October 17, 2005
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Fall Break Reminder
There will be no classes at UNL during
the fall break, October 17 and 18. They will resume on Wednesday,
October 19. Some university buildings (including the Rec Center)
across campus will have special hours over the break, while all university
offices will continue with normal hours.
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
MFA Ceramics Alumni Exhibition Opens
The Department of Art and Art History will recognize the achievements of recent ceramics alumni with the exhibition "UNL MFA Ceramics: A Decade 1993-2003." The exhibition opens Oct. 17 and continues through Nov. 17 in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery on the first floor of Richards Hall. An opening reception will be held from 5 pm to 7 pm Oct. 24 in the Gallery.
Eleven recent alumni will participate in the exhibition. They are: Leigh Cohen, Ellen Huie, Matt Kelleher, Michael Morgan, Kari Radasch, Monica Ripley, Micki Skudlarczyk, Amy Smith, Michael Strand, Charles Timm-Ballard and Chad Wolf.
In 1993, the same year Morgan and Timm-Ballard graduated, Gail Kendall, professor of art, was the only faculty member in ceramics. Today, the program has three faculty members and eight MFA candidates. Ceramics applicants constitute 60 percent of all graduate student applications to the Department of Art and Art History.
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
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HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, ROOM 121, EAST CAMPUS, 3 - 4:15PM
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to Offer Quilt Study Series
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Log Cabin--Streak of Lightning variation
Maker unknown, possibly made in Jackson County, MO
circa 1880-1900
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will offer a six-week study series, "Beyond The Myth: The True History of American Quilts." The study series is Mondays Oct.17 to Nov. 21, from 3 to 4:15 pm in the Home Economics Building, Room 121, north of 35th Street and East Campus Loop.
Carolyn Ducey, curator of UNL's International Quilt Study Center, will present an overview of American quilt history. Patricia Crews, director of the International Quilt Study Center, will make a special presentation, "Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers." Ducey has been curator of collections for seven years, and has curated a number of exhibitions featuring quilts from the center collections and written articles and contributions for numerous publications.
Textiles, particularly quilts, are records of human progress and achievement. They offer examples of cultural heritage because women and men, from all walks of life, have made quilted bed coverings for more than two centuries. Quilt analysis sheds light on the ways gender, class ethnicity, aesthetics, politics, religion and technology find expression in the textile arts and quiltmaking traditions.
Study series participants will learn practical ways to care for cherished textiles in their homes and the importance of documenting quilt history as they tour the International Quilt Study Center's state-of-the-art storage facility.
For more information about membership and registration, contact the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at (402) 472-6265, visit its web site or send e-mail.
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING | INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: Junebug, The Digital Cinema of Jon Jost
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Junebug, the first feature film from director Phil Morrison, and The Digital Cinema of Jon Jost, who will be appearing at screenings of his films on Friday, October 14 (Oui Mon) and Saturday, October 15 (Homecoming) to discuss his work with the audiences.
Giving an art-film aesthetic to a touching family drama, director Phil Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan present their first feature, which was shot in their hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The film is set in nearby Pfafftown and Pilot Mountain, and location is itself a character in the film as long sequences of soundless photography show rows of houses, or rooms in a house, or stretches of farmland--capturing the essence of this area of the South. Successful, cosmopolitan, and adorable Chicago couple Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) and George (Alessandro Nivola) meet at a fancy art auction where she is working as a dealer, and they are married six months later. Madeleine is recruiting an outsider artist, and she travels to rural North Carolina to meet him. George accompanies her, as he is originally from Pfafftown, and though it has been three years since he visited home, Madeleine insists on meeting his family. When she does, she finds herself in a world totally different from her own, and sees a new side of her husband. His mother Peg (Celia Weston) and father Eugene (Scott Wilson) are quiet homebodies who aren't sure what to make of Madeleine's sophisticated career and lilting British accent. George's deadbeat brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie) never finished high school, and lives at home with his young wife Ashley (Amy Adams), who is naive and bubbly--and very pregnant. While the family's simplicity, traditional values, and religion make them suspicious of Madeleine, Ashley is the one bright-eyed spirit who is happy to have Madeleine as a sister-in-law and celebrates her marriage to George. Junebug is an effecting film that sheds light both on the always-surprising nature of in-laws, and the unique culture of the South.
Jon Jost, a self taught filmmaker, has made some 20 shorts and 13 feature-length films, all of which he has conceived, written, photographed, directed and edited. He is best known for his features All the Vermeers in New York and Frame Up. Jost made his first feature-length film in 1974, and has since devoted himself to the making of a wide-ranging series of films, largely focused on specifically American topics, in form ranging from essays (Speaking Directly, Stagefright, and Uncommon Senses), to essay-fictions (Angel City) to avant-garde and new narrative forms. His work has shown widely in museums, film archives and festivals since 1975. Jost is of particular interest to independent filmmakers, as well as potential audiences, because he was one of the first established filmmakers to embrace digital video and to explore its potential for story telling.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | JUNEBUG |
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EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Regulation of Genetically Engineered Crops - An Overview of Regulatory Agencies, Requirements, and the Scientific Studies That Support Commercialization of GE Crops in the United States"
Laura Higgins, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston, Iowa
15 RICHARDS HALL, 7:30PM
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture - "The Musician Priestesses of Ancient Egypt"
Dr. Suzanne Onstine, an independent scholar who specializes on the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt
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