September 14, 2005
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THAT'S THE POWER OF RED
New Video Series Highlights Campus Accomplishments
On football Saturdays at Memorial Stadium, the Huskervision screens come alive with the big plays on the field. But we also like to take time out to tell fans about the big success stories that take place off the field at Nebraska. It's a chance to brag about UNL's important research, our world-renowned faculty and our outstanding students and alumni. That's the Power of Red.
THE POWER OF RED
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TRANSCRIPT | PODCAST
PRIDE, PASSION AND POWER
Chancellor Delivers State of the University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman
delivered his annual State of the University address on Sept.
9 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Perlman reviewed the previous year's accomplishments and announced objectives
and initiatives for the upcoming academic year.
The program for the year's State of the University address included a performance
by the Chiara String Quartet, artists in residence at the UNL School of Music.
The quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and
Gregory Beaver, cello) began its three-year residency at UNL this month after
previously occupying the Lisa Arnhold residency in the Juilliard School of Music
in New York City. The quartet was the Meadowlark Chamber Music Festival's artists-in-residence
in Lincoln in 2004 in collaboration with the UNL School of Music's Chamber Music
Institute. Note: due to technical difficulties, the audio of
the Chiara String Quartet does not appear on the podcast or video downloads.
OFFICE
OF THE CHANCELLOR | SCARLET SPECIAL SECTION
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HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS
Student Project Joins Husker Pride With Textile Design
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UNL junior Elizabeth Walters examines samples of Memorial Stadium camouflage on display in the second-floor hallway of the Home Economics Building on East Campus.
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A student project has taken blending into Memorial Stadium beyond wearing traditional red. In the Advanced Textile Design course last spring, Michael James, professor of textiles, clothing and design, had 22 graduate and undergraduate students design camouflage that mimics game day in Lincoln. Those designs are on display in the second-floor hallway of the Home Economics Building on East Campus through Sept. 16.
In developing a camouflage pattern, students utilized three-color palettes - including the traditional red, white, black and tan of Husker game day. Students also picked a theme to the design, ranging from an Alice in Wonderland tea party and interior of an automobile, to a master bathroom and the nursery at Bryan Hospital.
The motifs within the designs reflect the themes, however the colors have a familiar home in Memorial Stadium. "This is a great project for our students because it comes at a time when camouflage is popular and becoming more high tech," James said. "The fashion industry is using camouflage more and more. And, the military is doing research into a number of different camouflage designs, including one with layers that can only be seen with night vision goggles."
The New York Times ran stories on both camouflage trends as James and the students were developing their designs. The camouflage exhibit is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 472-2911.
TEXTILES CLOTHING & DESIGN
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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 Week at the Ross: Rize, Me And You And Everyone We Know.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Rize, the debut film from famed photographer David LaChapelle
and performance artist Miranda July's debut film, Me And You And Everyone We Know
Photographer David LaChapelle gets behind a different kind of lens for Rize,
his feature film debut. LaChapelle heads to Los Angeles to make his mark in
the cinematic world, shooting a documentary about a style of hip-hop dance called "krumping." Dividing
his time between the personal lives of the dancers and some spectacular on-screen
demonstrations courtesy of the cream of the krumpers, LaChapelle's bright, vivacious
photographic style makes an impressive translation to the big screen. As the dancers perform a jaw-dropping array of moves, a deliriously infectious mixture of fun, intensity, and jubilant release pours from the screen. Playing out like a west-coast relative to fellow 2005 film, the New York-based Mad Hot Ballroom, LaChapelle's movie gloriously demonstrates the healing powers of dance.
Miranda July's debut feature film, Me And You And Everyone We Know, is a charming, quirky romantic comedy that is entertaining from start to finish. Writer-director July stars as Christine, an offbeat performance artist who becomes instantly smitten with Richard (John Hawkes), a brooding department-store shoe salesman who is having trouble dealing with his divorce and his separation from his two kids--the shy, private Peter (Miles Thompson) and the very funny Robby (Brandon Ratcliff). Christine is trying to get her latest work accepted at a major museum, but first she has to get through mean-spirited Nancy (Tracy Wright), who is not necessarily very interested in her submission.
Meanwhile, Natasha Slayton and Najarra Townsend are a riot as a pair of teenagers who think they're ready for sex as they tease neighborhood pervert Andrew (Brad Henke) and consider experimenting with Peter. Amid all the tender, comedic, well-acted, and well-written scenes, Ratcliff nearly steals the film as Robby gets involved in a dirty, hysterical online chat with a mystery person. July's marvelous, surprising movie won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in addition to well-deserved prizes at the Philadelphia and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | RIZE | ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW |
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