Lisa Bogin, ambulance artist
On Wednesdays an Open Figure Drawing group meets at the Westcott Community Center. We met one the artists as she did some work during last weekend’s Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival.
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Figures…
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013Street Fashion: Head to Toe
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Lumhe Micco Sampson prepared for a performance at the Blue Rain Echo Fest in Hanover Square.
Artist, educator and dancer Micco Sampson returned to Syracuse last weekend to perform at the Blue Rain Eco Festival. He’s pictured here preparing his ceremonial outfit before a Friday evening dance performance in Hanover Square.
Street Style
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
Safety Dance
Fringe Factor
Monday, June 24th, 2013
Fringe Technical Director Gabriel Pinto occupies Saturday night with a sax solo.
Finally a cross-town collaboration between Lemoyne and SU (well,sort of). Le Moyne alums Jacob Ellison and Justin Sullivan used creativity and crowd funding to pull together the inaugural Syracuse Fringe Festival last weekend, and it was held at the Community Folk Art Center along the Connective Corridor. The event featured three days of multi-disciplinary artistic endeavors. We checked out the final day of the program, which featured David Doyle, Ruth Arena and Anna Phillips. Fringe was very reminiscent of the THINC Sideshow parties from a decade or so ago (except the demographic for the Fringe was slightly older).
Live Art: Body Painting
What was most surprising on Saturday was to watch Phillips, who is the artistic equivalent of a love child between Missy Elliot (always ahead of the curve) and Steven Wright (wry humor), do a comedy show in the Black Box Theater and smoothly transition into a monologue about her life that was more compelling than a episode of HBO’s In Treatment.
Was it Something She Said? Anna Phillips kept it real for Spatial Profiling.
Not that it wasn’t good, just unexpected. We look forward to Anna’s upcoming gigs, where she will bring the noise again with jokes at two shows locally: Chicks are Funny and Guns n’ Syrup.
Fail Not Our Fest
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
John Bixler as Macbeth
The Redhouse kicked off their summer season by staging a lively performance of Macbeth in Armory Square last night. The show drew an audience of about 100 (of all ages) if you include downtown residents watching from above the square.
Upcoming performances of Macbeth, which are free, will be held in Liverpool and Dewitt.
Open Air Theater in Armory Square
The next open-air show in Armory Square will be Cabaret, the musical.
Laura Austin as Lady Macbeth with witches (left to right) Allie Villa, Tyler Spicer and Brian Detlefs.
Walking in Rhythm
Monday, June 10th, 2013Check out these sounds by the Eradication Squad Drill Team during their performance at the 4th Drum & Fitness Event last Saturday.
Balancing Act
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Acrobat Eric Borketey: Balancing Act
Waste Not
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Wheat Paste Mural (Art Rage Gallery) by Tonja Torgerson
This public art piece, located on the Hawley-Green neighborhood, is an homage to all things temporary. Torgerson’s work has also been displayed in NYC and Minneapolis. She said the wheat paste works last from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the weather. Locally we’ve seen Torgersons’s pieces in Little Italy and Midtown.
Throwback Thursday: Capoeira
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Capoeira by the MacPherson Sisters: War & Feminism Conference
Here Comes the Neighborhood
Friday, May 17th, 2013
SALT District artists (and new neighbors) Juan Cruz and John Cardone (right) at the opening of Salt Quarters on Wyoming Street.
The Salt Quarters, a artist live/work space opened to the public on Wednesday. The artists who will occupy the space are John Cardone and Brooklyn’s Peter Edlund. The space is located along the Connective Corridor near the Delevan Center and the Lincoln Supply Building. The neighborhood continues to attract photographers, writers, painters and sculptors.
Cardone, who was on hand mingling with visitors, said he doesn’t make art but rather makes things that need to be made. His previous base of operation was at 601 Tully (aka the Treehouse) a few blocks away.
Salt Quarters: Interior