The Lentz Center for Asian Culture’s fall exhibition, “The Daily Arts of Bhutan” is a celebration of a gift of 50 items and 67 books to the Lentz Center. These gifts were given by UNL alumna Kay Kirby Dorji. Dorji was a journalist with the Los Angeles Times and now works for the United Nations. […]
Anyone who claims that humans invented music hasn’t heard “Frog Calls of Nebraska,” a CD compiled by UNL herpetologist Dennis Ferraro. Each of the 11 musical tracks – one for each species native to Nebraska – has rhythm, melody and meaning. Among frogs, all the vocalists are male. Females don’t have the ability to produce […]
The third season of the Clean Part Poetry Reading series opens Sept. 13 with Laynie Brown and Ange Mlinko. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott auditorium. The monthly series showcases innovative poets from across the nation. This fall’s series is curated by Anthony Hawley, professor of […]
UNL will host a series of events Sept. 18-19 to celebrate the centennial of author Richard Wright’s birth. All events associated with “The Wor(l)ds of Richard Wright: Native Son and Expatriate” are free and open to the public; the celebration will also honor the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Wright was born Sept. 4, 1908, […]
BOOK NOOK – The “Little Nooks from Great Books” exhibit includes a miniature of the Gryffindor common room featured in “Harry Potter” series. The Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts at UNL has created a traveling exhibit of miniature rooms based on popular children’s books. The exhibit, “Little Nooks from Great Books,” features […]
GREEN QUILT – Detail of \"City Bikes Two\" by Marta Amundson of Riverton, Wyo. Contemporary quilts display planet-friendly themes in “Crafting a Better Planet,” an exhibition open through Nov. 9 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. The museum, which was designed to be ecologically sustainable, partnered with the manufacturer of the Mountain Mist […]
The Lincoln-Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents the lecture “Playing the Part: Masking Rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in Richards Hall, room 15. The lecture, presented by Erin Walcek Averett, assistant professor at Creighton University, features information about masked rituals of ancient Greece and Cyprus. For more […]
Kun An exhibition co-curated by Karen Kunc, professor of printmaking at UNL, is on display at the Haydon Art Center, 335 N. Eighth St., through Sept. 27. “New Animations” includes handmade drawings, collage, prints and objects manipulated through animation. The work was created by national and international artists. For more information go to www.haydonartcenter.org or […]
What’s in a name? All of us have thought at one time or another about our names, perhaps asking why they were given to us, or finding meanings within them. Here Emmett Tenorio Melendez, an 11-year-old poet from San Antonio, Texas, proudly presents us with his name and its meaning. My name came from… My […]
Diane Mendenhall was named executive director of the Nebraska Alumni Association on Sept. 3. She is the first director of the alumni association following a restructuring designed to better integrate its activities with alumni programming across the university. Mendenhall Mendenhall’s selection was announced by Tom Burnell, Alumni Association president. Mendenhall, a native of Ogallala, will […]
