Wed, Aug 05, 2009
August 3 - 7, 2009
Wellness Walks Step to Farmers Market
A short walk to the Centennial Mall Garden Market is a chance to buy fresh vegetables and get away from the office for Sibali Dutta. Dutta and her colleagues from the Institutional Research and Planning office joined the weekly Wellness Walk to the farmers market sponsored by UNL’s Wellness Initiative.
The Wellness Walks leave every Wednesday at noon from the south steps of the Nebraska Union. It’s a 10-minute walk to the garden market on Centennial Mall. Walkers can buy fresh produce and be back at the office in less than an hour. Read the full story in The Scarlet.
'Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s' Opens Aug. 7 at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s," examining the tension between human presence and the environment. The exhibition opens Aug. 7 with a First Friday reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and will be on view through Jan. 3.
In the latter part of the 20th century, many American landscape photographers began to shed their 19th-century Romantic ideals about the natural purity of their subject. They started taking greater stock of the rising tide of human intervention on the land. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Summer Hours and Three Monkeys Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Summer Hours and Three Monkeys. Both films will screen through August 6.
More information about each film and schedules are available at the Ross website.
