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CAMPUS

February 20 – March 8
Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, 316 Waverly Ave.
Price: Free
Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society — men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful — and the crafting of a self-image. Gallery Reception: Thursday, February 23, 5-7pm.

February 20 – May 31
Wounding the Black Male: Photographs from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, 316 Waverly Ave.
Light Work is pleased to bring the exhibition Wounding the Black Male to Syracuse. The exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. Gallery Reception: Thursday, February 23, 5-7pm.

February 20 – May 31
The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Price: Free
This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library’s collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

February 20 – March 23
FOR_PLAY
Slocum Hall Gallery
Price: Free
An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play. Opening reception: January 31, 6pm.

February 21 – March 18
Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home–Images of the Caribbean and New York City
SU Art Galleries, Shaffer Art Building
“No Way Home” features a selection of 25 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist’s ongoing interest in repetitive patterns.

February 21 – March 18
Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
SU Art Galleries, Shaffer Art Building
“Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions” chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

February 21, 8pm
Bruce Stevens, Guest Organist
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
Organist Bruce Stevens, an instructor of organ at the University of Richmond in Virginia and organist emeritus of the historic Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, will present an organ recital on the historic Holtkamp organ. He will perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Schumann, Rheinberger, Reger, and Klaas Bolt.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

February 22 – 26
Caroline, or Change; Marcela Lorca, director
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St.
The acclaimed musical event blending blues, gospel and traditional Jewish melodies, with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie and Shrek: The Musical).

An eight-year-old boy named Noah Gellman struggles with the loss of his mother and the arrival of a new stepmother. One constant in his life are the small daily rituals he shares with Caroline, the family’s African-American maid. The year is 1963–civil rights and Kennedy–and in the Gellman household in Lake Charles, Louisiana, change is coming for everyone, in big ways and small. Two powerhouses of the American theatre, playwright Tony Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori, join forces on a musical of startling creativity and refreshing originality (don’t be surprised when the washing machine starts to sing). Acclaimed on Broadway and winner of London’s prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Musical, with a score ranging from blues to gospel to traditional Jewish melodies, Caroline, or Change proves playwright Kushner’s point that “music is a blessing that enters the soul through the ear.”

February 22, 6:45pm
Wednesday Film Series: Architecture D’Aujourd’Hui
Slocum Hall Gallery
Price:Free
Pierre Chenal with Le Corbusier, 1931, 18 minutes

February 23, 8pm
SU’s Morton B. Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

February 24 – March 4
The Lower Depths; Gerardine Clark, director
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St.
A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky’s first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) — outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers — negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky’s finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play’s spiritual essence: “freedom, whatever happens!”

February 24 – March 3
Durang in Duet; Katie Lynch, director
Black Box Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St.
Price: Free
Durang in Duet is an evening of two short plays, Canker Sores and Other Distractions and For Who the Southern Belle Tolls, written by Christopher Durang. Durang is an American playwright know for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

Canker Sores and Other Distractions takes place in a restaurant with an ex-husband and wife meeting for one of the first times after their divorce. A disagreeable waitress causes an obstacle while the two characters develop several afflictions that cause them to remember why they divorced in the first place.

For Who the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tenessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. It takes place on the night that Tom brings home a lady friend for his crippled brother, Lawrence. The play is an absurd and hilarious take on the Wingfield family that Tennesse Williams made famous in The Glass Menagerie.

February 25, 8pm
Setnor Voice Faculty Recital
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
Setnor School of Music voice faculty members Janet Brown, Jonathan English, Nancy James, Eric Johnson, Rebecca Karpoff, Julie McKinstry, Julianna Sabol, and Carolyn Weber will perform with pianists Ida Tili-Trebicka and Kathleen Haddock. The program will include works by Handel, Mozart, Adam Guettel, Hindemith, Debussy, Massenet, and Flanders and Swann.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

COMMUNITY

February 20 – August 31
For Syracuse, 2010; Jenny Holzer
Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St.
Light Work and the Urban Video Project are pleased to announce the opening of an installation by internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer at the Urban Video Project site at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY. Holzer created For Syracuse as a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series Truisms, and Survival that challenge viewer’s assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

February 20 – March 15
Constrain/Contain
The Point of Contact Gallery, 914 East Genesee St
Price: Free
Environment art by Sam Horowitz

February 20 – May 10
The Photographer as a Child: Memories from Guatemala
The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St.
La Casita will host the works of Efren Lopez.

February 20 – February 29
Salon: Strictly Local
Syracuse Technology Garden, 235 Harrison St.
Price: Free
The exhibit will feature works by over 50 local artists.

