Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Cherie Giraud
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors" captures places where people live and work, and everyday scenes they see in Syracuse, by three members of the Urban Sketchers art group: Bill Elkins, Dudley Breed, and Dan Shanahan. The artists all work on site, inside or outside, creating art that gives you a visual introduction to daily life in Syracuse.

The Artist's Assessment: Fred Gardner Paints Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit features the artwork of the eminent local artist Fred Gardner, who prolifically captured scenes of Central New York during the early- to mid-20th century.

After retiring from careers in architectural design and teaching in New York City, Gardner and his wife, Adelaide Morris Gardner, purchased a farm near Jamesville where he operated his art studio. Gardner's eclectic art subjects include houses, animals, farms, trains, a barn raising, transportation, and Onondaga Native Americans.

OHA's collection of Gardner artwork numbers almost 25 paintings, many surrounded by his homemade gray frames. Fred Gardner's distinct art style is sure to fascinate visitors young and old.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

CNY Artist Initiative: Marc-Anthony Polizzi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Marc-Anthony Polizzi was born in the post-industrial city of Utica. He attended Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and received his Masters in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Polizzi currently resides in Utica, where he runs and operates his studio.

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Even in his wildest dreams, Alexander Graham Bell could never have imagined that almost 150 years later, people all over the world would be carrying his invention in their pockets. Yet, today, our smartphones are so much more than telephones. In fact, most people rarely even make "old-fashioned" phone calls, eschewing them altogether to text or Facetime.

Smartphones have changed our society and culture in so many ways that it's hard to imagine a world without them. However, that world existed not so long ago. Today, our smartphone is our office computer, our home entertainment system, our camera, our bank, our map, our library, and much more. It is astonishing to contemplate, but this pocket-sized computer has, in the span of 15 years, become an indispensable part of the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

"A Pocketful of Progress" seeks to demonstrate the evolution of technology with an exhibition of a wide range of machines from the last 150 years, many of which were built right here in Syracuse, that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones. The impressive array of machines in this exhibit offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, housed, coincidentally, in a building built by the Bell Telephone Company. Just imagine what Mr. Bell would think!

Shinedown: Revolutions Live
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Megan Giddings
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Megan Giddings has degrees from University of Michigan and Indiana University. In 2018, she was a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial fund grant for feminist fiction. Her novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York magazine's 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR's best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category. In 2021, she was named one of Indiana University's 20 under 40. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022), was named one of The Washington Post's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture's Best Fantasy books of 2022, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. She lives in Minneapolis.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.

Preview: What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

Reception: Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be a reception and gallery dedication this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, with remarks at 6:00 pm.

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Reception: 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be a reception and gallery dedication this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, with remarks at 6:00 pm.

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

The Artist's Assessment: Fred Gardner Paints Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit features the artwork of the eminent local artist Fred Gardner, who prolifically captured scenes of Central New York during the early- to mid-20th century.

After retiring from careers in architectural design and teaching in New York City, Gardner and his wife, Adelaide Morris Gardner, purchased a farm near Jamesville where he operated his art studio. Gardner's eclectic art subjects include houses, animals, farms, trains, a barn raising, transportation, and Onondaga Native Americans.

OHA's collection of Gardner artwork numbers almost 25 paintings, many surrounded by his homemade gray frames. Fred Gardner's distinct art style is sure to fascinate visitors young and old.

Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors" captures places where people live and work, and everyday scenes they see in Syracuse, by three members of the Urban Sketchers art group: Bill Elkins, Dudley Breed, and Dan Shanahan. The artists all work on site, inside or outside, creating art that gives you a visual introduction to daily life in Syracuse.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

CNY Artist Initiative: Marc-Anthony Polizzi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Marc-Anthony Polizzi was born in the post-industrial city of Utica. He attended Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and received his Masters in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Polizzi currently resides in Utica, where he runs and operates his studio.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Even in his wildest dreams, Alexander Graham Bell could never have imagined that almost 150 years later, people all over the world would be carrying his invention in their pockets. Yet, today, our smartphones are so much more than telephones. In fact, most people rarely even make "old-fashioned" phone calls, eschewing them altogether to text or Facetime.

Smartphones have changed our society and culture in so many ways that it's hard to imagine a world without them. However, that world existed not so long ago. Today, our smartphone is our office computer, our home entertainment system, our camera, our bank, our map, our library, and much more. It is astonishing to contemplate, but this pocket-sized computer has, in the span of 15 years, become an indispensable part of the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

"A Pocketful of Progress" seeks to demonstrate the evolution of technology with an exhibition of a wide range of machines from the last 150 years, many of which were built right here in Syracuse, that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones. The impressive array of machines in this exhibit offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, housed, coincidentally, in a building built by the Bell Telephone Company. Just imagine what Mr. Bell would think!

Folk Music in the Salt City
Strathmore Speakers Series
Featuring The Cadleys

Price: Free
Onondaga Park Fire Barn
W. Colvin St. and Summit Ave., Syracuse

Join the Strathmore Speakers Series and Onondaga Free Library for a live music event featuring celebrated local folk musicians, John and Cathy Cadley and John Dancks. The Cadleys have been entertaining audiences throughout Upstate New York and New England for many years with their powerful mix of traditional bluegrass, "new acoustic" a la Alison Krauss, and numerous original folk composition. Through the power of their music, the Cadley's will share with us their experience of the Syracuse folk scene, its storied past, and its increasingly bright future. A brief Q&A will follow their performance.

Jeffrey Foucault
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

In two decades on the road, Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power, a decidedly Midwestern amalgam of blues, country, rock'n'roll, and folk. He's built a brick-and-mortar international touring career on multiple studio albums, countless miles, and general critical acclaim.

Preview: What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

Friday, September 15, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors" captures places where people live and work, and everyday scenes they see in Syracuse, by three members of the Urban Sketchers art group: Bill Elkins, Dudley Breed, and Dan Shanahan. The artists all work on site, inside or outside, creating art that gives you a visual introduction to daily life in Syracuse.

The Artist's Assessment: Fred Gardner Paints Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit features the artwork of the eminent local artist Fred Gardner, who prolifically captured scenes of Central New York during the early- to mid-20th century.

After retiring from careers in architectural design and teaching in New York City, Gardner and his wife, Adelaide Morris Gardner, purchased a farm near Jamesville where he operated his art studio. Gardner's eclectic art subjects include houses, animals, farms, trains, a barn raising, transportation, and Onondaga Native Americans.

OHA's collection of Gardner artwork numbers almost 25 paintings, many surrounded by his homemade gray frames. Fred Gardner's distinct art style is sure to fascinate visitors young and old.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

CNY Artist Initiative: Marc-Anthony Polizzi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Marc-Anthony Polizzi was born in the post-industrial city of Utica. He attended Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and received his Masters in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Polizzi currently resides in Utica, where he runs and operates his studio.

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
5:00 pm: Brass Inc.
7:00 pm: Mere Mortals
9:00 pm Prime Time Horns

Strolling 6:00-8:00 pm: Paulo & Felice

SMALL STAGE
12:00 pm: Just Joe
4:30 pm: The Strangers
6:30 pm: Fate
8:30 pm: Ener-G

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitalianasyracuse.org.

A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Even in his wildest dreams, Alexander Graham Bell could never have imagined that almost 150 years later, people all over the world would be carrying his invention in their pockets. Yet, today, our smartphones are so much more than telephones. In fact, most people rarely even make "old-fashioned" phone calls, eschewing them altogether to text or Facetime.

Smartphones have changed our society and culture in so many ways that it's hard to imagine a world without them. However, that world existed not so long ago. Today, our smartphone is our office computer, our home entertainment system, our camera, our bank, our map, our library, and much more. It is astonishing to contemplate, but this pocket-sized computer has, in the span of 15 years, become an indispensable part of the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

"A Pocketful of Progress" seeks to demonstrate the evolution of technology with an exhibition of a wide range of machines from the last 150 years, many of which were built right here in Syracuse, that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones. The impressive array of machines in this exhibit offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, housed, coincidentally, in a building built by the Bell Telephone Company. Just imagine what Mr. Bell would think!

Opening: What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

CNY Artist Initiative: Marc-Anthony Polizzi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Marc-Anthony Polizzi was born in the post-industrial city of Utica. He attended Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and received his Masters in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Polizzi currently resides in Utica, where he runs and operates his studio.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

The Artist's Assessment: Fred Gardner Paints Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit features the artwork of the eminent local artist Fred Gardner, who prolifically captured scenes of Central New York during the early- to mid-20th century.

After retiring from careers in architectural design and teaching in New York City, Gardner and his wife, Adelaide Morris Gardner, purchased a farm near Jamesville where he operated his art studio. Gardner's eclectic art subjects include houses, animals, farms, trains, a barn raising, transportation, and Onondaga Native Americans.

OHA's collection of Gardner artwork numbers almost 25 paintings, many surrounded by his homemade gray frames. Fred Gardner's distinct art style is sure to fascinate visitors young and old.

Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors" captures places where people live and work, and everyday scenes they see in Syracuse, by three members of the Urban Sketchers art group: Bill Elkins, Dudley Breed, and Dan Shanahan. The artists all work on site, inside or outside, creating art that gives you a visual introduction to daily life in Syracuse.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
1:30 pm: Syracuse Opera
3:00 pm: Rev Band
5:00 pm: Ruby Shooz
7:00 pm: Infinity
9:00 pm: Rydher

Strolling 3:00-5:00: Paulo & Felice

SMALL STAGE
11:00 am: Just Joe
1:00 pm: Howie Bartolo
2:30 pm: Tennyson Ave Unplugged
4:30 pm: Time Trax
6:30 pm: Bad Husband Club
8:30 pm: Custom Taylor Band

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitalianasyracuse.org.

A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Even in his wildest dreams, Alexander Graham Bell could never have imagined that almost 150 years later, people all over the world would be carrying his invention in their pockets. Yet, today, our smartphones are so much more than telephones. In fact, most people rarely even make "old-fashioned" phone calls, eschewing them altogether to text or Facetime.

