Arts
The following is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more
information, call the venues.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 14120 St
474- 3543
Sunday: Pete Hofmann, The
Return, and Wanner, 10 p.m.
Duggan’s Pub, 4405.11th St
477-3513
Friday: Boss Philly, 9 pm
Saturday: Boss Philly
Knickerbockers Bar & Grill,
9010 St
476-6865
Friday: Black Light Sunshine,
The Status State - early; The
Aaron Zimmer Band - late
Saturday: Lost Product - early,
J.V All-Stars - late
Pla Mor Ballroom, 6600 West
OSt
475- 4030
Sunday: Country Western
dancing - bands Double
Standard and Sandy Creek
Royal Grove Nite Club, 340
West ComhuskerHwy.
474-2332
Friday: Jank 1000
Saturday: The Reverend
Horton Heat
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
435-8754
Friday: Lil’ Slim and the
Backalley Blues Band
Saturday: The Darlings
THEATER:
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12™ and R streets
472-5353
^11 weekend: "Grass”
Studio Theatre, Temple
Building, 12th and R Streets
472-2072
Friday and Saturday: “Alice in
Wonderland,” 7:30 p.m.
GALLERIES:
Doc’s, Suite-150,140N. Eighth
SL
476- 3232
All weekend: Kameron
Becwar
Gallery 9, Suite-4, 1224 S.
Ninth SL
477- 2822
All weekend: Carol Devell and
Julia Andre
NoyesGaUery, 119S. Ninth SL
475-1061
All weekend: Abstract paint
ings by Julia Noyes, photogra
phy by Terri Orr, pottery by
Gary Martin, jewelry by
Zenaide Luhr, faux fur by Lois
Williams, paintings and
horse-shaped pins by Janna
Harsch, metal sculptures by
Mike Fluent and watercolor
by Gretchen Meyers
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12th and R streets
472-2461
All weekend: Robert Mangold'
“In Between Image and
Object;” "Food for Thought”
Sheldon Statewide
Collection; “Curator's Choice:
Selections from the Kruger
Collection”
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1. Russel Simins
“Public Places”
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
drummer gone solo
2. Elysian Fields
“Queen of the Meadow”
Prototypical Jetset duo
3. The Death Cab for Cutie
“Forbidden Love EP”
Dream-rock in the vein of Built
to Spill
4. Mark Robinson
“Tiger Banana”
Ultra-prolific Unrest and Flin Flon
talent’s latest effort
5. P.J. Harvey
“Stories from the City, Stories
from the Sea”
Indie goddess returns with guest
vocals from Thom Yorke
6. Spoon
“Love Ways EP
They’re back! On another new
label!
7. The Buddyrevelles
“American Matador”
Loud and catchy
8. Red Snapper
“Bur Aim is to Satisfy...”
Sample-free Bristol jazzy trip-hop
9. Eyesmweasel
“Wrinkled Thoughts”
Tobin Sprout’s latest project
10. Mike G
“Sugar Daddy”
Gentle and fragile and a little too
clever
Artists dig up 'Small Treasures'for show
BY BILLY SMUCK
Art lovers looking for the con
densed gift to fit under the tree or in
a stocking may want to visit the
Haydon Art Gallery this holiday
season.
The 14th annual “Small
Treasures” exhibition opened on
Nov. 26 and will run through Dec.
23.
The opening reception tonight
lasts from 7 to 9 and will feature die
small works of more than 100 artists
from the Midwest
The exhibition features a wide
variety of styles, media and imagery
by the artists on a small scale. Teliza
Rodriguez, director of Haydon Art
Gallery, said the artists are asked to
submit a piece that is under 17
square-inches for many reasons.
“First of all, it allows for people
to buy original artwork at a good
price range,” Rodriguez said. “In
addition to that they make better
gifts, and
finally, it
“Art can challenges
really make
a great gift,
and not a lot
of people
think of it
that way.”
the artists
who are
accustomed
to doing big
pieces,
which adds
for variety
and expo
sure.”
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- jewelry,
glass, bead
work and assemblage, featuring
styles such as abstraction, realism
and figurative, Rodriguez said.
Prices of the works range from
$25 to $3,500, with most under
$400, Rodriguez said.
UNL students may recognize a
few of the featured artists, which
include UNL professors such as
Keith Jacobshagen, Karen Kune,
Gail Kendall, Pete Pinnell and Eddie
Dominguez from the fine arts
department, as well as George
Hick, who is a journalism professor.
Haydon Art Gallery which is a
member of the Nebraska Art
Association, displays the works of
professionals only, however, there
Gallery Preview
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Haydon Art Gallery,
335 N. 8th
Through Dec. 23,
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is occasionally an exception to that
rule.
“We don’t usually feature
undergraduate or graduate stu
dents because their styles change
so much while they’re in school,”
Rodriguez said.
But Tad Lauritzen Wright, a
graduate student at Nebraska
Wesleyan University, who has two
of his works on display, is an excep
tion.
“He has already adopted his
own style and established himself
as an artist” she said.
Rodriguez said some of the
artists’ works have been sold, and
the exhibition will change through
out the holiday season as clients
will be allowed to take art at the
time of purchase.
