CAMPUS EVENTS

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Monday- Fri Jun 8, 10AM- 6PM
Light Work Gallery
Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

“Limbo”
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 10AM- 6PM
Light Work Gallery
“Limbo” is a depiction of a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. The images in “Limbo” capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Mon-Fri Jun 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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.

The Curiosity of Change
Tue-Sat Jun 9, varied times
Edgewood Gallery
Drawings and paintings by Anne Novado-Cappuccilli and works in stone by John Lombardi.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Tue-Sat Jun 9, 10AM-6PM
Community Folk Art Center
CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists.
Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

PostSecret
Tue-Sun Jun 9, 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.

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Wed Jun 10, 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.

Fusion
Thurs-Sat Jun 11, varied times
Delavan Art Gallery
The exhibition included paintinfs by John F. Fitzsimmons, mixed media collage by Diana Godfrey, metal and glass wall sculptures by Pam Steele, and acrylics and monotypes by Catharine Westlake.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Thurs-Sat Jun 11, 5:30PM-10PM
Orange Line Gallery
A soldier’s intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson,
photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace
Council.

On Golden Pond
Fri June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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.