Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

The Five Senses
Redhouse

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

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

106 minutes, rated R.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Julie Eizenberg, Sargent Visiting Critic in S.U.'s School of Architecture
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Eizenberg is founding principal architect of Koning Eizenberg Architecture (KEA), established in 1981. She is a licensed architect in California and Australia, and holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a master's in architecture from the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles. She teaches and lectures extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and serves on numerous award juries. She is a peer reviewer for the GSA Design Excellence program, recipient of the Association of Women in Architecture 2004 Design Excellence award and, together with Hank Koning and the KEA staff, has earned numerous awards, including the 2004 Residential Architect Firm of the Year.

In recent years, KEA has won two national competitions under her design direction: Chicago Public School Northside and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, which opened in 2004. As principal-in-charge, Eizenberg brings design vision and leadership to KEA's effort and contribution to the team. Her experience in reconciling various community interests while maintaining design excellence is demonstrated in many consensus-building community-based projects involving cities, non-profit agencies, community groups and private developers.

Chopin Recital
Civic Morning Musicals
Kevin Moore, piano

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

Included in the program will be Chopin's Barcarolle and the Piano Sonata in B minor.

Kevin Moore is Professor of Music at Onondaga Community College where he has taught since 1975. He has played more than 270 concerts in the central and western NY areas, including more than 70 full-length solo recitals, numerous chamber music, choral and vocal programs.

A performance graduate of the Crane School of Music, he also has a Masters in Music from the Manhattan School of Music and a PhD in performance and music theory from New York University, as well as a law degree from Syracuse University. He made his New York City recital debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1976.

Parking is available at the OnCenter Parking Garage.

National Poetry Slam Champion Patricia Smith
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Poet, author, and four-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion Patricia Smith brings her poetic voice of social consciousness to OCC. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland Books) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha).

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

Koren Zailckas, non-fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

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Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

Read a Review!

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

The Read Creed: Libraries in the History of Intellectual Freedom
Featuring Joyce Latham

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

Latham is Executive Director of the Onondaga County Public Library, and her lecture is in recognition of Banned Books Week.

Joyce Latham came to Syracuse from Champaign-Urbana, where she pursued doctoral studies at the University of Illinois. Though her research concerns the history of intellectual freedom in public libraries, her experience has focused on expansion of access through automation in libraries.

She will talk about the role that libraries have played in the development and defense of intellectual freedom in America. Professional librarians, whether in public, school, or academic settings, have created an ethic as advocates of intellectual access. The history of American libraries, from Chicago to California to Syracuse, is rich with stories of challenge and defense.

This event is sponsored in cooperation with the Central New York Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Parking is available in the Marion Lot on Waverly Ave.

Marcia Rutledge Trio
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

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Friday, September 30, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Sonam Targee

Price: $10
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Concert of sacred world music.

Mark Twain's America
Featuring Jacqueline Schwab, piano

Price: $10
Northminster Presbyterian Church
7444 Buckley Rd., North Syracuse

Music of Mark Twain's era, including Civil War parlor songs, Victorian ballroom dance tunes, Scots and Irish airs, ragtime and more.

For more information, phone 315-458-0393.

Classics Series: Copland and Stravinsky
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

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

Ellington Black, Brown and Beige Suite
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Piazzolla Contemplacian y danza
Stravinsky Petrouchka

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

Read a Review!

Saturday, October 1, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

Here and Beyond
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Folkus Project
Galitcha

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

From compelling and lively dance tunes, to powerful songs from the heart, Galitcha (meaning tapestry) will take the audience on a musical journey. Galitcha weaves cross-cultural links through a rich tapestry of music based on traditional East Indian styles meshed with musical influences from around the world. Listeners will be intrigued by the unique combination of voice, harmonium, tablas, sax, flute, guitar and dulcimer with the addition of various East Indian drums and other percussive instruments.

Based in Ottawa, Canada, Galitcha has performed in concert halls and folk festivals
across Canada, as well as The Lincoln Center in New York City and the Ontario Center
for the Performing Arts in Oswego, NY. They have performed mainstage showcases at many
industry conferences, such as NERFA (North East Regional Folk Alliance) conference in
Monticello, NY and Folk Alliance Canada.

Galitchas CD Satrang has reached 'top 10' status on world music charts on stations from
Toronto to Victoria. Galitcha was awarded CIUT's (Toronto) 'Porcupine Award' for
Musique du Monde CD of the year (2003). They are currently working on two new projects
for release in 2005 - an album of sacred music and a collaboration with a Québécois
artist.

Classics Series: Copland and Stravinsky
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

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

Ellington Black, Brown and Beige Suite
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Piazzolla Contemplacian y danza
Stravinsky Petrouchka

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The Stonecutter
Open Hand Theater

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

Have you ever wished you could be someone else? Open Hand Theater's beautiful performance of this Japanese folk story is geared for all ages and brings together live music and great puppetry in a style inspired by Japanese theater.

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

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Sunday, October 2, 2005

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

The Five Senses
Redhouse

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

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

106 minutes, rated R.

Armory Square: The Development of an Urban Neighborhood. Lessons Learned
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Robert Doucette and George Curry

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

George Curry and Bob Doucette will make a presentation based upon their experiences in the development of Armory Square. The talk will include a slide presentation on the history of Armory Square from the mid 1800s to the present day with emphasis on the developer’s' role in the creation of a Historic District in 1984 and their early development efforts. The partners will also discuss their original development strategies and philosophies including reflections upon the concept of an “urban neighborhood”.

Mr. Doucette is President of Armory Development & Mgt., a real estate and management firm located in Armory Square and a co-owner of Paramount Realty. He has been a pioneer in the revitalization efforts in Syracuse since 1980. He was instrumental in the development of the Armory Square Historic District in downtown Syracuse. This development project has been unusually successful for a city of Syracuse’'s size and serves as a model for other mid-sized cities. Doucette also serves as a consultant to city governments and private companies interested in urban revitalization and mixed use development.

Mr. Curry, a distinguished teaching professor at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is a licensed landscape architect and a specialist in urban design and historic preservation. He has taught for 34 years in the faculty of landscape architecture at ESF where he helped develop a pioneering off-campus program, which requires each landscape architect student to spend a semester working in the field. This program has sent ESF students to study and work in countries all over the world.

Naturally Classical Horn
Arts Alive in Liverpool
Featuring Bradley Foil and Ensemble

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

Lost in Yonkers
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

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

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Monday, October 3, 2005

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

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

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

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

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

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, October 4, 2005

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

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

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

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

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

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Carrie Mae Weems: Forms of Memory
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Kathak Dance
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Kaveri Agashe/Manasi Tapikar

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The ancient Kathakas, or storytellers, were traveling bards who were the first to employ this dance to communicate their talks to the public. Kathak dance became part of the daily tradition of temple worship in Hindu North India.

The Five Senses
Redhouse

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

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

106 minutes, rated R.

Miss Saigon
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse