MARCH 4, 2004
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THROUGH MARCH 6
'Everyday Activism' Women's
Week Theme
The UNL Women's Center is collaborating with many other organizations to celebrate
Women's Week, through March 6. Activities are scheduled throughout the week
that focus on this year's theme, 'Everyday Activism.' The theme was chosen to
highlight the importance of part-time activism and the impact that small daily
acts can have.
A weeklong exhibit in the Rotunda Gallery of the Nebraska Union features past and present UNL students, faculty and staff whose efforts in a variety of fields have shaped our community and the world. Participants will also be given suggestions on how to become an activist through small changes.
UNL's radio station, KRNU 90.3 FM, will spotlight activism throughout the week with an 'Activist Minute.' Each day, a nationally known activist and a UNL student will be recognized for their commitment to making change. The spots will include suggested small changes that listeners can make to start thinking of themselves as everyday activists.
For more information on other events for the week, stop by the Women's Center
at 340 Nebraska Union, call 472-2597 or follow this link.
WOMEN'S CENTER
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1126 OLDFATHER, 3PM
Kawasaki Reading Room Lecture -
'Japanese Woodblock Prints'
Charles Mignon, UNL
208 OLDFATHER, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'Quaternion
Orders, Quadratic Forms and Shimura Curves'
Montserrat Alsina, Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, Barcelona
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RICHARDS HALL, 4-7PM; FRI 10AM-5PM, SAT 10AM-2PM
Print Sale Offers Artwork, at a Price
The Lincoln Print Group offers a wide variety of original art prints for sale in a three-day event beginning this afternoon at 4pm in Richards Hall.
Printmaking uses various graphic techniques to produce
creative visual art in printed form. Processes include intaglio, lithography,
monoprint, papermaking, photomechanical techniques, relief, screenprinting, and
book arts media.
Artwork from faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students, including
graduate students Melinda Yale, Hixson-Lied Fellow in printmaking, Kyle Olson
(work pictured), curator of the Department of Art and Art History's Eisentrager•Howard
Gallery, as well as Cather/Bessey Professor of Art and Art History Karen Kunc,
will be offered. A wide variety of print types and sizes, at a range of prices,
will be available.
A raffle for any remaining prints will be held at the end of the sale. Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 each, 6 for $5 or 13 for $10.
The sale benefits the Lincoln Print Group, a local print organization, which helps bring visiting artists to campus, assists students who are attending print conferences, and assists students with the cost of shipping artwork to juried shows.
The sale will be held in Richards Hall, Stadium Drive and T streets. Hours are Thursday, March 4 from 4-7pm; Friday, March 5 from 10am-5pm; and Saturday, March 6 from 10am-2pm.
ART AND ART HISTORY | PRINTMAKING
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, CLOSING
TONIGHT
Now Showing at the Ross: Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Triplets of Belleville
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media
Arts Center presents the acclaimed films Girl with
a Pearl Earring and The Triplets of Belleville,
showing through this evening at the center, 313 N. 13th
St.
Director Peter Webber's film, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is set in Delft, Holland, 1665. After her father, a tile painter, is blinded in a kiln explosion, seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family. She becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Though worlds apart in upbringing, education and social standing, Vermeer recognizes Griet's intuitive understanding of color and light and slowly draws her into the mysterious world of his paintings.
Girl with a Pearl Earring will be preceded by the short film The Vest, written and directed by Paul Gutrecht.
From director Sylvain Chomet
comes the animated French film The Triplets of Belleville. It is the story of a boy named Champion who trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). But when the big race comes, Champion is kidnapped and shipped off to Belleville where The Triplets, former scat singing jazz prodigies turned experimental musicians, come to their rescue.
Filled with inspired, twisted imagery, this nearly dialogue-free film is a crowd-pleaser of unusual power, with the strange, measured pacing of a dream, and a great soundtrack of bizarre alternate-reality '30s jazz. It also has offers a touching and believable evocation of a dog's life. A great throwback to the time before animation became dominated by CGI effects; The Triplets of Belleville is a very strange, very loving French salute to obsession, affection, and persistence.
The Triplets of Belleville will be preceded by the short film Day Off the Dead, written and directed by Lee Lanier.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING | TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE |
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