For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Feb. 1: "Anselm." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Shot in 3D and 6K-resolution, Wim Weders' "Anselm" is a cinematic experience exploring the work of artist Anselm Kiefer.
• Continuing through Feb. 1: "Freud's Last Session." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. On the eve of World War II, two of the greatest minds of the 20th century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God.
• Continuing through Feb. 1: "Poor Things." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.
• Jan. 30: Guest Artist: Alyssa Morris, oboe. 5 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Jan. 31: Paul Barnes, Faculty Retrospective Recital. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The concert, titled “A Vision of Paradise: A Retrospective Inspired by Byzantine Chant,” includes the Nebraska premiere of J.A.C. Redford’s “Variations on the Incarnation.”
• Feb. 1: Faculty Recital: Jamie Reimer, soprano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert is titled “Fields of Wonder” and features words and music by Black composers and poets. Reimer will be joined by Stacie Haneline, piano, and David Neely, violin.
• Feb. 2-March 1: Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Free admission. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. A closing reception will be held on Friday, March 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• Feb. 2-8: "Driving Madeleine." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a life-changing friendship between the driver and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.
• Feb. 2-8: "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson.
• Feb. 4: Karen Becker, cello, and Theresa Bogard, piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. Becker is Professor of Cello in the Glenn Korff School of Music. Bogard is Professor and Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Wyoming. They perform as the Becker-Bogard Duo.
• Feb. 4: Winter Festival Finale Concert. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with simulcast in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Feb. 6: Faculty Recital: John Bailey, flute, with Christopher Marks, harpsichord and piano, and Jamie Reimer, soprano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Feb. 7: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Yoonmi Nam. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Nam is professor printmaking at the University of Kansas. Nam is interested in the observation and depiction of everyday objects and occurrences, especially when they subtly suggest contradictions—a perception of time that feels both temporary and lasting and a sense of place that feels both familiar and foreign.
• Feb. 9-22: "The Teacher's Lounge." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. An idealistic high school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.
• Feb. 12: Faculty Recital: Clark Potter, viola, Sergio Ruiz, piano and Katie Wychulis, harp. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Feb. 25: Faculty Recital: Tyler White, composition. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Feb. 28: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture; Margaret LeJeune. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. LeJeune is an image-maker, curator and educator. She is the 2023-2024 Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. In 2023, she was named the Woman Science Photographer of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society.
• Feb. 29-March 9: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "The Flick." Studio Theatre in the Temple Building. For tickets and showtimes, visit https://nebraskarep.org. "The Flick" by Annie Baker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that intimate captures the lives of three underpaid employees working at a run-down movie theater in Massachusetts. Through quiet moments, awkward interactions and profound silences, Baker's masterful storytelling exposes the complexities of human relationships, loneliness and the search for connection in the digital age.