Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Cassatt String Quartet, with Eric Gustafson, viola

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

Dvorak Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105
Mozart Viola Quintet in D Major, K. 593

For more information, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892, Jennifer Leshnower at jleshnower@earthlink.net or visit www.cassattquartet.com.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

The Birth of Cool
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Sanford Kwinter, writer, designer, and philosopher

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

Sanford Kwinter is co-founder and editor of Zone and Zone Books. He has written widely on philosophical issues of design, architecture and urbanism, and has been involved extensively in Architecture New York conferences and publications. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University and is associate professor at Rice University.

For more information, contact Mary Kate OBrien, communications manager for the School of Architecture, at 315-443-2388 or mcobrien@syr.edu. For information on public parking at The Warehouse, phone 315-443-8238.

Folk Songs and Showpieces for Clarinet
Civic Morning Musicals
Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

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

Note the change of venue -- this concert will be held at May Memorial and NOT at the Everson Museum.

Raymond Carver Reading Series
Featuring Nelson George, author

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

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

Thursday, February 2, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

Artist's reception 3:30 pm - 7:00 pm.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Contemporary Film Series: Black Is...Black Ain't
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $3 members and students, $4 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The final film by Marlon Riggs, Black Is...Black Ain't jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. Riggs explores the devastating impact of the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on one another.

Riggs uses his grandmother's gumbo as a metaphor for the rich diversity of Black identities. Riggs traverses the country, bringing viewers face to face with Black Americans, young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban, gay and straight, grappling with the paradox of numerous and often contested definitions of Blackness.

Riggs mixes performances by choreographer Bill T. Jones and poet Essex Hemphill with commentary by noted cultural critics Angela Davis, bell hooks, Cornel West, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith and Maulana Karenga to create a flavorful stew of personal testimony, music and history.

USA, 87 minutes, 1995

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy/thriller.

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

Friday, February 3, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Sleeping Beauty
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse City Ballet
Daniel Hege, conductor

Price: $16-$65; half-price for children under 12
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Upstate NY Ballet will awaken your senses and stir your emotions as they present the classic story of Sleeping Beauty. You will enjoy the timeless grace and splendor of dance set to the glorious music of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. This will certainly be a season highlight performance the whole family is sure to enjoy.

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Onondaga Community College
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra String Quartet

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Folkus Project
Sloan Wainwright

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

Sloan Wainwright has been a pioneer all her life. A forerunner in the independent music scene long before it became hip to walk the road less traveled, Wainwright is an artist whose passionate work and extraordinary life have fused to burn a new definition for women in music, grown-up-girl style.

Wainwright is a compelling performer and highly original singer. She melds the best of rock, folk, jazz, and blues to create a soulful hybrid. She sings with a depth that makes the heart ache with recognition and a passion that calls it to rise above. Wainwright's voice and expert song craft are instantly memorable, her personal appearances are forceful and uplifting.

Wainwright was born into a highly acclaimed musical family; she is the youngest sister of Loudon Wainwright, aunt to Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Her teenage years were influenced by constant exposure to diverse artists, writers, and musicians. Writing and performing throughout the Greenwich Village hipster scene, Sloan developed her own unique style. Some have compared her vocals to a stylistic crossroad of Bonnie Raitt and Kate Bush; others to the haunting voice of Mary Fahl, the original lead singer of October Project, or Judy Collins with a much deeper, darker timbre.

In the mid 90's Wainwright began to collaborate with guitarist Stephen Murphy. From their instant creative synergy, they put together a band, and released the self-titled Sloan Wainwright debut CD in 1996. It was a critical success and introduced the music to a national audience. Since then, she has released four more CDs. The most recent, Cool Morning, sees her take on a myriad of musical challenges. Songs like "Word of The Day" showcase her unique vocal styling. One of the most memorable cuts on the CD is her rendition of U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name." Her performance of this classic not only radiates the greatness of the song, but also gives the listener the clear vision of Wainwright as a modern-day interpreter of lyrics and music.

To maintain her own sense of creative diversity, Wainwright has written numerous musical compositions for theater and dance (for which she has been the recipient of various grants and awards). She composed music for the January 2004 presentation of Peter Pucci's To Begin Again at the famous Joyce Theater in New York City. Both the music and dance were based on fresh interpretations of Chopin's Nocturnes.

Wainwright is an independent artist making grown-up-girl music in the truest sense - a rare, one of a kind voice that speaks deeply to our humanity and leaves us forever changed.

