Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The artwork by the Independent Potters' Association will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Members include Brenda Conley, Wendy Emborski, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Bobbi Lamb, David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Karen Smith, John Smolenski, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, Rebecca Wind, and Sarah VanderVoort.

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Annual exhibit with student artwork chosen by teachers, then juried by the CNY Art Guild. Open to high schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

gyni: Girls Just Wanna...
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Three artists and friends from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art present the impromptu exhibition "gyni: Girls Just Wanna..." Stephanie James is the director of the School of Art and Doris E. Klein Endowed Professor of Art, Jude Lewis is an associate professor of sculpture, and Barbara Walter is a professor of jewelry and metalsmithing.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Elisa Dekaney, piano and voice; Joshua Dekaney, percussion; and Samba Laranja
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Award-winning ensemble from S.U.'s Setnor School of Music will perform Brazilian music of various styles: Pixinguinha, Villa-Lobos, traditional, folk, and original compositions.

Setnor Student Composers Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Works by student composers in the Setnor School of Music will be performed.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Sidewalk Chalk
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dana Spiotta, novelist
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a Q&A session at 3:45 pm.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The artwork by the Independent Potters' Association will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Members include Brenda Conley, Wendy Emborski, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Bobbi Lamb, David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Karen Smith, John Smolenski, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, Rebecca Wind, and Sarah VanderVoort.

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:30 pm, with music by Parlour Games.

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Annual exhibit with student artwork chosen by teachers, then juried by the CNY Art Guild. Open to high schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

gyni: Girls Just Wanna...
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Three artists and friends from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art present the impromptu exhibition "gyni: Girls Just Wanna..." Stephanie James is the director of the School of Art and Doris E. Klein Endowed Professor of Art, Jude Lewis is an associate professor of sculpture, and Barbara Walter is a professor of jewelry and metalsmithing.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

SU Senior Collection Fashion Show 2016
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $6
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Senior fashion design majors in the School of Design will present their senior collections in this annual show.

People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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SU Senior Collection Fashion Show 2016
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $30 floor, $20 balcony, $15 seniors/SU students
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Senior fashion design majors in the School of Design will present their senior collections in this annual show.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

SpringFest 2016: Sidewalk Stories
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: One day: $10 individual, $15 couple. 4-Day Festival Pass: $25 individual, $40 couple
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane, 97 minutes, fiction
In the tradition of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid this nearly silent black and white film follows an African American street artist who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for her child.

Annual Ceramic Arts Lecture
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Andy Brayman

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

Join us for the sixth annual Ceramic Arts Lecture, featuring visiting artist Andy Brayman, followed by a reception. Presented in conjunction with Syracuse University.

History of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Dennis Connors

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

With the re-opening of the Hotel Syracuse set for June 4 of this year, Dennis Connors, Curator of History for the Onondaga Historical Association, will present a history of the iconic hotel.

Romeo & Juliet -- In Concert
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe, Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

During this fully-staged interdisciplinary event, student actors and musicians team up to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death through his immortal words, alongside music inspired by the timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet.

Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Percussion Ensemble performs under the direction of Setnor School of Music faculty member Michael W. Bull.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Hot Buttered Rum, with Boots & Shorts
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cruel April: Upstate NY Verve
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This special closing event features poets from the newly released Stone Canoe 2016 Edition, including Bruce Bennett, Andrew Schep, Eric Berlin, Jessica Cuello, and Jennifer Glancy. Readings start at 6:00 pm, followed by a reception and informal dialogue with poets. Refreshments will be served. Presented in conjunction with the release of Point of Contact's annual poetry collection, Corresponding Voices, Volume 9.

Free parking is available the night of the reading in the Syracuse University lot on the corner of West Street and West Fayette Street.

Pulled Loose: Readings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join us for an evening of readings from the MFA thesis work of Stefan Zoller, featuring his father, poet James A. Zoller. The readings will be comprised of narrative non-fiction and poetry, performed using Zoller's installation in the current SUArt Galleries exhibition as a visual companion.

Parking is available on a first come, first serve basis in the Quad 4 lot.

Pterodactyls
Black Box Players
Adam Coy, director

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

Pterodactyls is a show that examines the demise and decay of the human species through the Duncan family. In the 21st century where interpersonal communication is dying out due to technology, use of social media and general focus on self-interest, it is important to tell a story that breaks through our forms of denial. If we are not connected to the people we should be closest to, our families, then humanity has truly lost something that cannot be retrieved.

