Friday and Weekend, June 3 - 5, 2011
Carrie Walker
Doctoral Candidate Awarded Fulbright to Jamaica
English doctoral candidate Carrie Walker will travel to Jamaica this fall to conduct a 10-month research project on a Fulbright Scholarship. Walker's research interests are in Africana literature, and in particular, African and Caribbean fiction written by women. In Jamaica, she will be conducting archival research to examine how Jamaican women address the status of women through letter-writing since Independence in 1962.
While based in Kingston, Jamaica, Walker will pay particular attention to letters published in the Daily Gleaner and letter collections housed at the National Library and the University of the West Indies-Mona. The Gleaner is one of Jamaica's national newspapers. Read more on Today@UNL.
Larsen Tractor Museum Plans Open House June 4
The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum annual open house is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 4. The free event on the UNL East Campus begins with a 10 a.m. Parade of Power. Because of road construction on Holdrege Street, enter UNL East Campus at 33rd and Merrill Streets.
From a 1910 International Harvester Auto Wagon to the latest 2011 Case International Harvester Tractor, decades of agricultural technology will parade around the world-famous Nebraska Tractor Test Track starting at 10 a.m. Children activities will follow the parade, then a noon barbecue. The free exhibition of agricultural technology will be open to the public through 2 p.m. Read more on Today@UNL.
Cather-Inspired Watercolors at Great Plains Art Museum Starting June 3
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather" June 3 through Sept. 15. The exhibition features watercolor paintings and ink sketches by Richard Schilling, from his book of the same title published this spring by the University of Nebraska Press.
Schilling was born in Lincoln and graduated from the University of Nebraska where he received his first instruction in watercolor. "As a kid I was invited to take painting lessons on Saturday mornings in the university's art department. The seeds were planted, and in time, others pruned and groomed me into an artist," he said. Read more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER, FRI 5-7PM
Sod House Homemakers Subject of Authors' Talk June 3 at Quilt Museum
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host authors Kathleen Moore and Stephanie Whitson to talk about their new book, "Home on the Plains: Quilts and the Sod House Experience," at the museum at 5:30 p.m. June 3. Admission to the museum is free from 5 to 7 p.m. that day as part of the North Lincoln Art Crawl.
This talk is in conjunction with the exhibition, "Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers." Inspired by sod house homemakers' words and quilts, Moore and Whitson tell about those hard-working women striving to create a home on the plains in houses made of dirt. Read more...
