August 22, 2002

This photo of Howard Wolf of the Omaha tribe is one of many featured in the "Pow Wow Plains: Photographs by Tom Tidball" exhibition now at the Great Plains Art Collection, 1155 Q St., through Dec. 15. Tidball photographs now in exhibition "Pow Wow Plains: Photographs by Tom Tidball" is on display at UNL's Great Plains Art Collection, 1155 Q St., through Dec. 15. The exhibition presents the traditions and cultures of four Nebraska tribes - Omaha, Winnebago, Santee Sioux and Ponca - in 150 color photographs with interpretive text panels and quotations from pow wow participants. Hours for the free public exhibit are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sundays. For more information, call the Great Plains Art Collection at 472-6220 or visit http://www.unl.edu/ plains/gallery/gallery.html. Tidball followed the trails of the annual pow wows of the four tribes during the summers of 1999 to 2002, taking photographs to show the diverse facets of Native American reality. Carrie Wolfe (Omaha), a documentary filmmaker from Lincoln, conducted interviews and wrote text to go with the photographs.

'Les Misérables' returns to Lied Sept. 10-15

Tickets are now on sale for Les Misérables, which returns to Lincoln with performances Sept. 10-15 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Now in its 17th year in London and 16th year on Broadway, Les Misérables has won 50 major awards internationally, including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Musical. Seen by more than 47 million people worldwide, it is one of the most successful musicals in theater history.

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, Les Misérables sweeps through three decades of 19th century France. It tells the story of fugitive Jean Valjean, who is pitted against Inspector Javert in a lifelong struggle to evade capture.

UNL professors Marshall Olds and William Grange, as well as Arts Are Basic director Kit Voorhees and actor/musician Matt Landis will give pre-performance talks 30 minutes before each performance in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room.

Les Misérables will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 through Sept. 14 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 11, 12 and 15. Tickets range in price from $40 to $55. University students and youth 18 and younger save $10 on tickets, except for Friday night or Saturday performances.

Tickets are now on sale at the Lied Center box office and http://www.liedcenter.org. To charge tickets, call 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.For more information on the play, visit the Les Misérables website at http://www.lesmis.com.

University Theatre, Theatrix announce 2002-2003 seasons

UNL Theatre's University Theatre begins its 2002-2003 season with William Congreve's The Way of the World at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17-19 and 23-26 in Howell Theatre.

First performed in 1700, The Way of the World is an M.F.A. thesis production showcasing the third-year professional actor training program's master of fine arts candidates Steve Barth, Erinn Holmes, Timothy Hornor, Amber C. Irvin, Joan Lauckner, Katherine Nora Leroy, and Richard Smith. Shirley Carr Mason, head of the acting program, directs the production.

Neil Labute's The Shape of Things opens at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 with additional performances Nov. 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, and at 2 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Studio Theatre. Rounding out the fall semester for University Theatre is the biannual production of A Christmas Carol. As in 2000, this version of the classic Charles Dickens' tale is written by UNL Theatre chair Jeffery Scott Elwell and directed by Rob Urbinati. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Theatrix, UNL's student-produced second stage, will produce Dark of the Moon, Galileo and The Misanthrope for its fall season. Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson and William Berney will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26, 27 and 28 in the Studio Theatre. Galileo by Bertolt Brecht will be at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Howell Theatre.

The Moliere classic The Misanthrope will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, 6 and 7 in the Studio Theatre.

University Theatre's spring semester begins with the musical Floyd Collins. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, 27, 28, and March 1 & 2 in Howell Theatre.

The season ends with William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 and 26 in Howell Theatre.

For tickets to University Theatre shows, visit the Lied Center Box Office at 301 N. 12th St. or call 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231. Individual tickets go on sale Sept. 3 and are $12/patrons, $10/faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $8/students. Season tickets are not available. Tickets for Theatrix performances are available only at the door.

For more information about the productions or other activities of the theatre arts department, call 472-2072.

'Town and Country' meet in Sheldon@ exhibition

"Town and Country: The Landscape in American Art" runs through Sept. 8 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall at UNL. The exhibition is the final Sheldon@Eisentrager-Howard exhibition of 2002.

The show focuses on the use of urban and rural landscapes in paintings by American artists. Ranging from introspective to edgy, the exhibition addresses the dynamics and tensions between rural and urban settings.

The works in "Town and Country: The Landscape in American Art" will travel throughout Nebraska as part of the 2002-03 annual Sheldon Statewide exhibition, an outreach program of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Since its inception in 1987, the program has reached about 245,000 people in 24 Nebraska communities.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning, supports the Sheldon. In addition, the Nebraska Art Association and the Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, support Sheldon Statewide. Additional support has been provided by a donation from Rhonda and James Seacrest.

Also on view is "Human Form: The Photographed Nude." This exhibit presents a selection of photographs that use the human body as subject. Drawn from the permanent collection of the Sheldon, the exhibition reveals the important role the nude has played and continues to play in the history of photography. Among the artists whose work is featured are Bill Brandt, Edward Weston and Andres Serrano.

Gallery hours are 1-4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 1-7 p.m. on the first Friday of the month.