To reserve a seat, visit Ticketleap.

Friday, April 29, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The artwork by the Independent Potters' Association will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Members include Brenda Conley, Wendy Emborski, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Bobbi Lamb, David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Karen Smith, John Smolenski, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, Rebecca Wind, and Sarah VanderVoort.

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Annual exhibit with student artwork chosen by teachers, then juried by the CNY Art Guild. Open to high schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

gyni: Girls Just Wanna...
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Three artists and friends from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art present the impromptu exhibition "gyni: Girls Just Wanna..." Stephanie James is the director of the School of Art and Doris E. Klein Endowed Professor of Art, Jude Lewis is an associate professor of sculpture, and Barbara Walter is a professor of jewelry and metalsmithing.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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Near West Side Through the Lens: A Photography Exhibition by Youth
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

Fuku'd Up! Art Show: New Work by Jacob Alan Roberts

Price: $5
House of S. Jaye
233 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Painter, public artist, arts administrator, and social and environmental activist, Jacob Alan Roberts is exhibiting a series of fresh, dynamic, and provocative paintings for the first time in the Syracuse area in over a decade. This recently-completed body of work, consisting of 20 new pieces, takes on the horrific manmade catastrophes we have recently suffered in our oceans: the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the BF Gulf Oil Spill, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These surging, "toxic" pieces of art were crafted from found and discarded paints and other "trashed" mediums and canvases that were on their way to a landfill, such as old doors, billboard sheeting, etc.

Music by DJ Afar and DJ BuckyBlendz, special guest Finer Things, and a #FilmReal photo exhibit by Chad Boogz.

Opening: Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:30-9:00 pm.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

The Comedy Show

Price: $10
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Back for Round Three is The Comedy Show, with some of today's funniest working stand-up acts. If you're a fan of comedy, you won't want to miss out. Tonight features Abdulkadir Hadi, Jillian Kermani, and RJ Purpura, headlined by Corey Smithson.

SpringFest 2016: Behind the White Glasses
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: One day: $10 individual, $15 couple. 4-Day Festival Pass: $25 individual, $40 couple
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

To and Fro, by Walter Ungerer (15 minutes)
Using time lapse photography and normal 24fps or 30fps video clips, this film is a visual essay on the constant movement of people from one place to another. The daily activities of people dictates almost continuous travel here and there, to and fro or to and from. A long segment of the film documents a Gay Pride parade and celebration in Portland, ME, which illustrates the very diverse collection of people, animals, and vehicles moving with a pace determined by the activity. Other activities such as shopping at a supermarket or walking one's dog dictate a different rhythm; but always there is movement. Even with the waves on the water and clouds in the sky is the movement noticed.

Behind the White Glasses, by Valerio Ruiz (documentary, 80 minutes)
A musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmuller, the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director for her film Seven Beauties. Wertmuller is also known for The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away, all groundbreaking films in the Italian cinema and all having had successful runs in American theaters. At age 88 Wertmuller remains active writing and directing. Behind the White Glasses includes such film luminaries as Martin Scorcese, Sophia Loren, Harvey Keitel, Rutger Hauer, Giancarlo Giannini, Nastassja Kinski, and critic John Simon.

Comfort Society Tour
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Led by members of The Comfort Society, the graduate student organization for Art History and Museum Studies, this tour explores the current exhibitions and permanent Collection Galleries from the varied perspectives of up and coming museum professionals and future art historians.

Jazz@Sitrus: Laurie Dapice
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

CNY Jazz @ Sitrus departs from its usual format of local performers to present Laurie Dapice, New York City-based jazz vocalist.

Dapice, backed by a trio of regional professionals led by John Leroy, Albany-based organist, is touring in support of her latest album, "Parting the Veil", recorded at Tony Bennett's Bennett Studios.

Originally from Utica, Dapice was educated at the prestigious Mannes School of Music and the New School in New York. She has toured the U.S. and Japan, and performed at high-profile venues such as Harlem's Alhambra Ballroom, Sweet Basil, The Apollo Theater, Kitano, and the House of Jazz in Montreal. She has performed with legends of jazz like Billy Harper, Barry Harris, Benny Powell, John DiMartino and many others. She has also won songwriting awards from ASCAP, Billboard, and USA Songwriting.

A Multicultural Artistic Experience: A Community Outreach Project

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Hosted by poet and writer Jackie Warren-Moore and coordinated by Dr. Alfred Frederick. Featuring gospel, rhythm and blues, drums and dancers from Ghana, jazz improv with Nancy Kelly, storytellers Arthur Flowers and Vanessa Johnson, a DJ, and refreshments and more.

