Friday and Weekend, April 6 - 8, 2012
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, FRI 6PM
Sheldon launches 'artland' magazine
Nebraska, a state rich in literature, film, drama, television, music, performance and the visual arts, will soon have a new arts magazine. "Artland" launches April 6. The inaugural issue of artland will be unveiled at 6 p.m. on April 6 during the museum's First Friday reception, scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Sheldon Museum of Art.
The magazine's mission is to create and promote a community of artists and arts organizations by providing a forum for dialogue and news, according to founding editor and Sheldon director Jorge Daniel Veneciano. Read more about the inaugural issue of artland in Today@UNL.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, FRI 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture to feature Landis
David Landis
The College of Architecture's Hyde Lecture Series continues with David Landis at 4:30 p.m., April 6 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Landis is director of the Urban Development Department for the City of Lincoln. The presentation is free and open to the public. Landis an award winning teacher, and a skilled negotiator in the public arena. He was a state senator and served in the Nebraska Legislature for 28 years.
Landis' negotiating skills have been developed at training seminars at Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Pepperdine, and the University of Illinois. He has previously taught at UNL's College of Architecture in community and regional planning. Currently he teaches lawyers and graduate public administrators at the University of Nebraska College of Law and the Department of Public Administrations.
Lectures
COLLEGE of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FRI 10AMVirtual Presentation - "What Did Stinchcombe Really Mean? Why Emerging Organizations Die Young"
Dr. Howard Aldrich, Professor & Department Chair, Sociology, and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Geography General Seminar - "TBA"
Monica Haddad, Assistant Professor and GIS Specialist, Department of Community and Regional Planning Iowa State University
Chemistry Colloquium - "Designer DNA Architectures for Nanotechnology"
Professor Hao Yan, Arizona State University
Kaylee Barber
Barber to teach in Germany on Fulbright award
Kaylee Barber, a German and international studies major, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship Scholarship. After she graduates in May, the Gretna native plans to travel to Germany, where she will teach English in a German school.
Barber is a member of the German Club and the German Film Club. She also participates in intramural athletics, including soccer, flag football and basketball. Last year, she was a member of the Courtyards residence hall government. She minors in art and art history. Read more about Barber and this Fulbright award in Today@UNL.
"Prairie Lace," Rebecca Williams
New textiles exhibit features work of three women artists
Three Nebraska women artists are featured in "Imperfect Pattern/Relative Embellishment," an exhibition opening today in the Hillestad Textiles Gallery.
The exhibit, open through April 27, showcases the work of Rebecca Williams, Phyllis Moore and Susan Bertino. The trio explores family history and personal environment using textile materials in unconventional ways. Pattern resonates across each artist's work with quilted fabric, embroidery, beads, structure and native materials. Read more about this exhibition in Today@UNL.
Mark Awakuni-Swetland moves the tipi cover pole into place during the April 4 setup.
Anthropology students go hands on, raise tipi
Mark Awakuni-Swetland and students in Anthropology 130 put up a traditional Native American tipi in the green space immediately east of Oldfather Hall. Click the link below to see photos from the hands on class project. More details and photos are available on the Scarlet Facebook page.
Faculty to present during Lincoln Gem and Mineral Club show
Four UNL faculty will share their research at the Lincoln Gem and Mineral Club's 54th annual show, April 7-8 at the Lancaster Event Center, 4100 N. 84th St. The event, which features presentations and demonstrations amid dozens of displays and vendors of gems, minerals and fossils, is 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., April 7 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 8.
Faculty presenting and topics they will discuss are: Robert Joeckel, professor of geosciences, "Niobium Mining in Southeast Nebraska"; George Corner, collections manager for the NU State Museum, "Ice Age Mammals of Nebraska"; Mark Awakuni-Swetland, associate professor of anthropology and ethnic studies, "Stones as They Were Used by Indigenous Americans"; and Robert Diffendal, professor emeritus, School of Natural Resources, "Ogallala Aquifer." Read more about this show in Today@UNL.
Sons of the Pioneers
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SAT 7:30PMSons of the Pioneers to play Lied
Lovers of classic country western tunes can celebrate the Lied Center debut of Sons of the Pioneers at 7:30 p.m. April 7. Sons of the Pioneers perform unabashed love songs to the West that will sweep listeners out of their chairs and into the saddles of the cowboys who tamed the plains decades ago. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
