Wed, Jan 17, 2007
January 17, 2007
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" continues at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1. more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 12:30PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Week Event - Brown Bag Lecture - "The Dream: Losing by Achieving?"
Dr. B. D'Andra Orey, UNL
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Paul A Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "The history and background of America's National Grasslands"
Francis Moul, environmental historian, Lincoln, Nebraska. Reception begins at 3:00 pm; booksigning follows immediately after the lecture. Free and open to the public.
HARDIN HALL, 3:30PM
Water Center, Water Resources Research Initiative, School of Natural Resources Seminar - "Tapping Nebraska's Underutilized Outdoor Economy"
W Don Nelson, State Director, Honorable Senator Benjamin Nelson's Lincoln Office
CULTURE CENTER, 6PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Week Event - Stories of Home Coffee House - "All Deliberate Speed"
The story of Lela Knox Shanks and the art of Ann Gradwohl. Awards will be presented to essay contest winners.
NEBRASKA UNION, 6PM
Peace Corps film & Volunteer Chat
Learn how you can contribute to global development by joining the Peace Corps.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3PM
Francis Moul to Present 'Guide to National Grasslands'
The history and background of America's National Grasslands will be the subject of the Jan. 17 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Francis Moul, an environmental historian from Lincoln, will present "A Guide to the National Grasslands" 3:30-5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. Moul's talk and a 3 p.m. reception at the museum are free and open to the public.
Moul will describe how the grasslands resulted from a social revolution of the New Deal, when the federal government ended the public land giveaway of the Homestead Act and, instead, bought more than 11 million acres of submarginal land devastated by the drought of the 1930s. Ranch families were resettled in planned garden cities and new small rural communities. With the help of major conservation programs, the land was restored and new uses were found, including 20 national grasslands with emphasis on wildlife and recreation as well as cattle grazing. Moul will also explore current controversies over the grasslands and discuss alternatives for their future. The lecture is based on his new book from the University of Nebraska Press, "The National Grasslands, a Guide to America's Undiscovered Treasures." more...
CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES
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.
