Thu, Nov 16, 2006
November 16, 2006
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLER
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
ANDREWS HALL, 7:30PM
Medieval Rennaisance Program Lecture
Ruth Nisse, UNL. Sponsored by the Medieval Rennaisance Program.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7PM
Kovarik Offers Presentation on 'Ethanol's Lost History'
You may feel very up-to-date when you pull up at the pump to fill your tank with ethanol, but Nebraskans more than 70 years ago were doing exactly the same thing. How ethanol disappeared, only to be rediscovered, will be explored in a public presentation tonight at 7 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Bill Kovarik, professor of communication at Radford University in Radford, Va., will offer insights into the long, little-known and intrigue-filled history of ethanol in a presentation co-sponsored by the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies.
Kovarik teaches science and environment writing, media history and media law at Radford. His books include a history of ethanol in the United States, "The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the Twentieth Century, and Mass Media and Environmental Conflict" (with Mark Neuzil). SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus. Both films will be showing through November 23.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink." Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important. Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers. Filmed in Kandy color. Recorded with real 426 hemi engines. Rated F for Fink's everywhere.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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