Monday, October 18, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Tall in the Saddle (1944)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, Gabby Hayes, Elisabeth Risdon, Raymond Hatton
Director: Edwin L. Marin

Wayne plays a cowboy who begins a new job on a ranch and is met with several surprises, including a murder, a crooked lawyer (Bond) and a beautiful but feisty wildcat of a woman who owns the neighboring ranch (Raines). One of the Duke's most popular westerns of the 1940s.

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Setnor Ensemble Series: Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Dr. Bradley P. Ethington, conductor

Price: Free
Online

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living in Limbo: Portraits from the Border by Bill McLaughlin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist Bill McLaughlin of New Berlin, NY, traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2019 to photograph the migrants and asylum seekers left stranded at the border. They were stranded due to the January 2019 abrupt change in US immigration policy informally known as "Remain in Mexico" in which asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border were returned to Mexico to wait, often for many months, for their immigration proceedings.

Working with the non-profit organization Border Angels, McLaughlin spent several weeks meeting migrants, listening to their stories and asking to take their portraits. His intimate 'retratos con dignidad' — portraits with dignity — document individuals and families who McLaughlin says "have sacrificed everything in an attempt to save their children from brutal gang violence, crushing poverty and the ravages of political corruption."

For those who would prefer viewing this exhibition from home, you can view the Virtual Exhibition.

Jazz at the Cavalier: Marianne Solivan
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats
The Oncenter

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alton Brown is hitting the road with a new culinary variety show. Audiences can expect more comedy, more music, more highly unusual cooking demos, and more potentially dangerous sciencey stuff. Prepare for an evening unlike any other and if Brown calls for volunteers ... think twice.

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Living in Limbo: Portraits from the Border by Bill McLaughlin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist Bill McLaughlin of New Berlin, NY, traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2019 to photograph the migrants and asylum seekers left stranded at the border. They were stranded due to the January 2019 abrupt change in US immigration policy informally known as "Remain in Mexico" in which asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border were returned to Mexico to wait, often for many months, for their immigration proceedings.

Working with the non-profit organization Border Angels, McLaughlin spent several weeks meeting migrants, listening to their stories and asking to take their portraits. His intimate 'retratos con dignidad' — portraits with dignity — document individuals and families who McLaughlin says "have sacrificed everything in an attempt to save their children from brutal gang violence, crushing poverty and the ravages of political corruption."

For those who would prefer viewing this exhibition from home, you can view the Virtual Exhibition.

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

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

Screening begins at dusk.

Lunchtime Lecture: Jesse Williams and the Cheese Factory System
Erie Canal Museum
Featuring Patrick Reynolds

Price: $5 general, free for members
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Patrick Reynolds, Director of Public Programs at the Oneida County History Center, will discuss Jesse Williams and the history of modern cheese making that begin in the 19-century Canal Corridor. Williams founded the first cheese factory in America at Highland Mills north of Rome, and was heralded by John H. Kraft of Kraft Foods to have, "exemplified the spirit which has made the dairy industry the largest agricultural industry in America."

Patrick is graduate of the Cooperstown Program in Museum Studies. He has worked in museums throughout the United States including: Hanford Mills Museum, Berks County Historical Society, Rome Historical Society, and The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

This event is hybrid, so you can choose to join in-person at the Museum or virtually via Zoom.

Register here.

Noli Me Tangere Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free (in person and streaming)
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Point of Contact will host an artist talk with Kelvin Burzon starting at 6:00 pm, followed by a panel discussion with Jorge Castillo of the LGBT Resource Center; Reverend Fred Daley, pastor of All Saints Parish; and Juan Juarez, artist, educator, and board president of Point of Contact Gallery.

For those attending in person, parking will be available on the night of the reception in the Syracuse University lot on the corner of West and West Fayette street. For those attending virtually, zoom registration here.

Prisms and Antiphons
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring David Fulmer, violin

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

Join the Everson Museum for a thrilling concert of newly commissioned musical works relating to "AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art," curated by celebrated composer, conductor, and violinist David Fulmer. The concerts will feature works for solo violin by Bach, along with four newly commissioned works composed in 2021 by Vasiliki Krimitza, Bahar Royaee, and Alyssa Regent. These works are inspired by, and composed alongside the works in "AbStranded." Fulmer will lead the audience on a physical tour of the Museum, performing each composition in front of a different work of art.

