Mon, Nov 06, 2006
November 6, 2006
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, STARTING TODAY
Hillestad Gallery Features Hooked Rugs Exhibit
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will open an exhibition Nov. 6 titled "Flower Powered: Hooked Rugs by Lulu Myers." The exhibit, which runs through Dec. 8, features rugs created by Lulu Myers (1881-1977) of Polk, who hooked more than 300 rugs over the last 10 years of her life, each one with an original design. This exhibition, curated by Mary Logue, is culled from the collections of her granddaughters and other family members and friends.
Logue wrote in her exhibition material that, "Lulu Myers started rug hooking at an age when most women are giving it up, in her early 80s. She designed all her own rugs, with a skillful and vibrant sense of color. These rugs are her vision of the floral loveliness that can be found in the prairie towns of Nebraska, grown in the fertile mind of an older woman who has raised many children, worked all her life, and still wants to do more." more...
HILLESTAD GALLERY
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs University of Nebraska Kearney Lopers (Exhibition)
UNL CAMPUS, NOV 6-8
Accreditation Review Team Hosts Open Forums
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln welcomes the members of the North Central Association's Higher Learning Commission to campus Nov. 6-8 as part of UNL's decennial accreditation review. The team will be visiting with a number of individuals on campus as it reviews UNL's programs and also offers comment on our academic strategic planning process.
As part of the site visit, the team has set several open meetings to solicit input on how UNL fulfills accreditation criteria. Faculty, staff, students and the public are invited to attend the following meetings for comment.
- Open meeting for Public: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Nov. 6, Van Brunt Visitors Center
- Open meeting for Staff: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Nov. 7, Nebraska Union
- Open meeting for Staff: 1-2 p.m. Nov. 7, East Union
- Open meeting for Students: 3-4 p.m. Nov. 7, Nebraska Union
- Open meeting for Faculty: 3-4 p.m. Nov. 7, Nebraska Union
- Open meeting for Faculty: 4-5 p.m. Nov. 7, East Union
Members of the campus community can review UNL's accreditation self study at the NCA Accreditation site. More information on the accreditation process is available in the Scarlet.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Viva Pedro!: The Films of Pedro Almodovar, Factotum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Viva Pedro!: The Films of Pedro Almodovar and Factotum. All films will be showing through November 9.
Sony Pictures Classics presents Viva Pedro!, the theatrical re-release of eight of celebrated auteur Pedro Almodovar's greatest films. The theatrical re-release will introduce new audiences to Almodovar and at the same time present the films to his many fans in the manner which they are meant to be seen and appreciated. Brand new prints have been made of all eight films. Several of these titles have not been shown in theaters since their original release. All of the films have been withdrawn from the DVD marketplace to accommodate their theatrical re-release. Films being shown in the retrospective are: Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999), Talk To Her (2002), Flower Of My Secret (1995), Live Flesh (1996), Law Of Desire (1987), Matador (1986), and Bad Education (2004).
The life of celebrated Wildman Charles Bukowski has been brought to the big screen on a number of occasions prior to this adaptation of his book, Factotum. This Norwegian production from director Bent Hamer sees Matt Dillon taking on the role of Chinaski. Dillon gets the character just about right, subtly perfecting the deadbeat behavior that leads to innumerable firings from menial jobs, while also offering a persuasive depiction of a man lost in the throes of an addiction to booze, women, and gambling. Set in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which overflows with the depreciated low-rent apartments and cruddy, soul destroying workplaces Bukowski thrived upon, Factotum is an arresting depiction of humanity at its lowest ebb.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | VIVA PEDRO! | FACTOTUM
