June 6-June 12, 2005
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UNL CAMPUS
Gov. Heineman Concludes Statewide Tour with Stops Touting Higher Education, University
Gov. Dave Heineman concluded his end-of-session tour of the state with stops at two University of Nebraska campuses. The Governor was joined by University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken at news conferences stressing the growing link between state government, the NU system and statewide economic development efforts.
"If we want to grow enrollments in Lincoln, Kearney and Omaha, we must work together to grow the state of Nebraska," Gov. Heineman said. "And if our goal is to grow local economies across this great state, we must ensure the University of Nebraska remains strong and viable."
Gov. Heineman also touted the state's commitment to higher education. This was
the first year that Nebraska's higher education institutions received increases
in funding in several years, with the NU system receiving general fund appropriations
over the course of the two-year budget totaling more than $880 million, up nearly
$56 million over the previous biennium budget. Research was another important
focus of today's news conferences. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce,
every $1 million of external research funding translates into 30 jobs in Nebraska.
Last year NU brought in more than $250 million in state, federal and private
research funds, which according to the federal formula translates to nearly 7,500
jobs. President Milliken said, "In Nebraska, our public university has a history
of serving the state, and we will continue to pursue the research, education,
and outreach that contributes to the strength of the entire state. We are grateful
for the investment that the state is making in the University of Nebraska this
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HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, THIS WEEKEND
Huskers Host NCAA Lincoln Super Regional at Hawks Field
As announced earlier this week by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee, the Big 12 champion and No. 3 national
seed Nebraska Cornhuskers will be hosting the Lincoln Super Regional at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park. It marks the highest national seed in
program history and the second time the Huskers have ever received
a national seed (also 2001).
The Lincoln Super Regional is officially sold out, as more then 8,500 tickets
have been sold for this weekend. General admission seating was put on sale following
Nebraska's victory over Creighton in Sunday's regional title game and sold out
in 13 hours. This is the first ever meeting on the diamond between Miami and
the Huskers.
The Friday (12:05pm) and Saturday (11:05am) games between the Huskers
and Hurricanes will be shown nationally on ESPN.
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UNION PLAZA, THURSDAYS 12PM - 1PM
Fountain Frolics summer music series is noon Thursdays at Union Plaza
The University Program Council at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will presents the Fountain Frolics summer music series Thursdays in June and July (except June 30) on the Nebraska Union Plaza.
Local and student artists will perform free concerts from noon to 1 pm in the plaza, located on the north side of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Hot dogs, chips and Pepsi products will be available for $3. The event is open to the public. Musical acts include The Earls, The Lightning Bugs, Toasted Ponies, the Nebraska Jazz Octet, The Resonators, and others.
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SHELDON SCULPTURE GARDEN, TUESDAYS IN JUNE
Jazz In June Concerts, Market, Garden Tours Set for Tuesdays
The annual Jazz in June concerts promise great jazz and great food in the great outdoors. Organized by the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nebraska Art Association, Downtown Lincoln Association and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the festivities are held on the UNL campus at 12th and R streets and in the Sheldon's Sculpture Garden.
The free jazz concerts begin at 7 pm, every
Tuesday in June (June 7, 14, 21 and 28). Concertgoers are encouraged
to bring blankets or lawn chairs for a relaxing and enjoyable evening
surrounded by jazz music and Sheldon's outdoor sculpture.
In conjunction with the performances, the Jazz in June Market is the ideal place
to grab dinner or do midweek shopping. Dinner items, fresh produce, baked goods,
ice cream from the UNL Dairy Store and many more delights are available for purchase.
The market opens at 5 pm at the corner of 12th and R streets and is organized
by the Downtown Lincoln Association, city of Lincoln and UNL.
The event also includes tours of the Sheldon and guided tours of UNL gardens.
More artist information and event details are available on the Jazz In June web
site.
JAZZ IN JUNE
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Gude, Murphy Exhibition Opens This
Week At Great Plains Art Museum
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Deborah J. Murphy, "The Silence Is Golden" 2005, prismacolor on board
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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.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
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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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