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ADVISORY BOARD APPROVES SIX NEW PROJECTS Lincoln, Neb.-The Hixson-Lied Advisory Board, created to review and react to requests for enhancement funding support from income of the Hixson-Lied endowment to benefit the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and its affiliated organizations, approved six new allocations at its April 9 meeting. Miss Christina Hixson, the sole trustee of the Lied Foundation Trust, announced a gift of $18 million to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support UNL's College of Fine and Performing Arts in January 2000. The endowment, named the Christina M. Hixson-Lied Foundation Trust Endowment for the College of Fine and Performing Arts, benefits all areas of the college. Half of the fund's income provides support for programs at the College and the College's affiliated organizations, including the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Lentz Center for Asian Culture and the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. The remaining funds are divided equally between faculty and student support within the college. Six new allocations were made within the Programs component of the endowment: 1) Lied Center for Performing Arts-$32,700 for Arts Across Nebraska. Arts Across Nebraska is an AdvenureLIED program formerly called Extended Statewide Residency, which brings Lied Center artists to all of Nebraska. 2) Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery-$10,000 for Visiting Artists Lecture Program, which will help support a series of lectures by David Ireland in conjunction with the exhibition "The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are;" Wayne Higby, Josh DeWeese, Julia Galloway and Jun Kaneko in conjunction with the exhibition "Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence;" Bill Viola in conjunction with a series of "Contemporary Video Installations;" and Lesley Dill, whose sculpture "Voice" will be featured in the permanent collection galleries. 3) Lentz Center for Asian Culture-$5,400 for Two Exhibition Projects in 2005-06. Funding will help support presenting the exhibition "Miniature Worlds-Art of India" from Exhibitions USA in 2006 and will help publish a catalog of the Lentz Center's Sumida collection. 4) Department of Art and Art History-$15,000 over three years to begin a Visiting Artist/Scholar Program. This matches an equal amount of money from the MEDICI group. The program will expand the educational opportunities for students in the department by bringing significant artists and scholars to UNL. 5) School of Music-$30,000 over three years for the creation of the Chamber Music Institute. This sets up a partnership with the Meadowlark Music Festival, as well as the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business Administration, and matches funds and in-kind support from the School of Music and the Meadowlark Music Festival. The Chamber Music Institute will be an intense summer music instructional experience for undergraduates and masters degree students in chamber music studies and arts entrepreneurship. 6) Department of Theatre Arts-$39,000 over three years to support a Russian Exchange Program with the premier theatre department in Moscow, the Schepkin School of Theatre in Russia. This matches an equal amount of money from the department. 05/04/04 |
