What: Third Thursday, Syracuse's City Wide Art Open
When: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Time: 5 to 8 p.m.
Where: 23 popular Syracuse visual arts venues
Cost: Free
Contact: Amy Patricia Komar, Th3 Coordinator
(315) 416-4893 or 396-0322
amy@stoneharpstudios.com or akomar@twcny.rr.com
www.th3syracuse.com

Th3 is a coalition of 23 popular Syracuse visual arts venues that offer free events and viewing opportunities during the evening of the third Thursday of every month, from 5 to 8 PM. Maps, bus schedule and Th3 show listings at all Th3 locations.
At each stop enter the Th3 drawing to win a gift certificate to Bull and Bear Pub in Hanover Square. "Bringing you the best in a good time, with great live mustic and the best kitchen in the Square." Stop in after Th3: 125 E. Water Street, Syracuse. Visit www.bullandbearpublcom 315.701.3064 You can enter the Th3 drawing. as many times as you want, but only once at each location.
Downtown parking is free after 5 or ride Centro's Free Connective Corridor Bus (#543) between SU and Th3 venues along the Connective corridor on Th3 5 p.m.-11:40 p.m. Visit www.th3syracuse.com for free parking tips, updates and more information.
Th3 supports the Central New York Arts Covenant: A call to action to immerse our community in the arts. www.artscovenant.com or www.artscov.com.
Th3 Venues:
Arts Across Campus, Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, 498-2401
Paintings by Gary Trento at the Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center. Opening Receptions: 11am-noon and 5-8pm.

ArtRage - The Norton Putter Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue 218-5711
Special Th3 Event. Opening Presentation by the Bees, a volunteer political organization that uses graphic media best known for its political large scale pen and ink posters. Presentation at 6pm. Opening reception at 7:30pm.

Brian's Art Gallery, 201 Wolf St (former Keybank building), 424-9663
Exhibit of oil paintings by the late Fred Fisher who studied the old world masters and reinterpreted their techniques and style.

Clayscapes Pottery Gallery, 1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, 424-6868
Closed for Th3.

Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., 442-2230
Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective featuring fifty years of prints, drawings, collages & sculpture by the activist, education and American art icon. Also on view, two films by Carrie Mae Weems: Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic.

Delavan Art Gallery, 501 W. Fayette St, 425-7500
Special Th3 Event: Visions: paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout. Barbara Stout will be in attendance. Also on view: Wild Card Exhibit Discoveries encaustics by Tanya Kirouac.

The Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Blvd. E. 471-0593
Find a treasure of artifacts, maps, images, interpretive and interactive displays, and the Frank B. Thomson Line Boat, a full size replica canal boat with crew quarters, cargo & passenger areas to explore.

Eureka Crafts, 210 Walton St., 471-4601
Special Th3 event. Meet the Artist Night: UNKNOWN Light Refreshments.

Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., 474-6054.
Come browse one of the largest collections of ceramics in the world, widely recognized for its magnitude and magnificence. Open exhibits include: Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection of American Art Pottery and Arts and Crafts of New York State.

Light Work/Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Ave., 443-1300
Closed for Th3

Museum of Young Art (MOYA), 110 West Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, 424-7800
Come view the works of talented young artists from the local Fabius-Pompey schools.

Point of Contact Gallery, 914 E. Genesee St., 443-2169
Th3 Special event. Slow Scandal exhibit of renowned artist Marco Maggi. Part of a dual space display coordinated with the Warehouse Gallery. The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion." Opening Reception with artist present from 5-6pm. Transportation is provided between the two galleries from 6-9pm. Also showing Barry Anderson's Kings, Thieves video.

Redhouse Arts Center, 201 S. West Street, 425-0561
Th3 special event. Last Wishes by installation and sound artist mudboy with artist talk at 7pm. The exhibit introduces the ((audience)) 5.1 Sound Festival. Also on exhibit are three pieces from Missouri artist Barry Anderson, in cooperation with Syracuse University's Light Work. Treebeasties (I), Vertical Blinds (II), and Pulp Kali will be on display. Opening Reception.

Spark Contemporary Art Space, 1005 E. Fayette
Check website for updates.

SUArt Galleries, Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University, 443.4097
Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond . Paintings from Homer's summer visits to Houghton Farm in Mountainville, New York, between 1877 and 1879, a critical point in his career.

SUNY Oswego Metro Center, The Atrium, Two Clinton Square, 399-4100
Bremmer & Timm features recent paintings by Al Bremmer and Kate Timm.
Bremmer's organic 3D work emerged from linear modernist origins. Timm's are meticulously drafted and complex still life paintings.

Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center, Bird Library, 443-9788
New York Imprints: Well beyond New York City, an exhibit of 18-19c New York printing that traces the cultural & technological development of upstate New York thru a wide range of printed materials.

Syracuse Technology Garden, 235 Harrison Street, 474-0910, x2902
An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St., 443-6450
Th3 Special Event. American Ream exhibit of renowned artist Marco Maggi. Part of a dual space display coordinated with the Point of Contact Gallery. The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion." Opening Reception with artist present from 6pm. Transportation is provided between the two galleries from 6-9pm. Also featuring Barry Anderson's video Memory Bleed, 2009.

okWestcott Community Art Gallery, 826 Euclid Ave., 478-8634
FluXus in German, an audio art experience by artist Robert Burkhart.

XL Projects, 307-313 South Clinton St., phone
Graduate Painting from Syracuse University's School of Art's graduate painting students.

YMCA Gallery, 2nd floor, 340 Montgomery St., 474-6851 x328.
Closed for Th3.

Th3 is funded in part with funding from New York Assemblywoman Joan K. Christensen.