May 30-June 5, 2005
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HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, THIS WEEKEND
Huskers Host NCAA Lincoln Regional at Hawks Field
The Big 12 champion Nebraska baseball team will make its ninth NCAA Regional appearance this week, as the Huskers were selected as the No. 3 national seed for the NCAA Tournament beginning Friday at Hawks Field in Lincoln. It marks the highest national seed in program history and the second time the Huskers have ever received a national seed (also 2001).
Nebraska, which has been in a regional in six of the past seven seasons and hosted in four of the past five years, will face Horizon League champion Illinois-Chicago (38-19-1) in Friday's first game set for 1:05 p.m. It marks the third time that Nebraska has opened against a Horizon League school (also Butler in 2000 and UW-Milwaukee in 2002). North Carolina State (40-17) will take on Missouri Valley Conference regular-season champion Creighton (46-15) in the day's second contest, slated for 7:05 p.m. The regional runs all weekend with two games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and a potential "if necessary" title game Monday afternoon at 1:05 p.m. Over 6,500 all-session tickets were sold entering Wednesday evening, and general admission all-session tickets ($56 for adults; $35 for youths) are going fast. Tickets can be purchased on Huskers.com or at the Nebraska Ticket Office.
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NEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM EAST CAMPUS GREENHOUSE, SAT
10AM - 3PM
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Plant Sale
Rare & native plants, hard-to-find native & prairie plants, grasses, oaks, and viburnums will all be available at the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Plant Sale. The sale will take place from 10 am to 3 pm June 4 in the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum East Campus Greenhouse. To get to the Greenhouse, take Huntington St. to 38th St. and turn south (north entrance to UNL East Campus). Go 1 block south and turn east, the NSA banner will be on the greenhouse.
The mission of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is to "enrich lives through the beauty and wonder of plants." Rather than bound to a single place, the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is a remarkable network of arboretum sites, parks, historic properties and other public landscapes located in dozens of communities across the state. Linked together and supported by the Arboretum office at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this unique statewide network makes the Arboretum accessible and relevant to citizens across Nebraska.
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Gude, Murphy Exhibition Opens This
Week At Great Plains Art Museum
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Anthony Benton Gude, "Prairie Mother," 2004, oil on canvas
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Parallel exhibitions featuring
the work of two Great Plains artists will open June 3 and run through
July 31 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art
Museum.
"From the Heart of a Regionalist: Paintings by Anthony Benton Gude"
will include nearly 60 works, mostly oil paintings, but also a number of
watercolors and drawings.
"WaterWays & Other Perspectives" will feature 13 Prismacolor drawings
by Deborah J. Murphy of Omaha, all completed in the last two years.
Both artists will be featured at an opening reception from 7-9 pm
June 3 at the museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The receptions and
exhibitions are free and open to the public.
"These are two wonderful exhibits and each is powerful in its own
right, although they do complement each other in some ways," said Reece
Summers, curator of the museum. "The two artists work with different
materials, Gude mostly with oils and Murphy with Prismacolor pencils, but
both look at the landscapes of the Midwest and Great Plains, and the
interactions of humans with the natural world."
Gude attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston in
1986-87 and later studied at the Art Student's League in New York City,
focusing on drawing and paint. He mastered the Venetian technique of oil
painting, a system that employs the use of monochromatic under painting to
develop form and composition before the color is painted on. The many
layers of paint give the final result a stronger body.
His recent commissions include four historical murals covering 480
square feet for the St. Joseph River Boat Partners in St. Joseph, Mo.; "The
Benton," a portrait of a stern-wheeler, for The River Club in Kansas City,
Mo.; and a mural, "A Century of Service," 8 feet by 12 feet, and five
paintings of various Kansas themes for Western Resources in Topeka, Kansas.
Gude and his family live on a small farm in southeastern Marshall
County, Kan. (county seat Marysville). The farm was originally purchased in
an unusual fashion by his grandfather, muralist Thomas Hart Benton
(1889-1975). Benton painted a picture of the farm's barnyard and silo, sold
the painting and purchased the farm with the proceeds of the sale.
A native of North Platte, Murphy has been a professional artist for
more than 30 years and has shown extensively around the Midwest, where her
work has been collected both publicly and privately. She is known primarily
for her Midwestern landscapes, and in recent years has come to prefer using
Prismacolor pencils to capture the texture and colors of prairie
vegetation. She uses poster board of a particular texture that allows her
to build many layers of color.
Murphy, who earned a bachelor's degree in music education at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney (then Kearney State College), was the
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in painting in
1994 and a Distinguished Achievement Grant from the Nebraska Arts Council
in 1998.
The Great Plains Art Museum is part of the Center for Great Plains
Studies at UNL. It is open from 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday
and 1:30-5 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
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LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
Chinese Jades from Smithsonian's
Sackler Gallery at UNL's Lentz Center
Presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, "Magic, Myths, and Minerals: Chinese Jades from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery" will
premiere on May 21 at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition includes 37 small
jade sculptures dating from ancient times through the Qing dynasty
(1644-1911).
"Magic, Myths, and Minerals" explores the art of jade carving, touching on the significance and use of jade in Chinese society, and introduces the extraordinary skills required to work jade. Most of the pieces on view are small, precious items.
The Lentz Center recognizes the rich and varied cultures of the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within UNL, the center's unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing instructional programs on the campus as well as enriching the cultural environment of the citizens of the state of Nebraska. It is dedicated to the enrichment of knowledge and understanding of Asia, and is the only institution in Nebraska devoted solely to Asian art.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Palindromes, Off The Map.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Palindromes, the newest film from Director Todd Solondz and
Off The Map, the third feature-film from Actor/Director Campbell Scott.
Writer / director Todd Solondz has made his reputation by creating a gallery
of suburban icons of ostracism: think Dawn Wiener from Welcome To The Dollhouse, Dr.
Maplewood from Happiness, and Consuelo from Storytelling. In
his latest film Palindromes, we find the work of a more mature artist
who is clearly savoring the profound flavor of moral complexity. Palindromes is
a fable of innocence: 13-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all
she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the
end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents (Ellen Barkin and Richard Masur).
So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead
finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant
itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is
round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same
again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
In Off The Map, the year is 1974 and the harshly beautiful wilds of Taos are home to 11-year-old Bo Groden (Valentina de Angelis) and her free-thinking family. While constantly yearning for escape from her sparse environment, Bo passes the time with flair and imagination. She's a crack shot with a rifle and a bow and arrow, an artful plunderer of wallets and briefcases. Bo's home is an entrancing, challenging place that she will one day transcend to become the woman she was destined to be. Arlene (Joan Allen), Bo's warm, earthy, and eccentric mother, raises most of the family's food in her vegetable garden -- which she prefers to tend in the nude. Meanwhile, Bo's father, Charley (Sam Elliott), the embodiment of Old West masculinity, is losing the battle with his inner demons. When William Gibbs (Jim True-Frost) arrives, a hapless IRS agent with demons of his own, he soon proves to be a catalyst in the lives of the family during this watershed summer as he dips a brush in paint and pours his feelings out on canvas, discovering a long hidden talent for artistic expression. The Grodens, too, make their own discoveries over the course of this memorable season -- the mysteries of love and loss, the power of family unity, and the eternal truth that in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, anything is possible.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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