Mon, Mar 16, 2009
March 16-20, 2009
Setup Your New Voice Mailbox
Information Services has installed a new campus voicemail system which will go live April 2, 2009. All current UNL voicemail system users should setup their voice mailboxes on the new system beginning today. Please dial 6-7200 (or 436-7200 from off-campus) and a voice prompt will guide you through the process. (follow the link for the default security code) It's quick, easy and registering will ensure your voicemail will receive message after the switchover. For more information and instructions, go to telecom website.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOON
Tuesday Talk: "Strippie Quilts"
Curator Marin Hanson
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, TUESDAY
'Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes' Opens March 16 at Hillestad Gallery
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes," a solo show featuring the work of Lia Cook, March 16 through April 10.
Cook, a weaver from Berkeley, Calif., uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing, maze-like patterns. As the faces fragment, a perceptual shift occurs, moving through a place of transition and ambiguity to reveal the physical, tactile nature of the constructed image. Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered and re-woven in oversize scale, to intensify an emotional or sensual encounter. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2009, Moving Midway Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2009, Moving Midway. Moving Midway will show through March 19, while the Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2009 will screen through March 26.
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2009 is a program showcasing the Academy Award nominees and winners in the Animated Short Film and Live Action Short categories. For a full list of films, visit the Ross website.
Godfrey Cheshire's richly observed Moving Midway follows his family's Southern plantation - and the colossal feat of moving it to escape urban sprawl - is a thoughtful and witty look at the lingering remnants and still-powerful mythology of plantation culture and the antebellum South. An award-winning film critic turned film maker, Cheshire uses the relocation of his family's North Carolina plantation house to embark on a surprising and multi-layered journey. While observing the elaborate, arcane preparations for moving a centuries-old house over fields and a rock quarry, unexpected human drama - from both the living and the dead - emerges. And a chance encounter leads Cheshire and his cousins to discover a previously unknown African American branch of the family (who have their own take on Midway and its legacy). Through the use of movies and music, and by turning the camera on himself and his family, Cheshire examines the Southern plantation in American history and culture, and how the racial legacy from the past continues into the present.
More information is available at the Ross website.
