15 Nov 2013
Visiting Artist Nov. 21: Jamie Burmeister
Visiting artist Jamie Burmeister will present a free public lecture on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
Burmeister’s “vermin.me” project has resulted in more than 520 installations of small ceramic figures, called vermin, in 22 states and 20 countries.
12 Nov 2013
UNL Art and Art History Senior has work accepted into national exhibition
Adrian Armstrong, a senior studio art major from Omaha, Neb., had three pieces accepted into the Soo Visual Arts Center’s juried exhibition “Untitled 10.”
The exhibition opens Dec. 6, 2013, and continues through Jan. 11, 2014, at the gallery, located in Minneapolis, Minn. Jurors Heid E. Erdrich and Jennifer Phelps selected 25 artists out of more than 200 applicants for the exhibition this year.
“I was ecstatic,” Armstrong said. “I wasn’t expecting to get in, so when they told me I was in, I was just jumping for joy. It was crazy.”
08 Nov 2013
Fritz, Gawel to discuss photos of John Pfahl
Art and photography historian Dana Fritz will join photography scholar Larry Gawel to give a presentation at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Sheldon Museum of Art on the photographs of John Pfahl.Pfahl, whose works are featured in the museum's "Points of View" exhibition, was a pioneer in the transformation of American landscape photography in the 1970s, and his body of work has influenced generations of artists.
08 Nov 2013
Two Exhibitions open Nov. 8 at UNL's Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
Two exhibitions open Nov. 8 and continue through Nov. 22 at the Department of Art and Art History’s Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. The exhibitions will have an opening reception on Friday, Nov. 8 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.Both exhibitions were organized by Assistant Professor of Practice Marissa Vigneault’s students from her The Body in Modern and Contemporary Art class.
06 Nov 2013
Dziedzic to present free public lecture Nov. 13
Erin Dziedzic, the curator and head of adult programs at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City will present a free public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Her lecture is titled "Thoughts on Contemporary Curating."
06 Nov 2013
Clare Twomey to present free public lecture Nov. 11
British artist Clare Twomey will present a free public lecture on Monday, Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
Twomey is a research fellow at the University of Westminster. Over the past 12 years, she has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Crafts Council, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan, the Eden Project and the Royal Academy of Arts.
01 Nov 2013
Sayre to present the next AIA lecture Nov. 11 on the Ancient Andes
Matthew Sayre, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Dakota, will present a lecture titled "Pilgrimage Across the Ancient Andes: From Machu Picchu to Chavin de Huantar," on Monday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
01 Oct 2013
Two exhibitions open Oct. 11 at Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
Two exhibitions open Oct. 11 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall, in conjunction with the Midwest Society for Photographic Education (MWSPE) 2013 Regional Conference.
“Boundaries: The Permeability of Social Constructs” and “MWSPE Scholarship Winners Exhibition” will both be on display through Oct. 26 in the Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
23 Sep 2013
Graphic Designer Fella to present public lecture Sept. 24
Edward Fella, an artist and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography in the U.S. and Europe, will present a free public lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. in Woods Art Building Rm. 105.
23 Sep 2013
UNL team uncovers more archeological treasures
Shoveling and sweeping to expose still-hidden portions of a 1,600-square-foot marble mosaic that dates to Roman times, a UNL archeological team this past summer unearthed a new treasure in southern Turkey.
Lying face down in more than a millennium of soil was a life-size marble head, the remnant of a sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite – still beautiful, though scarred by chips on its nose and face.
The sculpture’s body was missing, likely incinerated in a lime kiln many centuries ago.