CAMPUS EVENTS

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
Tue-Fri Jun 16, 12PM-4PM
The Warehouse Gallery

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. “Vicktory Dogs” is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation’s largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick’s indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Interdisciplinary
Wed-Sun Jun 17, 11:30-6PM
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
307-313 S. Clinton St
Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in “Interdisciplinary,” an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Mon-Fri Jun 15, 9AM-7PM
Downtown Writer’s Center and Gallery
This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA’s after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA’s program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students’ questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids’ questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area’s past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Mon-Fri Jun 15, 9AM-2PM
Point of Contact Gallery
A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist’s studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini’s work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, minuscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism.

Spring Loaded
Mon-Fri Jun 15, 9PM-4PM
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse
The exhibition brings the Associated Artists of Syracuse and features works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O’Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, and Clara Towell.

You Were Never Lovelier
Syracuse Cinephile Society
Mon Jun 15, 7:30PM
Spaghetti Warehouse
1942 film starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.

The Curiosity of Change
Tue-Sat Jun 16, varied times
Edgewood Gallery
Drawings and paintings by Anne Novado-Cappuccilli and works in stone by John Lombardi.

PostSecret
Tue-Sun Jun 16, 12PM-5PM
Everson Museum of Art
In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog. This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years.

Sitting Still
Tue-Sun Jun 16, 12-5PM
Everson Museum of Art
“What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?” These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions.

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Wed Jun 17, 10-5PM
Redhouse
Patrick Blackburn’s newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience’s absence.

Don’t Feed The Actors
Wed Jun 17, 7:30PM
Palace Theater
Interactive improv comedy featuring Greg Hipius (The Game Warden) with Dustin M. Czarny, Rachelle Clavin, Terry LaCasse, Wendy Sikorski, and Jon Wilson

All Forms: Studio Pottery ’09
Thur-Sun Jun 18, 11-6PM
Gandee Gallery
This exhibition features work by over 13 artists.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
Thur-Sat Jun 18, 2-8PM
ArtRage Gallery
A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers’ strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy. Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Polish Festival
Fri (4-11PM), Sat-Sun (12-4PM)
Clinton Square
Enjoy perfomers like the Fritz’s Polka Band, Jerry Darlak & the Touch, Little Poland Dance Ensemble, and Al Piatkowski. For more information, visit polishscholarship.com.

60/60
Fri Jun 19, 5:30-6:30PM
Everson Museum of Art
This event will combine live art, a great party, and the chance to win a work of art! The event will be held on the Everson Community Plaza under tents surrounding the reflecting pool.Artists are invited to create or finish an original work of art in 60 minutes, between 5:30 and 6:30 pm. During this time, guests will enjoy an open bar and hors d’oeuvres while mingling and observing as the artists work. Guests will also have the chance to purchase raffle tickets to enter to win the art work of their choice.

On Golden Pond
Fri June 19, 7:30PM
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Fri June 19, 8PM
Appleseed Productions
This musical takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh-fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom. Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Bingo: The Musical
Fri June 19, 8PM
Rarely Done Productions
Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy — three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Improv Comedy Night
Fri Jun 19, 8:30PM
Saltine Warrior
Black Box Theater
Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, “Who’s Line Is It, Anyway?”), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen’s Brigade.This is truly interactive, improv comedy at its best! The entire performance is totally unscripted and unrehearsed…with scenes and games based on audience suggestions and participation.

Art on the Porches
Sat Jun 20, 11-5PM
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse
Over 40 neighborhood and local artists show and sell their original works on the front porches of the historic Ruskin Ave homes. More than 14 stage acts, plus street performance and poetry. Fun for all ages!