Enjoyed by viewers across the state for its feature-based, character-driven storytelling, “Nebraska Stories” covers art, science, history, sports, performance, nature and more. New episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m., repeating at 9 p.m. Mondays on Nebraska Public Media and at 8:30 a.m. Fridays on World, and are also viewable online at https://nebraskastories.org/. The Feb. 9 episode opens in Arnold, following racers from across the country as they speed along a scenic stretch in the Sandhills Open Road Challenge. In another new story, a multimedia artist explores the intersections of race, gender and identity as she works to represent the dignity of Black and multi-racial people.
Enjoyed by viewers across the state for its feature-based, character-driven storytelling, “Nebraska Stories” covers art, science, history, sports, performance, nature and more. New episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m., repeating at 9 p.m. Mondays on Nebraska Public Media and at 8:30 a.m. Fridays on World, and are also viewable online at https://nebraskastories.org/. The Feb. 9 episode opens in Arnold, following racers from across the country as they speed along a scenic stretch in the Sandhills Open Road Challenge. In another new story, a multimedia artist explores the intersections of race, gender and identity as she works to represent the dignity of Black and multi-racial people.
Enjoyed by viewers across the state for its feature-based, character-driven storytelling, “Nebraska Stories” covers art, science, history, sports, performance, nature and more. New episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m., repeating at 9 p.m. Mondays on Nebraska Public Media and at 8:30 a.m. Fridays on World, and are also viewable online at https://nebraskastories.org/. The Feb. 9 episode opens in Arnold, following racers from across the country as they speed along a scenic stretch in the Sandhills Open Road Challenge. In another new story, a multimedia artist explores the intersections of race, gender and identity as she works to represent the dignity of Black and multi-racial people.
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Sergey Melnitchenko at the UNK James E. Smith Conference on World Affairs (Read More)
This year's conference theme is "For Better or Worse: Crossing the Line." The world we live in is filled with visible and invisible lines—directing us, connecting us, and dividing us. We create them, negotiate them, erase them, replace them, and, of course, cross them both accidentally and deliberately every day of our lives. We cross streets to visit our neighbors but sometimes also to confront them. We cross class, ethnic, religious, and gender lines in ways that expand and enrich our social fabric but sometimes also risking tearing it. We cross national lines to see the world and learn about new cultures but also to conquer other civilizations, imposing our own cultural values upon them. And meanwhile, nature itself ignores all our artificially imposed boundaries—storms, heat waves, fires, viruses, and species move and cross these lines at will—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. The conference is accompanied by the Crossing the Line Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition showcases the work of the artists displaced by turbulent historical events including the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict. It features the work of 6 immigrant artists currently residing in the USA, prints from a group of students and professors from the Wroclaw Art Academy in Poland, and photographs created by the Mykolaiv Young Photographer’s group (MYPH) from Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Sergey Melnitchenko will give a talk entitled "Art is Keeping Us Alive in this War." Melnitchenko was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, (located just 60 miles NW of Kherson) in 1991. He began taking photographs in 2009 and in 2018 founded the MYPH, a school for conceptual and art photography. He is also a member of the Ukrainian Photo Alternative (UPHA). Melnitchenko is a winner of multiple Ukrainian and international competitions, including Berlin’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award in 2017. In 2020, he was nominated for Amsterdam’s prestigious Foam Paul Huf Award that recognizes generational talent demonstrating a personal visual language and style. Melnitchenko’s work has appeared in over 70 publications, and he has published nine books of photography. The full conference runs from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 and 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 15, and will feature keynote speaker Sonia Nazario. See here for the full conference schedule. In-person and virtual attendance is free. Registration is required for livestream attendance. Register here. Virtual sessions will be livestreamed but not recorded.
This exhibition is a survey of works by the late Gladys M Lux. Her grandmother began her art education by teaching her china painting, and she also learned to paint in watercolors and draw. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska, Ms. Lux began teaching art at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1927. During the forty years she taught at Nebraska Wesleyan University, she inspired many students to believe as she did that “there is an artist in everyone.” Talented as both an artist and educator, her collection of over 450 prints is on view year-round to continue its initial purpose of bringing world-class art to the people of Nebraska. The LUX Print Gallery is located on the second floor of the Lux Center for the Arts. Gallery hours are 12 - 6PM, Tuesday - Friday and 10AM - 5PM on Saturday.
The reception will feature a conversation with the collection curator Susan Soriente and a reunion of anyone whose life has been impacted by Gladys or her legacy. This exhibition is a survey of works by the late Gladys M Lux. Her grandmother began her art education by teaching her china painting, and she also learned to paint in watercolors and draw. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska, Ms. Lux began teaching art at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1927. During the forty years she taught at Nebraska Wesleyan University, she inspired many students to believe as she did that “there is an artist in everyone.”
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Art in Practice: The Intersection of Poetry and Visual Art (Bennett & Shaw) (Read More)
This virtual, lecture series investigates and highlights the influence and collaboration of poets and artists, and the intersections between their chosen mediums. Free admission. RSVP required to receive Zoom details. Joshua Bennett and Cameron Shaw August 30, 7 PM CT Joshua Bennett is a poet and writer whose practice addresses the Black experience in America today. His poem “America Will Be, After Langston Hughes," currently on view at Bemis in All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, is both an immediate response to the temperature of the past several years while also calling up the civil rights movement of Bennett’s father’s generation. Both Langston Hughes, in “Let America Be America Again”, and Bennett speak of a future that holds hope for equity and empathy, a future that is “unfinished, imperfect, and yet alive.” Cameron Shaw was appointed Executive Director of the California African American Museum (CAAM) in February 2021, after serving as Deputy Director and Chief Curator since September 2019. She lectures on topics including values-based institution building, collaboration, translating theory to practice, and creative publishing strategies. In addition to her institutional practice, Shaw is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared in numerous national outlets, books, and exhibition catalogues.
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Art in Practice: The Intersection of Poetry and Visual Art (GIbson & Soldier) (Read More)
This virtual, lecture series investigates and highlights the influence and collaboration of poets and artists, and the intersections between their chosen mediums. Free admission. RSVP required to receive Zoom details. Jeffrey Gibson and Layli Long Soldier August 24, 7 PM CT Jeffrey Gibson’s practice merges aspects of Native American visual culture with allusions to contemporary geometric abstraction. The artist references the colors and patterns of nineteenth-century painted rawhide containers, commonly called parfleche, which is associated with particular Native communities in the Plateau, Plains, and Great Basin regions. His painting, Migration, is currently on view at Bemis in All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy. By intermingling these designs with a style linked to celebrated, non-Native artists such as Frank Stella and Joseph Albers, Migration contests an American art history that very often overlooks Native American art. Layli Long Soldier’s first volume of poetry, “Whereas”, published in 2017, explores the systemic violence against and cultural erasure of native tribes in the United States through a thoughtful investigation of language. “Whereas” responds to the cautiously phrased and quietly passed 2009 U.S. Congressional Apology to Native Peoples for the history of genocidal policies and actions the United States Federal government has enacted against them. In writing these poems, Long Soldier studied similar apologies from governments across the world to indigenous peoples and considered the nature of authentic apology.
