Fri, Feb 22, 2008
February 22-24, 2008
Admissions Hosts 7th Annual Big Red Road Show
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will hold its seventh-annual "Big Red Road Show" at Qwest Center Omaha from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 24. More than 75 interactive exhibits, college presentations and an opportunity to meet Tom Osborne, director of intercollegiate athletics, will be open to the public, and admission is free.
The Big Red Road Show is designed to help high school seniors make their final decision about college, and high school juniors and sophomores to begin their college search. Students of all ages and adults can attend to experience a glimpse of college life at UNL. There will also be numerous prizes given away at the event, including a laptop computer and a textbook stipend to the University Bookstore.
BIG RED ROAD SHOW
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, SUN 2PM
Sheldon Talk Will Focus on John Singleton Copley Masterwork
Aaron Holz, assistant professor of art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Wendy Katz, an associate professor of art history, will speak Feb. 24 at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery about John Singleton Copley's "Nicholas Boylston," one of the early masterpieces in American art.
Their Sheldon Sunday talk is titled "It Will Cost You an Arm and a Leg." It begins at 2 p.m. in the Rohman Family Gallery, where the painting is on view. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, FRI 10AM
Distinguished Visiting Scholar - "An Uneasy Relationship: Teacher Education in the University"
Professor and Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the School of Education, Stanford University. Sponsored by the UNL Research Council, the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education, and College of Education and Human Sciences.
ROOM 117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Controlling Factors on Pleistocene-Holocene Loess Accumulation in the Pacific Northwest"
Mark Sweeney, University of South Dakota
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Unknown Blakelock' Offers Comprehensive View of Artist's Work
Presenting more than 40 paintings on view together for the first time, "The Unknown Blakelock" offers a grand vision of the work of Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) beginning Jan. 25 at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Sheldon has organized the exhibition with works from its collections and loans from 34 museums and collectors throughout the country. In October, the exhibition will be on view at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York City.
Known as a 19th-century tonalist painter, Blakelock has been historically associated with two dominant themes -- moonlight scenes and Indian encampments. Critics have largely overlooked the painter's broader accomplishments, which have been obscured by his tragic mental illness and numerous forgeries produced in his style. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, THROUGH MAR. 12
Hillestad Gallery Exhibit Combines Eastern Heritage, Western Influence
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the exhibition "Across: Adaptation, Transition, Evolution" through March 12. This show, featuring work by new UNL assistant professor Xia Gao, draws on the significance of a transplanted cultural artifact -- a Chinese Qing Dynasty family house known as Yin Yu Tang that was moved to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Lengths of fabric sculpt the space, as surface patterns, shadows and layering effects encourage viewers to experience concepts of cultural identity, cultural transformation, and human development in relation to family and home. more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY
WOMEN'S GYNMASTICS | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs University of Denver Hawks
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Missouri State Bears
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. Both films will show through February 28.
A woman discovers dark secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home in the supernatural drama The Orphanage, the feature film debut of acclaimed young Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona. A superbly atmospheric and emotionally powerful tale of love, loss and guilt, The Orphanage is the first film ever to be presented by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Guillermo delToro, who also produced.
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with the audacious and personal The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at age 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir.
More information is available at the Ross website.
