sisters. A Woman on a Journey is a 5-minute piece about a woman on a journey back to reclaim herself, who has failed to calculate the true price of the ticket.

The third artwork, Speak to Me, Say Something, (2005), is a 4-minute powerful narrative using singular images of local Syracuse activists that explores the difficult questions of a struggling community situated on the edge. In this work, Weems asks, "What did you know and when did you know it?" in order to further the notion of personal responsibility.

Borders and Memory: Works by Chien-Chi Chang, Chan Chao, Jeeyun Kim, Bari Kumar, and Daniel Lee
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Borders and Memory, a selection of works by artists born in Asia but who now live in the United States, includes artists working in different media, from different countries, at different points in the trajectory of their careers. Each artist deals with borders and memory, although in profoundly different ways as judged by content, imagery, materials, and techniques. Yet within this diversity, there is this common thread: each of these artists, either in obvious or subtle ways, using direct evidence or working through more metaphorical means, examines the continuum where border and memory merge.

We live in a country filled in large part with immigrants and their descendants. This population, whether through choice, necessity, or force, has come to settle and live in a land that for them or their ancestors was not originally theirs. To reach this place they have crossed physical, cultural, and political borders sometimes at enormous risk. We have come to think of this process as intrinsic to the American Dream.

What our country has experienced, however, is part of a larger narrative, as hundreds of millions of people across the globe move, relocate, or travel to destinations that were not the places where they were born. From the executive looking for business or the student seeking an education to the peasant driven from the land by political and religious oppression or lack of economic opportunity, people are on the move.

Whether tourist, traveler, or refugee, crossing borders - political, ethnic, religious, or geographic - has become a way of life.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Double and Split
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Visual thinker/architect Jana Leo de Blas

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The desire to "make room" and the belief that architecture has an important task as a mediator are Leo's chief reasons for working in architecture. In 2000, she made a place for new relationships by inventing a program with the project name "Communication Lair," a building for egalitarian, undefined, anonymous and unexpected encounters among strangers. In 2004, "Communication Lair" was placed in small scale in a room in Times Square, as the foundation of her project SITUATION. In SITUATION, the space as well as the interaction is constructed within the framework of "Public Intimacy." Her aim is to create another world on a small scale. According to Leo, "A new world is nothing else but a new way to relate to people."

In 1995, Private Cabin and At Home, Leos installations addressing the architecture of pleasure, marked the beginning of a concentrated exploration of everyday life and the attraction for other worlds. She is currently developing a series of experiments dealing with the construction of "mental space" and the creation of a place. She creates the space and situation for unusual communications between strangers to take place. Strange familiarity and public intimacy are main concepts in her dialog.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Brushwork Prayers for Peace: A Zen Calligraphy Demonstration
CNY Arts
Featuring Kazuaki Tanahashi

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

Zen scholar and master brush artist Kazuaki Tanahashi, will conduct a lunch hour Zen calligraphy demonstration. Trained in Japan as a painter and calligrapher, Tanahashi has been active in the United States since 1977. His calligraphies and paintings are in public collections throughout the world. The author of more than 25 books about Zen and art, Tanahashi is also a worker for peace and environmental change who travels internationally to speak, create art, and conduct brush workshops and retreats.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Borders and Memory: Works by Chien-Chi Chang, Chan Chao, Jeeyun Kim, Bari Kumar, and Daniel Lee
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Borders and Memory, a selection of works by artists born in Asia but who now live in the United States, includes artists working in different media, from different countries, at different points in the trajectory of their careers. Each artist deals with borders and memory, although in profoundly different ways as judged by content, imagery, materials, and techniques. Yet within this diversity, there is this common thread: each of these artists, either in obvious or subtle ways, using direct evidence or working through more metaphorical means, examines the continuum where border and memory merge.

We live in a country filled in large part with immigrants and their descendants. This population, whether through choice, necessity, or force, has come to settle and live in a land that for them or their ancestors was not originally theirs. To reach this place they have crossed physical, cultural, and political borders sometimes at enormous risk. We have come to think of this process as intrinsic to the American Dream.

What our country has experienced, however, is part of a larger narrative, as hundreds of millions of people across the globe move, relocate, or travel to destinations that were not the places where they were born. From the executive looking for business or the student seeking an education to the peasant driven from the land by political and religious oppression or lack of economic opportunity, people are on the move.

Whether tourist, traveler, or refugee, crossing borders - political, ethnic, religious, or geographic - has become a way of life.

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Forms of Memory consists of four recent works -- The Hampton Project, a large scale gallery installation with audio, and three video projections: In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Time; A Woman on a Journey; and Speak to Me, Say Something. Each artwork is thematically engaged with various aspects of memory.

