Wed, Mar 21, 2007
March 21, 2007
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5:30PM
Abeles and Boroson are Hixon-Lied Visiting Artists
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Art and Art History welcomes its final two Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists of the 2006-2007 academic year, Kim Abeles and Lee Boroson. Abeles will present a free public lecture on Wednesday, March 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery auditorium. An open session with Abeles will also be held on Thursday, March 22 in the Richards Hall Sculpture Room (Room 24) at 2 p.m., which is also open to the public.
Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention in the art world, and mainstream sources such as Newsweek and Dan Rather. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the United States Information Agency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is archived in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection of the Smithsonian. Boroson will present a lecture and workshop next week.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7:30PM
Gensler Chicago Architect Elva Rubio to Give Lecture
Gensler Chicago architect Elva Rubio will speak March 21 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture. Her lecture, "Emerging Practice: Maintaining the Experimental," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Eloise Kruger Gallery in Architecture Hall-West, 10th and R streets.
The lecture is free and open to the public and precedes an opening event for the new "Art and Architecture" exhibit in the Kruger Gallery. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Prairie Grass, Switchgrass as Energy Crops are Olson Seminar Topic
In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush advocated the use of renewable energy crops such as switchgrass and other biomass crops to solve national energy problems.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and staff and U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists stationed at UNL were instrumental in developing switchgrass into a cultivated pasture grass and a future biomass energy crop. Those efforts will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at 3:30 p.m. March 21 at UNL's Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. more...
OLSON SEMINAR
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "Development of a Prairie Grass, Switchgrass, into a Cultivated Biomass Energy Crop"
Kenneth P. Vogel, Research Geneticist and Research Leader, Agricultural Research Service USDA and Adjunct Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL. Reception at 3 p.m.
HARDIN HALL - SCHOOL of NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES, 3:30PM
Water Center, Water Resources Reseearch Initiative, School of Natural Resources Seminar - "Mechanistic Modeling of Vegetation-Hydrology of an Amazonian Rainforest"
Valeriy Ivanov, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Hosted by Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Geosciences & Biological Systems Engineering, UNL.
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, 1:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Western Illinois Bulldogs
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, 6PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Creighton Bluejays
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Lives Of Others, Commune Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Lives Of Others and Commune. Commune will show through March 22, while the Oscar-winning (for best foreign-language film) The Lives Of Others will play through March 29.
At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives Of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The Lives Of Others traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's Funny Games and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' Amen), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).
During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with "free love" and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongs local residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naive past, Berman discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch in Siskiyou County, California. With archival footage from the early days, and the present-day views of Black Bear members and their offspring, Commune is a revealing look at how our most basic choices about family, work, and the nature of our relationships send powerful and lasting shock waves through the fabric of society.
More information is available at the Ross website.