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Friday, October 22, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Living in Limbo: Portraits from the Border by Bill McLaughlin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist Bill McLaughlin of New Berlin, NY, traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2019 to photograph the migrants and asylum seekers left stranded at the border. They were stranded due to the January 2019 abrupt change in US immigration policy informally known as "Remain in Mexico" in which asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border were returned to Mexico to wait, often for many months, for their immigration proceedings.

Working with the non-profit organization Border Angels, McLaughlin spent several weeks meeting migrants, listening to their stories and asking to take their portraits. His intimate 'retratos con dignidad' — portraits with dignity — document individuals and families who McLaughlin says "have sacrificed everything in an attempt to save their children from brutal gang violence, crushing poverty and the ravages of political corruption."

For those who would prefer viewing this exhibition from home, you can view the Virtual Exhibition.

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

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

Screening begins at dusk.

Verona
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Two families on neighboring farms on the border between Brazil and Uruguay. Decades drive these people away. The physical proximity is separated by a fence and the set of prejudices, inexplicable hatred and lack of generosity. In the end of the year, between Christmas and New Year, the families gather on their respective farms. What nobody knows is that a love between two young people is about to break this barrier that is much bigger than the fence that divides the fields. (95 minutes, Brazil)

The Cost of Denial
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

From 1981 to 2021, the world has confronted a terrible scourge that has impacted countless individuals with fear, pain and death. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on our war against AIDS. The medical industry has focused on antiretroviral drugs to combat the HIV virus. All efforts to develop a vaccine have failed.
This is the story of the earliest successful treatment for AIDS. If the mainstream scientific community had paid attention, tens of thousands of lives may have been saved. Ignored and forgotten during the AIDS crisis this is the heroic struggle by a small group of physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals who succeeded in treating 1,200 patients with advanced AIDS. Eighteen of these patients reversed all of their AIDS-related conditions, regained full health and converted to HIV negative. In other words, the HIV virus was no longer present in their bodies. These are the voices revealing the pain, profit and politics of AIDS. (82 minutes, United States)

ZEF and Sky on Mt. Golija
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

ZEF
A man who suffers from a mental disorder continues to train men how to box. (52 minutes, France)

Sky on Mt. Golija
The filmmaker and his family return to Sky, a family-run guesthouse in a picturesque village of Serbia's Mt. Golija. Days of joy, great feasts, nature outings, and bonding with the hosts follow, but this time the stay at Sky has a special emotional significance for the filmmaker... (47 minutes, United States)

Aulcie, with live Q&A with Director Dani Menkin
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Aulcie tells the inspiring story of Aulcie Perry, a basketball legend who led Maccabi Tel Aviv to an upset win in the European Championship. During the summer of 1976, Aulcie Perry was spotted by a scout for Maccabi Tel Aviv while playing at the Rucker courts in Harlem and was quickly signed to play for their fledgling team. The Israeli players immediately responded to Aulcie's leadership and that year they had what one Sports Illustrated writer described as "the most extraordinary season in its remarkable history" and what Perry later called "the best nine months of my life." In 1977, Perry helped the team to its first European Championship, a prize they took four years later again under his leadership. After the season, to the surprise of many, Aulcie Perry converted to Judaism, adopted the Hebrew name Elisha Ben Avraham, and became an Israeli citizen. This inspiring film tells the story of this remarkable athlete who captured the spirit of a nation, triumphant and victorious against all odds, and put Israel on the map. (95 minutes, United States/Israel)

Followed by a live Q&A with Director Dani Menkin.

The People of Standing Stone and Origins, plus an interview with Ray Halbritter
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The People of Standing Stone
Narrated by Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner, and directed by Emmy Award winner Ric Burns, People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War of Independence, and The Making of America explores the little known, yet crucial history of the extraordinary contributions of one Native American people—the Oneidas—who during the darkest hours of the Revolutionary War became the only member of the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy to side with rebelling colonists. This powerful and sweeping film, is a moving and unique cinematic experience that sheds light on an American story that has gone shamefully overlooked in the annals of American history.

A Candid Interview with Ray Halbritter
Ray Halbritter is the Representative of the Oneida Indian Nation and the Chief Executive Officer of its enterprises, leading the Oneida people to an economic and cultural renaissance that has been hailed as a national model of success.