Romeo & Juliet -- In Concert
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe, Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

During this fully-staged interdisciplinary event, student actors and musicians team up to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death through his immortal words, alongside music inspired by the timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet.

Love & Marriage Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The cabaret stars Josh and Korrie Taylor and the future Mr. & Mrs. Polly, Justin and Kasey. An evening of songs and stories of falling in love, and the bruises that falling can leave. Following up on the successful "Maybe You're Not the Worst Thing Ever" cabaret starring the Taylors, engaged couple Justin and Kasey join them to get advice on tolerating a life partner and sharing their story of the sometimes-sweet journey you can take with someone you love.

Student Recital Series: Hang Zhang, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Hang Zhang, a graduate string performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a violin recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Big Eyed Phish (Dave Matthew Tribite Band)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poets Christine Gelineau and Jay Deshpande
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Christine Gelineau is the author of Crave, new from NYQ Books (2016). Other books include Appetite for the Divine and Remorseless Loyalty (both from Ashland Poetry Press). Winner of the Richard Snyder Prize and Robert McGovern Award, and recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Gelineau teaches at Binghamton University and in the low-residency MFA at Wilkes University. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such journals as Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The New York Times Opinionator, Green Mountains Review, and others.

Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger (YesYes Books), named one of the top debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers. A Kundiman fellow, he has held residencies at the Saltonstall Arts Colony and the Vermont Studio Center and was selected for the 2015 Scotti Merrill Memorial Award by Billy Collins. Poems have appeared in Boston Review, Narrative, the PEN Poetry Series, Poem-a-Day, Prelude, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

Pterodactyls
Black Box Players
Adam Coy, director

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

Pterodactyls is a show that examines the demise and decay of the human species through the Duncan family. In the 21st century where interpersonal communication is dying out due to technology, use of social media and general focus on self-interest, it is important to tell a story that breaks through our forms of denial. If we are not connected to the people we should be closest to, our families, then humanity has truly lost something that cannot be retrieved.

To reserve a seat, visit Ticketleap.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The artwork by the Independent Potters' Association will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Members include Brenda Conley, Wendy Emborski, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Bobbi Lamb, David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Karen Smith, John Smolenski, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, Rebecca Wind, and Sarah VanderVoort.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Near West Side Through the Lens: A Photography Exhibition by Youth
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

gyni: Girls Just Wanna...
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Three artists and friends from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art present the impromptu exhibition "gyni: Girls Just Wanna..." Stephanie James is the director of the School of Art and Doris E. Klein Endowed Professor of Art, Jude Lewis is an associate professor of sculpture, and Barbara Walter is a professor of jewelry and metalsmithing.

Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

SUArt Kids: [Re]Framed: An Object's Journey
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join us to participate in SUArt KIDS, an interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours and art-related stories, designed specifically to engage your family with the exhibition "[Re]Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections."

This event, geared towards kids aged 5-10, will cover themes from the exhibition that explore not just art appreciation, but also provide an introduction to the care and presentation of artwork by the professionals who work in museums and galleries. There will be a gallery tour and a guided art activity centered on creating your child's own masterpiece, which will then be framed. Your child then has the choice to either take home their work of art or hang it in our SUArt Kids Gallery for others to enjoy.

Please RSVP to suart@syr.edu or 315-443-4097.

Class of 2016 Visual Arts BFA Showcase
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

A gallery event showcasing works from students of the graduating class of 2016. The works on show will include painting, printmaking, sculpture, jewlery, and metalsmithing.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

25th Annual Bob Gabor CNY Irish Feis

Price: Free
New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

One thousand Irish step dancers from across the Northeast and Canada will compete. For more information, visit cnyfeis.com.

SpringFest 2016
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: One day: $10 individual, $15 couple. 4-Day Festival Pass: $25 individual, $40 couple
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

12:30 pm
My Identity, by Yasmin Mistry (11 minutes, documentary)
Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian girl, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed. Surrounded by drugs and alcohol, at age 8 Ashley becomes a ward of the state. She is separated from her brother and shuffled between the homes of extended family members where she bears witness to prostitution, drug dealing, and her own mother's overdose. As a teenager, Ashley seeks stability and unexpectedly finds it in the Muslim hip-hop community. Ashley is draw to the restrictions of the Islamic faith and believes these will prevent her from following in her family's footsteps. But this newfound stability is also the cause of a growing rift between herself and her estranged brother.

