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from the issue of February 8, 2007
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Hewit Place galleries remain closed
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
Standing in an empty gallery space highlighted by missing slabs of drywall and the hum of a distant vacuum, Reece Summers prepared for Feb. 2 First Friday visitors to the Great Plains Art Museum.
| | GALLERY REPAIR - Byron Kringle of David Wood Construction rasps the edge of a piece of drywall in the Great Plains Art Museum. Both the Great Plains Museum and the Lentz Center for Asian Culture are closed until further notice after a Jan. 20 car fire in an adjacent parking garage. Photo by Troy Fedderson/University Communications.
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"I'm giving away this book to anyone who comes to see us," Summers said. "We don't have an exhibit for them. But, this will at least leave them with a positive experience."
The Great Plains Art Museum and the Lentz Center for Asian Culture, both located in the Hewit Place building at 12th and Q streets, remain closed until further notice due to water damage caused by a Jan. 20 car fire in the Q Place Garage, an adjacent parking facility.
Summers had hoped to reopen the Great Plains gallery space by the week of Jan. 29. However the damage, caused by water flooding from uncapped standpipes the parking garage stairwells and through a common wall to Hewit Place, was greater than expected.
"We're just grateful that none of the artwork was damaged," Summers said. "We were very lucky from that standpoint."
Construction workers are replacing spans of drywall along the floors in the first floor Great Plains space, as well as in the Hewit Place basement - home to the Lentz Center and storage space for both galleries.
"At this point, we don't know when we will reopen," Summers said. "We're not going to push it because this is repair work that needs to be done right."
Summers said the gallery will host the Feb. 21 Paul A. Olson seminar with Michael Hayes, associate director of the National Drought Mitigation Center.
The Lentz Center did open for the Feb. 2 First Friday event, allowing patrons a limited view of the new exhibit, "Ceramics from China, Japan and Korea." However, the gallery remains closed as repairs continue. Barbara Banks, director of the Lentz Center, also did not want to speculate on a reopening date.
For more information, go online to www.unl.edu/plains or www.unl.edu/lentz.
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