Mon, Dec 11, 2006
December 11, 2006
Nebraska Union Closed
Because of an electrical problem, the Nebraska Union is closed, at least through this evening. Students are advised that other study locations are at Love Library and Selleck.
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for Fecond Semester 2006-2007 will be given throughout this week (December 11-15).
Click the link to view the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records.
ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Expressing Identity...' Continues at Sheldon
More that 20 prints from Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's collections will compose "Expressing Identity, American Prints Since 1980," an intimate yet diverse exhibition that continues through Jan. 28. Referencing personal experiences and cultural influences, these works reveal the creative power of printmaking. Among the artists included are: Rupert Garcia, Keith Jacobshagen, Ed Ruscha, Martin Puryear, Judith Shea, Tanya Softic and Roger Shimomura.
While artists have explored their identities in many media, the Sheldon's outstanding print collections offer many fine and diverse examples. In part this is because in printmaking, artists create images - inscribed or etched in copper, drawn on stone, carved into wood, or blocked out on silkscreen - that are used to produce an edition, or limited number, of original prints. Since they are multiples, prints are generally more widely available and modestly priced than paintings or drawings and hence often reach a larger, more democratic audience.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Jesus Camp, Half Nelson Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Jesus Camp and Half Nelson. Both films will be showing through December 7.
Jesus Camp, which is directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, Tory and a number of other young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army. The film follows these children at camp as they hone their prophetic gifts and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
In Half Nelson, high school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey discovers Dan collapsed and clutching a crack pipe in a grimy toilet cubicle in the high school gym. It is from this pivotal moment that director Ryan Fleck builds a tentative friendship between these two unlikely allies, creating one of 2006's most arresting films in the process.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | JESUS CAMP | HALF NELSON