“Art can really make a great gift
and not a lot of people think of it
that way,” Rodriguez said.
Tonight’s opening at the
Haydon is a part of the annual
Christmas gallery walk, the kickoff
event for “Holidays in the
Haymarket”
The walk is a Haymarket tradi
tion and will be featuring other par
ticipating galleries besides the
Haydon: Gallery 9, Serendipity Art
Noyes Art Gallery and the
Burkholder Project
Joyce Bumsted, who works in
the outreach and communication
department of the Lincoln
Haymarket Development
Corporation, said the event will fea
ture activities and performances
throughout the Haymarket District
every Friday through Dec. 22.
“It’s a wonderful way of intro
ducing the holiday with all the
activity that’s down here,” Bumsted
said.
"Free Art Test” by Tad Lauritzen Wright
Courtesy Art
On the menu: Music battle
■ KRNU's Hot Lunch will let
area musicians perform on air
Monday night.
BY MELANIE MENSCH
Closet musicians can come
out from hiding next week when
the university’s radio station
offers a chance for local talent to
sing loud and proud across the
air waves.
Hot Lunch, the Monday
night radio show on KRNU, 90.3
FM, is featuring a “Battle of the
Singer/Songwriter” from 9 to 11
p.m.
The contest lets area musi
cians perform one or two origi
nal songs live on the air. The
audience then calls in votes for
their favorite performers, who
could win a chance to play at
other venues id Lincoln.
Karissa Armstrong, a co-host
of Hot Lunch, said the student
based program provides a rare
opportunity for live, local music
to be heard beyond the bar
scene.
“We want the local bars to
lend an ear to the radio show to
hear these artists perform,” she
said, “and possibly be booked
because of their perform
ance.”
Tony Bock, also a co
host of Hot Lunch, said
prizes and winner
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criteria "have yet to be deter
mined,” but the program is
accepting contestants until
Monday afternoon.
“We wanted to keep it as true
to the music as possible without
all the technical hassle,” he said.
But the contest has its rules:
no more than two people per act
with only original songs.
Because of studio limitations,
the Hot Lunch hosts encouraged
participants to perform acousti
cally.
“It’s a chance for the local
artist to get stuff on the radio,
which is hard to do (in Lincoln),”
said Matt Fiorita, a co-host of
Hot Lunch.
The senior advertising and
broadcasting major said the
contest was “a change of pace”
from the usual variety music
show.
Bock said the contest
brought local musicians togeth
er to showcase and celebrate
their talent.
“Musicians can meet other
people trying to do
the same
thing,” he said.
Every music genre is wel
comed, Fiorita said, but the six
confirmed contestants so far
play mostly classic acoustic rock.
The three hosts stressed the
contest focused on support, not
criticism, of local talent.
"No one will be turned
down,” Armstrong said. “We are
just amazingly astounded at the
courage people have to play for
an audience.”
Julee Dunekacke, a singer,
songwriter and guitarist for the
local band Sockeye Marigold,
will perform the group’s original
song "Half-n-Half” with band
mate Scott Schreiter.
Dunekacke said songwriting
is a fun way to “process things in
life.”
“People can say ‘Look, this is
something I made,’" she said.
Interested singers and song
writers should send an e-mail to
KRNUhotlunch@hotmail.com
for more information about
Monday night's contest.
“It may not start your career,”
Bock said, “but it’ll be
a fun time.”
Courtesy Art
"The Camp” by Norbert Kleinlein.
Berms welcomes two
for second go-round
FROM STAFF REPORTS
When a situation provides
successful results, why not do it
again?
That was the attitude taken by
the Bemis Center for Performing
Arts in its most recent exhibitions.
German artist, Norbert
Kleinlein was given the opportu
nity to be an artist-in-residence at
Omaha's Bemis Center in 1991.
Another German artist, Andreas
Grunert, was invited in 1998.
The two Germans must have
enjoyed creating their art in the
middle of the Midwest, and the
Bemis Center council must have
been impressed by the two men’s
work because both men are back.
An opening reception for the
artist's exhibits will be held Dec. 2,
and the displays will run through
Feb. 26. As artists-in-residence,
the men have once again been
given the opportunity to live in the
Bemis facilities creating their art
Kleinlein’s work, exhibited in
Bemis’ Gallery I, will feature a col
lection of paintings, drawings and
sculptures. He works with a vari
ety of materials including stone,
wood, terra cotta, charcoal,
acrylic and pastels. Through his
work, Kleinlein said he explores
the "complexity of contemporary
existence and one's relationship
to it while, at the same time, main
taining a distance from it”
Like Kleinlein, Andreas
Grunert is an established artist
whose talents have allowed him
the opportunity to be an artist-in
residence on different occasions.
In addition to his two Bemis
Center residencies, Grunert also
was given the opportunity to be
an artist-in-residence at the
Chapter Center for Arts in Cardiff,
Wales.
He has had more than 40 solo
exhibitions throughout Germany,
Austria and the United States. The
Bemis Center news release said
Grunert attempts to explore the
connections between common,
recognizable objects and create
• new relationships that evoke both
personal and miversal feelings.
