NOVEMBER 23, 2004
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REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on First Round of Real Nebraska
Videos Begins
Voting on the Fall 2004 Real Nebraska
video contest starts this week on the Real Nebraska website. Using
the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries were taken from
full time UNL students and/or teams of full time UNL students.
In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will
be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and
the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner,
will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the
public and the campus.
REAL
NEBRASKA |
MEN'S
BASKETBALL | 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Golden Lions
DEVANEY CENTER
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CHRISTLIEB GALLERY, NOV 23 - DEC 31
Great Plains Art Collection to
Display 3 New Works From Falter
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John Falter
Cutting a Circle
n.d.
tempera on panel
38" x 50"
Great Plains Art Museum
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The Great Plains Art Collection
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the new owner of three paintings
by Nebraska native John Phillip Falter that depict possible scenes
on the Great Plains during the western migration of settlers. Assurity
Life Insurance Co. of Lincoln recently donated the paintings with
a value of $75,000 to the University of Nebraska Foundation.
"They're wonderful pieces with a rich
heritage, and we're very proud to have the opportunity to study them
and to share them with the public," said Art Curator Reece Summers
about the two oil paintings and one tempera painting that will be
displayed starting Nov. 23. "They also nicely complement our other
two Falter paintings of smaller oil and watercolor works."
Tom Potter, Assurity's president and CEO, said, "The company is pleased
to donate these paintings. Both John Falter and Assurity have a Nebraska
heritage, and we are happy to share his rich portrayal of the American
frontier with fellow Nebraskans and visitors."
The paintings, titled "Campfire," "Cutting a Circle to Size" and "Sioux
Lookout," were commissioned in the 1970s by Assurity (formerly Woodmen
Accident and Life Co.) for display in its office building. The paintings
break away from Falter's traditional style, according to Summers. "Normally,
Falter tends toward the illustrator, but when you look at his choice
of colors and the abstract you can see the two sides of Falter: Falter
the fine artist and Falter the illustrator," he said.
During the unveiling of "Cutting a Circle to Size" in September 1971,
the Lincoln Evening Journal & Nebraska State Journal reported that
Falter said he painted "from the point of view of an ordinary person
facing a new frontier..." and that he called the work a "reportorial
painting" because of its detail and historical accurateness.
Falter (1910-1982), who was born Plattsmouth and grew up in Falls
City, was called "America's most gifted illustrator" by Norman Rockwell.
Falter is best remembered for his cover illustrations that appeared
on the Saturday Evening Post and is credited with being second only
to Rockwell himself in the number of images he provided to the Post.
Although his work and life took him elsewhere, he drew upon his Nebraska
childhood for much of his inspiration.
The Great Plains Art Collection, located downtown Lincoln in Hewit
Place at 1155 Q St., will exhibit its Falter collection Nov. 23 through
Dec. 31 in the Christlieb Gallery. Admission to the gallery is free
and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm
and Sunday from 1:30 to 5pm. For information, call (402) 472-6220
or visit the collection's Web site. The Great Plains Art Collection
is managed by UNL's Center for Great Plains Studies. The center is
the oldest and most accomplished interdisciplinary regional research
and teaching center in the United States, whose purpose is to foster
the study of the people and environment in the Great Plains.
GREAT
PLAINS ART COLLECTION
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Playing this week at the Ross: Tying
The Knot, A Dirty Shame
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the John Waters' new film A Dirty Shame and the
documentary Tying The Knot, playing their final week at
the center, 313 N. 13th St.
From the wondrously fertile mind of writer/director
John Waters comes A Dirty Shame, America's first carnal
concussion comedy. Set in the Harford Road area of Waters' native
Baltimore, A Dirty Shame tells what happens when a horny
horde of "sex addicts" invade a blue-collar neighborhood, to the
shock and dismay of the "neuter" neighbors. Rude, joyous and full
of sexual anarchy, A Dirty Shame is a movie with a generous
heart and a dirty mind: in other words, a classic John Waters comedy.
When a bank robber's bullet ends the life of police officer Lois
Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, is honored as her surviving
spouse but denied all pension benefits. When Sam, an Oklahoma rancher,
loses his beloved husband of 22 years, long-estranged cousins of
his late spouse try to lay claim to everything Sam has. As Mickie
and Sam's lives are put on trial, they are forced to confront the
tragic reality that in the eyes of the law their marriages mean nothing.
From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming
the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, Tying The Knot digs
deeply into the past and present to uncover the meaning of civil
marriage in America today.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | A
DIRTY SHAME | TYING
THE KNOT |
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