Tue, Feb 03, 2009
February 3, 2009
Sustainable Partnerships Discussion Feb. 6 at UNL
People interested in sustainability are invited to participate in "Building Sustainable Partnerships" on Friday, Feb. 6, at Hardin Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's East Campus, to share information and questions about saving energy, reducing emissions, and practices that build sustainability.
Sponsored by the Mayor's Environmental Task Force and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School of Natural Resources, the workshop is free and open to the public, from 1 to 6 p.m. at 33rd and Holdrege streets. more...
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Cigarette Smoke Attenuates Adenosine-Mediated Wound Closure: Role of Reactive Oxygen Species"
Diane S. Allen-Gipson, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep & Allergy Medicine Section, UNMC. Refreshments served.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases"
Ralph Narain, Entomology Graduate Student. Refreshements at 3:45 p.m.
Sheldon Adds Notable Artists' Works to African-American Masters Collection
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln acquired significant works by 20th-century African-American artists in auctions and sales last month in New York. The purchases include works by Charles White, Alvin Loving, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles Alston, Lois Mailou Jones and Aaron Douglas. Sheldon will present these works in an exhibition, "New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection," today through March 2.
Sheldon Director J. Daniel Veneciano said, "Sheldon is successfully competing with the top museums in the country in acquiring coveted works in the 20th-century African-American art market. We now celebrate these acquisitions to the African-American Masters Collection at Sheldon. As our participation in the auction clearly indicates, the Sheldon Museum of Art collects great American art in all its important and multifaceted manifestations. We will continue to collect aggressively from the vital and sometimes under-represented history of American art." more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Battle For Whiteclay and The Exiles Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Battle For Whiteclay and The Exiles. Both films will screen through February 5.
Forty thousand of the poorest people in America call the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation home. In this impoverished South Dakota community, jobs are scarce. Life expectancy is lower than that of Haiti. The Battle for Whiteclay follows Native American activists Frank LaMere, Duane Martin and Russell Means through the streets of Whiteclay to the halls of Nebraska's State Capitol in their campaign to end alcohol sales in the place Nebraska newspapers have dubbed 'Skid Row on the Prairie.' The film documents a little-known social disaster in which families are torn apart and advocates for the Indian way of life confront state and local authorities. Filmmaker Mark Vasina has devoted 5 years to filming and reporting on this tragic and compelling story.
Selected for the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, The Exiles (1961) is an incredible feature film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects.
More information is available at the Ross website.
