Fri, Mar 09, 2007
March 9-11, 2007
ONE OF 60 PAINTINGS IN EXHIBITION
'Room in New York' to Tour Major Nuseums in Hopper Exhibition
One of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's early 20th-century icons, "Room in New York" by Edward Hopper, will be removed from the museum's permanent collection galleries in mid-March in preparation for a major tour.
Beginning this summer, "Room in New York" will travel to museums in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago in "Edward Hopper," the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work to be shown outside of New York City in more than 25 years. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION 338, FRI NOON
Women's Week Lecture - "Embracing all shades: Brown skin is in too!"
Harriet J. McLeod, Assistant Professor, Textile Clothing and Design
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "Plant Vitamin Biosynthesis: From Enzyme Discovery To Metabolic Engineering"
Gilles Basset, Plant Science Initiative/ Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30.
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Inhibition of Viral 3C Proteases: Lessons from Synthesis, Enzymology and Protein Crystallography"
Professor John Vederas, University of Alberta. Sponsored by the Research Council
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, SUN 2PM
Second Sunday - "Comic Art"
Comic artists Paul Fell and Bob Hall
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
Hollestelle Retrospective Continues At NU State Museum
Fans of wood carving and wildlife art in general, and of Lincoln artist Cliff Hollestelle in particular, are in for a once-in-a-lifetime treat, when the exhibit "Cliff Hollestelle: A Retrospective" will be showing at the University of Nebraska State Museum.
The exhibit in the museum's Cooper Gallery on the third floor of Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus, will include approximately 100 pieces of Hollestelle's work, most from the last 20 years. Because the individual pieces come from the private collections of more than 50 owners in a five-state area, the exhibit will provide a one-time chance to see the works in the same room. The objects will be returned to their owners after the show ends its four-month run March 31. more...
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Wichita State Shockers
MEN'S GYMNASTICS | DEVANEY CENTER, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Minnesota Gophers
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS | DEVANEY CENTER, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa State Cyclones
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
God Grew Tired Of Us, The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents God Grew Tired Of Us and The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films. Both films will show through March 15.
God Grew Tired Of Us tells the remarkable story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1987, with explosive violence in the Sudan because of civil war, 25,000 young boys between the ages of three and thirteen fled from their homes, beginning a five-year trek that ultimately led the survivors--many of the boys died along the treacherous journey through the desert--to a United Nations refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Nicknamed the Lost Boys after the characters in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, they formed a tight community in the camp, though they still had little food and shelter and a bleak future. In 2001, 38,000 of the boys, now grown into men, were selected to be relocated to the United States, where they were to be given a new lease on life. Writer-director Christopher Quinn and co-director Tommy Walker closely follow three of the men as they try to make a go of it in what for them is a whole new world--they never before had flown in an airplane, shopped in a supermarket, or turned on an electric light. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, and with Brad Pitt serving as one of the executive producers, God Grew Tired Of Us is a powerful, compelling, important documentary.
Every year our patrons ask where they can see the Oscar nominees in the short film categories. This year, just like last year, there's an answer: at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The capsule reviews are provided by the films distributors. Note: Each of these three programs will screen separately and a separate admission will be required.
More information is available at the Ross website.
