Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Civic Morning Musicals
Timothy Schmidt; guitar, Selma Moore, flute

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

Music of Robert Beaser and others.

OCC/SU Concert Collaborative Music Project
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Raymond Carver Reading Series
Featuring Cheryl Strayed, fiction author

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

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Artists Open
CNY Arts

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

Within the Everson's Sculpture Court, a bistro-like setting is created for Artists Open. Local artists share their talents with audience members, followed by discussion and a time for questions. Museum galleries remain open for viewing. This event features visual and video artist Matt Zell, fiber artist Mary Kester, and ceramist Lauren Richie.

Brother Outsider - The Life of Bayard Rustin
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

African Cinematic Film Festival
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Filmmaker and Scholar Manthia Diawara

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

Brother Outsider - The Life of Bayard Rustin
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

Reflections on the Fate of Human Rights
LeMoyne College
Featuring Lavonne Mueller, playwright/poet

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Mueller will read sections from her plays Hotel Splendid, The Mothers (about the mothers of the disappeared in Argentina), and Letters to a Daughter from Prison (about the father-daughter relationship of Nehru and Indira Gandhi in India). She will also speak about the role of human rights in the future. Mueller, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was awarded the Roger Stevens Playwriting Award which she received at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has received a Guggenheim grant, a Rockefeller grant, three National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Fulbright to Argentina, an Asian Culture Council grant to Calcutta, and a U.S. Friendship grant to Japan. Her plays have been published by Dramatist Play Service, Samuel French, Applause Books, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Communication Group, Heinemann Books and Baker's Plays. Her textbook, Creative Writing, published by Doubleday and The National Textbook Company, is used by students around the world. She has taught at Columbia University for five years.

Flutessence

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

A group of six talented high school flutists, led by retired SSO principal flutist John Oberbrunner, perform works ranging from classical to Broadway.

For more information, phone 315-435-3636.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/thriller.

Voices from the Storm Clouds
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

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

A series of short plays and monologues written by visiting playwright and poet Lavonne Mueller that focus on the period between World War II and the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Towers. The scenes are primarily based on eyewitness accounts and first-hand experiences of events.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

African Cinematic Film Festival
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Filmmaker and Scholar Manthia Diawara

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

Growing up with Books: Young Fanny Seward's Library, Journals and Writing in 19th-Century Auburn, NY
History of the Book Seminar Series
Featuring Deirdre Stam

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

Deirdre Stam is executive director of the New York Center for the Book and an associate professor at the Palmer School of Long Island University. She has also held faculty positions in library science at Catholic University of America, Syracuse University, and Columbia University, as well as administrative positions in libraries and other cultural institutions. She has authored more than 50 articles and presented almost 70 public lectures, conference papers, exhibitions, and workshops.

During her short life (1844-1866), Fanny Seward, daughter of Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward, spent considerable time and energy on her personal book collection, her diaries, and her creative writing. Fanny Seward's reading was, it seems, her dearest pleasure. The evidence of her life with books indicates the growing intellectual maturity of an adolescent girl in New York State during the American Civil War years.

Visitor parking is available in the Marion and Comstock lots.

OCC/SU Concert Collaborative Music Project
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Black History Blues Night
Roosevelt Dean

Price: $10
Campus Activities Building, SUNY Upstate
155 Elizabeth Blackwell St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-464-5433.

Folkus Project
Kris Delmhorst

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

Alluring, rootsy melodies with the intimacy of the urban songwriter.

Growing up in Brooklyn with one ear permanently glued to the radio, a hopeless love of language, and a four-part-harmony-in-the-car family, Kris Delmhorst was a songwriter waiting to happen. While pursuing a multi-instrumental education, Delmhorst authored notebooks full of poetry and eventually obtained a studio art degree, worked on a remote homestead farm in Maine, hitchhiked around Ireland while learning fiddle from old-timers, worked on a seagoing schooner, and led an outdoor education program for 5th graders on Cape Cod.

Somehow, the combination of these experiences led to the first song in Delmhorst's own voice in her early 20s -- a beginning that has since matured into a body of work reflecting the wide-ranging travels of an inquisitive artist, songs with pavement under their feet, dirt under their fingernails, and sometimes out of sight of land altogether.

Clearly she's hit the mark, having sold 25,000 copies of her first two releases, Appetite and Five Stories, on the foundation of strong performances and word-of-mouth alone. She's toured the States and Europe with Dar Williams, Chris Smither, Catie Curtis, and Mary Gauthier. Along the way she's garnered six Boston Music Award nominations, snagged first prize in the 2001 Telluride Troubadour Songwriter Competition, and secured her place in a stack of DJs' top ten lists from coast to coast.

Between tours, Delmhorst's well-worn suitcase gets unpacked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has planted musical roots in the vibrant Boston music community. This multi-faceted musician thrives on the range of opportunities to recombine and re-inspire  performing and recording as a supporting player on cello, fiddle, and voice, forming bands and side projects, and serving on the production team for two editions of Respond (award-winning compilations working to end domestic violence).

For reservations, email tickets@folkus.org or call 315-440-7444.

LeMoyne College
Soweto Kinch

Price: $12 regular, $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Jazz saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch has set the U.K. on fire with his unique, new blend of rap, hip-hop, and jazz. An Oxford history graduate, Soweto brings a social consciousness to both his music and his life. Having started a music program called The Live Box for urban youth in his native Birmingham, England, Mr. Kinch announced his presence on the international music scene with his 2003 debut on Dune Records, Conversations with the Unseen. Please join the Soweto Kinch Quartet in their U.S. tour celebrating Kinch's second Dune release, Jazz Planet.

For more information and reservations, phone 315-445-4523.