Origins by Jeffrey Palmer
Through digital filmmaking, Origins represents a grandfather's and grandson's perspectives of Kiowa (Native American) history and storytelling, which together form a visual document tracing the director's ancestral beginnings. These perspectives range from oral narratives and historical analyses, to the director's personal memoirs of growing up on Kiowa allotment land in southwestern Oklahoma. These generational voices lead the audience through the expansive landscape of "Kiowa Country," surveying the origins, homelands, and ceremonial sites of Kiowa existence and identity.

A Matter of Perspective
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Matter of Perspective
The lives of 10 people are crossing. In their encounters unexpected things come to light that shatter the protagonists' self-image and therefore their concept of their own life. Filmed out of the point of view of the acting characters, A Matter of Perspective is an episodic film about human existence between the polarity of our freedom and the responsibilities of life. (85 minutes, Austria)

Directed By, with Q&A with Director Steve Race
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The 72nd Academy Awards telecast aired on March 26th, 2000 live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Over 46 million viewers tuned in, and it currently stands as the highest rated Academy Awards telecast of the 21st Century. Critically acclaimed and technologically advanced, it was produced by the late Richard Zanuck and his wife Lili Fini Zanuck, and hosted by Billy Crystal. The press wrote: "It was clean, snappy, high- gloss, and very well produced. And this year Billy didn't have to save the show!" The live telecast was directed by Louis J. Horvitz, who is one of the most prolific live television director's in Hollywood.
Over the course of 4 days, the director's assistants Steve Race and Micah Kwamina were granted unprecedented access to the behind the scenes action. Armed with only a GL1 Cannon Digital Video Camera, no sound equipment, and not even a tripod, they captured what goes into to making the biggest show on earth. (90 minutes, United States)

Followed by a live Q&A with Director Steve Race.

Willy’s Wonderland, with Q&A with Director Kevin Lewis
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive. (88 minutes, United States)

Followed by a live Q&A with Director Kevin Lewis.

Jack Wyatt and the Gun From Hell
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Jack Wyatt and the Gun From Hell
After rescuing a mysterious drifter from certain death, a gold miner named Jack Wyatt is gifted a cursed pistol with unspeakable power. Little does he know that a gang of outlaws, led by the evil Thane Maddox, is searching for the notorious Gun from Hell. (86 minutes, United States)

Setnor Ensemble Series: Jazz and Commerical Music Ensemble, Jazz Improvisation
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

Livestream will be on either JCM's Instagram or Facebook (or both).

The Zelltones Trio
The 443 Social Club

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

The Zelltones liberate their twisted roots - cool to blue, urban slick to tent revival. Get down with the Zelltones and then get up 'n dance!

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for the 443 to operate at full capacity, we are limiting our guests to those who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Attendees must show proof at the door upon arrival. This show will be held outside if the weather permits.

Setnor Ensemble Series: Jazz and Commerical Music Ensemble, Morten Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

Livestream will be on either JCM's Instagram or Facebook (or both).

Live at Jazz Central: The Medium
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Chelsea Opera
Garrett August Heater, director

Price: $35
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Gian Carlo Menotti's psychological thriller The Medium tells the story of Madam Flora, whose phony seances come back to haunt her. Her daughter Monica, and Toby, a mute adopted by Madam Flora, reluctantly aid her in fleecing desperate clients as their own love story unfolds. A captivating blend of mysticism and madness, Menotti's score and plot is a perfect seasonal offering, particularly for patrons who might be new to opera. An original staging by Chelsea Opera promises an evening of eerie twists and turns. Music direction is by John Krause.

The Medium will be presented in English with a run time of 90 minutes, including one intermission. All patrons will need to show proof of vaccination or PCR test within 72 hours of entry, and must remain masked during the performance.

For tickets or more information, visit chelseaopera.org.

This production is part of an expansion of fully staged productions to upstate New York by the Manhattan-based Chelsea Opera Company, now in its 18th season.

Poet Wendy Xu
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Wendy Xu's most recent books of poems are The Past (Wesleyan, 2021) and Phrasis (Wesleyan, 2017), named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, Granta, Tin House, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and widely elsewhere. Xu is assistant professor of writing at The New School, and serves as poetry editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic. She lives in Brooklyn.

