| |
|
|
from the issue of January 13, 2005
|
| |
|
|
| |
Forsberg to describe sandhill cranes' journey in Jan. 19 Olson Seminar
Lincoln photographer Michael Forsberg will share his journeys with sandhill cranes in the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Jan. 19.
| | Cranes are silhouetted against the backdrop of Alaska's Denali mountain.
| |
In On Ancient Wings - The Sandhill Cranes of North America, Forsberg will use stories and photographs to describe the making of his book, On Ancient Wings, a five-year personal journey with sandhill cranes through four countries and at 13 locations in North America. Forsberg followed the cranes from the Platte River in the Heart of the Great Plains to their nesting grounds in the Alaska tundra and to their wintering grounds in Mexico and Cuba.
Other spring semester Olson Seminars and their speakers are:
Feb. 16 - Mary Hallock Foote: A Pre-Raphaelite in the West, Jon Nelson, curator emeritus, Great Plains Art Museum.
March 23 - Watching the Grass Grow from Space, Geoffrey M. Henebry, research associate professor, UNL Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies.
April 20 - Wildflowers of Fontenelle Forest and Neale Woods, Roland E. Barth and Neal S. Ratzlaff of Omaha.
All seminars are from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The seminars are free and open to the public, as are 3 p.m. receptions in the museum prior to each seminar.
GO TO: ISSUE OF JANUARY 13
ARTS HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 13
Forsberg to describe sandhill cranes' journey in Jan. 19 Olson Seminar
Antiques Roadshow highlights Nebraskans' attic finds
Art show features works by Ruffo and Burton
Book, Jacket and Journal Designs on Display
Cashore Marionettes first Lied offering on East Campus
Fiddlers John & Jason Shaw headline Free at 6 Jan. 19
Free screening Jan. 13 of PBS boxing documentary
Odetta and Richie Havens: Double Bill of Soulful Voices at the Lied Center
Undertow, Machinist continue at the Ross Media Arts Center
Winter Festival for winds and percussion Jan. 21-23
731959S34129X
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|