Mon, Aug 21, 2006
August 21, 2006
WELCOME BACK
First Semester Begins
First Semester 2006-2007 classes begin today. Late registration also starts today (a $25 fee will be charged).
BUILDING ABBREVIATIONS INDEX
The Long And Short of UNL Buildings
The start of the new school year also can bring confusion with locations for those not familiar with building abbreviations. For help finding your way around campus, a list of City and East Campus building abbreviations and their locations on the UNL campus map are available here.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, STARTING TUES. AUG 22
Celaya's 'Coming Home' Exhibit Celebrates Gift of Sculptural Installation
Opening Aug. 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, "Coming Home" celebrates the gift of Enrique Martinez Celaya's sculptural installation to the museum from the Dieter Rosenkranz Collection in Berlin, Germany. "Coming Home" (2000) consists of a tarred and feathered boy confronting a gigantic elk. The work was created with tar, feathers, wood and metal. The exhibition will also include a number of related drawings and photographs.
Born in 1964 in Palos, Cuba, Celaya began his art training at age 11 as an apprentice to an academic painter. After a period of studying physics in graduate school, he earned a M.F.A at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Although trained as a painter, he also works in sculpture, photography, drawing, watercolor, performance and installation. He has also published several books of fiction, poetry and philosophy. His art has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and others. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Strangers With Candy, The Hotel Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Strangers With Candy, and The Hotel. The Hotel will be showing through August 17, while Strangers With Candy will play through August 24.
Strangers With Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. When Jerri arrives at her childhood home, she discovers her earlier disappearance has caused her father to slip into a self-induced coma. Moved by guilt, and with hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off - as a high school freshman. She's going to start her life over, only this time she's going to do the wrong things the right way. Once reenrolled in high school, and seeking to find that special thing that will erase thirty-two years of debauchery, Jerri stumbles upon the school sponsored State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father, she signs up, expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers, but especially this forty-seven year old former boozer, user and loser.
The Hotel marks the directorial debut of Michael Kang, and was produced by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck). Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau) is the first-generation son in a family of Chinese immigrants; he lives in a sleazy motel run by his hardworking, dour mother (Jade Wu) who discourages his interests in writing and girls. She believes that Ernest needs to appreciate what he has at home, and give up his dreams that threaten nothing but heartache--the viewer infers that this is what became of her own dreams. When a brash, hard-drinking, womanizing young Korean man named Sam (Sung Kang) moves into the motel, Ernest forms an unlikely bond with him, as each finds in the other something he desperately needs. Sam seeks out the fatherless boy, sensing a need for guidance and companionship that mirrors his own. The simple, awkward dialogue of the film is managed winningly by novice actor Chyau, who was recruited from the Bronx High School of Science to play the part of Ernest. The performances by supporting actor Kang, as well as Samantha Futerman, who plays Ernest's precocious love interest, are equally powerful. With beautiful photography and a slow, seductive pace, the film delivers a message about finding beauty in unlikely places, as well as the courage to follow one's dreams.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | STRANGERS WITH CANDY | THE MOTEL
