Thu, Nov 23, 2006
November 22-26, 2006
Campus Takes a Holiday
UNL's Thanksgiving Break starts Wednesday, November 22 for students (UNL offices are open). All offices will then be closed November 23-26 for the holiday. Regular classes and office hours are set to resume November 27.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR

ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
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

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Doll Quilt Exhibit Continues at Great Plains Art Museum
The quilt exhibition "Reading, Writing and a Rhythmic Stitch: Quilts from the Mary Ghormley Collection" will be on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. through March 18 of 2007. More than 40 examples of 19th- and early 20th-century doll quilts will be displayed with antique doll cribs and cradles.
Children were thought of as miniature adults before the late 1600s. As views of childhood changed, children's books, toys and games became popular. Doll quilts started to appear in the early years of the 1800s. Doll quilts are some of the most endearing of quilts. Made by mothers for a young daughter's playtime, they embody love and care. Young girls made them as they learned to sew. As collector Mary Ghormley observed, "Perhaps the dearest of these quilts are those on which we see the childish imprint, youthful concentration in every stitch." more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, Fast Food Nation Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, and Fast Food Nation. Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus, will be showing through November 23, while Fast Food Nation will play through December 7.

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.
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.
When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version Fast Food Nation is a dramatic feature penned by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | TALES OF THE RAT FINK | SHORTBUS | FAST FOOD NATION