TH3 OFFERS SPRING ART AND CONTINUES MONTHLY DRAWING     May 15, 2008

Syracuse , NY , May 1, 2008:  The Syracuse Th3 Coalition has scheduled more exciting FREE ART EVENTS across the city’s art scene for May 15.

May Prize Drawing

Enjoy a warm spring walk among the Th3 venues during May’s citywide art open, Third Thursday May 15^th 5-8 p.m.  Enter our monthly drawing and win two $25 gift certificates to The Mission. Restaurant, 304 E Onondaga Street .  Enter the drawing at all participating Th3 art venues.  You can enter more than once, but you can only enter once at each location.  

Th3 is a coalition of 17 popular Syracuse visual arts venues that schedule events during the evening of the third Thursday of every month, from 5 to 8 PM.  Ride Centro’s Free Connective Corridor Bus between SU and downtown. Maps, bus schedule and Th3 show listings at all Th3 locations and at our website www.th3syracuse.com. 

COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER , 805 E. Genesee St. , 442-2230

36th Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition, longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Runs until 5/24    

DELAVAN ART GALLERY , 501 W. Fayette St , 425.7500

Selected Work from Area Artists   Light Refreshments  

EUREKA CRAFTS, 210 Walton St. , 471.4601

SPECIAL Th3 EVENT:  Meet the Artist Night: Featuring local artist Lori Schneider, who specializes in drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures of the human figures. Light Refreshments.    

Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St. , 474.6054. All run till 5/25.

Continuing Exhibits:
On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600-1800
Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection  

Light Work/Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Ave., 443.1300 
Expectations of Adolescence Photographer Blake Fitch documents the gradual transition of two girls into womanhood

Onondaga Historical Association MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER, 321 Montgomery St. , 428.1864

Exploring History With Art: Work!  An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County .

Freedom Bound: Syracuse & the Underground Railroad

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes. The Highlights. The History

Syracuse China : Fired Forms of the American Experience

Franklin auto Exhibit  

POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY, 914 E. Genesee St., 443.2169

Labyrinths,  an installation by Florence, Italy-based artist, Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams featuring more than 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist.  

Redhouse /Rothenberg Gallery, 201 S. West St. , 425.0405

SPECIAL Th3 EVENT: Bedtime Stories, an exhibition focusing on the indeterminate space of the bedroom as a site for innocence, play, sexuality, deviant behavior, convalescence and death. Artists: Derrick Adams, Yasser Aggour, and Anna Tsouhlarakis.  Curated by: Arjan Zazueta. Opening Reception and Video Screening  

SPARK Contemporary Art Space, 1005 E. Fayette St.
Casual Being

Syracuse TECHNOLOGY GARDEN , 235 Harrison Street ,  474 0910, x2902  

Exhibition of work in a variety of media by 20 local artists focusing on themes of nature: Linda Abbey, George Benedict, Julie Camilleri-Stickel, Sue Canizares, Nadine Cuffy, Deborah Dahlin, Tom Dwyer, Roscha Folger ,Laura Fudge, Judith Hand, Anne Helfer, Polly Ann Henry, Saba Khan , Liliya Lifanova,Megallion, Adriana Meis, Smita Rane, Kelvin Ringold, Carol Stone ,Jo-Ann Von Pless

Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St. , 443.6450

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith, by Terry Adkins.  A multi-media tribute to blues empress Bessie Smith. Runs 4/5-6/7.

KEWPIE KARMA/80, an installation in the Window Projects Gallery by Yoshiko Miki. 4/15-6/7  

The Westcott Community Art Gallery 826 Euclid Ave., 478.8634

Recent Paintings  Oil Paintings by Roman Kalinoski   Runs till 5/15.  Light refreshments.  

YMCA Gallery Y, Downtown YMCA, 2^nd floor, 340 Montgomery St , 474.6851 x328.

-          The Materials of Color, paintings by Maria Grazia Facchinetti  

The following Th3 Venues will not be open from 5-8 p.m. on April 17, 2008:

ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE :  Arts Across Campus, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, 498-2401  

SUArt Galleries, Schaffer Art Building , Syracuse University , 443.4097

ThINC’s COMPANY GALLERY
110 W. Fayette St.  

Syracuse Technology Garden, 235 Harrison St. , 474.0910