Tue, Jan 09, 2007
January 9, 2007
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Collage Aesthetic' Continues at Sheldon
One of the most important and influential stylistic inventions in 20th-century art, collage allows artists to collect and transform bits and pieces from the material world into an entirely new composition or configuration.
"Collage Aesthetic" presents a small but important selection of art from Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition continues through Feb. 4. Works by Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Weldon Kees, Irwin Kremen and others reveal the creative power of this modern artistic method.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART 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
Sweet Land, Shut Up And Sing Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Sweet Land and Shut Up And Sing. Both films will be showing through Thurs, January 18.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Based on Will Weaver's short story A Gravestone Made of Wheat and shot on location in Southern Minnesota, Sweet Land is that rare independent feature that uses painterly images and understated performances to tell a universal story of love and discovery. David Tumblet's glorious magic-hour cinematography recalls classic American art cinema like Days of Heaven, transforming the amber majesty of Southern Minnesota's farm country into an elegiac metaphor for memory, family, and history.
While performing in 2003, singer Natalie Maines ignited a maelstrom of controversy and red-state rage when she declared--from a London stage on the eve of the Iraqi conflict--that she was ashamed President George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas. When a rabidly right-wing group picked up on it, the band found themselves in the center of controversy regarding the nature of patriotism, freedom of speech, feminism, and the split between pro- and antiwar Americans. In Shut Up And Sing, Filmmaker Barbara Kopple brings us the fly-on-the-wall view of the next three years: we find Haines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire in dressing rooms, on stage, and in recording studios, bonding with each other, their families, producer Rick Rubin, and their supportive manager Simon Renshaw. Through the crises, they keep their sense of humor and sisterhood, not backing down from their liberal stance, and turning the backlash into a triumph. They also make some great music, and the film includes plenty of riveting, intense footage of the band in performance onstage and in the studio. Among the faces appearing in archival footage are President Bush, Bill Maher, and rabidly right-wing country star Toby Keith.
More information is available at the Ross website.