Bruce Smith, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Voices from the Storm Clouds
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

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

A series of short plays and monologues written by visiting playwright and poet Lavonne Mueller that focus on the period between World War II and the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Towers. The scenes are primarily based on eyewitness accounts and first-hand experiences of events.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

African Cinematic Film Festival
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Filmmaker and Scholar Manthia Diawara

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

Breakfast Serials with Dick Tracy Dilemma
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $3.50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

B-Monster Movie Matinee with Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Alternative Movies and Events

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

Midnight Screams with Black Belt Jones
Alternative Movies and Events

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

February is Black History Month, and The B-Movie Film Festival thought it would only be appropriate if it showcased one of the finest 70's Blacksploitation movies ever made. Jim Kelly ("Enter the Dragon") stars in this cult classic about a talented martial arts expert who saves a Los Angeles self-defense academy from a gang of violent mobsters. StompTokyo.com declares "Black Belt Jones is the greatest action film ever made."

Trickster!
Open Hand Theater
Barefoot Puppets

Price: $9 adults; $6 children (members get $1 off)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

How does a spider beat an elephant in a tug-of-war?? Barefoot Puppets presents a 45-minute performance starring Anansi the Spider in two traditional folktales of Africa. It's a high energy show with fun for all ages!

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

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

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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Voices from the Storm Clouds
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

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

A series of short plays and monologues written by visiting playwright and poet Lavonne Mueller that focus on the period between World War II and the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Towers. The scenes are primarily based on eyewitness accounts and first-hand experiences of events.

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Folkstrings Trio
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Jazz as a Unifying Social Force
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
"In Their Own Words" Cultural Legacy Speaker Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Video interviews with the country's finest jazz musicians, from the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, narrated by Monk Rowe.

Theatre Pipe Organ Pops Concert
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring David Peckham, organ

Price: $15 adults; $2 children, members free
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Talented young Central New York artist David Peckham has brought a fresh sound to listeners for over 20 years. He has played for national and regional conventions of the American Theatre Organ Society, American Guild of Organists, and the Theatre Organ Society of Australia. Peckham has also presented programs in Canada and the United Kingdom. Peckham studied with Dr. David Craighead at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. His concerts always sweep through many musical styles and listeners are sure to hear old and new favorites.

The theatre pipe organ, originally from the BF-RKO Keiths Theatre in downtown Syracuse, is now permanently installed in the Harriet May Mills Art and Home Center, New Times Theater.

Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

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

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

Read a Review!

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Read a Review!

Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Monday, February 20, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Urban Bush Woman

Price: $20 general public; $108 SU faculty/staff; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Brooklyn-based performance ensemble Urban Bush Women will continue its mission of bringing bold, life-affirming dance theater based on women's experiences, African American history, and cultural influences of the African Diaspora. In addition to performing, the company trains artists in dance and community engagement and produces public projects that encourage cultural activity as an inherent part of community life. UBW seeks to validate the individual by nurturing leadership skills and using art as a means of encouraging social responsibility and civic engagement.

UBW has performed extensively throughout New York City and has toured the United States, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. It has been commissioned nationwide. UBW won a 1992 New York Dance and Performance Award, the 1994 Capezio Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and a 1998 Doris Duke Award for New Work from the American Dance Festival.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Student Center Box Office. Paid parking will be available in the Comstock, Marion, Waverly and all other SU pay lots.

For more information, phone the Schine Box Office at 315-443-4517 or visit http://students.syr.edu/pulse.

BLOOM (aka BL,.M)
CNY-Irish American Cultural Institute MacKillop Film Series

Price: $7 regular; free for LeMoyne students, faculty, and staff; free for James Joyce Club members
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A new adaptation of Joyces ULYSSES, with Stephen Rea, 2003.

An Evening of Tribute to August Wilson
Community Folk Art Center

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In collaboration with Sojourner Truth Storyteller Conference.

The Will Rogers Follies
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Larry Gatlin

Price: $25.50-$49.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award winning country singer and author Larry Gatlin portrays famed cowboy-philosopher Will Rogers in the Will Rogers Follies. The life and career of America's favorite son, Will Rogers, comes to the stage in this all-singing, all-dancing, Broadway extravaganza. Winner of six TONY awards including Best Musical and Best Score, The Will Rogers Follies is a dazzling spectacle about America's first international multimedia sensation whose wit and home spun wisdom still ring true today. Set onstage during one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, Will's story comes to life with magnificent sets, luscious costumes and a bevy of beautiful girls. The Will Rogers Follies is an unforgettable show about an unforgettable legend!

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Civic Morning Musicals
Lavender Trio: Beth Carville Evans, flute; Heather Johnsen, clarinet; Judy Marchione, bassoon

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

Music by Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Francaix as well as works by two composers from Central New York: Richard Lloyd and Monk Rowe.

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

The Will Rogers Follies
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Larry Gatlin

Price: $25.50-$49.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award winning country singer and author Larry Gatlin portrays famed cowboy-philosopher Will Rogers in the Will Rogers Follies. The life and career of America's favorite son, Will Rogers, comes to the stage in this all-singing, all-dancing, Broadway extravaganza. Winner of six TONY awards including Best Musical and Best Score, The Will Rogers Follies is a dazzling spectacle about America's first international multimedia sensation whose wit and home spun wisdom still ring true today. Set onstage during one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, Will's story comes to life with magnificent sets, luscious costumes and a bevy of beautiful girls. The Will Rogers Follies is an unforgettable show about an unforgettable legend!

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

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

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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Onondaga Community College
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Join us for a dynamic theatrical performance by Central New York's nationally acclaimed and longest running musical theater group and dramatic theater company.