DECEMBER 13, 2004
THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for First Semester 2004-2005
will be given throughout this week (Dec. 13-17).
Click the link to view the university's official policy on
Final Examinations and Dead Week, from the Academic Services Handbook.
ACADEMIC
SERVICES HANDBOOK |
DEADLINE REMINDER
Nominations Due Today for the Chancellor's "Fulfilling
the Dream" Awards
The award was established in 1997 to honor
individuals who have contributed to the UNL community or the wider
Lincoln community by their exemplary action in promoting the goals
and vision of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The award or awards
are presented each January during ceremonies at the university's
celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The 2005 presentation
will be Jan. 17.
Nomination materials, including a letter of nomination and no more
than three letters of support, should be sent by Dec. 13 to Tom Simons,
Chair, MLK Awards Subcommittee, 321 Canfield Administration Building,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0424. The awards
subcommittee will review the nominations and make recommendations
for the final selections to the MLK Day Planning Committee and UNL
Chancellor Harvey Perlman.
Previous winners of the award are: 1998 -- Keith Parker (UNL); 1999
-- Leola Bullock (community) and Miguel Carranza (UNL); 2000 -- Melvin
Jones (UNL) and Lela Shanks (community); 2001 -- Paulette Jones (community)
and Michael Combs (UNL); 2002 -- Bonnie Coffey (community) and Merlin
Lawson (UNL); 2003 -- Robert Hitchcock (UNL) and Leroy Stokes (community);
and 2004 -- Stephanie Adams (UNL) and Jose Soto (community).
CONTACT: Tom Simons, University Communications, (402) 472-8514 |
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EISENTRAGER•HOWARD GALLERY, THROUGH
DEC. 17, NOON-5PM
Capstone Exhibition Presents Work
of Nine BFA Candidates
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The semiannual BFA Capstone Exhibition opens today in the Eisentrager•Howard
Gallery, on the first floor of Richards Hall.
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The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Capstone Exhibition opens today in the Eisentrager•Howard
Gallery in Richards Hall, Stadium Drive and T streets, on UNL's city
campus. A closing reception will be held Friday, Dec. 17, from 5-7pm
in the gallery.
The BFA Capstone Exhibition features
the work of graduating seniors from the Department of Art and Art
History. This presentation is the culminating undergraduate presentation
for art students during their university program. The following nine
artists are included in the exhibition:
Shannon Bourne shows a series of oil paintings depicting
organic forms in atmospheric environments.
Matthew Gohring is a graphic designer who is exhibiting
several brochures and magazine covers he produced for the College
of Engineering and the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Kris Haskin is presenting a series of small and
larger oil paintings that employ bold and textual abstractions.
Justin Irwin shows five larger abstract paintings
on shaper canvases distinguished by layers of marks and patterns.
Jessica Mills is exhibiting colorful etchings with
overlayed drawings and images that are identified by poetic titles.
Kathryn Scherfenberg presents exquisite sets of
earthenware ceramic plates, cups, serving dishes and place settings,
glazed with beautiful decorative surfaces.
Meghan Stratman shows paper and collage images depicting
women and works based on female storybook characters.
Nolan Tredway exhibits oil paintings of fantasy
landscapes, and a DVD series entitled "Milk" that employs puppet-like
figures in epistemological dialogues.
Timothy Wegner shows eight stoneware and porcelain
sculptures based on organic images with monochromatic satin glazes.
The Department of Art and Art History's Eisentrager•Howard
Gallery is open Monday through Friday, noon-5pm. The gallery is located
on the first floor of Richards Hall.
COLLEGE
OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS | ART
AND ART HISTORY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Since
Otar Left, Being Julia
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize
at the Cannes Film Festival, Since Otar Left and the film Being
Julia, the newest film from director István Szabó.
Since Otar Left is a bittersweet
tale of deception and affection. Three Georgian women--strong-willed
matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling
star Esther Gorintin), her long-suffering daughter Marina (Nino Khomassouridze)
and rebellious granddaughter Ada (Freeze, Die, Come to Life's Dinara
Droukarova)--all live together in their stately-yet-crumbling apartment
in contemporary Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic.
Eka pines for her beloved son Otar, a physician who is now a construction
worker in Paris.
Marina is deeply resentful of her mother's obsession with her absent
brother, while Ada endures their bickering and yearns for a more
adventurous existence. When a friend of Otar's calls with tragic
news, Marina and Ada must make a seemingly impossible choice: Do
they keep Eka from learning the truth? Former assistant director
to Bertrand Tavernier and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bertuccelli deftly
spins the delicate threads of familial conflict and maternal love
into a bewitching tangle of intergenerational duplicity.
In Being Julia, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette
Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West
End, but is growing too old for ingénue parts. Enter Tom Fennell
(Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, and a clandestine affair
begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia eventually winds up
in a face-off with a Tom's other, much younger lover (Lucy Punch).
Luckily, the spirit of Julia's cantankerous old acting coach (London
theater legend Michael Gambon) follows Julia around offering some
tough-love encouragement.
Set in the late 1930s, this is a fine costume comedy-drama about
the sorrows and joys of art. The eternal question of "when am I acting
and when am I myself?" has seldom been addressed as intelligently
as it is here; Bening seems to be not only tangling with her own
status as an aging beauty, but also with the limits of her own acting
abilities, and it's a pleasure to see her transcend both with such
triumphant exuberance. Bravo, Miss Bening, and kudos to director
Szabó (Mephisto) for rendering his obvious love of theater,
cinema, and actors with such contagious warmth. Other fine performances
include Jeremy Irons as Julia's manager/husband and Juliet Stevens
as her jaded maid.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | SINCE
OTAR LEFT |
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