Opening Thursday, Nov. 10, the SUArt Galleries presents the exhibition "Sources and Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse." The exhibition will run through Jan. 22, 2012. This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery- Viking ships, [...]

Did you miss some of the great films at SYRFILMFEST '11? Join us for a very special series, Best of Fest. The SYRFILM organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York in collaboration with Art Rage Gallery will present a five-part series showcasing films from the eighth annual Syracuse International Film Festival. The series [...]

The Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILM) organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York, in collaboration with AmeriCU Credit Union, will present Brew & View, a five-part series showcasing classic cult films in 35mm. The series begins on Nov. 18 with a Steven Spielberg double feature of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” (7 p.m.) and “Jaws” (9 [...]

On Wednesday, Nov. 16, be a part of “Music Beyond Borders,” an event designed to illustrate the intercultural connectedness of music by using video narratives that weave together the cultural, social and historical contexts of the live performances. It is part of Syracuse University's celebration of International Education Week, and will take place at Hendricks Chapel from [...]

Th3 (The Third Thursday) is a consortium of 21 Syracuse arts venues that coordinate free monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month. For more information, visit: http://www.th3syracuse.com or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheThirdThursday. Community Folk Art Center 805 E. Genesee St., 442-2230 6:30-8 p.m: CFAC’s Journey through the music of the [...]

Ben Burtt, Academy-award winning sound designer, filmmaker, editor and writer, grew up in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School. He is personally responsible for some of the most iconic sounds heard in films, such as R2-D2's beeps and whistles in the "Star Wars" series, and the light saber hum, which he created from a film [...]

"Engaging Conflict: Transformations through the Arts" is a two-day symposium featuring film, movement, theater and storytelling. The conference, which begins Friday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. with a film screening and continues with a full day of activities on Saturday, Nov. 5, will be held at Syracuse University's Warehouse Auditorium, 350 W. Fayette St., in [...]

Exhibition is titled “Fishing from the Beach."

This semester, 13 students from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) are serving as research assistants to professional visual artists preparing for residencies abroad. Student participation is facilitated through this fall’s Arts and Cultural Diplomacy course taught by Joanna Spitzner, VPA professor and chair of the Department of Foundation, and Jan Cohen-Cruz, [...]

With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking teenager; an ex-con turned suburban father; a man who uses a puppet to communicate; a [...]

Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, “Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays” is an evening of new short plays by an A-list lineup of writers with two Pulitzer Prizes, four Obies, one Emmy and three Tony nominations. Be there as they offer their unique takes on the moments before, during and after "I do." These [...]

Rising star guitarists Gohar Vardanyan and Jon Fitzgerald will be featured in a concert presented by the Great Lakes Guitar Society (GLGS) on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. Tickets for the concert are $10 for the general public, $7 for students and senior citizens and free [...]

Students explore such traditional techniques as embroidery, dye painting and sewing.

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini-residency by a gender and sexuality expert in art and theater. James M. Saslow, professor of Renaissance art and theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, will [...]

Student work from Art Workshops for Young People, an offering of the art education dual program in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and School of Education, will be exhibited in “The Big Show” on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m.-noon in the Art Education Wing (rooms 043, 044, 045, and 051) [...]

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues on Nov. 9 with poet Jennifer Grotz, a faculty member at the University of Rochester. Grotz will read from her latest work, “The Needle” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011), which explores both Polish and American 20th-century poetry and its traditions. The reading will begin at 5:30 p.m. in HBC [...]

The gallery at 601 Tully, a center for engaged artistic practice located on the Near West Side of Syracuse, announces its inaugural multimedia exhibition, “The Butterfly Effect.” The show will run from Oct. 29-Dec. 9 at the gallery at 601 Tully St. The building’s hours are Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., or by appointment. The gallery [...]

Alumna mentors Renée Crown Honors student for her Capstone Project When noted jewelry historian Mary Gilbert Palmer ’65 learned that Laura Marsolek, a junior art history and metalsmithing major, was planning an honors capstone project on Renaissance jewelry, Palmer agreed to lend her expertise. “The College of Arts and Sciences came up with a way for [...]

Poets and writers featured in Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, will read from their works at two separate events scheduled locally.  Stone Canoe Poetry Night will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 7- 8:30 p.m. at the ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave. Poets David Lloyd, Elizabeth Twiddy, Charles Martin and [...]

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate and strengthen the public and civic purposes of higher education.  Bruce Burgett, of the University [...]

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the West Genesee High School auditorium, 5201 W. Genesee St., Camillus. The concert program features Berlioz’s “La damnation de Faust: Rákóczy March” and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Op. 73, in D Major. [...]

The Syracuse Symposium™ and the Society for New Music will present “The Geography of the Imagination,” a performance featuring the world premiere of a commissioned musical work by Gregory Wanamaker and visuals by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems, on Sunday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The performance, which is free and open [...]

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Joshua Dekaney has been named interim director of the Setnor School’s new Center for Live Music in the 21st Century. The Center for Live Music in the 21st Century is a [...]

Event is part of nationwide celebration of Federal Theatre Project The Syracuse University Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt’s “It Can’t Happen Here” on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Archbold Theatre, 820 E. Genesee [...]

Urban Video Project will present “Always After (the Glass House)” by internationally recognized multimedia artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, through November and December. It will be shown Sunday-Thursday, dusk-11 p.m., outside the Everson Museum of Art. Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, “Always After” focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the [...]

