APRIL 14, 2004
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229 ANDREWS, 7:30PM
Author West to Read
Author Kathleene West will read from her latest book, The Summer of the Sub-Comandante, at 7:30pm tonight in the Dudley Bailey Library, 229 Andrews Hall.
West grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received her doctorate in English and Icelandic studies at UNL. She is professor of poetry at New Mexico State University and the poetry editor of Puerto del Sol. She lived for two years in Iceland on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has published one book of short fiction and eight books of poetry.
West's last book of poetry, Romance tercermundista/Third World Romance, a bilingual book translated by the author, Jesus J. Barquet and others, was published in Santiago de Cuba in 2000. With Barquet, she translates Cuban and Dominican poetry and gives bilingual readings.
This reading, sponsored by the UNL English Department and the creative writing program, is free and open to the public. For more information call Grace Bauer at 472-0993.
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NEBRASKA UNION, 6:30PM
Event to Celebrate Asian Culture
Music, song, dance, poetry
and food from the Asian culture will highlight a Coffee House tonight at 6:30pm in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room.
The event, co-sponsored by OASIS and ASA, is being held to celebrate National Asian
Pacific American month.
This will be the final Coffee House of the
semester, and will also be one of the organizations' largest events of the year. Food and beverages will
be served (including special dishes from Asia). Limited seating is
available.
All portions of the event are free and open to the public. For more information contact Laura Walhaug at 472-3352.
OASIS
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SHELDON'S NEW ACQUISITION
Sculpture to Take Root in Donaldson Garden
A 40-foot stainless steel tree, the latest major work by New York artist Roxy Paine, will be assembled in Donaldson Garden, south of Andrews Hall. The sculpture, Paine's sixth and most complex tree sculpture, embodies dualities Paine has explored in his work, said Janice Driesbach, director of UNL's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
The trunk, which was fabricated in Brooklyn, N.Y., and branches, constructed by the artist from hundreds of pieces of steel tubing in his studio in upstate New York, will be assembled by Paine and a work crew. Assisted by riggers and a welder from Lincoln, Paine will oversee the raising of the trunk and then will weld the branches on site.
A dedication ceremony of the work is planned for 4pm June 15, followed by a picnic fund-raiser hosted by the Nebraska Art Association.
Paine was born in 1966 and attended Santa Fe College in New Mexico and Pratt Institute in New York City before leaving school to become a full-time artist. He has won attention for two distinctive bodies of work. Paine creates detailed plant forms, including poppies and mushrooms, which replicate natural phenomena, and produces abstract sculptures or paintings. Both types of work have been featured in exhibitions in France, Germany and Switzerland, as well as throughout the United States.
Paine installed his first large-scale tree, Imposter, at the Wanas Foundation in southern Sweden five years ago; his 50-foot-tall tree, Bluff, was on view in New York's Central Park for four months before it was moved to a private collection. The new work, commissioned for the Sheldon sculpture collection with private funds, is Paine's first major sculpture in this region.
Driesbach notes that while Paine selected the site on campus with UNL landscape designers for its visual characteristics, his tree is also appropriately placed conceptually in the Donaldson Garden, which is devoted to introduced species.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery sculpture garden includes nearly 30 sculptures by artists working throughout the United States during the 20th century. Paine's tree will be the first 21st-century sculpture to be installed on campus.
The tree, as yet untitled, was commissioned from the artist for $275,000 with funds from the Olga Sheldon Endowment, based on enthusiasm for his earlier work and the maquette, or study, Paine submitted after he visited Lincoln in November 2002.
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EAST UNION, 5-10PM
Game Live Tour Comes to UNL
Love to play video games? How about a night of free video games? The popular Games Live Tour will be making its first stop ever at UNL's East Campus Student Union this evening. The event is sponsored by Student Involvement East campus and will start at 5pm and end at 10pm.
Students will get to play new and unreleased video games designed by companies such as Ubisoft, EA games, EA sports, Midway, and Rockstar. The tour will also feature N-Gage, a new gaming concept by Nokia.
Some of the new games include Max Payne 2, Americas Army: Special Forces, NBA Ballers, MLB Slugfest, and MVP Baseball.
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E103 BEADLE, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'The Tobacco Genome Initiative and Its Application to Plant Virus Pathogenesis'
Dr. Steve Lommel, North Carolina State University
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