August 1 - August 7, 2005
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PROFESSOR JOINS NATIONAL COUNCIL
Anderson Named Senior Economist With Council of Economic Advisors
University of Nebraska-Lincoln economist
John Anderson has been appointed as a senior economist with the President's
Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. He will serve as an
adviser with the council, with particular duties related to public finance
policy issues including tax reform, social security, and other federal
revenue and spending programs.
Anderson, Baird family professor of economics and chair of the
Department of Economics in the UNL College of Business Administration, has
extensive international expertise in the re-development of former Communist
countries, having acted as economic adviser to the parliament of Moldova
and as economics educational adviser in Russia and Bulgaria. The author of
the best-selling economics textbook, "Public Finance," Anderson has been
commissioned by state governments to study the effects of property tax
rates, economic development incentives and tax increment financing.
The Council of Economic Advisers was established by the Employment Act
of 1946 to provide the president with objective economic analysis and
advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic
and international economic policy issues. In addition to the chairman and
two other members, the council has a professional staff of about 10 senior
staff economists, generally professors on one- or two-year leaves from
their universities, and 10 advanced graduate students. Four permanent
economic statisticians assist the economists in the interpretation and
identification of economic data.
The academic nature of the staff and of most council members
distinguishes the council from other government agencies. Members and staff
also use their strong links in the academic community to obtain advice on
technical issues throughout their time in Washington.
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS
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FAMILY CONTINUES SUPPORT OF ART IN NEBRASKA
Sheldon to Name Gallery in Honor of Rohman Family
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will name its first permanent collection gallery space on July 30 in honor of alumnus Carl "Ky" H. Rohman and his family. The Rohmans are among the museum's most supportive benefactors. Members of the Rohman family have supported the Sheldon for many years and have donated more than 60 pieces of art through the University of Nebraska Foundation and the Nebraska Art Association.
To coincide with naming of the Rohman Gallery, the Sheldon installed a new exhibition
featuring work collected by the Rohman family. These works, which include 19th-century
still lifes, portraits and landscapes as well as examples of American modernism
and folk, opens to the public on July 31. "For more than 40 years, the Rohman
family has been a leader in the arts in Nebraska," said Harvey Perlman, chancellor
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "It is hard to find an art initiative
in Nebraska that doesn't involve Ky and Jane Rohman. Ky's gentle and often humorous
prodding and counsel have been of enormous help to me in trying to advance the
Sheldon and the other art activities of the university."
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden houses both the Nebraska
Art Association collection founded in 1888 and the University of Nebraska collection
initiated in 1929. Together they comprise more than 12,000 works of art in all
media. This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings
of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,
geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop art, minimalism and contemporary
art. The University of Nebraska Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization
supplementing support for students, faculty, facilities and programs at the University
of Nebraska's four campuses through gifts from alumni, friends, corporations
and other foundations since 1936.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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CARSON LEGACY CONTINUES
UNL Receives $5 Million From Johnny Carson Estate
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a $5 million gift from the estate of Johnny Carson for endowed support of programs in theatre, film and broadcasting. This gift brings to more than $11 million the total philanthropic support given to his alma mater. The bequest establishes the Johnny Carson Fund for Theatre, Film and Broadcasting. Annual income from this endowment will provide support to the Department of Theater Arts at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and the broadcast program at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In November the university announced a $5.3 million gift from Carson for support of theatre and film programs. Of that gift, $4.3 million is for renovation and expansion of the Temple Building at UNL, home to the theatre program and where Carson studied. Another $1 million created an endowment to keep performance spaces current with latest advances in lighting and sound technologies and for general support of students and programs within the theatre department.
"These tremendous gifts commemorate Johnny Carson's impressive legacy, both on this campus and around the world," UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman said. "It brings great distinction to UNL and encourages two colleges to work collaboratively on programs between broadcasting and theatre and film." As a memorial to Carson and his generosity, the university will rename the Department of Theatre Arts the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. The name was approved by the Board of Regents in June and is pending final approval by the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education this summer.
