UNL museums schedule First Friday events Sept. 5

            University of Nebraska-Lincoln museums will kick off a new season of First Fridays on Sept. 5. In addition to offering extended hours and free admission to their galleries as part of Lincoln's First Friday Art Walk, the Great Plains Art Museum, International Quilt Study Center and Museum and Sheldon Museum of Art will provide art displays, lectures and activities free to the public.

            Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., 5-7 p.m. -- Speaker Melissa Dabakis on "Ecoventions: Art on the Farm." Dabakis is an American and modern European art history professor at Kenyon College. She will speak on contemporary environmental art and site-specific sculpture. For more information go to http://www.unl.edu/plains/great-plains-art-museum.

            International Quilt Study Center and Museum, 1523 N. 33rd St., 4:30-7 p.m. -- Grand opening of "Signature Cloths," an exhibition that explores sewn signatures as visual ciphers and as a method of social engagement, guest curated by Lynn Setterington. Quilt artist Luke Haynes will also present a lecture on "arc-quilt-tecture" at 5:30 p.m. For more information go to http://www.quiltstudy.org.

            Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets, 5-7 p.m. -- The campus community and the general public are invited to a Big Red-themed First Friday reception featuring music by the Cornhusker Marching Band's pep band, tailgate food and a Big Red gallery game. For more information, go to http://www.sheldonartmuseum.org.