Prelude to a Kiss
Appleseed Productions

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

At a couple's wedding, an old man kisses the bride and they switch bodies. The groom finally figures it out and works to swap his new bride back to her body.

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The Music Man

Price: $7 - $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

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Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

Saturday, February 4, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Breakfast Serials with Flash Gordon (1936)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $3.50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

B-Monster Movie Matinee with Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $3.50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Midnight Screams with Children of the Sky
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Syracuse University Ancient Fife and Drum Corps

Price: $5
Christ Episcopal Church
407 E. Seneca St., Manlius

Performing in costume and on reproduction instruments. Reception follows concert.

For more information, phone 315-682-5795.

My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather Said...
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Vanessa Johnson

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

Storyteller and actress Vanessa Johnson weaves together stories rich with African heritage and music played on traditional instruments.

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

The Music Man

Price: $7 - $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Prelude to a Kiss
Appleseed Productions

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

At a couple's wedding, an old man kisses the bride and they switch bodies. The groom finally figures it out and works to swap his new bride back to her body.

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The Music Man

Price: $7 - $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Read a Review!

Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 5, 2006

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Sleeping Beauty
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse City Ballet
Daniel Hege, conductor

Price: $16-$65; half-price for children under 12
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Upstate NY Ballet will awaken your senses and stir your emotions as they present the classic story of Sleeping Beauty. You will enjoy the timeless grace and splendor of dance set to the glorious music of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. This will certainly be a season highlight performance the whole family is sure to enjoy.

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B-Monster Movie Matinee with King Kong vs. Godzilla
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $3.50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Arts Alive in Liverpool
Society for New Music

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

Deborah Lifton, soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Deborah Lifton is and affiliate artist in VPA and assistant professor of performance studies at Ithaca College. The program includes the works of Bellini, Rossini, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Larsen and Ginastera. Pianist Charis Dimaras, associate professor of piano at Ithaca College, will accompany Lifton.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892.

Prelude to a Kiss
Appleseed Productions

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

At a couple's wedding, an old man kisses the bride and they switch bodies. The groom finally figures it out and works to swap his new bride back to her body.

Read a Review!

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

Monday, February 6, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Aspects of Love
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Norma Tippett, soprano

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute
Dvorak Rusulka's Song to the Moon
Mozart "Mi tradi quell'alma ingrate" from Don Giovanni
Bizet "Je dis que rien ne m'epouvant" from Carmen
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Guest Artist Lecture
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Elinor Carucci, photographer

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Renowned photographer Elinor Carucci, professor of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, will discuss her work as an artist and her career.

Carucci's images capture a feeling of intimacy through photographs of her family. She started creating images at age 15, viewing her mother as her "natural point of origin" and her "connection to the world." The images of her mother helped Carucci explore her femininity and helped her grow and separate into her own life. Since then, her work has expanded and she now photographs her father, brother and grandparents, among other family members. Her husband, Eran, has also become an important subject and source of inspiration, much like her mother before.

Carucci works in both black-and-white and color photography, and feels that color photography makes her work feel warmer and more vivid. She shoots intuitively, on the spot, with no planning, and her images depict what is happening rather than environments she has created. Through this style, Carucci has created images in which she and her family have discovered more about themselves, learning about attitudes and feelings they couldn't necessarily see until captured in photographs.

Carucci received her B.F.A. in photography from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, and her work has been exhibited worldwide. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ICP Infinity Award and a Buhl Foundation Grant, among other awards. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum and International Center of Photography in New York City, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other institutions.

Paid parking is available in all SU pay lots. For more information, phone Light Work at 315-443-1300.

Vocal Bach Plus
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $10 adults, $5 students, $20 family pass
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

A special mid-winter concert featuring vocal and instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Outstanding vocal soloists and members of the Syracuse Symphony will perform excerpts from the B-minor Mass, the Wedding Cantata, the Coffee Cantata, A Musical Offering, and other works by Bach.

Vocal soloists will be Janet Brown, Tessa Romano, and Kelly MacDonald, sopranos; Martha Sutter, mezzo-soprano; James Shults, tenor; and Jimi James, bass-baritone. Members of the Syracuse Symphony taking part are Cristina Buciu, violin; Geroge Macero, cello; Deborah Coble, flute; Patricia Sharpe, oboe; and Sar-Shalom Strong, harpsichord.

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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