The Hampton Project is Weems' response to photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1899 for Johnston's project, The Hampton Album. Using these vintage images as a starting point, Weems questions Hampton University's role in mainstreaming Native Americans and freed African slaves as well as addressing the larger issue of the need to maintain one's own heritage while becoming a member of a diverse culture through force or free will. It consists of 26 digitally reproduced photographs printed with ink on semi-transparent muslin scrims and canvas. This creates an installation in which visitors move around and between the images; there is also a sound component to the work.

Two video pieces from the series Coming Up for Air (2003-04) will be shown. In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Times is a 15-minute piece referencing Bergman's film classic Cries and Whispers, in which Weems produces a video trilogy that explores the discomfort of love and longing among three embattled sisters. A Woman on a Journey is a 5-minute piece about a woman on a journey back to reclaim herself, who has failed to calculate the true price of the ticket.

The third artwork, Speak to Me, Say Something, (2005), is a 4-minute powerful narrative using singular images of local Syracuse activists that explores the difficult questions of a struggling community situated on the edge. In this work, Weems asks, "What did you know and when did you know it?" in order to further the notion of personal responsibility.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arthur Brangman: landscapes and still lifes
Karen Burns: natural forms, paintings
Frank Calidonna: gravestone and statuary pPhotography
Andrea Hall: cemetery photography
Cathy Wilkinson: paintings in acrylic and oil

Recent Works by Rachel Harms
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

This exhibition features both small and very large-scale paintings with images between the recognizable and the abstract, the visible and the invisible. Harms says this about her work: "I am interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. I make paintings at a large scale to push and challenge my own physical process in making the work. Scale, gesture, and volume of color all reflect a vision that feels and speaks."

Rachel is a London born artist, residing in Skaneateles, NY. She received her MFA from the Chelsea School of Art in London, and her BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC. She has exhibited widely both abroad and locally. The exhibit runs through Oct. 8, and gallery hours are by appointment, contact: 315-382-3072.

Dancing on Mother Earth
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This behind-the-scenes look at Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah gives a forum for her views on music, womanhood, her ancestry and her activism.

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

Dancing on Mother Earth
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

There will be a discussion with Shenandoah and filmmaker Tula Goenka following the screening.

This behind-the-scenes look at Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah gives a forum for her views on music, womanhood, her ancestry and her activism.

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

Where the Earth Opened: What Hope Allen Learned in 1925 about Oneida Folklore
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring Oneida Nation Historian Anthony Wonderley

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

Oneida Nation Historian Anthony Wonderley will give an illustrated lecture titled "Where the Earth Opened: What Hope Allen Learned in 1925 about Oneida Folklore." Hope Allen was a non-Indian scholar whose early-20th-century journals reside in the Library's Special Collections Research Center.

Since 1994 Anthony Wonderley has been Nation Historian of the Oneida Indian Nation. His work centers on tribal historic preservation and repatriation efforts, as well as research into the Oneida past. He is the author of Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History (SU Press 2004). He has also published articles on Iroquois archaeology, history, and myth in such journals as American Antiquity, Northeast Anthropology, and New York History. Wonderley holds a doctorate in anthropology from Cornell University.

Parking is available in the Marion Lot on Waverly Avenue.

Harmonic Meditation

Price: Free-donations appreciated
Grace Court Professional Building
4583 North St., Jamesville

Tuvan throat singing with singing bowls.
Information: 315-473-9889.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Friday, September 16, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Donal and Shel Little

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio display their most recent work, as well as some favorites at Hazard Branch Library beginning Friday September 2nd. Their art is created through a merging of photo-imagery and electronic design, which includes computer drawing, painting and sometimes text. Compositions are conceived primarily from representations of botanicals, landscapes or people and melded into highly original pigment prints. For more information, phone 315-484-1528.

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by LOT-EK, a design firm based in New York City. LOT-EK blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and information. The studio re-thinks the ways in which the human body interacts with products and by-products of industrial and technological culture and through this, reinvents domestic/work/play spaces and their conventional configurations.

One example, the CHK (Container Home Kit) display, combines multiple shipping containers to build modern, intelligent and affordable homes. Forty-foot-long shipping containers are joined and stacked to create configurations that vary in size, from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, and can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

Local artist Mick Mather brings his series of digitally altered State Fair photographs to the Westcott Community Art Gallery. Mather's photo series captures the mad joy of the New York State Fair and takes the viewer through a funhouse of familiar images seen through different eyes. By digitally changing the images in his photographs, Mather shows the viewer a different way to look at the people, places and animals at the fair. The series of 18 photos captures the essence of the New York State Fair and those who love it.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Forms of Memory consists of four recent works -- The Hampton Project, a large scale gallery installation with audio, and three video projections: In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Time; A Woman on a Journey; and Speak to Me, Say Something. Each artwork is thematically engaged with various aspects of memory.

