Fri, Jun 19, 2009
June 19-21, 2009
Award-Winning Japanese Quilts Exhibit Opens
Quilts from the most prestigious quilt competition in Japan will be on display at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from June 19 - July 19. Seventeen winning entries from international contestants were chosen for "Quilt Japan: Selections from the Ninth Quilt Nihon Exhibition."
The Quilt Nihon Exhibition is the oldest and most prestigious quilt competition in Japan. For each of the nine competitions held so far, a diverse international panel of jurors has selected the winning entries based on consideration of the fresh interpretation of traditional designs or the artistic accomplishment of the studio quilt maker. The contest is organized by the Japan Handicraft Instructors' Association and was founded to propel the creativity and technical accomplishment of Japanese quilt makers. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM
Budget Cuts Outlined
Chancellor Harvey Perlman unveiled his plans to address a $3.7 million budget shortfall earlier this week with an all-campus e-mail outlining the proposed cuts.
For more information, visit the 2009 Budget Reduction Process website.
UNL Photojournalists Traverse State
Inspired by the iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression, a group University of Nebraska-Lincoln photojournalists are traveling across the state, taking photos and recording the stories of people they meet along the way. The objective of their project is to produce photographs, audio slideshows and video that document how the current economic recession has affected Nebraskans.
Living and working out of a travel trailer, the group have been documenting their project on a photojournalism blog, and the best of their work will be displayed at the Great Plains Art Museum in the future.
COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Home and Sugar Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Home and Sugar. Both films will play through June 25.
In Home, Inga (Academy award winner Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet who wants to buy and restore a house she is drawn to that reminds her of her childhood home. Her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in it or many of the things she loves, and Inga realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle. Her crumbling marriage is a stark contrast to her relationship with her 8-year-old daughter, (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter) with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner-most thoughts following her recovery from breast cancer. By day their lives seem magical, full of cloud watching, kite flying and lazy summer drives. But at night, Inga is troubled by her marriage, its lack of intimacy and her fear of her own mortality. By weaving optimism into her life’s story it is in her own writing that she hears the echo of her mother’s journey and experiences the revelation that allows her transformation.
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.
More information is available at the Ross website.
