For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Aug. 23-24: AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Design for Social Justice Poster Sale. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each day in the Nebraska Union CRIB, 14th and R streets. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's AIGA Student Group has teamed with Nebraska Appleseed to raise awareness about the role of social justice through Art + Design. This poster sale is an alternative way for students to get behind a cause and further the role of design in communication. There will also be an AIGA design for social justice artist discussion on April 24 from 6-8 p.m. at the Nebraska Union.
• Aug. 29-Sept. 24: "Past and Present: A Celebration of Painting at UNL." Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Free admission. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. The exhibition celebrates the painting faculty at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln dating back to a piece by Sarah Wool Moore, who taught from 1884-1892.
• Sept. 5: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Kevin Miyazaki, photography. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Miyazaki is a fourth generation Japanese-American. His childhood, in an overwhelmingly white suburb of Milwaukee, created a desire to examine his ethnicity and ancestral history. Stories from his family infuse his artwork, along with themes of immigration, forced migration, and social/economic mobility. He teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and works as a freelance editorial photographer with clients including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food Network Magazine, AARP and Smithsonian.
• Sept. 5: Guest Artist: Steven Cohen (B.A. 2014; M.M. 2015). 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Cohen's recital will feature works from his debut album, “Cruise Control” on the Siegfried’s Call Artist Label.
• Sept. 6: Glenn Korff Day. 3:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Glenn Korff Day serves each year to remind us of who Glenn Korff was and the amazing things he accomplished. The Glenn Korff Day program features performances by our Korff Scholars and members of our faculty.
• Sept. 12: Guest Artist: Evan Chapman (Percussion) Recital. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Chapman is a percussionist, filmmaker, and composer.
• Sept. 16: Guest Artists: Amanda Jacobs, piano; Shelley Waite, mezzo-soprano; and Elizabeth A. Dolan, lecturer. "The Song Cycles of Beachy Head." 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This work is a 26-piece song cycle using the epic 731-line poem by British author, Charlotte Smith. Smith’s poem (1807) was written during England’s long war with France.
• Sept. 20: Faculty Recital: Jamie Reimer, soprano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Reimer, who is assistant professor of voice in the Glenn Korff School of Music, has performed in opera, oratorio and recital venues around the United States, Italy, Germany, Brazil, and Australia.
• Sept. 23: Faculty Recital: Christopher Marks, organ. 4 p.m. First Plymouth Church, 2000 D St. Free and open to the public. This program presents two major organ symphonies by American composers—the second symphony of Edward Shippen Barnes (1887-1958) and the landmark Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby (1895-1968). The Schoenstein organ at First-Plymouth Congregational Church is ideally suited to this music, offering the enormous range of color and dynamics needed to deliver these orchestrally conceived works. Christopher Marks is a leading scholar and performer in American organ works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Sept. 25: Guest Artist: Nicholas May, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. May, a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer/arranger, has been recognized as an outstanding musician from a young age, picking up the saxophone at age 10 and soon performing with honor groups. He received his bachelors of music from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and his masters of music from the University of Kansas.
• Sept. 26: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: David Baskin, sculpture. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Baskin has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art and the New York Institute of Technology and was a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was one of the original members of the Brooklyn based non-profit art organization Smack Mellon.
• Sept. 26: Faculty Recital: Scott Anderson, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Anderson's recital is titled "These my thoughts," which comes from the piece titled “Following Lee Konitz from Visions of Cody” by Randall Snyder. Anderson has been focusing on the performance of French works for trombone and piano and there will be three of the French works on this recital, but there are two chamber works as well.
• Sept. 26-Oct. 14: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "An Act of God" by David Javerbaum. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. Visit http://nebraskarep.org for showtimes and ticket information. The One with the first and last word on everything arrives in Lincoln to set the record straight in this laugh-out-loud comedy.
• Sept. 27: Flyover New Music Series: "One." 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Flyover New Music Series is from the composition studio at the Glenn Korff School of Music.
• Sept. 30: TCB Saxophone Quartet. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Paul Haar (soprano saxophone), Nicholas May (alto saxophone), Wade Howles (tenor saxophone) and Bob Fuson (baritone saxophone), collectively known to enthusiastic audiences as the TCB Saxophone Quartet, bring the sounds of Latin America to the Glenn Korff School of Music.