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from the issue of January 10, 2008
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Day, students help erect 'Art Farm' exhibition
BY TOM WHITE, SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
The farm has settled in at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
| | BARN RAISING - Architecture students working with associate professor Jeff Day install an old farm building in the Great Hall of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Photo by Tom White/Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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"Art Farm @ Sheldon," a collaborative project with Jeff Day, an associate professor of architecture at UNL, and UNL architecture students, is on view through April 27. The exhibit explores the interrelationship of art, landscape and architecture in a rural context. It focuses on design proposals for the development of Art Farm, a nonprofit art residency program located on a 40-acre working farm near Marquette.
Work in the exhibition includes architectural models, renderings, diagrams and drawings as well as works created by artists associated with Art Farm, including Janet Williams, Amanda Thatch, Sibylle Muff, Ayako Aramaki and others.
In addition, in Sheldon's Great Hall the exhibition features installation of an old farm building from Art Farm that has been repurposed as a video lounge with a modern interior. The exhibition demonstrates alternatives to the predominant land uses found in the Great Plains and it asks the question, can art form the basis of a post-agricultural landscape?
A public symposium and gallery talks are planned during the show. For more information, go online to www.sheldon.unl.edu.
For additional information about Art Farm, go online to www.artfarmnebraska.org.
The Sheldon is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Art Farm @ Sheldon events
Jan. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Lecture by Jeff Day about the exhibition and Art Farm
Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m.
First Friday opening reception
Feb. 29, 6-8 p.m.
Potter Belmar Labs presents sound/image art performance
March 1, 2 p.m.
Panel discussion, "Art/Landscape/Architecture"
GO TO: ISSUE OF JANUARY 10
ARTS HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 10
Day, students help erect 'Art Farm' exhibition
American Life in Poetry
'Darfur Now' plays the Ross
Faculty exhibit opens Jan. 14
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Jan. 18
Sheldon hosts poetry contest
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