Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

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

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Recent Work
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Tom Kundig of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects in Seattle

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

Raised and educated in a tradition of art fabrication, Tom Kundig creates designs that successfully combine art, craft and the human experience of space. He is internationally recognized for his sense of the American West landscape and for his integration of elegant architecture with the exploration and reinvention of parts of architecture that tend to be overlooked or forgotten, such as doors, windows or stairs.

This fall, Princeton Architectural Press will release Tom Kundig: Houses. Architectural Record recently named his Delta Shelter Cabin a 2006 Record House. Kundig was a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture, sponsored by The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2004, he was selected as one of eight North American Emerging Architects by the Architectural League of New York and was elected to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He has been awarded numerous AIA awards, including two recent National AIA awards for The Brain and the Chicken Point Cabin.

Kundig has lectured extensively on design and served as a university studio critic throughout the United States, including at Harvard University, the University of Texas and the University of Oregon. He is currently teaching a visiting critic studio at SU's School of Architecture, where students will design a new multidisciplinary cultural center at a site in Ketchum, Idaho, recently purchased by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

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

Civic Morning Musicals
Deborah Lifton, soprano; Charis Dimaris, piano

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

Music of Mozart, Ravel, Granados, Harbison, Rorem

Opening Night
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
TBA, conductor
Featuring Vanessa Williams, guest performer

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Celebrity superstar of stage and screen, Vanessa Williams joins the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for a thrilling Opening Night of the 2006-2007 season. This Grammy-nominated artist has entertained audiences worldwide with her wide-ranging talents and glorious voice. From Broadway and R&B to jazz and Top-40 ballads including "Colors of the Wind," Vanessa Williams is sure to make this an unforgettable start to the season.

Read a review!

Redhouse Live - Keys Please
Redhouse
Featuring Kristin Hoffmann and NLX: Natasha Alexandra

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

Keys Please showcases the talents of two emerging artists Kristin Hoffmann and NLX: Natasha Alexandra. Together, Kristin and Natasha create a unique sound, weaving traditional piano-based melodies with electronic instrumentation and effects.

Malena Morling, poet
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

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

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

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

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

Onondaga Community College
CNY Arts
Shafaatullah Khan

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Master Indian musician.

Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Billy Bang

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jazz violinist and winner of the 2003 Indie Award for best mainstream jazz recording, "Viet Nam: The Aftermath," Billy Bang is one of a handful of musicians who has successfully adapted the unique timbre and range of the violin to the demands of improvisational music.

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

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

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

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

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

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

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

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

Folkus Project
Lui Collins

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Unflinchingly honest, intimate contemporary themes set to time-tested musical styles

Pops Series: Three Phantoms in Concert
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

Experience three of the most talented performers on the Great White Way when Mark Jacoby, Craig Schulman and Cris Groenendaal perform an evening of Broadway's greatest hits. Aside from a staggering list of stage and screen credits, these three performers have all starred as "The Phantom" in the longest running musical on Broadway's Phantom of the Opera and will thrill you with beloved songs from hauntingly beautiful show.

Read a review!

The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Saturday, September 30, 2006

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

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

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

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

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

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

Family Series: A Colorful Symphony
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Mifflin Lowe, narrator and special guest

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

Based on the popular children's story, The Phantom Toll Booth, Robert Xavier Rodrigeuz's composition, A Colorful Symphony, has become a popular favorite in its own right. This colorful concert will also feature Mifflin Lowe's Beasts by the Bunches, with a fun set of songs featuring "Leaps of Leopards," "Gaggle of Geese" and "Troop of Kangaroos."

Pops Series: Three Phantoms in Concert
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

Experience three of the most talented performers on the Great White Way when Mark Jacoby, Craig Schulman and Cris Groenendaal perform an evening of Broadway's greatest hits. Aside from a staggering list of stage and screen credits, these three performers have all starred as "The Phantom" in the longest running musical on Broadway's Phantom of the Opera and will thrill you with beloved songs from hauntingly beautiful show.

Read a review!

Cabaret Evening
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

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

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

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

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The Bald Soprano
Black Box Players
Nicholas Pescosolido, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Sunday, October 1, 2006

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

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

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

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

Arts Alive in Liverpool
Da Flo Jo Tette

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

Latin Jazz

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Monday, October 2, 2006

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

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

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

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

Joyce Carol Oates
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Syracuse University's own class of 1960 valedictorian, Oates has written novels, essays, short stories, poetry, plays and more. She is currently a distinguished professor at Princeton University.

Music of Steve Reich
Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

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

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

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Civic Morning Musicals
Kevin Moore, piano

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

Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9; music of Brahms.

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

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

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

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

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