August 30, 2005
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SEATON HALL, WED AUGUST 31, 11:30AM-2PM
Newly Renovated Hall Holds Open House
The offices in Seaton Hall are celebrating the redesign and renovation of
their building by holding an open house on August 31, from 11:30-2:00 for
interested faculty, students, and staff. Refreshments will be served and
information about each of the offices now occupying the building will be
available.
The offices in the newly renovated building include those for the Institute for Ethnic Studies (African American and African
Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies, Native American Studies),
Graduate Studies, International Studies, Judaic Studies, Plains Humanities
Alliance, Undergraduate Studies, Womenˇ¦s Studies, and the Cather Project
(whose main office is located in Andrews Hall).
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ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
Hillestad Gallery Shows Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion
"Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Patriotic and Political Persuasion," an exhibition of quilts with political and patriotic themes, will be on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery through Aug. 31.
The exhibition includes approximately 17 quilts from the International Quilt Study Center's Ardis and Robert James Collection, and explores the impact of war, politics and political candidates on 19th- and early 20th-century American women's quilting designs. There will be a variety of examples of the "Whig Rose" pattern, also known as the "Democrat Rose." These red and green applique quilts are outstanding examples of technical skill and early innovative design put to a partisan purpose. Patriotic quilts using stars, flags, federal eagles, campaign ribbons and kerchiefs will round out the display.
All the quilts in this exhibition are visual reminders of a time when women had no public forum. Against all odds, these quilts survive to give us evocative insights into the ways American women expressed political and patriotic sentiments during an era when they could not vote.
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FIRST ARMY GUARD SOLDIER TO BE NAMED
Husker Senior Named Army Soldier of the Year
UNL senior and Nebraska Army National Guard sergeant Jessica Reed is the Army Times' Soldier of the Year. A communications specialist in Nebraska's 313th Medical company, Reed is the first Army Guard soldier to be named as the Soldier of the Year by the Army Times, a weekly newspaper published by the Military Times Media Group.
Reed, a psychology major, was one semester short of earning her degree when her unit was mobilized to Iraq last October. Reed learned to install, operate and maintain the satellite Movement Tracking System (MTS) that enhances communication between a base station and ambulances in the field.
Reed also trains others to use the MTS technology.
A native of Lawrence, Neb., Reed was honored at a reception in Washington, D.C. in July, attended by Rep. Tom Osborne, Sen. John McCain, and Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau. Reed expects to return to Nebraska in November.
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH OCT 23
April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings at Sheldon
The exhibition "April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Aug. 27 through Oct. 23. The exhibition includes nearly 40 monumental and small-scale paintings and drawings that act as a mid-career survey of April Gornik's work from 1980 to the present. Gornik is well known for her ability to bring forth the Western Romantic tradition in light-bathed landscapes inspired by memories of places visited, as well as by her imagination.
Dede Young, curator of modern and contemporary art for the Neuberger Museum of Art at State University of New York-Purchase, organized the exhibition, which was at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before coming to the Sheldon. According to Young, the relevance of Gornik's work lies in the fact that she revels in her landscapes at a time when painting and drawing are considered outdated. "Since the mid-20th century art has expanded in uncountable ways, and painting and drawing have been rejected for nearly two decades as lacking in potential to fully express our contemporary world. April Gornik has chosen to maintain a steady process of exploring the vocabulary of painting and drawing as consistently viable and compelling. Rather than bow to the recent trend of artists to seek and make images from urban experiences in a world of mass production, Gornik stays a passionate course, utilizing landscape images and light to reference shared human experience."
With light as a primary subject, along with past, present, and future worlds imagined and portrayed with imposing clarity, Gornik puts forth images that are fresh, timeless and lasting. Her compelling relevance lies in the palpable, hand-made-ness of her work. She has said of painting, "It holds within itself the history, time, and tale of its formation, the person looking at it is informed, enriched, and subliminally able to experience all of the above. The object speaks to us in its physicality, a connection and an interface of time and space, intent and emotion."
Gornik will discuss her work in a public talk on "Landscape As Metaphor" at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, with a reception to follow. The talk is free and open to the public.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Weekend at the Ross: Mad
Hot Ballroom, Mysterious Skin.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the fan favorite documentary
Mad Hot Ballroom, and the newest film from director Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in Mad Hot Ballroom. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance program for fifth graders, in which these former preserves of the adult world are given a new lease on life by some enthusiastic little characters. The film follows students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights, with Agrelo training her cameras on the kids' lives both inside and outside of the classroom. The students are united by a zeal for the ballroom dancing lessons, which build over a 10-week period and culminate in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. One of 2005's most uplifting slices of cinema, Mad Hot Ballroom is a joyous, life-affirming experience.
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil, who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | MAD HOT BALLROOM | MYSTERIOUS SKIN |
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