Wed, Dec 13, 2006
December 13, 2006
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for First 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
THROUGH DEC. 22
UNL Computer Store Sponsors Food and Coat Drive
In the spirit of the holiday season, the UNL Computer Store is holding a coat or blanket and canned food drive though Friday, December 22.
Bring five cans of food or a gently used coat or blanket to any UNL Computer Store location and receive a coupon for $40 off a Canon PIXMA MP160 ALL-IN-ONE printer. Coupon quanities are limited. Your generosity will help those in need.
INFORMATION SERVICES
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Significant Roy De Forest Painting Donated to Sheldon Gallery
James C. and Rhonda Seacrest recently donated "Embarking on The Sea of The Bleeding Hare," a significant painting by Roy De Forest, to the Nebraska Art Association. Now on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the work, painted in 1978, is an ambitious composition featuring animals, a bright palette of reds and scarlets and an active acrylic surface. The work may be viewed on line at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery website.
"The addition of an outstanding painting by Roy De Forest to the Sheldon extends our ability to document in depth important developments in American art beyond the East Coast," said Janice Driesbach, director of the Sheldon. "De Forest has been a key figure in the development of postwar art in the San Francisco Bay area, both through his artwork and through his distinguished career on the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he taught for many years along with Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley, important artists who are also represented by fine examples in our collections." more...
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 21.
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
