Mon, Aug 14, 2006
August 14-18, 2006
TAKE A LOOK AROUND
UNL Website Gets a New Look
Starting today, the transition begins to a new version of the UNL website. Created through a collaboration between University Communications and the 160 members of the Web Developer Network, the redesign was also supported by 8,500 members of the campus community who shared their thoughts through web audience research in April. The site map for updated web pages was developed last spring by the Next Generation Web Committee, headed by Associate Professor of Music Brian Moore.
The new site will help our many audiences more quickly find what they are looking for. The new design also provides greater efficiency of operation. The design is compliant with all accessibility standards to the highest degree possible. The page you see today is a "work in progress" as we move toward greater alignment of format among all units on campus. Due to logistics, not all UNL pages can be transformed at one time, but this starting point is a significant milestone in moving forward to make the Web more user-friendly at the same time it uses our resources more efficiently. Submit any comments or feedback on the new design on the comments page.
Outside visitors to the UNL website will see the external home page.
WEB DEVELOPER NETWORK | UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION AND CONGESTION
Motorists Advised on Traffic From UNL Student Move-In
Back-to-campus time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will again see thousands of students moving in to their residence halls in the span of a few days. Visitors and Lincoln residents should be aware of minor traffic delays in the City Campus vicinity because of closing of lanes and some congestion from move-in traffic, in addition to changing traffic patterns from the ongoing Antelope Valley construction.
Because of continuing work on the Antelope Valley Project spanning the Bob Devaney Sports Center area, Holdrege and Vine streets, UNL officials advise motorists that it may be wise to steer clear of campus during the week of Aug. 14-19 as students move into their residence halls in preparation for the Aug. 21 start of classes. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART GALLERY, STARTING TUES
Watercolor Landscapes by Richard Sutton at Great Plains Art Gallery
"Machine In The Garden" - Richard Sutton
Landscape architect Richard Sutton deals in images. For more than 30 years Sutton, has taught graphic communication, plant materials and design, in the landscape design option for horticulture majors and now in the newly organized landscape architecture program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
An exhibition of watercolor paintings by Sutton will be on display Aug. 15 through Sept. 30 at UNL's Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St. The exhibition, titled "Machine in the Garden," records impressions of a small part of the Great Plains landscape. This is the first watercolor show for Sutton, a 20-year fellow in UNL's Center for Great Plains Studies.
Coming to watercolor painting from a background in rendering landscapes as a part of his architecture training, Sutton is self-taught. He learns from looking closely at the work of others and as he admits, "by making lots of mistakes." He also learns by looking closely at the landscape around us and has about a half-dozen sketchbooks in which he has recorded pencil and ink impressions of designed landscapes from the United States, Europe and Japan. For this show, small formats and the use of watercolors for rapid sketching allowed him to capture the dynamic Great Plains skyscapes. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The War Tapes, Stolen Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The War Tapes, and Stolen. Both films will be showing through August 17.
Straight from the front lines in Iraq, The War Tapes is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. Funnier, spicier, and more gut wrenching than news reports, this is Operation Iraqi Freedom as filmed by Sergeant Steve Pink, Sergeant Zack Bazzi and Specialist Mike Moriarty. Steve is a wisecracking carpenter who aspires to be a writer. Zack is a Lebanese-American university student who loves to travel and is fluent in Arabic. Mike is a father who seeks honor and redemption. Each leaves a woman behind - a girlfriend, a mother and a wife. Through their candid footage, these men open their hearts and take us on an unforgettable journey, capturing camaraderie and humor along with the brutal and terrifying experiences they face. These soldiers got the story that 2,700 embedded reporters never could.
In 1990, in the early morning hours after St. Patrick's Day, thieves disguised as Boston police officers gained access to Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and successfully perpetrated the largest art heist in modern history. For those who loved these paintings, particularly a rare Vermeer, the theft felt almost personal. At the heart of the film is a very unlikely hero: Harold Smith, the most renowned art detective in the world. Despite his lifetime battle with skin cancer, the cunning and witty Smith has made this case his personal obsession. Now, with Dreyfus's camera in tow, Smith embarks on a final journey to crack a mystery that has confounded law enforcement officials for fifteen years. The mood is set through the reading by actors Blythe Danner and Campbell Scott of correspondence between the 19th century Grand Dame Isabella Stewart Gardner and her envoy to Europe, art aficionado Bernard Berenson. Their passion for great art, expressed in letters written during their pursuit of paintings for Gardner's great museum, is elaborated by contemporary art historians. Among them, Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, helps us understand the power and fragility of great art and appreciate just what the world has lost. Harold Smith's quest to recover the Gardner paintings takes him through the Boston criminal underground. It takes him to Ireland to investigate the theory that the Irish Republican Army, known to have a penchant for stealing Vermeers, may be involved. It takes him on wild goose chases, and precipitously close to the truth. Stolen takes the audience along on this thrilling journey through the worlds of art and crime, not only to solve a perplexing mystery, but also to understand the mysterious importance of art and beauty.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE WAR TAPES | STOLEN
