• Urban Video Project – When the sun goes down the lasers come out at UVP. The Urban Video Project will be hosting the laser art event of a lifetime. Feel free to stop by the UVP Monroe venue at 333 E. Onondaga Street and get a chance to “paint” your own digital laser graffiti on the gigantic 3,600-square-foot brick wall. On July 23^rd local artists will be working on a laser drawing that will be projected all night. Then, on July 24^th and 25^th, come down and create your own. We’ll provide the laser, the music, and the food. You provide the imagination.
  July 23 – 25, after dark
  333 E. Onondaga Street
  
  
• The Everson Museum – Plein Air Painting (Painting in the Open Air) – Learn to paint like the Impressionists!  As the Everson Museum of Art gears up for the upcoming exhibition of Impressionist works, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, the community is invited to “learn by doing,” and step into the role of the artist. Visitors will capture the feeling of a city abuzz in their paintings, as the summer sun illuminates the life and architecture of the downtown area. Everson volunteers and staff will be on hand to answer questions, share painting tips and techniques, and explain the concept of Impressionism. Visitors will be provided all the materials needed to create their very own plein air painting. Take your painting home, or leave it with the Everson for display.
  Saturday, July 25; 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, August 1; 10 am to 1 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• Totem Project – Artist Peter Michael will design and direct the installation of the Children’s Totem, consisting of interlocking silhouettes of children at play.  Children visiting Artsweek will be invited to paint the unassembled plywood figures during the morning and early afternoon.  The painted figures will then be assembled and erected as a 21’-tall totem that will tower over ArtsWeek for the remainder of the day.  The finished totem will be erected again at Clinton Square during Family Friendzy festival in Clinton Square on August 1, 2009.  Peter Michel’s work has been shown frequently in galleries and museums in Central New York as well as in many shows throughout the country (http://www.petermichel.com/index.php).  In 1999 and 2000, his monumental sculptures were included in Chicago’s Pier Walk shows – one of the largest outdoor sculpture shows in the world.  His work has been commissioned by The Houston Festival.  The Houston Folk Arts Council, The Houston Academy of Gymnastics and a number of private individuals.  Recent commissions include “Think Peace,: a 3’ wooden sculpture installed at Unity Church in St. George, Utah; and he is currently working on a 12’ aluminum sculpture, the “Peace Garden Totem,” for the Thea Bowman House in Utica, NY.  His work is in private collections across the United States as well as in Germany, Japan, Korean and South Africa.  ArtsWeek would like to thank the Rosamond Gifford Foundation for its generous support of the Children’s Totem.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Saturday, August 1, 10 am to 6 pm, Clinton Square
   
• Syracuse New Times 19^th Annual Street Painting Festival – A Sidewalk Art Contest where artists will create masterpieces in chalk.  The contest is limited to 125 participants of all ages who will compete for prize money.  Spectators are encouraged and welcome. 
  Saturday, July 25; Registration begins at 8 am; Winners announced at 3 pm
  (Rain date Sunday, July 26)
  200 block of Montgomery Street 
   
• The Art Store will offer visitors the opportunity to create a wish flag. Based on the Tibetan tradition of prayer flags, visitors are encouraged to write, paint, and decorate flags with their wishes for others. The flags can be hung from the Art Store wishing tree or taken home to share. Also featured will be demonstrations of various art forms by artists at work. On Friday learn about watercolor and hand building with air dry clay. Saturday, Sharon Blair will share her talents in panpastels and mixed media art. On Sunday come see block printing, graphite pencil drawings, and De/Reconstruction Art.
  Friday, July 24 from 10 am to 6 pm
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 5 pm
  300 Block of E. Onondaga Street
   
• The Syracuse Community Mandala Project is a unifying visual representation of the value each person brings to the central New York community as a whole. Children and adults are invited to express themselves by decorating their own mandala at ArtsWeek. These will be combined with approximately 1,500 other mandala designs created through many local organizations and schools into a large combined structure.  
  Friday, July 24 from 10 am to 6 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 5 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
   
• The CNY Arts Covenant invites every citizen throughout CNY to fulfill four arts-based agreements during a year’s time. All four should support the arts, artists, or cultural institutions and to expand people’s experiences with the arts. The sign-up event will use an art-form to “seal the deal.” Political and community leaders, children and adults, from our many cultural communities will commit themselves to the Covenant by using the most ancient form of personal signature, their painted handprint on a growing quilt which will become a piece of public artwork. 
  Friday, July 24 at 12 pm
  City Hall Commons, near the Tectonic Hand Sculpture
   
• TH3 & Arts Covenant Event – Adults and children are invited to “make their mark” on the Syracuse Arts scene by “signing” up for CNY Arts Covenant in one of two ways: by adding a handprint to the Covenant Quilt or by creating a flag that will be hung throughout City Hall Commons. These individual art objects that becomes part of a community expression of support for public arts and fulfills their first CNY Arts Covenant agreement.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July, 10 am to 5 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
  
  
• Media Unit Dancestravaganza - A tribute to Michael Jackson and an audience participation finale dancing to big screen television projections of Jackson’s Thriller music video.  The Johnson Irish Step Dancers kick off the event, followed by the Media Unit’s Oz Nation Dancers, who will be anointing a path between the Arts and Crafts Festival on Columbus Circle and the Jazz Festival on Clinton Square as the Yellow Brick Road. The afternoon will provide a range of dance styles from ballet to hip-hop, African to Middle Eastern, step to jazz and modern.
  Saturday, July 25, from noon to 5 pm at Hanover Square 
  
  
• Redhouse Art Radio, an internet radio station sponsored through The Redhouse Arts Center, will be broadcasting live from City Hall Commons during ArtsWeek, covering the ArtsWeek events and collecting audio profiles from participants.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• ArtsWeek ‘Zine – Urban Arts Rangers will be dispatched again this year to go around the festival gathering stories from exhibiting artists, musicians, and people attending the festivals to create an art newspaper that captures the experience of the festival. Everyone is encouraged to help write the stories, take the pictures, and create drawings.
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• Participate in a Live Mural - Gossamer Wings Interior Design Studio is proud to present the free Live Mural, where kids of all ages are welcome to express their artistic minds. Free face painting will also be held.
  Friday, July 24 from 1 to 6 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 2 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 2 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street

 

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