February 20 – March 4
John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Suggested donation $5
John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of “Deluge and Anima” on the Everson’s north façade, a series of Knecht’s animations, called “Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel,” will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist’s brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

February 21 – 26
Les Miserables
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.
Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh, of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera fame, is rolling out a new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables. Based on Victor Hugo’s literary opus, it tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, who tries to remake his life and protect his “adopted” daughter Cosette.

February 21 – 26
John Knecht: Deluge and Anima
Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St.
Deluge(2010) hand-drawn looping animation
Anima(2011) hand-drawn looping animation

Artist Statement:
Things have been falling in my videos for decades. It was at first formal. Falling things filled the frame and made a complicated cinematic space. The things falling — wishbones, test tubes, martini glasses, plastic strawberries that looked like a human heart, cement blocks and infected molars — increasingly became an atmosphere, functioning both as a formal device and a metaphorical space.

February 21 – May 13
From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Suggested donation $5 adults
“From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland” is the first exhibition to examine the American artist’s work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri’s paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

February 21, 7pm
Unsung Heroes Film Series: A Piece of Work
Redhouse, 201 S. West St.
Price: $8 regular, $5 members
“Throw Down Your Heart” follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album.

February 21 – March 24
Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Craft Chemistry, 745 N. Salina St.
Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

February 22 – 26
History in the Making
Onondaga Historical Association, 321 Montgomery St.
During Winter Break at OHA, February 22 – 26, students can visit the Museum and play a game called “History in the Making” where they discover answers to questions related to the history of Onondaga County. Those successfully completing all the questions will win a history-themed prize of their choice. The game is available during regular museum hours, Wed. – Friday, Feb. 22-24, 10 AM to 4 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25-26, 11 AM to 4 PM. The “History in the Making” game and admission to the museum are free and open to the public. For more information, please call Karen at 428-1864, ext. 312.

February 22, 12:30pm
Music School of CNY Guitar Ensemble
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Free
Seasoned young performers in music for classical guitar ensemble. John Ferrara, music director.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

February 22, 6pm
ArtRage Community Photography Project Information Session
505 Hawley Ave.
This project is open to anyone who lives or works in the Hawley-Green or other Northside neighborhoods. You don’t need to own a camera to be part of this project. The project will include photography workshops for you to learn the basics of photography, meet your neighbors and get inspired. Everyone who participates in this project will have at least one photograph displayed in the exhibition. The exhibit will open to the public on June 9, 2012 with a large community celebration! To RSVP or to ask any questions, please contact Kim at kimberley@artragegallery.org

February 22, 7pm
Jazz @ Pastabilities with John Rhode Quartet
Pastabilities Restaurant, 311 South Franklin St.
Join us every Wednesday for live jazz with the John Rhode trio around 7:00pm!

February 22 – March 17
Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave.
Price: Free
This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, “Men Only.” Since then, he’s collected vernacular images of male affection — tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos — during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. “Men Only” is a gift that incarnates the “gay spirit” that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

February 22 – March 4
Envisionary
Szozda Gallery, 501 W. Fayette St.
Visionary paintings of the atmospheric changes that surround us by Emily Elizabeth. Landscape paintings of the CNY scenery by Phil Parson.

February 22 – March 4
VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St.
Price: Free
Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

February 23 – 26
The Marvelous Wonderettes, With Appleseed Productions
Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St.
Price: $25
The story is set at the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet the Wonderettes — Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts and voices to match! As we learn about their lives and loves, we are treated to the girls performing classic 50s and 60s songs. Written by Roger Bean.

This reprise of last season’s smash hit is a joint fundraiser for Appleseed Productions and Rarely Done Productions.

February 24, 11pm
Black Box Cabaret: “Bella Notte,” a Disney Cabaret
Phoebe’s Garden Cafe, 900 E. Genesee St.
Price: Free

February 25 – March 31
Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St
Our spring exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

February 26, 2pm
Salt City Abolitionists
Onondaga Historical Association, 321 Montgomery St.
In honor of Black History Month, Onondaga Historical Association will be presenting a forty-five minute play entitled “Salt City Abolitionists” on Sunday, February 26 in the auditorium at OHA. Audience members can participate with actors playing two of the Salt City’s most famous abolitionists, Reverend Samuel May (Scott Peal) and Caroline Loguen (Toni Jones) as they organize a meeting in the aftermath of the Jerry Rescue in 1851. This event is part of the scholastic Winter Break at OHA.

February 26, 2:30pm
Brian Israel Tribute Concert
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St.
Price: $15 regular, $12 seniors, $10 students
25 years after the death of the prodigiously gifted composer/pianist/conductor Brian Israel, the Society is featuring the works of several past Israel prize winners throughout the year. This special program honors Brian’s legacy as a composer and champion of young composers.

Music by Brian Israel, Thomas Healy (2011 Israel Prize winner), Bret Bohman (2011 NY Federation of Music Clubs Israel Prize winner), Rob Paterson, and performer/composer Derek Bermel