Ducey to speak about Palladian quilt

The next International Quilt Study Center's Tuesday Talk will feature a discussion of the center's Palladian quilt at noon Aug. 27 in the Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Home Economics Building on East Campus.

Mary Ellen Ducey, UNL special collection librarian and archivist, will discuss how the center received the quilt when it was mailed to the UNL Alumni Association in 1998. The quilt had been sent by a minister in California who received it as a donation for a rummage sale. When he saw the UNL name on the quilt, he decided it should return home.

Call 472-6549 for more information.

Welters to discuss Greek folk dress

Linda Welters, distinguished visiting faculty fellow of the International Quilt Study Center, will deliver a lecture titled "The Peloponnesian 'Zonari': A Modern Example of an Archaic String Skirt" at noon Aug. 30 in Room 31 of the Home Economics Building on East Campus. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Welters, editor of Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertility (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1999) will provide an overview of Greek folk dress and how modern examples of the archaic string skirt have survived in Eastern Europe.

Welters is professor of textiles, fashion merchandising and design at the University of Rhode Island and is a nationally known historian of textiles and dress. She serves as editor-in-chief of Dress (Journal of the Costume Society of America). She was an organizer of the Rhode Island Quilt Project.

Welters is here to initiate her research on Amish crib quilts in IQSC collections.

'Christmas Carol' seeking child actors

UNL Theatre's University Theatre will hold auditions for child actors in its production of A Christmas Carol from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 31 in Howell Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building at 12th & R streets. Audition appointments are not being accepted. Children should arrive at 9 a.m. and will audition on a first-come-first-served basis. No preparation is needed. Director Rob Urbinati will have materials at the auditions. Roles include, but are not limited to, Tiny Tim, Cratchit children, Want and Ignorance, and children of London. Performances will be Dec. 12-14 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

For information, call 472-2072.

Free Cornhusker marching band concert Aug. 23

The School of Music will present the Cornhusker Marching Band in Concert at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 23 in Memorial Stadium. The concert kicks off the 2002 season and offers a preview of the musical highlights of the football season to come. The concert is free and open to the public.

Kooser to appear at events for new book

Ted Kooser, visiting professor of English, will be signing copies of his books at several events this fall. His new book, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, will be available in September from University of Nebraska Press.

Upcoming appearance include:

• Noon Sept. 13, Nebraska Bookstore, 13th and Q streets;
• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11, Lee Booksellers, Edgewood Center, 56th Street and Highway 2;
• 7 p.m. Nov. 14, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 5150 O St.

Guest artist performs Sept. 6

The UNL School of Music will present guest artist Maria Harding, flute, at 7:30 Sept. 6 in Kimball Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Performing with Harding will be faculty members Ann Chang-Barnes and Mark Clinton, piano, Karen Becker, cello, and John Bailey, flute.

Harding has been the principal flutist with the Omaha Symphony and Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra since 1997. Before coming to Nebraska, she performed with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in Texas and in the Charleston Symphony in South Carolina. In addition to her duties as an ensemble player, Harding supports the orchestra's educational programs through her work in the OSA's woodwind quintet by coaching students in the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras and by participating in the OSA residency outreach programs.

Harding earned her bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music and her master's degree at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Quilt Study Center shows mini-exhibit

IQSC announces its summer mini-exhibit, Long Hot Summer: Quilts that Make the Mercury Rise, hanging through Aug. 31 in the IQSC storage facility on the second floor of the Home Economics Building on East Campus. Visit the state-of-the-art storage facility with environmental controls that cool down these hot quilts from the 19th and 20th centuries

IQSC drop-in hours are 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday. Call Alta at 472-6549 to schedule tours. Also, the center is showing the Scarlet and Cream exhibit of red and white quilts hanging through Sept. 2 in the Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

For more information visit http://quiltstudy.unl.edu.

Single tickets for Lied Center on sale

Individual tickets for all Lied Center 2002-2003 performances are now on sale. They can be obtained by calling 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231, online at http://www.liedcenter.org, or by visiting the Lied Center box office at 12th & Q streets between 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Season orders, tickets for four or more events, can still be ordered.

To receive a free Lied Center season brochure detailing events, dates and tickets prices, call the Lied Center box office or visit the website.

NETV, NPRN to air gubernatorial debates

Nebraska ETV and the Nebraska Public Radio Network will air the first debate between incumbent Republican Gov. Mike Johanns and challengers Stormy Dean (Democrat) and Paul Rosberg (Nebraska Party). "Governor's Debate: Nebraska Broadcasters Association" will air live on NPRN and NETV2 at noon Aug. 23. A videotaped broadcast will air on the Nebraska ETV Network at 9 p.m. Aug. 23 and on NETV2 at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 25.

The debate will be in Omaha, with UNL radio station KRNU's Rick Alloway serving as moderator. The panel of questioners includes Terry Leahy of Omaha radio station KKAR, David Lynch of radio station KOGA in Ogallala, Rose Ann Shannon of Omaha television station KETV and Martin Wells, NPRN news director.

NET will webcast the debate live on NET Online http://net.unl.edu, and will also archive the video broadcast on the Web site. NPRN programming is webcast live on NPRN's Web site http://www.nprn.org and is available through a link on NET Online.