Smartphones have changed our society and culture in so many ways that it's hard to imagine a world without them. However, that world existed not so long ago. Today, our smartphone is our office computer, our home entertainment system, our camera, our bank, our map, our library, and much more. It is astonishing to contemplate, but this pocket-sized computer has, in the span of 15 years, become an indispensable part of the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

"A Pocketful of Progress" seeks to demonstrate the evolution of technology with an exhibition of a wide range of machines from the last 150 years, many of which were built right here in Syracuse, that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones. The impressive array of machines in this exhibit offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, housed, coincidentally, in a building built by the Bell Telephone Company. Just imagine what Mr. Bell would think!

Joe Louis Walker
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Joe Louis Walker has recorded with Ike Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Steve Cropper, opened for Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and was a close friend and roommate of Mike Bloomfield.

A myriad of organizations have recognized Joe for his achievements. He's a member of the Blues Hall of Fame, was named a USA Fellow by United States Artists, won multiple W.C. Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards, has been a recipient of San Francisco's prestigious Bammy Awards, and was also awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

Kathy Dillon and Friends
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Kathy Dillon picked up her first guitar in 1966 and has been a passionate folk musician ever since. She is an experienced vocalist and a longtime member of the Syracuse Guitar League.

Kathy will be joined on stage by Bryan Dickenson, Mike Zellweger and Ron Kadey.

What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

CNY Artist Initiative: Marc-Anthony Polizzi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Marc-Anthony Polizzi was born in the post-industrial city of Utica. He attended Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and received his Masters in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Polizzi currently resides in Utica, where he runs and operates his studio.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Syracuse: City Life in Watercolors" captures places where people live and work, and everyday scenes they see in Syracuse, by three members of the Urban Sketchers art group: Bill Elkins, Dudley Breed, and Dan Shanahan. The artists all work on site, inside or outside, creating art that gives you a visual introduction to daily life in Syracuse.

The Artist's Assessment: Fred Gardner Paints Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit features the artwork of the eminent local artist Fred Gardner, who prolifically captured scenes of Central New York during the early- to mid-20th century.

After retiring from careers in architectural design and teaching in New York City, Gardner and his wife, Adelaide Morris Gardner, purchased a farm near Jamesville where he operated his art studio. Gardner's eclectic art subjects include houses, animals, farms, trains, a barn raising, transportation, and Onondaga Native Americans.

OHA's collection of Gardner artwork numbers almost 25 paintings, many surrounded by his homemade gray frames. Fred Gardner's distinct art style is sure to fascinate visitors young and old.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

MAIN STAGE
1:00 pm: Festa Italiana Talent Showcase
3:00 pm: Dunes and the Del Tunes
5:00 pm: Dirt Road Ruckus

Strolling 2:00-4:00 pm: Paulo & Felice

SMALL STAGE
12:00 pm: Mark Marci
2:00 pm: Freeway Band
3:30 pm: Menage A Soul
5:00 pm: Stroke

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitalianasyracuse.org.

A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Even in his wildest dreams, Alexander Graham Bell could never have imagined that almost 150 years later, people all over the world would be carrying his invention in their pockets. Yet, today, our smartphones are so much more than telephones. In fact, most people rarely even make "old-fashioned" phone calls, eschewing them altogether to text or Facetime.

Smartphones have changed our society and culture in so many ways that it's hard to imagine a world without them. However, that world existed not so long ago. Today, our smartphone is our office computer, our home entertainment system, our camera, our bank, our map, our library, and much more. It is astonishing to contemplate, but this pocket-sized computer has, in the span of 15 years, become an indispensable part of the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

"A Pocketful of Progress" seeks to demonstrate the evolution of technology with an exhibition of a wide range of machines from the last 150 years, many of which were built right here in Syracuse, that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones. The impressive array of machines in this exhibit offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, housed, coincidentally, in a building built by the Bell Telephone Company. Just imagine what Mr. Bell would think!

Mlmgren Series: Broadway star Tamar Greene and pianist Robert Auler
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An evening of opera arias, Broadway show tunes, reggae, jazz, and R&B musical fusion

Tease your senses and experience Broadway star Tamar Greene of the hit musical Hamilton. Join him on an evening journey of the eclectic tones of an opera, reggae, jazz, theater, and R&B musical fusion.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

What the Constitution Means to Me
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.

Monday, September 18, 2023

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Honky Tonk (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Claire Trevor, Chill Wills, Albert Dekker
Director: Jack Conway

MGM's hit about a gambler/con man (Gable) who makes a big impression on a town in the Old West ... as well as on a beautiful young woman (Turner). The first of several screen teamings of Gable and Turner, and this one is dynamite!

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Dear World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: prints and sculptures
Sharon Schuchardt-Patsos: smoked earthenware organic forms
Caroline Tauxe: fabric and mixed media jewelry

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Patrick Radden Keefe
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

A staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of New York Times bestsellers Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Rolling Stone calls him an "obsessive reporter, researcher and master of narrative nonfiction." His book, Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the 10 best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Julie and Rick's Jazz Asylum
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville