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from the issue of August 26, 2004
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Gallery to feature 2 new exhibitions
UNL's Great Plains Art Collection will open two art exhibitions on Sept. 10, and both will run through Nov. 14.
Prints made by UNL faculty and students over the last four decades will be featured in the Great Plains Art Collection's Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. The display, "Roots and Crown: UNL Printmakers," is guest curated by Karen Kunc, Willa Cather professor and professor of art and art history at UNL, and will include works by more than 60 artists. Many different prints techniques, such as woodcut, ink jet, etching, lithography and screen printing, will be included in the exhibition. Several formats such as handmade paper, digitally produced wallpaper, assemblages and digital animation are among the variety of ways that UNL alumni printmakers have chosen to display their work.
"This exhibition represents the history, legacy and breadth of the printmaking program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln," Kunc said. "Many artists have passed through the print shop in Woods Hall over the past 40 years, including this cross-section of MFA and BFA graduates, and former and current faculty."
"Roots and Crown" is one of 14 exhibits that will be on display during the Mid-America Print Council 2004 annual meeting in Lincoln in October.
"Art and Artists of the Sandhills," also at the Art Collection at 1155 Q St., will include work by nearly 20 artists associated with Lincoln's Burkholder Project who incorporate the Sandhills of Nebraska into their work. The work incorporates several media, including painting, stained glass, pottery and watercolor. Many of the artists live or have lived in the Sandhills, while others participating in the exhibition use the Sandhills as source of inspiration for their artwork.
"When in the Sandhills, I have a clarity of vision and thought. I notice how the earth meets sky, see the sunlight moving across the landscape, and breathe in the clean air of nature - I'm home," said Georg Joutras, one of the artists featured in the exhibit.
The opening reception for this exhibition will be from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Great Plains Art Collection. The reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
"The Center for Great Plains Studies' mission is to foster the study of people and the environment in the Great Plains of North America," said Reece Summers, curator of the Great Plains Art Collection. "As a component of the center, the Great Plains Art Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of art inspired by the Sandhills."
Lincoln artist Anne Burkholder, who designed and developed the Burkholder Project in downtown Lincoln's Haymarket district, will guest curate the exhibition. The Burkholder Project is a collection of 36 art and design studios with loft apartments and three levels of galleries, connected by an atrium. Burkholder bought the project's building in 1987 with the idea of creating a place where a community of artists would have work spaces as well as a support system of other creative people. The project also represents 15 regional, national and international associated artists.
The Great Plains Art Collection is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and from 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. For more information, call 472-6220.
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