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A book made by Jeong Ah Kim
titled The Seasons of Korea is
on display at the Artist-Made Books:
Traditions and Trends exhibition
now at Love Library. Photo by Richard Wright.
Exhibition
displays books as art form
The last decade has witnessed
an explosion of inventive book
formats in both bookstores and art
galleries. Rather than being
displaced, as predicted, by the
computer and digital formats,
the book has expanded into
territories beyond the utilitarian.
Love Library is host to
an exhibition called Artist-Made Books:
Traditions and Trends. It
features artist-made books in formats
that range from traditional
literary letterpress editions to
digitally generated books as well
as approaches that investigate
the sculptural potential of applied
binding. It runs through
Dec. 1 on the library's second floor
north, past the reference
desk into the room beyond the
stairway.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Nebraska Book
Arts Center
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It was part of
the 2002
Mid America College Art Association conference hosted by
the
Department of Art and Art History of UNL's Hixson-Lied College
of Fine and Performing Arts.
Artist-Made Books: Traditions
and Trends features books by
Denise Brady (literary letterpress
editions), Jenni Freidman
(books combining printmaking and
letterpress), Bea Nettles (photo-narrative
offset editions) and
Bonnie O'Connell (sculptural bindings of
handmade paper) as well as
the work of invited artists and students.
For information
about the exhibit, e-mail The Nebraska Book
Arts Center at nbac@unomaha.edu.
More
information about book arts in the region can be found at
the
Nebraska Book Arts Center Web site at http://www.unomaha.edu/~nba
c/home.html.
Love Library is open from noon to 11 p.m.
Sundays, 8 a.m.
to midnight Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 8
p.m. Fridays,
and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Justin
Rae and Abby Miller play Adam and Evelyn in the University
Theatre
production of The Shape of Things opening in the Studio
Theatre
Nov. 7. Photo by Doug Smith.
Theatre produces The Shape of Things
UNL Theatre's
University Theatre continues its 2002-2003 season
with Neil
LaBute's contemporary play The Shape of Things at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 7,
8, 13, 14, 15 and 16 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 10 in Studio
Theatre, third
floor of the Temple Building. A discussion will
be offered after
the Nov. 14 production to discuss the audience's
reactions to the
controversial outcome of the play.
"The Shape of
Things is a play that grapples with the
big questions about modern
relationships and art by following
the path of two college
couples," said director Virginia
Smith.
The play
features Abby Miller, Justin Rae, Adam Jefferis and
Jody
Christopherson. The production contains mature themes and
may not
be suitable for all audience members. Call 472-1619 with
questions
about content suitability.
Tickets are $12, $10 for
faculty, staff and senior citizens,
and $8 for students. For
tickets, call the Lied Center box office
at 472-4747.
It's a juggling
act when Nizer takes the Lied stage 
Mark Nizer, winner of the 1998 Comedy
Entertainer of the Year
and International Juggling Championships,
will perform Nov. 6
at the Lied Center for Performing Arts as part
of the Lied Center's
Family Series. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m.
with LiedFamFest,
and Nizer's performance begins at 7 p.m.
Nizer's show is a complete entertainment package combining
original comedy, juggling, movement, music and technology. He's
been known to juggle a burning propane gas tank, a running electric
carving knife and a 16-pound bowling bowl at the same time.
After two years in development, Nizer has begun performing
his
new invention, the Laser Diablo, which is a laser show created
live
on stage by juggling four lasers. The lasers are spinning
at 1,000
rpms and dancing above the audiences' heads. With the
lights off
and using a small amount of fog, the beams are visible
throughout
the theater.
Nizer has appeared on "Comic Strip
Live," "Caroline's
Comedy Hour" and will appear on
HBO's "Just for Laughs
Comedy Festival." Nizer has also
taken his one-man show
to thousands of venues around the world,
including the Kennedy
Center and the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts.
For more on Nizer, check out his Web site
at <http://nizer.com>.
As a Family Series event,
tickets for this performance are
$12; tickets for college students
and those 18 and under are
half price.
Everyone with
tickets to the Mark Nizer performance is invited
to come at 5:30
p.m. for LiedFamFest, which will feature free
food and soft drinks,
entertainment and activities.
For tickets, call the Lied
box office at 472-4747 or (800)
432-3231.
 Guitarist Kottke
performs Nov.
1
Guitar lovers are in for a treat at
7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 when
Leo Kottke takes the stage at the Lied Center
for Performing
Arts.
Kottke is a master guitarist
whose style has been called hard
to define by several sources. He's
recorded 19 studio albums,
four live albums, six compilations and
at least four movie soundtracks.
He has performed and recorded with
a wide range of musicians,
from Chet Atkins to the Violent Femmes,
again showing that his
style is hard to categorize. He won the
Guitar Player magazine
annual readers poll as best folk guitarist
for four years in
a row, from 1974 to 1978, and has influenced an
entire generation
of acoustic guitarists. He has toured the world
several times
over and spends most of the year on the road.
Born in Georgia, Kottke started out playing trombone and violin
as a youngster, but once he discovered the guitar, he never looked
back. With his 1968 debut, Twelve String Blues, and his 1969
album
6- and 12-String Guitar, Kottke established himself as
one of the
foremost acoustic guitar soloists in the U.S.
Gary Hall,
president of the board of the Lincoln Community
Playhouse, will
give a pre-performance talk 30 minutes before
the event in the
Lied's Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are
$32, $28, and $22; tickets
are half price for college students and
those 18 and under. For
tickets, call the Lied box office at
472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
Opera about Carmelite
nuns to run Nov. 8, 10
The UNL School of Music will
present the opera Dialogues of
the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc at
7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 and at
3 p.m. Nov. 10 in Kimball Recital Hall.
The opera is based on actual events that took place in 1794,
at
the height of the French Revolution. In June that year, 16
nuns
from the Carmelite monastery at Compiègne were arrested
and
imprisoned. On July 17, officials of the Revolutionary Tribunal
found the sisters guilty of organizing "counter-revolutionary
consultations and assemblies" and sentenced them to death.
They were executed by guillotine that same day, singing hymns
as
they were led to the scaffold.
A novella recounting the
story of these nuns was published
in 1931. The book was an
international bestseller but also introduced
several fictitious
characters, including Sister Blanche, the
protagonist. The works'
popularity inspired many theatrical adaptations,
including a
screenplay that was published in 1949 as Dialogues
des
Carmélites. This, in a shortened version, served as
Poulenc's libretto. The opera premiered in 1957.
Dialogues
of the Carmelites is directed by artist-in-residence
Ariel Bybee.
The orchestra is under the direction of Tyler Goodrich
White.
Tickets for the production are $20 general admission and $10
for
students and are available through the Lied Center box office.
Call
472-4747.
Exhibitions on display at gallery
Two exhibitions will
be at UNL's Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
in Richards Hall, the
Palimpsest Portfolio and a print show by
visiting scholar Wael
El-Kader. They will be on display from
Nov. 4-23. An opening
reception will be from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 4
in the gallery.
Graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History
have
invited their mentors to participate in the Palimpsest Portfolio.
El-Kader's print show is titled "Transformation." He
is
an Egyptian printmaking artist, printmaking assistant doctor
at
Elmenia University in Egypt and a visiting scholar in the
department until August.
Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Wednesdays
and Saturdays; and from noon to 7 p.m.
Thursdays.
New Diavolo date set
The performance of dance company
Diavolo has been rescheduled
for Jan. 24 at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts. The performance
was originally to take place Oct.
24. Because of transportation
challenges, the sets for the
performance would not have reached
Nebraska by that date.
For more information visit http://www.liedcenter.org.
Tickets for the original performance will be honored for the
rescheduled date.
Works in dyes, textile
on display
Works by Ji-Hee Kim, artist, educator and scholar in her field
of natural dyes and textile art, will be exhibited until Nov.
27 in
the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in an exhibition
called
"Seeds of Indigo and Safflower."
The exhibition
includes works by Kim that represent her use
of traditional Asian
natural dye materials, including safflower,
indigo, sappon wood and
yellow ochre dye, combined with construction
techniques in
unconventional formats. Kim uses silk, ramie, cotton,
linen, Korean
paper, Dak paper, plastic, golden foil fabric,
glass beads, wood,
metallic net fabric, metal rods, and metal
enamel to construct
varied two-dimension geometric forms.
The Laramie Project to be presented
The Laramie
Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of the
Teutonic Theatre
Company at UNL will be presented at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2, 7 and 9,
and at 2 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Culture Center,
333 N. R St. There is a
$5 suggested donation.
The performance is a Rough Magic
production, directed by Sandy
Lemen and sponsored by: Spectrum,
University Health Center Sexuality
Education eXchange, the UNL
Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgender Concerns,
Parents Family & Friends of Lesbians
and Gays, the Q, the
Panic, and the NE Coalition for Lesbian
Gay Bisexual &
Transgender Civil Rights.
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