The following is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more ♦
information, call the venue.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 0 St.
474- 3543
Sunday: Ruth Buzzi and The
Numbers
Duggan’s Pub, 440 S. 11th St.
477-3513
Friday: FAC with Too Sweet
and The Little Darlings
Saturday: Mother Tounge
Knickerbocker’s 9010 St.
476-6865
Friday: lower case I and Side
Project
Saturday: Blacklight
Sunshine, Status State,
Project Wet and Index Case
Pla-Mor Ballroom,
6600W. O St.
475- 4030
Sunday: Dixie Cadillacs and
Sandy Creek
Royal drove, 340 West
Comhusker Highway
{ 474-2332
Friday: Tunk Junkies, 8th
Wave and Noise Wave
Saturday: JRZ Systems
WC’s Downtown,1228 P St.
477-4006
Friday: Mylo
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
(402)435-8754
Friday: Domingo Kings and
The Mezcal Brothers
Saturday: Mississippi Heat
THEATER:
Kimball Recital Hall,
U13RStreet
(402)472-3376
Friday: University
Symphony
Sunday: Wind Ensemble
and Symphonic Band
The Star City Dinner Theatre
and Comedy Cabaret,
893 Q Street
477-8277
Friday and Saturday:
Hypnotist Andrew Becker
GALLERIES:
Doc’s Place, 140 N. Eighth St.
476-3232
All weekend: George Sisson
Noyes Gallery,
119 S. Ninth Street
475-1061
All weekend: Max Cox,
Gregg Stokke, Mary Jane
Lamberson, Jo Brown and
Robert Egan
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“with Ghost”
Fourth full-length album from
former members of Galaxie 500. .
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'A From Two Aquatints'
Artwork courtesy of: Sheldon Art Gallery
Sheldon to display printmaking works by Mangold
LAFTA promotes alternate entertainment
BY BILLY SMUCK
Students looking for something to do
this weekend could add a little LAFTA to
their lives.
The Lincoln Association For
Traditional Arts is a non-{hofit organiza
tion formed in 1982 by a group of Iincoln
area musicians and songwriters.
Its mission: to preserve and promote
folk and traditional music, dance and relat
ed arts in the Lincoln Area.
LAFTA’s volunteer board members are
committed “to supporting creative original
musical arts and to keep them alive and
well in Nebraska,” President Pat
Kurtenbach said.
While Kurtenbach said LAFTA is con
cerned with the preservation of the tradi
tional arts, the group still keeps an open
mind.
“We’re looking for more diversity both
in the music and the audience,”
Kurtenbach said.
House concerts, contra dances and
main stage concerts are the primary fea
tures LAFTA provides to the public.
House Concerts are held in the home of
Rebecca Carr, house concert coordinator.
The concerts are special because they fos
ter interaction between the audience and
the performers, Carr said.
“It’s a really great way to enjoy the
music,” she said. “It’s an intimate way to lis
ten to some really great performers.”
Folk singers carry a refreshing mentali
ty, Carr said.
“These are not people who are aspiring
to be Britney Spears,” she said. "They’re
aspiring to get their music out directly to
the people and make personal connec
tions with them rather than making money
and being famous.”
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Carolyn Cruso
Where: House Concert
-857 N. 42nd
—(When: Tonight @ 7:30
—Ccost: Suggested
donation
Carolyn Cruso, one of the nation’s top
hammer dulcimer players, will be per
forming tonight at Out’s home, 857 N. 42n(*
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St.
The multi-instrumentalist and song
writer incorporates traditional pieces from
Ireland, Scotiand and France into her per
formances.
Refreshments will be served, and
admission is by suggested donation. Since
seating is limited, please call ahead to
reserve a seat at 466-4775.
In the last year and a half, LAFTA has
adopted contra dances, which are held at
the Auld Pavilion in Antelope Park.
Contra dance, which is early American
community dancing, is performed to live
music played by a Lincoln group, the
"Soundinistas.”
This old fashioned barn dancing has
the band calling out the steps along with
providing the music.
"The band gets stimulated by the
Contra Dance
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Antelope Park
—(When: Saturday®
-7:30 p.m.