Zoom registration

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Saturday, October 23, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

Nature's Magic: Photography by Lisa Davis and Dean Kolts
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

"Nature's Magic" is illustrated through the whimsical creations of Lisa Davis and the wonder-inspired photographs of Dean Kolts. Visitors to the exhibit will find that Dean Kolts' work speaks to his sense of wonder regarding the smaller worlds around us that we may rarely notice. His colorful digital photography provides us with a close-up look at parts of plants and fungi just as they would appear to us in nature. In Lisa Davis' award-winning work, we see the wonder of nature transformed into the whimsical. Careful observation has led her to the discovery of little heads, fanciful clothing and delicate wings among the flowers in the garden at her country home. Davis' fairy creations, combined with a relatively new art form called scanography, brings nature to life!

From A Distance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Living in Limbo: Portraits from the Border by Bill McLaughlin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist Bill McLaughlin of New Berlin, NY, traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2019 to photograph the migrants and asylum seekers left stranded at the border. They were stranded due to the January 2019 abrupt change in US immigration policy informally known as "Remain in Mexico" in which asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border were returned to Mexico to wait, often for many months, for their immigration proceedings.

Working with the non-profit organization Border Angels, McLaughlin spent several weeks meeting migrants, listening to their stories and asking to take their portraits. His intimate 'retratos con dignidad' — portraits with dignity — document individuals and families who McLaughlin says "have sacrificed everything in an attempt to save their children from brutal gang violence, crushing poverty and the ravages of political corruption."

For those who would prefer viewing this exhibition from home, you can view the Virtual Exhibition.

Hito Steyerl: Strike (2010)
Urban Video Project

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

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

Screening begins at dusk.

Oh Crappy Day and Holding On
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Oh Crappy Day
An aspiring young filmmaker hopes to find love through online dating — if he can just keep his OCD on the down low. (83 minutes, United States)

Holding On
For a few months now, Laura is hosting her mother, Angela, who is being ill with brain cancer in terminal stage in her small flat in Brussels. The cautious young woman insists to take care of her mother by herself and tries to delay the inevitable moment when her mother will pass away. Laura throws herself in this battle because she doesn't want to give it up. (23 minutes, Belgium)

Short Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

As Organism
Join Rachel Sellers and Alan Watts for a journey in scale from the subatomic world to the edge of the cosmos as they open your eyes to the possibilities of the universe as a single organism. (30 minutes, United States)

Otonashi
"Painted in silence, a sparrow's dream invokes timeless harmonies. In the heart of the universal geometry, the seed of calm is formed."
Otonashi is a philosophical voyage through inner and outer experiences of the human existence - an audiovisual meditation of futuristic transmutations about the Japanese Hannya Shingyo. (10 minutes, Germany)

Soulmates
Soulmates, is a short narrative fiction film that centres around the relationship of Reyansh and Anaisha, a newly married couple who suddenly find themselves at crossroads on a chilly winter night. What happened to them? Where did their love go? Did the rigid patriarchal value embedded in their families make their love disappear? Find out in this dark twisted thriller where a quarrel turns into a nightmare. (14 minutes, United States/India)

Kojo
Once upon a time, problem-child Kojo wanders too far away from his grandmother and is cast into a loony, late-night journey. The partially animated film is a new-age folktale set in a mystical New York City. (10 minutes, United States)

Big Touch
An Afro-Surrealist story about a giant woman and a tiny man who through the power of touch, experience an unexpected transformation. (3 minutes, United States)

Slow Burn and the Muse
Two songs, many years and one fruitful night tell the story of a singer/songwriter's road to success. Guided by her 2020-self performing "The Muse," a song she co-wrote with her legendary bandmate David Crosby, this verite, lyrical look inside the career of singer/songwriter Becca Stevens finds the Brooklyn-based artist deep in songwriting mode. (14 minutes, United States)

Roman Candle and Radio Silence
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Roman Candle is a dramatic feature film following the evolving relationship of a young couple living in New York City. After being introduced by a college friend, the two unnamed characters form an immediate connection. As their relationship progresses, the honeymoon fades and the two are forced to grapple with their own changing identities and career ambitions. Roman Candle is a film confronting the realities of what it means to be in love during the turbulence of young adulthood. (73 minutes, United States)

