Sheldon photography symposium is March 2

            A panel of distinguished artists and scholars will explore the conflicts and concurrences that shaped the modern photographic image at a free, public symposium from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 2 at the Sheldon Museum Art, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

            Presenters will examine photography through the lens of transnationalism -- its cultural and national boundaries, reinforcement and subversion of gender and identity, and engagements between art and science, craft and technology.

            The panel includes Zeynep Celik, professor, College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Renee Cox, artist and photographer, New York City; Keith Davis, senior curator of photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo.; Janet Farber, director of the Phillip Schrager Collection of Contemporary Art, Omaha; Dana Fritz, photographer and professor, Department of Art and Art History, UNL; Toby Jurovics, chief curator of American Western art, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; and Brandon Ruud, curator of transnational American art, and Jorge Daniel Veneciano, director, Sheldon Museum of Art.

            The symposium is in conjunction with the exhibition. "Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art," at Sheldon through April 28.

            Sheldon Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of more than 12,000 objects focusing on transnational American art. Sheldon is open free to the public during regular hours: Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The museum is closed on Monday. For more information, visit http://www.sheldonartmuseum.org.

Writer: Ann Gradwohl