Monday, September 19, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Daniel Godfrey Jest
J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Handel Water Music Suite No. 2

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Coming Back Together 8: Visualizing the Legacy
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

African American and Latino alumni of Syracuse University exhibit recent works. Artists include Basheer Alim, Dorcas Bennett, Mashell Black, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ernesto Camacho, Denise Cole, Renee Cox, Crystal Davenport, James Little, Jacquelyn Maye, Peter Rodrigo, Christopher Savido, Michael Singletary and Megan White.

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

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

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

Joseph Horowitz lecture
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lecture by the noted music historian and author of Classical Music in America.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Coming Back Together 8: Visualizing the Legacy
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

African American and Latino alumni of Syracuse University exhibit recent works. Artists include Basheer Alim, Dorcas Bennett, Mashell Black, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ernesto Camacho, Denise Cole, Renee Cox, Crystal Davenport, James Little, Jacquelyn Maye, Peter Rodrigo, Christopher Savido, Michael Singletary and Megan White.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

CANCELLED -- Gender, Modernity, and Identity in Latin American Architecture
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Susana Torre

108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kouchner is co-founder and intellectual architect of the Nobel Prize-winning Medécins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). He is internationally known for his commitment to humanitarianism and to placing the emergency medical needs of people in distress before all else, including national borders.

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

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artist reception will be held from 3:30 to 7 p.m. in the Gallery. Mark Rogovin, son of Milton and Anne Rogovin, will attend and represent his father at the reception.

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Coming Back Together 8: Visualizing the Legacy
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

African American and Latino alumni of Syracuse University exhibit recent works. Artists include Basheer Alim, Dorcas Bennett, Mashell Black, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ernesto Camacho, Denise Cole, Renee Cox, Crystal Davenport, James Little, Jacquelyn Maye, Peter Rodrigo, Christopher Savido, Michael Singletary and Megan White.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

The Yellowjackets
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: $20 general public; $10 SU faculty/staff; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Yellowjackets, formed in 1977, have a recognizable sound known for its clever melodies, in-the-pocket rhythm, and, most of all, a dynamic interplay that comes only from years of roadwork. Unique for a contemporary jazz group, The Yellowjackets shift deftly between swing and funk rhythms, happily placing the group in the divide that exists between mainstream and contemporary jazz markets.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

Friday, September 23, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Coming Back Together 8: Visualizing the Legacy
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

African American and Latino alumni of Syracuse University exhibit recent works. Artists include Basheer Alim, Dorcas Bennett, Mashell Black, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ernesto Camacho, Denise Cole, Renee Cox, Crystal Davenport, James Little, Jacquelyn Maye, Peter Rodrigo, Christopher Savido, Michael Singletary and Megan White.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Two-and-a-Half Sopranos
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A convocation of arias, sung and performed by vocalists Jean Loftus, Janet Brown and Amanda Carnie with accompanist Nancy Head.

Jibaro
LeMoyne College
Music Journeys
Miguel Zenon Quartet

Price: $12 regular; $7 student/senior
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Miguel Zenón is a major new voice on the international jazz scene. In his very short, but rather illustrious career, the 28-year-old Zenón has performed and recorded with David Sanchez, Danilo Perez, and Branford Marsalis. Zenon’s recent CD for Marsalis Records is a musical exploration of Jibaro, a rhythmic form of Puerto Rican folk poetry.

Classics Series: Tales and Travels
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Vladimir Feltsman, piano

Price: $16 - $50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wagner Die Meistersinger Prelude
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Ives Three Places in New England
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel

Read a review!

Marianne Boruch, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A reading by poet Marianne Boruch, author of Moss Burning.

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a Review!

Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Coming Back Together 8: Visualizing the Legacy
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

African American and Latino alumni of Syracuse University exhibit recent works. Artists include Basheer Alim, Dorcas Bennett, Mashell Black, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Ernesto Camacho, Denise Cole, Renee Cox, Crystal Davenport, James Little, Jacquelyn Maye, Peter Rodrigo, Christopher Savido, Michael Singletary and Megan White.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Lyra in Concert

Price: Free-will offering
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Russian mixed vocal ensemble will perform sacred music from the Russian Orthodox church on the first half of the program and Russian folk songs on the second half.

The six singers who will perform locally are part of a group of 25 singers based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Most are graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and work as choir directors, opera singers and music teachers in addition to singing with LYRA. Their goal in touring other countries is to introduce the musical heritage of the Russian Orthodox church as well as the traditions of Russian folk music to all who are interested in Russia, its history and culture.

The Sultana Ensemble
Syracuse Area Middle East Dialogue

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A unique blend of traditional and modern, original and old, Jewish and Arabic music from the Middle East.

For more information, phone 315-443-2902.

Donna Colton and The Troublemakers
Redhouse

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

Singer/songwriter Donna Colton and The Troublemakers will showcase their distinctive blues sound, and offer a sneak preview of her upcoming CD release. With over 150 gigs yearly, Colton has distinguished herself in the Central New York music scene as an acoustic dynamo. She brings her modern covers and original tunes such as Fatal Love and Oh Brother to clubs, coffeehouses, colleges and festivals, building her loyal fan base with every exposure. Two-time SAMMY nominee for "Best Acoustic Act," Colton's musical style is best described as "ready for anything" as she can sing rock, country, folk and blues on any given day.

Classics Series: Tales and Travels
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Vladimir Feltsman, piano

Price: $16 - $50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wagner Die Meistersinger Prelude
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Ives Three Places in New England
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel

Read a review!

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a Review!

Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 25, 2005

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

The Five Senses
Redhouse

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

Directed by Jeremy Podeswa. This award-winning film explores life and love through the five senses. Five characters that have almost nothing in common except the desire to experience true intimacy struggle to make sense of their senseless worlds. Through taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell, their secret lives unfold, until, one by one, each is drawn out of her/his own shell and into a world that promises to re-ignite the passion in their souls.

106 minutes, rated R.

Songs for a New World
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

Teenage Jay and Arty are in for a rough 1942. Pop owes nine grand to a loan shark and has to hightail it out of town, so he drops the boys in Yonkers in the care of his mother. Grandma may own a sweet shop, but she's no box of chocolates. She's so tough her own grown-up children are afraid of her. And forget about sneaking a treat or two. She counts the salt on the pretzels. How's she going to take it when Uncle Louie shows up to hide out from gangsters and Aunt Bella (who's a little off) announces she wants to marry an usher from the local movie theatre? Neil Simon placed these wonderful characters into a very funny play and earned the 1991 Pulitzer and Tony Awards for his effort. Our reward is laughter and a truly great night in the theatre.

Read a Review!

Monday, September 26, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

The Hours
Beyond Borders: The Illusion of Normalcy in Film

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

The lives of two different women are affected across the time continuum via a Virginia Woolf novel.

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

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

Gallery Talk
Lowe Art Gallery
Featuring artist Chan Chao

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Chao was born in Burma (now Myanmar) and came to the US with his family in 1978. He has exhibited widely, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY; the Robert Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University; and the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City. In 1998, Chao participated in Light Work's Summer Artist-in-Residence program and was invited to show in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Borders and Memory highlights several works from Chao's series of portraits Burma: Something Went Wrong, which includes over 150 portraits of students and young rebels who aimed to restore democracy to the country by launching guerilla attacks against the controlling military regime. Please join us for this exciting opportunity.

The talk is in conjunction with the Gallery's exhibition Borders and Memory, which runs through Oct. 12.

Al Biles Virtual Quintet Performance and Master Class
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Meet GenJam, an evolutionary computation system created and demonstrated by Al Biles, that plays jazz solos as a computerized "virtual working musician."