Radio Silence
Linn knows that it is time to break it off with her boyfriend, Tor, but as she is finding it too hard to just be honest with him, she tries an unusual alternative method. (16 minutes, Denmark)

Becoming Wacky Chad and Let's All Go to the Lobby
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Becoming Wacky Chad
A teenager sets out to make a living doing stunts and making people laugh. (84 minutes, United States)

Let's All Go to the Lobby
Alex Miner, an apathetic and disillusioned theater worker, must fight for her survival when she and her childhood best friend discover a cursed film reel that causes the snack counter to come alive and attack them for not appreciating the movie theater... (13 minutes, United States)

Three Shorts and a Filmmaker Panel Discussion
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Void
In the wake of an unspeakable tragedy, a husband and wife seek to fill the void that has formed in their lives. He seeks refuge in memory, she seeks refuge in science. When a new breakthrough happens at her laboratory, the lines between the two cease to exist. (44 minutes, United States)

Trammel
Dale lives a solitary life in a small town, his only outlet being conversations with the local pharmacist Mohammad. As time passes, Dale slowly begins to reveal more of his life and history to Mohammad. (11 minutes, United States)

Devour
A struggling chef confronts an old flame, after she shows up unannounced in search of a familiar meal. (22 minutes, United States)

Filmmaking Panel: Following the three shorts, join John Yost, the producer of A Void, Trammel, and Devour; and Victoria Diana, the director of Devour, as they discuss what it is like to produce short films and share their personal experiences.

Is That You? and Myrtle
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Is That You? is an Israeli Academy Award Winning film by award-winning director Dani Menkin. Starring the renowned Alon Aboutboul (London Has Fallen, Dark Knight Rises) as Ronnie, a 60-year-old man who is looking for his ex-girlfriend from 40 years ago. (90 minutes, Israel)

Myrtle
Myrtle, a trailer park Mom from Indiana, cooks dinner for her son. But something's not quite right. This kitchen is anonymous, industrial, and Myrtle's working to a deadline. As her composure unravels, we realize that 21 grams is all that separates life from death. (5 minutes, United Kingdom)

The Tower Road Bus
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Tower Road Bus
Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of busing children to achieve racial integration in schools, the documentary film The Tower Road Bus revives the unresolved stories of African-American students and educators thrust into all-white schools during the 1970s. (67 minutes, United States)

Fear the Walking Dead
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Fear The Walking Dead
Living in the same universe of The Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family.
Season 6 epidsode 09: A stand-off occurs between Virginia, her rangers and Morgan's group. Ginny has made a lot of enemies and it's finally catching up to her. (45 minutes, United States)

The Walking Dead: Red Machete
At the onset of the Zombie Apocalypse, a young man is running through a hardware store as a walker chases him. Stopping to grab a red-handled machete on the wall, he struggles to rip it out of its packaging while fending off the walker. (15 minutes, United States)

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Short Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Monster in the House
Two siblings must learn to confront their childhood trauma when their abusive father passes away. Left with a house full of bad memories, they spend the weekend clearing it out, all too eager to be rid of it. But all these years later, something they thought was a figment of their childish imagination has returned, feeding on the fears instilled in them by their father. (15 minutes, United States)

Contrariety
Contrariety (2021) is a short narrative film about a man who struggles with his search for identity and purpose, causing him to lose sight of his own reality. (26 minutes, United States)

The Unknown
A conflicted American-Born-Chinese waitress conflicted by her identity is thrusted into an unimaginable life by a mysterious man in a black limo. (3 minutes, United States)

Home Free
A pandemic challenges a Chinese student on the path to legal immigration while sheltering in her new American home. Created for the 72-Hour Shootout by the Asian American Film Lab under the theme, Going Viral. (5 minutes, United States)

The Deliberate Death of My Father
Zoey enters a hair salon to dye her hair for the first time. As she questions her decision, she replays her recent graduation dinner where an explosive fight becomes a chance to settle an old score. Will changing her hair be a final defiance or the first act of something more meaningful? (13 minutes, Canada)

