Activities fill
arts alumni weekend
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and
Performing Arts will hold
a special Alumni Weekend from April 24-27
with various events
planned to celebrate the arts at UNL.
Activities include:
April 24
- 5 p.m.: Free public lecture by James D. Butler, Distinguished
Professor of Art at Illinois State University and 2003 recipient
of the Alumni Achievement Award in Art. Richards Hall Room 14.
Butler has been a member of the Illinois State University School
of Art faculty since 1976. His work is included in more than
160
public collections in the United States and abroad, including
the
British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the
New York Public Library, New York; the Chicago Art Institute;
and
the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
April 25
- 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Celebration of Graduate Work, Van Brunt
Visitors Center. Several graduate students will present their
work in this graduate showcase. Visitors then can view their
work
and ask the graduate students questions about their projects.
- Students participating this year include: Kate Bingaman,
Brian Curling, Jenni Freidman, Amanda Hext, Joshua Luther and
Deb
Oden-Meza, Department of Art and Art History; Jennifer Headlee,
Janene Sheldon and Kurt von Kampen, School of Music; and Cody
Hillen, College of Architecture.
- 4-7 p.m.: Opening reception
for The Culture of Nature in
Japanese Gardens by Dana Fritz,
Lentz Center for Asian Culture,
with a gallery talk at 4:30 p.m.
- 5-7 p.m.: MFA Thesis Exhibitions of Erturk Mehmet and Bill
Shaffer opening reception in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in
Richards Hall.
- 5 p.m.: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and
Performing Arts Honors
Day Awards Dinner (by invitation only).
Awardees include James
Butler (alumni achievement award in art),
Vaughn Jaenike (alumni
achievement in music), Bob Hall (alumni
achievement award in
theatre arts), Sandy Veneziano (alumni
achievement award in theatre
arts) and Jack Rokahr (award of
merit), as well as several student
awards.
- 7:30 p.m.:
University Theatre's Macbeth, Temple Building.
April 26
- Noon to 5 p.m.: MFA Thesis
exhibitions of Erturk Mehmet and
Bill Shaffer in the
Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall.
- 1-3 p.m.: Tours
of the new Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
and the newly
renovated Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture
Garden.
- 3 p.m.: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Alumni
Performance, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium. The program
includes vocal and instrumental performances and acting performances
by alumni from the School of Music and the Department of Theatre
Arts. This event is free and open to the public. A reception
will
follow the performance.
- 7:30 p.m.: Wind Ensemble and
Symphonic Band, Kimball Recital
Hall (ticket required).
April 27
- 3 p.m.: Brahms'
Requiem, Lied Center for Performing Arts
For a full
schedule of Alumni Weekend events, please visit
<www.unl.edu/
finearts/alumwkend.html>.
Last Chance to Dance is April 26
The UNL Dance Division will host its final informal show of
the
school year at 7 p.m. April 26 in Mabel Lee Hall, Studio
304.
The concert, Last Chance to Dance, will be a showing of student
works. Choreographers include Tasha Coffin, Emily Daharsh, Kristin
Grohs, Jamie Guenther, Kim Kahman, Emily Peterson, Michael Richman,
Kimberly Schroeder and Ashley Woodward. The works featured in
the
concert include everything from modern dance to comical selections.
The concert is a fund-raiser for Orchesis Dance Club. Donations
of $3 per person are recommended. For information, call 472-5803.
Scarlet and Cream to celebrate 30
years
The Nebraska Alumni Association's Scarlet and Cream
Singers
will present a special anniversary show at 7:30 p.m. May 3
in
the Kimball Recital Hall.
The concert, presented
to honor the group's 30th anniversary,
will feature past Scarlet
and Cream singers who now perform professionally
in New York and
Las Vegas.
The Scarlet and Cream Singers are goodwill
ambassadors for
the university. The musical troupe of 14 singers,
five musicians
and a technical crew perform throughout the academic
year at
university and alumni events, business functions and
schools
across the state.
Admission is $15 for the
public and $10 for university students.
Tickets are on sale at the
Lied Center box office, 301 N. 12th
St.
Coming up at the Ross
Two
films open this weekend at the Mary Riepma Ross Media
Arts
Center.
Russian Ark will show April 25 through May 8
with daily
screenings. Thanks to high-definition technology,
director Alexander
Sokurov made this film in a single take. The
movie tells the
story of a contemporary filmmaker who travels back
to the Hermitage
in St. Petersburg in the early 1700s. He meets a
French diplomat
from the 19th century and the men take a
time-traveling journey
through Russia's turbulent past, ending in
the present day.
All the Real Girls will play April
26 through May 8
(no screenings April 29-30). The movie features
Paul, an unambitious
North Carolina 22-year-old with a reputation
as a heartbreaker
who falls for his best friend's sister and
discovers real love.
Screening times are listed on
the calendar, page 8.
 Milkweed print wins arboretum
competition
By Karma Larsen, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
A
watercolor painting of common milkweed, asclepias syriaca,
has won
the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum's botanical print competition
for
2003. The artist is Roberta Sward, who has a studio at Lincoln's
Burkholder Project in the historical Haymarket District.
The 2003 competition specifically requested winter illustrations
of native plants.
Sward will sign prints at NSA's Spring
Affair booth April
26 from 9 to 11 a.m. at State Fair Park in
Lincoln. She teaches
oil and acrylic painting and drawing and has
won several awards.
Sward is past president of the Lincoln Artists'
Guild and has
served on the boards of the Lincoln Arts Council and
the Association
of Nebraska Art Clubs Inc.
Sward's
illustration of wild rose, Rosa woodsii, won the Arboretum's
2002
competition and is still available from the arboretum.
For
more information about the arboretum's botanical prints
and
competitions, call 472-2971 or write to NSA, P.O. Box 830715,
Lincoln, NE 68583-0715. The botanical prints can be viewed at
<http://arboretum.unl.
edu/sbooksandgifts.html>.
The arboretum is
headquartered at the University of Nebraska
Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Film festival seeks entries
The Mary Riepma Ross Media
Arts Center and the Nebraska Film
Office are accepting entries for
the 2003 Great Plains Film Festival,
scheduled for Aug. 1-14. The
deadline for submitting entries
is June 2.
The Great
Plains Film Festival provides a showcase for film
and video artists
from the Great Plains region or whose film
or video relates in
content or story to the Great Plains. Nationally
recognized
filmmakers judge the festival entries and award several
cash prizes
totaling $16,000.
Feature-length (45 minutes and over) and
short (under 45 minutes)
entries are judged in six categories. A
new category, screenplay,
has been added.
Applications and more information about the festival can be
found at <www.TheRoss.org>.
Questions may be e-mailed to Danny Lee Ladely at <dladely1@unl.edu>
or call
472-9100.
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