Mon, Nov 24, 2008
November 24, 2008
Hillestad Hosts Student Quilts
"Schoolhouse Quilts: Old and New" at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery closes Tuesday, Nov. 25. The show features the work of Clinton Elementary School fifth-grade students and schoolhouse quilts from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum collections in honor of the centennial celebration of the College of Education and Humans Sciences.
The project began in February 2007 when the "Give and Take" exhibition of contemporary quilts was shown in the gallery. The children, then in the third grade, came to East Campus to see the exhibition and participate in programs prepared by the Textiles, Clothing and Design Department. Volunteer Sylvia Cox spent the summer of 2007 finishing the quilts, adding the batting, backing and binding to them.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
237 SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Schedule - "Transmenopausal Changes in the Intrinsic Material Properties of Trabecular Bone Using Nanoindentation"
MS Thesis Defense by Benjamin J. Polly. Advisor: Dr. Joseph A. Turner
Kosovo, South Africa Photojournalism Exhibit Opens
A powerful student photo exhibit documenting two nations -- one in its infancy and one with immigration issues -- will be on display today through Dec. 5 at the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
The photo stories by University of Nebraska-Lincoln students in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications document one of the world's newest nations, Kosovo, and its ethnic Albanians, and South Africa, a country that is experiencing border issues with Zimbabwe and its other neighbors. The exhibit runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
A Girl Cut In Two and Rachel Getting Married Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Girl Cut In Two and Rachel Getting Married. Rachel Getting Married will play through November 26, while A Girl Cut In Two will have showings through December 4.
The French master of suspense Claude Chabrol returns with the razor-sharp, darkly seductive film A Girl Cut In Two. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier of Swimming Pool) is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior (Francois Berleand), and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor (Benoit Magimel). An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially certain of her love for one them, the see-saw demands and whims of both men keep confusing - and darkening - matters. Before long she's encountering emotional and societal forces well beyond her control, inexorably leading to a shocking clash of violence and passion.
Rachel Getting Married is a contemporary drama with an aggressive sense of humor about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's (Anne Hathaway) reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. Rachel Getting Married paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait and is filled with the rich characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demme's films. - Moviefone
More information is available at the Ross website.