Light Work has announced the exhibition “VisualBooks,” featuring work by Scott McCarney, which will run Nov. 1-Dec. 16. This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to [...]

Artist manager and attorney Michael Lehman and music producer Scott Billington will give a talk on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The lecture is part of the Bandier Program’s Soyars Leadership Lecture Series in the College of [...]

Syracuse University’s Arts.Engage and the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts have welcomed the world-renowned Buglisi Dance Theatre (BDT) for a 20-day residency at SU, which began Oct. 10, and will last until Oct. 30. During this time, the company will perform two selections, [...]

The Syracuse University Humanities Center is helping the YMCA Arts Branch mark the 10th anniversary of its Downtown Writer’s Center with a special event in the DWC’s new facility. The celebration, part of the Humanities Center’s fall exploration of “Identity,” includes readings by award-winning poets Cornelius Eady and Dorianne Laux on Thursday, Oct. 27, at [...]

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program out of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Syracuse University, will host its citywide “Take the Mic” poetry slam on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Underground. Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are free and require an SU/ESF ID or personal ID [...]

The talent of organist Justin Murphy-Mancini will be featured during this year’s Malmgren Concert Series “Rising Star Recital” at Syracuse University on Sunday, Nov. 6. The recital will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in the Irving Garage. Murphy-Mancini is an undergraduate [...]

On Oct. 4, a select group of SU students who are either members of a multicultural student dance organization, or just dance lovers at heart, began a six-week artist-in-residence program learning traditional West African dance from master teacher Biboti Ouikahilo. Through Nov. 8, participants can be found dancing to the beat of live Africans drums [...]

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), a 35-piece group housed in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, kicks off the 2011-12 season with its popular “Silver Screen” program. The concert—emceed by WCNY-FM’s Bruce Paulsen, with projected images coordinated by Larry Royer G’79 of Animotion Inc.—is on Sunday, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m. in the [...]

Art students from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other’s campuses. For the exhibition “SU @ CU; CU @ SU,” VPA art students will show their work Oct. 14-Nov. 6 at Clifford Gallery in [...]

Speakers, workshops will focus on urban transformations through art and design A conference on "Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design" will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Warehouse Auditorium, 360 W. Fayette St. The events are free and open to the public. The conference kicks off with a keynote [...]

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the subject of a daylong symposium, organized and presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The symposium, “A Writer’s Reality: Mario Vargas Llosa,” will take place on Friday, Oct. [...]

Canadian organist Rachel Laurin will be the first guest in Hendricks Chapel’s Malmgren Concert Series at Syracuse University on Sunday, Oct. 16. The recital will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in the Irving Garage. Laurin will perform works by Brahms and [...]

Exhibition is 'a collaborative urban portrait’

WERW, Syracuse University’s student-run, free-format Internet radio station, is hosting its first fall concert in the Schine Underground on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature Brooklyn pop‐electro artist Class Actress, lo-fi garage rock band Guards and local hip-hop act Mouth’s Cradle. This is WERW’s first concert as a recognized student organization. [...]

Rapper Lil B is set to headline University Union Concerts’ first Bandersnatch Music Series show of the year on Nov. 9 as part of Orange Central 2011. Opening acts include up-and-coming hip-hop artist Tayyib Ali and a student act to be announced at a later date. The show will be held in the Schine Underground, [...]

The third annual Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market takes place Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at King + King Architects, located at 358 W. Jefferson St. The Salt Market continues its mission to showcase Central New York’s outstanding contemporary artists, designers and crafters. Vendors will offer an eclectic variety of creative [...]

The printmaking program in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present its first annual “Screenprinting Studio on the Quad” on Monday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad in front of Hendricks Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in [...]

Technology giants Dell and Intel are partnering with VICE Media to present the first-ever Noisey College Tour, a two-week, 10-campus music tour featuring indie chillwave rockers Neon Indian and rapper Kreayshawn. The Noisey College Tour will make its way to Syracuse University on Nov. 1 in Goldstein Auditorium at the Schine Student Center. Doors will [...]

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He’s basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith, who fancies very big books; and Norman, who works in the doughnut shop; and Barry, who has schizophrenia and has convinced himself that he is a golf pro. In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker named Jack who, [...]

Third Thursday (Th3), a consortium of 20 Syracuse arts venues that coordinate free monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month, has slated the following special events for this month’s Th3 (Oct. 20): ArtRage—The Norton Putter Gallery 505 Hawley Ave., 218-5711 “The Machine: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez” Art Shops [...]

Open End, a new music and improvisation ensemble featuring Andrew Waggoner and Caroline Stinson, faculty members in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will perform on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, [...]

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with a reading by Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Iain Haley Pollock G’07, a graduate of the creative writing program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The reading will begin at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Gifford Auditorium on the SU campus. A question [...]

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) will inaugurate an ongoing campus-community art, humanities and democracy project on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. at La Casita Cultural Center at 109 Otisco St., with a performance, meal and conversation. The ongoing project is “Dr. Reverend Ebenezer Abernathy’s Mellifluously, Melodious and Medicative Freedom Revival of [...]

The Syracuse University Women’s Choir, under the direction of Barbara M. Tagg, faculty member in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will hold its ninth annual Women’s Choir Festival concert on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. in the Rose [...]

Renowned composer Philip Rothman will join Patrick Jones, director of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 12:30 p.m. for “Conversations at Setnor: Philip Rothman on Being a Professional Composer in the 21st Century.” The talk, [...]