'Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar' at the Everson |  | | | | | | Photo by Stephen Sartori
“Marie Antoinette.” Jeffrey Mayer, “At Play.” | |
SYRACUSE - The Everson Museum of Art presents a unique exhibition by internationally acclaimed fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer, composed of contemporary fashion design inspired by the 18th-century fashion aesthetic of Marie Antoinette.
"Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar" will be on view through Jan. 11 at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse.
"This exhibition mixes it up with media and disciplines," said Steven Kern, Everson Museum of Art director. "Marie Antoinette reaches deeply into history and popular culture. It is innovative, and at times challenges tradition. Mayer focuses on the concepts of fantasy, luxury and exoticism found in Marie Antoinette s style vocabulary."
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| Museum offers 'Our American Presidents' | | | | | | | This commemorative plate shows “Grand Old Party 1856 – 1908 Standard Bearers.” In the center is William Howard Taft, presidential candidate, and James Schoolcraft Sherman, his vice presidential running mate. | |
UTICA - "Our American Presidents" is an election year tribute to our nation's chief executives from George Washington to George W. Bush.
That is the title of the exhibit open for the public's enjoyment at the Oneida County Historical Society. "It is a national election year so we thought it appropriate to display the many presidential artifacts in the society's collection," Brian Howard said.
Howard, Oneida County Historical Society executive director and Gerry Showalter, society trustee and volunteer, spent hours gleaning the material from the collection and designing the exhibit. It is made up of 12 display areas with hundreds of artifacts about presidents beginning with George Washington (1789) to the nation's current leader.
"It's a nice thing that virtually all the material in this exhibit came right from our own collection," Howard said.
Among the items on display are banners, broadsides, pins, ribbons, pamphlets, deeds, commemorative plates, old newspapers, awards, dinner programs, and other materials that represent every presidential administration, focusing on Oneida County's ties to our nation's highest office.
Begun on President's Day weekend, the exhibit will run through Inauguration Day in January 2009.
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| Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spaulding performs in Clinton | | | | | | | Esperanza Spaulding is scheduled to perform with her band on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall on the campus of Hamilton College. | |
CLINTON - Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spaulding will perform with her band on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall on the campus of Hamilton College.
If "esperanza" is the Spanish word for hope, then bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding could not have been given a more fitting name at birth. Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops and a multi-lingual voice, the 24-year-old prodigy-turned-pro might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music.
Spalding was born in 1984 and raised on what she calls "the other side of the tracks" in a multi-lingual household and neighborhood in Portland, Ore. Growing up in a single-parent home amid economically adverse circumstances, she learned early lessons in the meaning of perseverance and moral character from the role model whom she holds in the highest regard to this day - her mother.
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| Janet Jackson in CNY | | | | | | | Janet Jackson's "Rock Witchu Tour" will come to the Turning Stone Resort and Casino's Event Center Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. | |
VERONA - Janet Jackson kicked off her first North American tour in six years in Vancouver, Canada to rave reviews. Jackson plans to bring her Rock Witchu Tour to the Turning Stone Resort Event Center for one night on Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.
Jackson's two-hour and 20 minute show featured 30 hit songs covering her entire career including, "Control," "Let's Wait Awhile," "Nasty," "Miss You Much," "Rhythm Nation" and "Together Again," her eighth Number 1 single on the Billboard charts. The large production featured several full costume changes by the entertainer and her dancers who performed amidst pyrotechnics, flashing lights and smoke to a packed arena. According to Canadian reports, the show also featured a spicy scene between Jackson and a lucky audience member she picked out of the crowd.
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| Local artist says self expression is needed in a stressful world | | | | | | | "Late Autumn Birches" by Pamela Menotti. | |
CLINTON - A hunting dog trainer and housewife by day, and pastel painter by night, 62-year-old Pamela Menotti has been expressing herself through painting and pastels the majority of her childhood and adult life.
"Art is amazing self-expression," Menotti said. "Art is all from you; you don't need anyone else and it's a great creative outlet."
Currently residing in Clinton, Menotti, from a young age, has always been interested in making art. She said it all began when Christmas time came and her parents would give her a pastel art kit one year, and a watercolor kit the next.
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| Even with changing band members, Silent Fury still 'kicks ass' | | | | | | | Photo by Megallion
Silent Fury is, Branden Kuersteiner, Mick Fury and Josh “Wildman” Dean. | |
Outside of a venue where The Silent Fury have just played, lead guitarist and singer Mick Fury is taking the time, while they are loading their gear into their van, to lecture drummer Josh "Wildman" Dean on his diet. The musician momentarily struggles with setting his bass drum inside, giving Mick all the room he needs to make fun of him.
"Man, you need to start eating some more red meat," Mick chides him. Bass player Branden Kuersteiner starts laughing, and both he and Mick are met with an angry glare that only seems to make them laugh harder.
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| Jayme Flythe is an artist who can't be stopped | | | | | | | Jayme Flythe works on his comic strip, “Somewhere Kidz,” which will appear in the Life&Times of Utica soon. | |
ONEIDA - Electronic hiccups with his printer are slowing him from getting his sketches properly formatted into ones and zeros for computer display. His drawing table is currently hundreds of miles away, forcing him to spread all of his idea panels across a small computer desk. Along with them, there is a stack of artwork, in varying stages of completion, stacked nearby, along with several artist pens scattered about. To top it off, Jayme Flythe, of Oneida, has three ideas for what he wants his strip to look like,and he likes all of them equally. The chaotic environment that surrounds him might discourage other artists from even picking up their pencils and paper.
He shrugs. "I just like to draw," he said.
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| Sculpture Space artists exhibit in New York City | | | | | | | Wennie Huang’s “Red Sprawl” created with 5,000 chennile stems. The artist was inspired to by a tree while a resident at Sculpture Space. | |
UTICA - A new exhibit in a midtown Manhattan gallery features works by artists inspired by their stay at a Mohawk Valley art facility.
"In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space" has a dozen sculptures on display from artists who resided at Sculpture Space within the past five years. Sydney Waller, director of Sculpture Space, said this was an exciting opportunity for their facility to be exclusively featured by the gallery.
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| Art is more than a way to make a living to Usyk
DEERFIELD - Artists have the potential to achieve both fame and fortune. For Sean Usyk, being an artist provides and opportunity to share his talent with the world and to remain an active part of his daughter's life.
Usyk explains that he does not "want to make endless amounts of money." The goal is to make "just enough to keep living the life I have now and to be able to keep creating fun stuff."
Usyk, 24, has been drawing since he was a child. He excelled in all of his classes at West Canada Valley high school, but he did not find them interesting. Growing up in Schuyler allowed him to foster his love of adventure due to time spent alone and with his brother. He was an honor roll student and placed third in his class, but he did not want to follow the academic and career path suggested for him. Rebellion brought him down an artistic path rather than the expected road of a career as a doctor or a lawyer.
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| History of the Village of Clinton | | | | | | | The former Alexander Hamilton Inn. | |
Part of Coxe's Patent, sixth division, Clinton began in 1787 when Revolutionary War veterans from Plymouth, Conn. settled in Clinton.
Led by Moses Foote, the new inhabitants found good soil, plentiful forests, friendly Brothertown Indians in southern Kirkland along with Oneida Indians who passed through on trails.
Named after New York's first governor, George Clinton, an uncle of Erie Canal builder DeWitt Clinton, the village had a grist mill on the Oriskany Creek on College Street the first year and slowly developed as a farming and mercantile center.
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| Places to see and things to do in Kirkland
1. Kirkland Art Center - East Park Row(former Methodist Church, built 1842); exhibits, classes, films, book sales
2. Hamilton College - chartered 1812- extensive campus with classroom buildings and dormitories, etc. Emerson Art Gallery, Burke Library, Sage Rink, and Field House; 1750 students(coed)
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