Iroquois Creation Story, by Cat Ashworth (17 minutes, animated)
The Iroquois Creation Story was made as a collaboration between three diverse groups of artists. G. Peter Jemison, a Seneca artist and site director of Ganondagan, was the Producer. His artwork and vision guided the film and he recruited many Haudenosaunee performers to voice the characters and perform the traditional dance and music sections. Cathleen Ashworth, a Professor in the School of Film and Animation was the Director. She pulled together over 25 student artists and other faculty from RIT to animate and edit the film. Garth Fagan Dance company choreographed the dancers.

The Good Mind, by Gwendolen Cates (70 minutes, documentary)
The sovereign Onondaga Nation in Central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which inspired American democracy. The Onondagas advocate for the environment while engaged in a battle with the U.S. Government over ancestral lands stolen in defiance of a treaty with George Washington.

3:15 pm
The Other Life of Charon by Ioana Turcan (40 minutes, documentary)
At the Central Cemetery in a small Romanian town, there are four gravediggers on duty. They are part of a Roma (gypsy) community that lives just outside the cemetery fence. They're digging graves and attending funerals, no matter what. They have a Romanian boss with whom they don't get along so well, and sometimes make contact with relatives, sober or not, of the one who passed away.

Garwin by Richard Breyer (67 minutes, documentary)
Garwin is a feature-length documentary about a scientist behind many important inventions, including the hydrogen bomb and the touch screen. Richard Garwin is among a handful of people who have literally changed the world. He has advised every president from Eisenhower to Obama. He was part of an elite group of scientists who were asked to help fix the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and find solutions to contain the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan. This vérité documentary delves into the rich and controversial life and career of Richard Garwin in an attempt to understand the complex nature of war, peace, and the future of humanity. Meeting renowned scientists, historians and politicians, the filmmakers accompany Dr. Garwin in search of what it really takes to build a more peaceful, verdant and sustainable world. From global warming, nuclear proliferation, and disarmament, to the energy crisis, our world faces gigantic challenges. And it is people like Richard Garwin, using science and optimism, who find real solutions when all hope is lost.

5:00 pm
Golden Novack Band (live music)

6:45 pm
SU College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Showcase
Films by Miso Suchy, Alex Mendez, Vasilios Papaioannu, Kara Herold, Owen Shapiro and Pedro Cuperman, June Kyu Park

Giving Voice (2015, Miso Suchy, 29 minutes, documentary)
A musical documentary about a community choir in Central New York that uses singing as a tool to foster broad social inclusiveness and community building.

The Book of Judith (2016, Alex Mendez Giner, 20 minutes, fiction)
Judith, a bitter widow who lives on an isolated farm, unexpectedly meets a stranger looking for help.
Judith's repressed sexual desire,ignited by the presence of the man, starts to haunt her daily life.

N.00090007 (2016, Vasilios Papaioannu, 3 minutes, experimental)
Water is a capsule that filters and transforms solid form into a primordial scream of echoed life. A violent detonation of colors peacefully settles into a liquid cosmos, blurring the boundary between macro and micro.

Bachelorette, 34 (2008, Kara Herold, 30 minutes, experimental/documentary)
Kara's mother is obsessed with getting her daughter married. Kara, a single artist and filmmaker in San Francisco, has her doubts. Through the microcosm of her often hilarious interactions with her mom Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find "Mr. Right."

One Block at a Time (2015, Owen Shapiro and Pedro Cuperman, 20 minutes, experimental/fiction)
A narrative constructed from blocks/tableaus that form associations with one another centers on two women who are really one and the same but at different ages, contemplating suicide.

Noise (2015, June Kyu Park, 15 minutes, fiction)
A homeless and drug-addicted 18-year-old girl tries to pay her debt by agreeing to be sterilized.

9:00 pm
Irrefutable Proof, by Ziad Hamzeh (84 minutes)
The story begins with a car crash preventing Jeanine Markham, a world-renowned astrophysicist, from delivering her controversial lecture about her findings. The accident puts Jeanine at the crossroads of conscious and subconscious, between comatose and awake as she struggles to live. But even in her vegetative unresponsive state, her mind, slipping between the two realities, continues her quest to deliver the truth. For Jeanine's husband and others, accepting the irrefutable proof that she presents is unthinkable—that we're alone in the universe, that no deity hears or answers our prayers nor punishes our sins, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, and that our sufferings, indeed our lives and loves, are ultimately pointless. Her journey, while stuck between the two worlds, becomes shrouded by dark and unexplainable events that create a whirlwind of tumultuous emotions and terrifying realizations. Much of the film was shot in Syracuse.

