Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

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.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

My Flesh and Blood opens with an uproarious Halloween celebration that refutes the stereotype of disabled children as victims, and ends as the family celebrates an unlikely birthday while confronting an enormous loss. Along with Susan Tom, the documentary focuses on five of her children.

Director Jonathan Karsh introduces us to the Tom household, where conflicts, never far from the surface, can erupt at any time. Explaining her decision to establish such a large brood, Susan Tom says, "If you can raise five kids, then it's not that far to go with six, and once you get to six, after that the noise level doesn't increase, and you're cooking big anyway. From six to 12 to 13 kids is not that big of a leap." (85 minutes  this film is not rated)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

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 Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Scale
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Jeanne Gang and Mark Schendel of Studio Gang Architects

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

Jeanne Gang is the principal and founder of Studio Gang. She formed the practice in 1997 after significant experience as a senior designer in Chicago with BHA and in Rotterdam with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. She leads the design teams at Studio Gang and collaborates directly with clients. Her focus on materials, technology and sustainability is supported through a mode of working that combines practice, teaching and research. Her work with Studio Gang has received national and international awards and recognition.

Mark Schendel, also a principal of Studio Gang, practiced with a number firms before joining Studio Gang, including six years as senior architect with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. He oversees construction documentation and administration on the firm's projects. Recent projects of the firm include the Starlight Theatre in Rockford, Ill., and the Aqua Tower in Chicago.

For information on parking at The Warehouse, phone 315-443-8238.

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $26, $24, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

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.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Artwork by Seung Hee Chu
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: Free
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Seung Hee Chung received her BA and MFA degrees at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. Currently, she is pursuing a MFA degree at Syracuse University, concentrating on painting, along with her studies in drawing, printmaking, and video.

The Education of Shelby Knox
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The story of the awakening of a politically conservative, deeply religious 15-year-old Southern Baptist-turned-political activist.

The Education of Shelby Knox
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The story of the awakening of a politically conservative, deeply religious 15-year-old Southern Baptist-turned-political activist.

Art Spiegelman
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Creator of the masterful graphic novel "Maus," which portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, Pulitzer Prize winner Spiegelman has created comics noted for their shifting graphic styles, controversial content and complexity.

This appearance is presented as part of the Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival that celebrates interdisciplinary thinking, imagination and creation. This year's theme is "Imagination." For more information on symposium events, visit symposium.syr.edu.

Paid parking for the public is available in the Marion lot and Irving Garage.

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $28, $26, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Friday, September 22, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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 Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Shostakovich 100th Birthday Festival
LeMoyne College

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

Shostakovich's Cello Sonata and Piano Trio No. 2 with Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Edward Arron, cello; and Andrew Russo, piano.

Torch Song Trilogy
Rarely Done Productions
Moe Harrington, director

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

A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, Torch Song Trilogy, by Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and often times piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment -- and endurance -- in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.

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Playing Doctor
Appleseed Productions
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore have written some zany farces, but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

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The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

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.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

A Night at the Movies: Battleship Potemkin
LeMoyne College

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

As part of the Dmitri Shostakovich 100th Birthday Festival, join LeMoyne film guru Julie Grossman for a brief introduction to Sergei Eisenstein's black and white silent Russian masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin, for which Shostakovich composed the soundtrack.

Master Class for Young Artists
LeMoyne College

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

High school musicians will be coached in the performance of works by Shostakovich. Leading the class will be Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Edward Arron, cello, and Andrew Russo, piano.

Be Careful What You Witch For!
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: Free
Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

The third installment in Garrett Heater's Charming family saga takes up where DESPERATE DAMSELS left off. This fractured fairy tale will be presented at Celebrate Baldwinsville.

The third and final installment of the Charming Family trilogy puts King Charming at odds with his four lazy sons, their ambitious wives, and his youngest, most devious son as they all vie for the throne. The Queen wishes for the simpler days when her four older sons were still children, so her mother's new husband, Merl the magician, happily casts the spell. Hilarity ensues!

King Charming's charming kingdom is populated with colorful characters such as Filling the Tooth Fairy, a self-proclaimed sugar addict [with the missing teeth to prove it!]; the Old Woman who Lives in the Shoe [who was known as Little Miss Muffet in her youth], a woman with several hundred little secrets to feed; Sleeping Beauty's three fairies who operate a real estate scheme, and Old King Cole who has a vendetta to settle with the royal family!

Who becomes king? What ever became of Old Mother Hubbard's dog? When will interest rates drop so that Prince Charming Number Four can more easily afford to purchase Miss Muffet's shoe house? Baldwinsville's finest actors come together to tell this delightful, family friendly, fractured fairy-tale.

Don't miss the riveting, thrilling and ultimately shocking conclusion to the Charming family saga!

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Be Careful What You Witch For!
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: Free
Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

The third installment in Garrett Heater's Charming family saga takes up where DESPERATE DAMSELS left off. This fractured fairy tale will be presented at Celebrate Baldwinsville.

The third and final installment of the Charming Family trilogy puts King Charming at odds with his four lazy sons, their ambitious wives, and his youngest, most devious son as they all vie for the throne. The Queen wishes for the simpler days when her four older sons were still children, so her mother's new husband, Merl the magician, happily casts the spell. Hilarity ensues!

King Charming's charming kingdom is populated with colorful characters such as Filling the Tooth Fairy, a self-proclaimed sugar addict [with the missing teeth to prove it!]; the Old Woman who Lives in the Shoe [who was known as Little Miss Muffet in her youth], a woman with several hundred little secrets to feed; Sleeping Beauty's three fairies who operate a real estate scheme, and Old King Cole who has a vendetta to settle with the royal family!