The Hampton Project is Weems' response to photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1899 for Johnston's project, The Hampton Album. Using these vintage images as a starting point, Weems questions Hampton University's role in mainstreaming Native Americans and freed African slaves as well as addressing the larger issue of the need to maintain one's own heritage while becoming a member of a diverse culture through force or free will. It consists of 26 digitally reproduced photographs printed with ink on semi-transparent muslin scrims and canvas. This creates an installation in which visitors move around and between the images; there is also a sound component to the work.

Two video pieces from the series Coming Up for Air (2003-04) will be shown. In Love, In Trouble, and Out of Times is a 15-minute piece referencing Bergman's film classic Cries and Whispers, in which Weems produces a video trilogy that explores the discomfort of love and longing among three embattled sisters. A Woman on a Journey is a 5-minute piece about a woman on a journey back to reclaim herself, who has failed to calculate the true price of the ticket.

The third artwork, Speak to Me, Say Something, (2005), is a 4-minute powerful narrative using singular images of local Syracuse activists that explores the difficult questions of a struggling community situated on the edge. In this work, Weems asks, "What did you know and when did you know it?" in order to further the notion of personal responsibility.

Borders and Memory: Works by Chien-Chi Chang, Chan Chao, Jeeyun Kim, Bari Kumar, and Daniel Lee
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Borders and Memory, a selection of works by artists born in Asia but who now live in the United States, includes artists working in different media, from different countries, at different points in the trajectory of their careers. Each artist deals with borders and memory, although in profoundly different ways as judged by content, imagery, materials, and techniques. Yet within this diversity, there is this common thread: each of these artists, either in obvious or subtle ways, using direct evidence or working through more metaphorical means, examines the continuum where border and memory merge.

We live in a country filled in large part with immigrants and their descendants. This population, whether through choice, necessity, or force, has come to settle and live in a land that for them or their ancestors was not originally theirs. To reach this place they have crossed physical, cultural, and political borders sometimes at enormous risk. We have come to think of this process as intrinsic to the American Dream.

What our country has experienced, however, is part of a larger narrative, as hundreds of millions of people across the globe move, relocate, or travel to destinations that were not the places where they were born. From the executive looking for business or the student seeking an education to the peasant driven from the land by political and religious oppression or lack of economic opportunity, people are on the move.

Whether tourist, traveler, or refugee, crossing borders - political, ethnic, religious, or geographic - has become a way of life.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arthur Brangman: landscapes and still lifes
Karen Burns: natural forms, paintings
Frank Calidonna: gravestone and statuary pPhotography
Andrea Hall: cemetery photography
Cathy Wilkinson: paintings in acrylic and oil

Opening Night Artist Talk
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring John D. Freyer

Price: $10 regular; free for members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The work of interdisciplinary artist John D. Freyer, a Syracuse native, has been featured on PBS, NPR and MTV. He will discuss his first museum exhibition, Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce. Using the Internet, text, photos and objects, Freyer explores the phenomenon of second-hand objects in contemporary culture.

Folkus Project
Jonathan Byrd

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Jonathan Byrd was one of six winners of the 2003 New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, joining the company of folks like Lyle Lovett, Nancy Griffith, and Shawn Colvin, who have all been finalists at the legendary Texas festival.

Jonathan has appeared on television shows, live radio, and nearly 200 live dates per year since beginning a full-time career in January 2000. Sing Out! magazine says Byrd is, "a songwriter of exceptional talent ... with the stark storytelling of the finest traditional balladeers."

The Great Bear Trio
Redhouse

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

The Great Bear Trio, a family act from Fulton, will perform their unique blend of Celtic, French-Canadian, Scandinavian and Appalachian sounds. The three talented musicians behind the Great Bear Trio have been performing at concerts, festivals, schools and dance halls across the Northeast since the spring of 2000. Brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand have already established themselves as respected and well-known musicians. While both are gifted fiddlers, the two teenagers play 14 other instruments as well, including a slide didgeridoo made of duct tape and PVC piping. Their mother Kim accompanies the boys with her own inventive style of piano. The trio is releasing its latest CD, Dancing Again, a mix of fiddle, piano and percussion-based dance tunes.

Gala Opening Night
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, cello

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

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Godfrey Jest
Stravinsky Firebird Suite
Elgar Cello Concerto

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

David lost his wife in a boating accident, but he still talks to her and his family is worried about him. So now, on Gillian's 37th birthday, David's sister and daughter band together to bring a new woman into his life, to help him leave the past behind. The show deals with how people cope with the loss of a loved one. Each of the characters work toward helping David cope with that loss and realize that there are people who love him, care about him, and need him to be there for them.

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Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

Says Jason Robert Brown, the author of this gripping modern musical revue, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." The Tony Award winning author (Parade, The Last Five Years) chronicles the wonder, excitement, and sometimes despair associated with discovery.

The cast features Dana Sovocool, Lilli Melnikow, Josh Mele, and Dani Gottuso.

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