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Kimberly Brown, curator of the exhibit.
Exhibition at Sheldon for the birds
By Mick Dyer
Senior Reporter
One of the most unusual exhibits
to be featured at the Sheldon Memo
rial Art Gallery this year is now on
display.
The objects are graceful ex
amples of the interdependent rela
tionship between architecture and
ecology. Historical figures such as
Michelangelo, Palladio, Wren,
LeNotrc, Lutyens and Frank Lloyd
Wright designed and built similar
creations.
They are birdhouses.
These innovative works of art are
part of the Nebraska Art Association
Juried Birdhouse Design Competi
tion on display until April 25.
The 28 entries are all original,
handmade, three-dimensional
structures intended for avian occu
pation. Built from ceramics, woods,
glass, steel and other materials,
some of the birdhouses are prac tical,
others wily ornamental.
All are pieces of art wwthy of
merit.
Kimberly Brown, administrator
of the Nebraska Arts Association,
said this is the first year for the
competition exhibition. She said the
exhibition was designed as a fund
raiser for the art association as well
as a chance for local artists and
architects to express their creativity.
Fifteen of the birdhouses were auc
tioned at a dinner for association
members.
“The response at the dinner and
auction was really positive,” Brown
said. “The feeling is that it might
become an annual event”
Mark Davia/Dally Nabraskan
Untitled birdhouse by Andrew Acker
Satellite communications to be demonstrated
By Micki Haller
Senior Editor
Visitors to the University of Ne
braska State Museum Saturday will
get to see television programs from
around the world in a demonstration
of the peaceful uses of space.
As part of the Ralph Mueller
Planetarium’s 30th anniversary cele
bration, satellite communications
will be demonstrated starting at 1
p.m.
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Jack Dunn, planetarium coordina
tor, said the demonstrations get
people away from thinking about Star
Wars defense programs.
Satellite Communications for
Learning (SCOLA) will provide the
satellite link. The Creighton-based,
non-profit organization, which
started in 1981, is the first service to
package satellite programs, Dunn
said.
SCOLA condenses programs from
various countries, including France,
Latin America, the Soviet Union and
Mexico, into an eight-hour schedule
from 8 a.m. to4 p.m. Monday through
Friday. At the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln, it runs from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday on
Channel 9 of UNL’s closed-circuit
television.
Dunn said SCOLA has given UNL
free service for the past month and
will continue free service for the rest
of the semester. After that, UNL will
have to subscribe to the service.
Dunn said SCOLA is an educa
tional service that appeals to people
who are learning languages, political
science, business and foreign culture.
"It’s really interesting to sit and
sec what happens,” he said. “You get
news, but you also get cultural pro
gramming.”
Universities across the nation and
a few cable systems like Cox Cable in
Omaha have picked up SCOLA.
The programs used to have sub
titles, Dunn said, but language teach
ers thought their students would get
more out of the program without
them. Now a simultaneous English
translation allows the viewer to
choose.
Dunn said foreign television often
has more than just educational value.
Japanese newscasters bow to the
audience, he said.
The Soviet children’s programs
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arc vividly animated, Dunn said, and
there are music programs almost like
MTV.
On French television, groups of
eight to 10 have discussions, he said,
and everyone talks at once.
The weekly sky show will be can
celed Saturday to make room for the
30th anniversary “Multimedia Spec
tacular’^^ p.m. A free seven-minute
slide show about SCOLA will be
shown at regular intervals before and
after the anniversary program.
For the planetarium, Dunn said,
the program is a chance to introduce
something both interesting and bene
ficial for teaching and is a way to use
the technology.
Dunn said satellite communica
tions increase world understanding.
“You cannot isolate yourself from
the world anymore,” he said. “You
can’t do it.”
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