Mon, Sep 22, 2008
September 22, 2008
Lentz Exhibit Celebrates Alumna's Travels, Bhutan
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture's fall exhibition, "The Daily Arts of Bhutan," is a celebration of a gift of 50 items and 67 books to the Lentz Center. These gifts were given by University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumna Kay Kirby Dorji.
The gift to the center includes textiles, jewelry, ritual items and some everyday items as well. Textiles are the most important art form in Bhutan and are only produced by women. The weaving is done on backstrap looms and occasionally on looms with treadles or card looms. Bhutanese men and women are required to wear their woven national dress in public. more...
LENTZ CENTER
Sheldon Presents Work From the Permanent Collection
As part of a year-long series that considers the evolution of themes in art, the Sheldon Museum of Art is presenting new installations in Landscape and Figurative work. Part of an ongoing fall series that presents works categorized by subject matter (which also includes Still Life, Portraiture, Genre Scenes, and Contemporary), the exhibition highlights the upcoming transformation in the permanent collection galleries.
The Figurative and Portrait galleries will highlight work by renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel, but also will recognize work by artists sometimes overlooked such as San Francisco Bay Area figurative artist Paul John Wonner.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
107 HARDIN HALL, 1:30PM
School of Natural Resources Seminar - "Environmental Education as if Student Learning Mattered: Insights from the Neuroscience of Spatial Cognition"
Professor Gersmehl, Director for the Center for Geographic Learning at Hunter College of the City University of New York
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last Mistress and Frozen River Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last Mistress and Frozen River. Both films will show through September 25.
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) delivers her most ambitious film yet with The Last Mistress. Adapted from the novel by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, the film is set in 19th-century France, when the world was a seemingly much more innocent place. Underneath the surface, however, lurk infidelities and other dark secrets. A lush period piece that nonetheless has a universal, modern message, and it makes many daring statements about love, lust, and romance.
Courtney Hunt's remarkable and deeply emotional first feature Frozen River is a realistic look at the world of human smuggling and the difficult choices facing poor, single mothers. A wonderfully directed film full of atmosphere, heart, and outstanding performances by Melissa Leo and Misty Upham, the film is ultimately about the strength that resides in family and the way hope in a dire situation can be uncovered by courage and trust.
More information is available at the Ross website.
