Wed, Sep 13, 2006
September 13, 2006
AWARDED THIS SUMMER
Patricia Crews Named to Nebraska Quilter's Hall of Fame
The Nebraska State Quilt Guild named Patricia Crews as the newest member of its Quilter's Hall of Fame at the annual QuiltNebraska convention in Kearney this summer. Crews is director of the International Quilt Study Center and Willa Cather professor of textiles, clothing and design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has authored several quilt-related books, including the award-winning "Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers."
The Nebraska Quilter's Hall of Fame was established in 1986. Previous inductees include Grace Snyder, Ernest Haight, Mary Ghormley, Louise Howey, Sara Dillow, Ardis and Robert James, Lois Gottsch, Paulette Peters and Mildred Parker. The Nebraska State Quilt Guild is a nonprofit organization established to perpetuate the art of quilt making and its heritage while encouraging future opportunities through growth, education, inspiration, and fellowship. There are more than 1,000 members.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Watercolor Landscapes Exhibit by Richard Sutton Continues
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 MUSEUM
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2006 Seminar Series - "Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms: Genes, Genomes and Genomics"
Dr. Robert Kelly, North Carolina State University
LAW COLLEGE; ROOM 125, 4:30PM
Student Animal Defense Fund - Speaker
TBA
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Road To Guantanamo, Brothers Of The Head Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Road To Guantanamo and Brothers Of The Head. Both films will be showing through September 14.
Winner of the Silver Beat at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Road To Guantanamo is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three," in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance towards the American and British governments. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began their invasion, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo.
With Brothers Of The Head, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (the acclaimed directors of Lost in La Mancha) present their much anticipated debut feature. Written by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Brothers Of The Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry, and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock. Brothers of the Head is a raucous ride through the seamy underground of 70's rock, and an unsettling glimpse into a relationship that is as beautiful as it is destructive.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO | BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