Throughout his successful career, Carson maintained a strong relationship with his university. In the 1970s he established an endowed scholarship to assist outstanding Nebraska high school graduates.
In 1988, he provided a gift toward construction of the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The black box theatre adjoining the main stage was renamed the Johnny Carson Theater in his honor.
"I got my start in the Temple Building and have never forgotten the impact of my academic studies at the University of Nebraska on my life and career," Carson said in November, just over two months before his death. "It is my hope that this gift will enable future generations of theatre and film students to learn their craft . . . which will enable them to pursue their goals, just as I did."
Tentative plans call for renovation of the Temple Building to begin in November with completion slated for the 2006-07 school year. The building will receive a new black box theatre and film sound stage for students to use in their productions; a newly remodeled and expanded scene shop and updated lighting facilities; new computer-aided design and theatre class lab space; new offices for attracting additional graduate assistants; enhanced storage facilities; and an updated lobby for the Howell Theatre. When completed, the new addition will connect the Temple Building to the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. John Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, on Oct. 23, 1925, and grew up in Norfolk, Neb. He served in World War II in the Navy as an ensign before enrolling at the University of Nebraska in 1947. He received a bachelor of arts degree in radio and speech with a minor in physics in 1949.
The University of Nebraska Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization supplementing support for students, faculty, facilities and programs at the University of Nebraska's four campuses through gifts from alumni, friends, corporations and other foundations.
DEPARTMENT OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Gude, Murphy Exhibition Continues
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: Kontroll, Nina's Tragedies.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the Academy-Award nominated Kontroll, and
Nina's Tragedies, the newest film from Israeli director Savi Gabizon.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Academy Awards, writer-director Nimrod Antal's debut Kontroll is a thrilling, claustrophobic, wild ride through the subway system in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Sandor Csanyi stars as Bulcsu, the leader of a small crew that patrols the underground making sure that passengers have purchased a ticket. However, the men actually have little power themselves, so many people that they stop humiliate them, physically and verbally abuse them, and easily run away. Within this small world, Bulcsu and his gang, which includes the older Professor (Zoltan Mucsi), the narcoleptic Muki (Csaba Pindroch), the diminutive Lecso (Sandor Badar), and the young and innocent Tibi (Zsolt Nagy), battle Gonzo (Balazs Lazar) and his far more successful group of ticket checkers
In one of the film's most exciting scenes, Bulcsu and Gonzo go railing--racing down the tracks in between two moving trains. Meanwhile, a mysterious hooded person in black is pushing people in front of trains, a man named Bootsie (Bence Matyassy) continually escapes from the ticket checkers' clutches, a train conductor (Lajos Kovacs) indulges himself in food, drink, and smoke, and an odd woman (Eszter Balla) roams around the subway wearing a cute bear costume. But the more the story focuses on Bulcsu, who lives in the subway and always seems to be bleeding, the more powerful the film becomes, propelled by NEO's thumping techo soundtrack.
Birth. Death. Life. Love. Marriage. Divorce. Infatuation. Passion. Joy. Heartbreak. And dancing Hassids! Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of Nina's Tragedies, writer/director Savi Gabizon's serio-comic look at an Israeli teenager's coming-of-age and his attraction to his beautiful but emotionally fragile Aunt Nina. Winner of 11 Israeli Academy prizes (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay) as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Nina's Tragedies takes place over an intensely emotional six months in the life of 14 year-old Nadav (Aviv Elkabets). The film unfolds through a series of funny and touching journal entries in which Nadav reminisces about this turbulent period in his family's history--from his high-strung Uncle Haimon's (Yoram Hattav) untimely death to the passing of his estranged, deeply religious father, Amnon (Shmil Ben-Ari). By turns profound and whimsical, sexy and surprising, Nina's Tragedies is ultimately about unconditional acceptance--and the power of love to heal.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | KONTROLL | NINA'S TRAGEDIES |
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HOWELL THEATRE, 1ST FLOOR TEMPLE BUILDING,
TUE 7:30PM
Tuesday Destinations - Cork Ramer reading selections from Ted Kooser's prose and poetry
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