—(Cost: $5 Adults,
$3 Students
dancers getting enthused, and it recipro
cates a build-up of energy and delight,”
said Pat Fuenning, coordinator and partic
ipant of contra dance. “You’re producing a
piece of art in combination with the band
and the dancers.”
The contra dances, which are held the
first Saturday of each month, cost $5 per
person and $3 for students.
Dance attire is light and comfortable,
which can be used to describe the atmos
phere and community as a whole.
Beginners are welcome, and no partner is
necessary.
LAFTA’s main stage concert series,
which features 10 national class perform
ers, opened its season last weekend with
acoustic blues musician Mary Flower.
Next to perform on the main stage will
be a California duo, Four Shillings Short, at
7:30 p.m. on Oct 14th.
Main stage concerts are held at the 7th
Street Loft. Admission to main stage con
certs is $12 for non-members, $6 for stu
dents and $1 for children.
BY KEN MORTON
Art doesn’t always have to be about beautiful landscapes and stately
portraits. Art can be highly conceptual, using a limited number of colors
and shapes and still present a profound message.
The works of Robert Mangold, a minimalist painter and printmaker,
stand as examples of the ways in which simple objects can portray
images beyond the geometric shapes represented in the pieces.
An exhibit, which will be shown at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
starting today and running through jan. 7, will feature Mangold’s prints •
a medium that has become almost as important as his paintings..
Mangold first started his career in New York in the 1960s and quickly
became an important figure in the minimalist movement.
Unlike many minimalists, however, Mangold strove to portray an
image rather than
just put shapes on
a canvas.
Although
Mangold is best
known for his
paintings, the use
of prints has
become increas
ingly important
to his work by
serving as a sort of
pattern for his
paintings.
The exhibit,
organized by the
Addison Gallery
of American Art in
Andover, Mass.,
contains more
than 120 of these
prints.
Kristin
Heming, who
works for Pace
Prints in NewYork
City, said
Mangold thinks
like a painter when making his prints. The prints, Heming said, help
Mangold visualize his paintings.
Dan Siedell, curator of the Sheldon Art Gallery, agreed with Heming
but said Mangold may even view printmaking as equally important as
his painting.
"I believe Mangold now conceives printmaking as a prime medium,”
Siedell said. “The prints help his paintings as a way to work out the ideas
for future paintings, but sometimes he even uses paintings to help with
future prints. The two forms have become integral to his creative
process.”
With prints, which are much smaller them the paintings, Siedell said
Mangold could look at his images in a much more manageable fashion.
“The images in the prints and
paintings are very similar,” Siedell
said. "The prints allow him to view his
work in a complete series.”
Mangold does approach print
making like a painter in another way,
Siedell said.
“Mangold likes to work on his
prints in private, much like his paint
ings," Siedell said. “He feels much
more comfortable working alone in a
studio than along side a master print
er."
Heming also said tye process of
making a print involves much more
work than painting.
“Making prints is much more
Between image and
Object: The Prints
of Robert Mangold
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-C When: Oct. 6 Jan. 7
—( Cost: Free
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time-consuming, she said. Unlike painting, which goes directly on a
canvas, prints go through several additional steps. It seems like so much
work that an artist would have to consider it an important medium.”
Mangold’s work combines lines
and shapes into intersecting pat- .*
terns. Mangold, Siedell said, wants
the viewer of his works to pay dose
attention to the interaction
between the different images.
“The subtlety of the way the j
images flow together is of para- I
mount importance,” Siedell said.
“Mangold is interested in how the L
lines of the different objects touch - [
how the rational, intellectual shape
of the square juxtaposes and serves
as a playground to the carefree,
whimsical circles.”
Mangold sets himself apart
from other minimalists, Siedell
• said, by exploring these interactions
between the shapes rather than
simply putting the shapes together
in a random pattern.
“Those aren't just squares and
other forms,” Siedell said. “Every i
image and object has a relationship |
with every other object in the J
piece.” |
For those who would like to I
learn more about Mangold and the
relationships he is presenting in his
works, the artist and Siedell will
hold a gallery talk on Saturday at
10:30 a.m.
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Siedell will also hold a gallery talk on the exhibition as part of
Sheldon’s “Wednesday Walks” series on October 18 at 12:15 p.m.