October 18, 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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ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY, OCT 10 - 28
Hillestad Textile Gallery Presents "Celebration of Youth XII: Envision"
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Danae Sunderman
Age 13, Dodge county
Dragonfly Dreams
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Twenty-two clothing and home environment youth creations make up the vibrant twelfth annual Celebration of Youth: Envision exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.
The 4-H'ers items were selected by jurors from the more than 2,400 clothing and home environment State Fair exhibits. The youth will present their work at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery opening, Sunday, October 23rd from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Visitors can also view the exhibit each day from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm October 10 through October 28.
Four-H'ers will arrive on campus, Saturday, October 22 to enjoy an afternoon of workshops and experiments with the faculty in the Textiles, Clothing and Design Department. 4-H'ers and their parents experience the college climate and work in groups to examine the textile industry, tour the International Quilt Study Center and the Historic Costume collection and join in other classroom activities.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Friends of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, a nonprofit group, in cooperation with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension, the Textiles, Clothing and Design Department, and the College of Education and Human Sciences.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY
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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 affecting 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.
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