Who becomes king? What ever became of Old Mother Hubbard's dog? When will interest rates drop so that Prince Charming Number Four can more easily afford to purchase Miss Muffet's shoe house? Baldwinsville's finest actors come together to tell this delightful, family friendly, fractured fairy-tale.

Don't miss the riveting, thrilling and ultimately shocking conclusion to the Charming family saga!

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Torch Song Trilogy
Rarely Done Productions
Moe Harrington, director

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

A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, Torch Song Trilogy, by Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and often times piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment -- and endurance -- in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.

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Playing Doctor
Appleseed Productions
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore have written some zany farces, but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

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The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

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 Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

My Flesh and Blood opens with an uproarious Halloween celebration that refutes the stereotype of disabled children as victims, and ends as the family celebrates an unlikely birthday while confronting an enormous loss. Along with Susan Tom, the documentary focuses on five of her children.

Director Jonathan Karsh introduces us to the Tom household, where conflicts, never far from the surface, can erupt at any time. Explaining her decision to establish such a large brood, Susan Tom says, "If you can raise five kids, then it's not that far to go with six, and once you get to six, after that the noise level doesn't increase, and you're cooking big anyway. From six to 12 to 13 kids is not that big of a leap." (85 minutes  this film is not rated)

Phil Klein, keyboard
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Shostakovich 100th Birthday Festival
LeMoyne College
Members of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring George Coble, trumpet; Andrew Russo, piano

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

Shostakovich's Two Pieces for String Octet; the Chamber Symphony in C minor (a string orchestra transcription of Shostakovich's famous String Quartet No. 8); and the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, an allegorical satire of Stalin's relationship with Shostakovich and the Russian people.

Sound/Path/Field
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

Acclaimed composer Robert Morris, Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music, is developing a reputation for composing large-scale pieces to be played outdoors in natural surroundings. Following his works "Playing Outside," "Coming Down to Earth," and "Oracle," Morris's newest and most elaborate outdoor composition, "Sound/Path/Field" will be premiered. Unlike the other works, this piece takes place in social space and time performed by a vast array of musical forces including ensembles of the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University, the Society for New Music, and other ensembles in the greater Syracuse area.

"Sound/Path/Field" was commissioned by the Society to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Funding organizations include the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hanson Institute for American Music, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Syracuse University. The composition features the Society for New Music chamber ensemble, along with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, the strings of the Syracuse University Orchestra, the Syracuse University Women's Choir, the University Singers, Syracuse Children's Chorus, Westhill HS Singers, Syracuse University organist Olukola Paul Olowabi, and members of Open Hand Theatre.

The ensembles will be stationed and play independently at various locations on the Quad, moving from one place to another over the duration of the piece. Two events are to occur indoors in Hendricks Chapel, a concert piece for organ entitled "Canonical Minutes" and a composition for the Society for New Music chamber ensemble entitled "Society Sound." The entire piece is organized and coordinated by a cycle of notes that emanate from the University Chimes in Crouse College.

The audience is invited to move freely from one event to another as the piece unfolds and attend the performances of the two concert pieces in the chapel. They may wish to follow guides who will lead them on a musical path through the piece as the S.U. Quad comes alive 'with the sound of music.' At certain times the Open Hand Theatre will perform installations that herald special musical events here and there in the performance space. The audience will receive programs that contain a list of events giving the times and locations including a map of the quad. The audience members may wish to bring something to sit on during the performance.

The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Monday, September 25, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Syracuse Set List
Redhouse

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

Syracuse Set List, the area's premiere monthly music series, features national, regional and local songwriters. Seasoned professionals and emerging talent spill their guts, reveal the secrets of their craft, and shed some light on their creative process. You'll be breathless and hooked when the intimate atmosphere of Redhouse puts you inside the songs in ways you never thought possible. The series will take you from jazz to gospel, blues to folk, to euphoria and back again.

Read a review!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Music Film: Caribbean Nights: The Bob Marley Story
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Profile of the life and music of the legendary reggae musician.

Music Film: Caribbean Nights: The Bob Marley Story
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Profile of the life and music of the legendary reggae musician.

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

My Flesh and Blood opens with an uproarious Halloween celebration that refutes the stereotype of disabled children as victims, and ends as the family celebrates an unlikely birthday while confronting an enormous loss. Along with Susan Tom, the documentary focuses on five of her children.

Director Jonathan Karsh introduces us to the Tom household, where conflicts, never far from the surface, can erupt at any time. Explaining her decision to establish such a large brood, Susan Tom says, "If you can raise five kids, then it's not that far to go with six, and once you get to six, after that the noise level doesn't increase, and you're cooking big anyway. From six to 12 to 13 kids is not that big of a leap." (85 minutes  this film is not rated)

Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
**CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS** Ravi and Anoushka Shankar

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The performance by Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, legendary musicians and teachers, has been cancelled because of an injury to Ravi Shankar's shoulder. News of the cancellation was announced by the Shankars' management agency, ICM Inc. Event organizers, including SU's Pulse and Syracuse Symposium, will be announcing arrangements for ticketholders.

Faculty Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Steven Heyman, piano

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

Recital will include works by J.S. Bach, M. Ravel, I. Albeniz and F. Liszt.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. Patrons should alert the parking attendant that they are attending the Heyman concert.

For more information, contact Heyman at 315-443-1638 or sheyman@syr.edu.