Tuesday, August 30, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

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

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

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

KidsFest:! A Morning with Hilary
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Festival favorite Hilary Hahn will charm young and old alike as she plays, chats and answers questions from the audience.

Liverpool is the Place
E.S.P.

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

Contemporary jazz quartet.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Contemporary Film Series: Dogtown and Z-Boys
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Chamber Concert with Hilary Hahn
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Steven Copes, violin; Hilary Hahn, violin; Judy Loman, harp; Lesley Robertson, viola; Maria Schleuning, violin; David Ying, cello; Natalie Zhu, piano

Price: $21, $16 regular; $18, $13 students/seniors; children under 13 free
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Piazzolla Four Seasons in Buenos Aires
Carlos Salzedo Theme and Variations for Harp
Debussy Danses Sacrée et Profane for Harp and String Quartet
Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat major, Op. 12 No. 3
Enescu Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano

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Solo Piano Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Fred Karpoff, piano

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

Haydn Sonata in C, Hob. XVI: 48
Schumann Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Liszt Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Rachmaninoff 3 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33
Shostakovich Polka from The Age of Gold
Barber Sonata for Piano, Op. 26

Those wishing to attend the dress rehearsal on Wed., Aug. 31 at
8:00 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium should leave a message at 315-443-1424, to
ensure admittance to the building.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. Free parking is available in Quad 1 for seniors on a space available basis.

Friday, September 2, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Über Urban
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Über Urban is youth driven exhibition of street and graffiti inspired artwork that will take place at Company Gallery in One Lincoln Center. The show features innovative street and graffiti inspired artwork by Central New York artists. Über Urban explores and exposes the core of our urban environment. The artists use canvas, wood, and even found objects as a platform through which they express themselves as city dwellers. The show highlights the work of Peter Baldwin, Bore, Camp, Chem One, Benjamin E. Critton, Dan Dippel, Dr. Jules, LaVigne, and Sosa.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Chamber Music Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Steven Copes, violin; Elinor Freer, piano; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Judy Loman, harp; Lesley Robertson, viola; Maria Schleuning, viloin; Maria Schleuning, violin; David Ying, cello

Price: $21, $16 regular; $18, $13 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Witold Lutoslawski Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano
Bizet/Loman "Carmen" Suite
Brahms Quintet for Piano and Strings

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Saturday, September 3, 2005

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Über Urban
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Über Urban is youth driven exhibition of street and graffiti inspired artwork that will take place at Company Gallery in One Lincoln Center. The show features innovative street and graffiti inspired artwork by Central New York artists. Über Urban explores and exposes the core of our urban environment. The artists use canvas, wood, and even found objects as a platform through which they express themselves as city dwellers. The show highlights the work of Peter Baldwin, Bore, Camp, Chem One, Benjamin E. Critton, Dan Dippel, Dr. Jules, LaVigne, and Sosa.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

Festival Finale
Skaneateles Festival
Peter Bay, conductor
Featuring Hilary Hahn, violin

Price: $30; $24; children under 13 free
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D, Op. 47
Dvorák Czech Suite, Op.39

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Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Sunday, September 4, 2005

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

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

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

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

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

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View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Über Urban
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Über Urban is youth driven exhibition of street and graffiti inspired artwork that will take place at Company Gallery in One Lincoln Center. The show features innovative street and graffiti inspired artwork by Central New York artists. Über Urban explores and exposes the core of our urban environment. The artists use canvas, wood, and even found objects as a platform through which they express themselves as city dwellers. The show highlights the work of Peter Baldwin, Bore, Camp, Chem One, Benjamin E. Critton, Dan Dippel, Dr. Jules, LaVigne, and Sosa.

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

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

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

Monday, September 5, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tuesday, September 6, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Works of Donal and Shel Little

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOT-EK
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

The Great New York State Fair Series
Westcott Community Center

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

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

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Vive L'Amour
Redhouse

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

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