Ije
In the wake of the 2020 End SARS protests against Nigerian police brutality, Ije learns that she has been admitted to pursue her education in an Ivy League School in the United States. Motivated by Chika, her outgoing cousin and roommate, Ije agrees to go out in Lagos to celebrate this good news. At the club, they meet two young men with whom they immediately hit it off and have a good time. At the end of the night, John offers to drive Ije and Chika home. However, during the drive, they are stopped by two Nigerian police officers. The officers aggressively question John, Ije, and Chika about their activities and a drunk Chika takes offense. She starts an argument with the officers, resulting in the girls being forced out of the car. During the altercation, Ije is shot and killed. (17 minutes, United States)

Kaya
A woman's desperate search through truck stops and motels explodes in vigilante justice when she discovers a young girl being trafficked by the same crew of truckers who took her teenage sister. (13 minutes, Canada)

Crossing Columbus and A Long Walk to the Moon
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Crossing Columbus
History haunts the border town of Columbus, NM, when riders on horseback drive north to commemorate Pancho Villa's 1916 raid. This year, Villa's grandson delivers his grandfather's death mask as a symbol of binational friendship. His is one of many stories that struggle to define the crossing of this borderline. (78 minutes, United States)

A Long Walk to the Moon
Former Grumman engineers narrate the challenges and successes of being part of the historic construction of the Lunar Module for the Apollo program. (14 minutes, United States)

Short Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Birth
When Meera, a female entrepreneur, begins to have panic attacks and Braxton Hicks in her eighth month of pregnancy, she is encouraged by her husband Sushant to join a maternity centre for mothers-to-be called "Happy Moms." Run by the matronly, domineering Mama Nithya, the centre seemingly focuses on alternative pregnancy counselling and birthing practises. These practices mould select mothers into being capable of birthing "Champion Babies" — overachievers who will become the creme de la creme of tomorrow's society. (25 minutes, India)

New York Minute
This work continues Lynn Bianchi's relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown, the year of loneliness and isolation, yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window, still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime. (5 minutes, United States)

Can't Talk A Movie's On
A young woman thinks that nothing is real, and it turns out she's right. Somebody's watching her — but who? (13 minutes, Russian Federation)

The Kicksled Choir
Shortlisted for the 93rd Academy Awards for Live-Action Short
Ten-year-old Gabriel loves to sing and has one desire: to sing in the local choir. The group rides kick-sled through the snowy landscape of Northern Norway and is known for their kindness and charity towards the village refugees. But when Gabriel's father gets into a fight with one of the local refugees, Gabriel's quest to join The Kicksled Choir becomes challenging. (13 minutes, Canada)

Trent Lockwood and the Jaguar Skull
Whilst searching for evidence of a lost Aztec city, adventurer Trent Lockwood encounters an archaeologist rival who will let nothing stand in his way of joining a mysterious and dangerous cult. (11 minutes, United States)

The Game Is Up
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Game Is Up
A GOP congressman-turned right wing shock jock, a rising star in the Young Republicans, a party-loyal Ohio farmer, a US Army Veteran and hardcore 'MAGA', and three evangelicals all recount their evolutions from Trump supporters in 2016 to adamant adversaries in 2020. The film takes a deep dive into their motives for voting, their doubts, and the epiphanies that changed their minds. (119 minutes, United States)

The Pirates of Somalia
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Pirates of Somalia
Written and directed by Sophia award recipient Bryan Buckley.
In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself with the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. (13 minutes, United States)

The Man Behind the Camera
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Man Behind the Camera follows an upcoming model, Mickaela, in her rise and demise throughout her young career. Enter Kurt Willows, a famed fashion photographer with a nefarious reputation. Through the connection of Kurt's son, Levi, Mickaela and Kurt meet at an audition where Kurt becomes infatuated. Mickaela's undying desire to fulfill her dream of becoming a model collides with Kurt's power hungry mentality. In tandem, Kurt's right hand woman, Jesse, is seen having a reoccurring mantra to the other young models. We've all been made to feel uncomfortable for our dreams before; it's those who know they are nothing that become something. Meanwhile, Kurt meets a friend, Walter J Hughes, in his court-ordered AA sessions. Walter, a drunk, dealing with the loss of his job and family, gravitates to Kurt. He and Walter become close and decide to write a book about Kurt's life. As Walter begins to get to learn about Kurt, he discovers a grave secret the man is hiding. In a collision of these multiple storylines, the final bell will ring for one or all of these characters, proving that behind all that power, there is not a drop of innocence. (100 minutes, United States)

