Thursday, December 15, 2011
Final FPA dean candidate presentation is today
Shawn Brixey
The fourth and final public presentations by candidates for dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing arts is today. Shawn Brixey, the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts at the University of Washington, will give his presentation 3:30 to 5 p.m. today in the Sheldon Museum of Art auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Brixey has been chair in the arts at Washington since 2009. He directed the university's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media and its Center for Advance Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities from 2006-2009 and was co-founder and associate director of the former from 2002-2006. He has held positions at University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.F.A. (1985) from the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.S. in Advanced Visual Studies (terminal degree, 1988) from MIT. Read more about Brixey and the FPA dean search on Today@UNL.
Los Alamos researcher to lead energy center
Mike Nastasi
Materials scientist Mike Nastasi will become director of UNL's Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research on Jan. 3. Nastasi also will be a professor of mechanical and materials engineering and will hold the Elmer Koch Professorship. He comes to UNL from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a longtime researcher and, since 2009, directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Frontier Research Center on Materials at Irradiation of Mechanical Extremes.
The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research is a partnership between UNL and the Nebraska Public Power District along with other industry sponsors. Established in 2006, the center conducts promising research to develop renewable domestic energy resources, improve energy efficiency and create economic opportunities for Nebraska and the nation. It encourages collaboration on energy-related research among UNL faculty, researchers elsewhere and with public and private energy-related organizations. Read more about Natasi and the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research on Today@UNL.
detail: William Hogarth. The Enraged Musician, 1741. Engraving.
Media Revolution: Early Prints continues at Sheldon
In the digital age, when videos are streamed and books can be read electronically, it is hard to fathom the revolutionary impact that printed images had when they first appeared in Europe around 1400. Their introduction changed forever the traditional practice of manually crafting images one by one, creating a world in which pictures could be reproduced almost without limit on a new material called paper, expanding the possibilities and audiences for images and texts of all kinds.
This exhibition, which brings to light little-seen masterpieces from the Sheldon Museum of Art's collection vault, explores the three major print techniques of the early modern period: woodcut, engraving, and etching. Along the way, it suggests not only how the print revolution evolved as it spread across Europe and the British Isles, but also how it gave rise to images both intimate and public, sacred and secular. These pictures, which transformed the everyday lives of their original users, remind us of the many ways in which print technology continues to shape our own.
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Combined Campaign near goal; turn in pledges before break
The updated pledge total for the 2012 Combined Campaign is $386,546 -- just shy of the goal of $403,000. Campaign co-chair Darin Erstad issued a final reminder message to get those pledges in, saying "It's not too late to make a Big Impact." Read more about Combined Campaign on Today@UNL.
A photo from George Tuck's "Flat Places and Interesting People" exhibition.
Loft Gallery features Tuck's photo series
An exhibition featuring the photography of George Tuck, retired professor of photojournalism, is on display through Jan. 31 in the East Union's Loft Gallery. The show features select photos from Tuck's "Flat Places and Interesting People" exhibition.
During a semester-long sabbatical in 1998, Tuck drove more than 10,000 miles through the Great Plains shooting photos for "Flat Places and Interesting People." The exhibit — which debuted in UNL's Great Plains Art Museum — featured 90 photos.