Student Recital Series: Andrew Wiley, conducting
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Andrew Wiley, a graduate conducting student in the Setnor School of Music, will conduct a recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Bare Bones Trombone Quartet

Price: Free
Paine Branch Library
113 Nichols, Syraucuse

Classics and theme songs. For more information, phone 315-435-5442.

Student Recital Series: Brian Savage, cello
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Brian Savage, a senior string performance major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a cello recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Ruogu Wang, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Ruogu Wang, a graduate piano performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a piano recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Butternut Creek Revival Band
Celebration of the Arts

Price: $10 suggested donation
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Butternut Creek Revival Band's influences are varied and include the rich traditions of folk, rock and jazz. These combine to create the band's own unique blend of acoustic music.

Romeo & Juliet -- In Concert
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe, Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

During this fully-staged interdisciplinary event, student actors and musicians team up to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death through his immortal words, alongside music inspired by the timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet.

Jupiter Quartet, with James Dunham, viola
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 ages 30 and under, free for full-time students with ID
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Haydn String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise"
Dutilleux Ainsi la Nuit
Brahms Quintet in G, Op. 111

Ensemble Series: University Singers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The University Singers, under the direction of Professor John Warren, will preview repertoire for the ensemble's upcoming European Grand Prix competition in Bulgaria. University Singers is the most select choral ensemble at SU and the University's premiere touring ensemble.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Downlink & Dieselboy: Blood, Sweat & Bass Tour, with Rekoil & True Risen
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Salt City Magic Show
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 regular, $5 children under 10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Salt City Magic Club features a variety of local magicians who provide a night of magic like none other.

Pterodactyls
Black Box Players
Adam Coy, director

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

Pterodactyls is a show that examines the demise and decay of the human species through the Duncan family. In the 21st century where interpersonal communication is dying out due to technology, use of social media and general focus on self-interest, it is important to tell a story that breaks through our forms of denial. If we are not connected to the people we should be closest to, our families, then humanity has truly lost something that cannot be retrieved.

To reserve a seat, visit Ticketleap.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

SpringFest 2016
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: One day: $10 individual, $15 couple. 4-Day Festival Pass: $25 individual, $40 couple
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

1:00 pm
SU Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics presents:
Changing Sport Changing Lives, by Dennis Deninger (59 minutes)
"It's not what you don't have that's important," says wheelchair basketball player Nik Goncin, "it's what you have." This film tells the stories of people who put their physical or intellectual disability or impairment second. They put their abilities, their drive, their dreams first. It is about the power of adaptive sports to transform and enrich the lives of persons with disabilities.

America's First Sport, by Dennis Deninger (54 minutes)
The first sporting event ever observed by Europeans in North America was a lacrosse game in 1637. Jesuit missionaries from France saw hundreds of native men playing a ball game with sticks that they thought resembled a bishop's crosier, so they called the game "lacrosse." That makes lacrosse the oldest sport in America, and in the 21st century it is also the fastest growing. This rapid growth in participation, domestically and globally, presents the sport with a new set of opportunities and several challenges.

3:30pm
Fragments of the Living, by Francis DiClemente (5 minutes)
An experimental short film composed of public domain home movie clips, it is a celebration of the American family, a nostalgic salute to the past and a meditation on the fleeting nature of life.

Briarwood, by Ryan Farmer (20 minutes, fiction)
Former detective Chris Woods (Jody Pucello) is swept into the psychotic game of a strategic killer while seeking revenge for the murder of his daughter.

Boom and Bust, by Paul Wagner and Steve Zeitlin (31 minutes, documentary)
A meditation on economic cycles and the American Dream. The film surveys the macro-economics of industrial expansion and decline along the Erie Canal, and examines its impact on the lives of the workers in steel, grain, textiles and shipping. In the wake of economic collapse, can the people of America's cities find meaning and worth?

Post-Panoptic Gazing, by M. Woods (11 minutes, experimental)
This is a syrup tasting carnivorous urge to conquer sexual ineptitude in overbearing glances and center the camera in the infinite void of consensual reflections of nothingness. But you will dance unlike you have ever danced before, with threads of everything you know are repackaged in metastatic digital packets of data rapidly going nowhere, blinking quickly into things outside the periphery of consciousness and knowledge towards digital sickness which thirsts for absolution. Not even the rabid gnashing of your teeth can escape the banal. Better to grin at the costumes floating about and accept the perpetual post-Panoptic suspension.