Histoire d’Une Larme and Thus Began Antoine’s Going Down
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Histoire d'Une Larme
Based on the book Ocean Terminal by Piergiorgio Welby.
"When a terminally ill patient decides to give up his affections, his memories, his friendships, his life and asks to put an end to his cruelly 'biological' survival, I believe that his will must be respected and embraced with the pietas that constitutes the strength and coherence of secular thought." (75 minutes, Italy)

Thus Began Antoine's Going Down
Antoine, grieving loner, spends his days in a café on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's down-going. (23 minutes, United States)

Setnor Ensemble Series: Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

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Slaid Cleaves
The 443 Social Club

Price: $30 general admission, $35 premium single barstool, $70 premium table for 2
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Now 25 years into his storied career, Cleaves' songwriting has never been more potent than on his latest album "Ghost on the Car Radio," released in 2019. The characters in Slaid Cleaves' songs live in unglamorous reality. They work dead-end jobs, they run out of money, they grow old, they hold on to each other (or not), and they die. With an eye for the beauty in everyday life, he tells their stories, bringing a bit of empathy to their uncaring world. One place his characters find solace is with each other. Traditional love songs are not often found on a Slaid Cleaves record. He approaches the subject less as a romantic gesture, and more as a world-weary appreciation of the one who's seen you through thick and thin.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for the 443 to operate at full capacity, we are limiting our guests to those who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Attendees must show proof at the door upon arrival. If you are unable to show proof at the door, your tickets will not be refunded.

Masterworks Series: Classical Revival
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Julian Schwartz, cello

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

Saint-Georges Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 11
Mozart Symphony No. 39, K. 543, E-flat major
Shostakovich Concerto for Violoncello No. 1 in E-Flat major, op. 107

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Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Sunday, October 24, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matt Mitros: Rough Notions
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

Cheryl Dunn: Licking the Bowl
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

From Soup to Nuts
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Imaging Disability in Film Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Wet Dogs
Alix & Tina. Two best friends. Tina gets bad news: she has a cancer. She calls Alix and then escapes from the hospital. Together they decide to go and live their dreams. (82 minutes, Switzerland)

Crescendo
Having to immigrate to the U.S. from South Korea with a widowed mother and two siblings as a teenager, a songwriter Gretchen Lee has a struggling childhood trying to pursue her dream – music. While doing her internship at a music post-production house, she finds that she has hearing problems. After going through many ear surgeries, she only realizes that she is going deaf. Crescendo is a 16-minute documentary that follows her travel in which she demonstrates gratitude for her ability to write and play music despite hearing loss. It explores the connection between sound, music, mind, and the body as she takes her instruments to go on a road trip. (17 minutes, United States)

The Rules of Lacrosse
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

What do Wayne Gretzky, Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (Maryland), and David Grohl (Foo Fighters / Nirvana) have in common? You guessed it, they all played lacrosse, the sport that's been dubbed, "the fastest game on two feet." In an interview with the filmmaker, Wayne Gretzky emphatically states, "I always say this to people — you think football and ice hockey are physical? The most physical sport I ever played in my life was lacrosse."

However, these "Rules of Lacrosse" were not ripped from the pages of the official rule books for men's lacrosse, but rather by observation over the past years by a screenwriter-turned-producer, who was writing a lacrosse-themed movie script that required a lot of research on the sport, much more than anticipated. After amassing files of the subject of lacrosse, an opportunity arose to produce a film about the sport! Thus, the birth of this 10-part docuseries.

This series covers the A to Z of men's lacrosse, from its rich, Indigenous history to the present forms of men's lacrosse, both the box and field games. This series explores several themes of men's lacrosse: forming and maintaining professional teams and their players, the college sport and numerous leagues, the wooden stick controversy, and the growing of the game internationally from its North American roots. In fact, lacrosse will become an official men's and women's Olympics sport, beginning in 2028.

