October 19, 2005
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
MFA Ceramics Alumni Exhibition Continues
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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103 BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Department Colloquium - "Extending the Role of Associative Learning Processes in Tobacco Addiction: Evidence from the Laboratory and Clinic"
Dr. Rick Bevins, UNL Department of Psychology
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Olson Seminar seeks 'Unified Field Theory of Great Plains'
In the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Oct. 19 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Frances W. Kaye, a professor of English at UNL, will present "Toward a Unified Field Theory of the Great Plains." The seminar will be from 3:30 to 5 pm at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. Kaye's presentation and a 3 pm reception in the museum are free and open to the public.
Kaye will propose and discuss four axioms:
1. The Great Plains is a meaningful unity shaped by a geologic history of rain shadow, glaciation and water and wind-laid soils; by an extreme climate; by a long-term human history of purposeful movement and diversified exploitation; and by a short-term human history of "free land" developed within an obsessively private property system.
2. Like any other ecosystem, the Great Plains is not deficient in terms of the organisms that coevolved with it -- it is grass-full, not treeless -- but it has been developed within a deficiency, hinterland model.
3. The past cannot be restored, but prudent creatures learn from the past to predict and align themselves with the future.
4. How individuals actually used and adapted various Homestead and Allotment Acts on the Great Plains affords us a case study of these axioms in action.
The Olson Seminars are presented by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.
CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: Junebug
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Junebug, the first feature film from director Phil Morrison.
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.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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