A Veteran's Story, by David Gandino (26 minutes, documentary)
A Veteran's Story is a short documentary about Patrick Heagerty, father of Michael Heagerty of the Palace Theater, and his experiences in WWII. It is moving and has lots of humor—Patrick is 90 years old and a good storyteller. The filmmaker is David Gandino who is a local social worker, who has studied filmmaking at SU. Film Festival Artistic Director Owen Shapiro consulted with David as the film was being made and an SU Film grad was the editor. The film has found footage and sound, along with Patrick's story in his own words.

Ensemble Series: Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Concert Band is a non-audition concert ensemble open to both music majors and non-majors. It offers an opportunity to perform outstanding large-band works.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Casual Series: Birth of the Concerto
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Symphoria explores the birth of the concerto, featuring musicians from the orchestra performing the earliest examples from the concerto grossi of Corelli to the romantic concerto.

Spring Concert
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

20th Anniversary Concert
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring The Central New York Jazz Orchestra with Janis Siegel

Price: $30 regular, $25 for advance subscribers and donors
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

CNY Jazz will present a gala cabaret concert with special guest Janis Siegel, charter member and lead female voice for The Manhattan Transfer, the seminal jazz vocal group that has been amassing gold records and touring the world since 1974. Janis will sing her favorites from the Great American Songbook backed by the sixteen-piece CNY Jazz Orchestra, making its first appearance in the series in several years. The Le Moyne Jazzuits will provide their swinging brand of vocal jazz to open the show.

The Le Moyne Jazzuits open the show with a set at 4:00 pm, the CNY Jazz Orchestra with Music Director Bret Zvacek will perform at 5:00, and Janis joins the big band for a closing set starting at 6:00 pm.

Student Recital Series: Cory Tyson, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Cory Tyson, a graduate string performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a guitar recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Anouk Lenormand, cello
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Anouk Lenormand, a graduate string performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a cello recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Hackensaw Boys
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Monday, May 2, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Communications Design On-Campus Senior Portfolio Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Join the graduating seniors of the School of Design's communications design program to celebrate the completion of their portfolios.

Fallen Angel (1945)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Dana Andrews, Alice Faye (in a dramatic role), Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine, Percy Kilbride, Anne Revere

Excellent Film Noir drama of a drifter (Andrews) who plans on fleecing a woman (Faye) out of money so he can marry a sexy waitress (Darnell). Intriguing story with a top-notch cast.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Daniel Berrigan poetry and Robert Marx artwork
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries presents a selection of poetry in honor of the late poet, playwright, educator, and social activist Daniel Berrigan, alongside original etchings by Robert Ernst Marx (b. 1925). Published in the 1960s, Berrigan's poetry and Marx's art appeared in two portfolios, Encounters and Crime Trial. The first was a series of poems written before the height of Berrigan's activism and Crime Trial has poetry that was written during the time of the "Cantonsville Nine" trial.

Reverend Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, was raised in Syracuse, and after his ordination taught at a number of American schools including Le Moyne College, Yale University, and Columbia University. Along with his brother Philip Berrigan, the two gained notoriety during the 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. In 1968 Daniel Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with another antiwar activist, Howard Zinn, and aided in the release of three American prisoners of war. This act was highly controversial, and the country was sharply divided on whether their actions were criminal or heroic.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Berrigan and his brother Philip led other anti-draft protesters in the burning of several hundred military draft files in Cantonsville, MD. This led to their trial, conviction, and ultimately a 3-year jail sentence. The "Cantonsville Nine" trial instigated an escalation of protest marches, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience.

Later, in 1980, the Berrigans organized the Plowshares movement that saw them break into a Pennsylvania General Electric missile fabrication plant. After hammering nuclear warhead nose cones (swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:3–4) and pouring blood over documents, files, and other materials, the "Plowshares Eight" were convicted of numerous felony charges. After years of appeals the sentences were changed to time served.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Choral Classics
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Singers and Chamber Singers

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Singers and Chamber Singers join with Masterworks Chorale to present an evening of choral favorites, including pop, musical theater, classical, and gospel works.

Ensemble Series: Baroque Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Baroque Ensemble performs under the direction of Setnor Professors Janet Brown and Anne Laver.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.