Included are interviews from some of the greatest names in the sport as well as film footage, artist renditions, and stills from various games throughout the history of the game. In one section, Rule #9, entitled "Honor and Recognize Those Who Have Played Before You," Wayne Gretzky names the best lacrosse player who has ever played, Garylord Powless, from the Six Nations Reserve. In fact, Powless was recently elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, which is covered in the movie, so we think that Gretzky called it right! (80 minutes, United States)

Student Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 single block (single day and full-festival passes also available)
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Family Livings - Haoren Zeng
Still Life - Fran Lopez
Wiecznos´c´ Dota?d Trwa - Ania Johnston
Pretty Sky - Evan Bode
Mirroring- Ghazal Yousefi
Narcissus Revisited - Asa Rogers
On Language - Cameron Joy Gray
The North Lake - Daotian Wang
Friendly Burnout - W. Trent Welstead
Just Keep Growing - Madiline Carter
Clowning Around - Nicole Villalobos, Nia Lucky, and Liz Shannon
Dolly's Love - Matilda Washington
Words and Bandaids - Maya Gupta
The River Will carry Them - Keyi Zhang
It's Not So Bad - Anne Fernandez
The Secret - Mmakgosi Anita Tau
Thine Own Self - Evan Bode

Masterworks Series: Classical Revival
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Julian Schwartz, cello

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

Saint-Georges Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 11
Mozart Symphony No. 39, K. 543, E-flat major
Shostakovich Concerto for Violoncello No. 1 in E-Flat major, op. 107

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Slaid Cleaves
The 443 Social Club

Price: $30 general admission, $35 premium single barstool, $70 premium table for 2
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Now 25 years into his storied career, Cleaves' songwriting has never been more potent than on his latest album "Ghost on the Car Radio," released in 2019. The characters in Slaid Cleaves' songs live in unglamorous reality. They work dead-end jobs, they run out of money, they grow old, they hold on to each other (or not), and they die. With an eye for the beauty in everyday life, he tells their stories, bringing a bit of empathy to their uncaring world. One place his characters find solace is with each other. Traditional love songs are not often found on a Slaid Cleaves record. He approaches the subject less as a romantic gesture, and more as a world-weary appreciation of the one who's seen you through thick and thin.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for the 443 to operate at full capacity, we are limiting our guests to those who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Attendees must show proof at the door upon arrival. If you are unable to show proof at the door, your tickets will not be refunded.

Student Recital Series: Hal Meyer, saxophone
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Online

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Live at Jazz Central: The Medium
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Chelsea Opera
Garrett August Heater, director

Price: $35
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Gian Carlo Menotti's psychological thriller The Medium tells the story of Madam Flora, whose phony seances come back to haunt her. Her daughter Monica, and Toby, a mute adopted by Madam Flora, reluctantly aid her in fleecing desperate clients as their own love story unfolds. A captivating blend of mysticism and madness, Menotti's score and plot is a perfect seasonal offering, particularly for patrons who might be new to opera. An original staging by Chelsea Opera promises an evening of eerie twists and turns. Music direction is by John Krause.

The Medium will be presented in English with a run time of 90 minutes, including one intermission. All patrons will need to show proof of vaccination or PCR test within 72 hours of entry, and must remain masked during the performance.

For tickets or more information, visit chelseaopera.org.

This production is part of an expansion of fully staged productions to upstate New York by the Manhattan-based Chelsea Opera Company, now in its 18th season.

Eureka Day
Syracuse Stage
Robert Hupp, director

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

With a mumps outbreak, a private school in Berkeley, California, called Eureka Day, becomes a microcosm of our larger society as Jonathan Spector's comedy plunges headlong into the knotty issues of vaccines and how we measure private preference against public health and how we decide who gets to decide. Though written pre-Covid, Eureka Day could hardly be more timely or more needed as Spector mines laughter from our foibles while eliciting empathy for our sometimes valiant and sometimes valiantly misguided efforts.

Monday, October 25, 2021

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

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

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

Masks are required.

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

Sketching Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

James Henkel: Object Lessons
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Halloween Double Feature
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, Elyse Knox, George Zucco, Turhan Bey, John Hubbard, Mary Gordon
Director: Harold Young
The murderous mummy Kharis (Chaney) is transported to America to seek revenge on the surviving members of a 30 year-old archeology expedition. It's mad mayhem in the classic Universal style.

Island of Lost Souls (1933)
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams
Director: Erle C. Kenton
H.G. Wells' classic story of a mad scientist (Laughton) who lives on a remote island and transforms jungle beasts into bizarre half-human creatures. Pre-Code horror that still packs a punch today.