Wed, Jan 10, 2007
January 10, 2007
UNL CAMPUS, JAN 15-18
UNL Hosts Events for Martin Luther King Jr. Week
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Week at UNL, the campus will be holding a variety of events from Monday, Jan. 15 through Thursday, Jan. 18. On Monday, the Chancellors Program will keynote speaker Jane Elliott, and Senior Vice Chancellor Barbara Couture will present the Fullfilling The Dream Awards.
During the week, a variety of Brown-Bag lectures and discussions will be held at the Nebraska Union on City Campus, and several video features will also be shown. In addition to these events, there will be a student play and other presentations. For more information, visit the MLK week website.
MLK WEEK
COMING IN JANUARY 2008
Luce Foundation Awards $75,000 to Develop Blakelock Exhibition
The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Nebraska Art Association to support the development of an exhibition on the 19th-century American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The exhibition, "The Unknown Blakelock," will be feature more than 35 paintings from public and private collections throughout the United States. Following its presentation in Lincoln in 2008 (Jan. 26 through March 30), it will travel to two additional museums, including the National Academy of Design in New York.
Blakelock (1847-1919) was a self-taught artist whose paintings range from early romantic vistas to dark, intimate, lonely scenes reflecting an experimental style broaching abstraction. While Blakelock is well known for canvases featuring moonlight scenes and Indian encampments, the proposed exhibition seeks to enlarge understanding of his achievements, specifically recognizing examples with a proto-modern vision. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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.
