Audio/Video Library
Enjoy Podcasts About Great Art at Sheldon
Recorded at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the audio files listed below enhance the understanding and enjoyment of gallery visitors. The most recent podcasts are at the top of the list.
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Lilianna Porter |
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Lilianna Porter Discusses Her Artwork Artist Lilianna Porter discusses her work, To See Gold (Ver Oro), in the exhibition TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, which includes artworks from 48 artists included in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's permanent collection. |
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Enrique Chagoya |
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Artist Enrique Chagoya Discusses His Work Enrique Chagoya, who is among the 48 contemporary Latin American and Latino artists who have art in the exhibition TRANSactions, talks about his work and influences with Sheldon Interim Curator Sharon Kennedy. |
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Leighton Pierce's Agency of Time |
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Audio-Video Clip of Agency of Time This is an audio-video clip from Leighton Pierce's installation, Agency of Time, on view at Sheldon Museum of Art through October 19, 2008. The site-specific installation presents multiple video and audio loops on 3-D projection screens and an object to create viewer experiences. |
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Leighton Pierce |
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Leighton Pierce Discusses Agency of Time Leighton Pierce's Agency of Time is a site-specific installation of multiple video and audio loops presented on constructed 3-D projection screens and objects to create viewer experiences. In this podcast, Sheldon Interim Curator Sharon Kennedy interviews the artist about the installation, his purposes and techniques. The exhibition is on view at the Sheldon Museum of Art from August 12 through October 19. |
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Elizabeth King |
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The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye Artist Elizabeth King talks with Nebraska Public Radio's Bill Stibor about her exhibition, The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye. |
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David Burge |
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Real Nebraska at College Night |
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Three Poets |
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Poets Read Three Poems Three poets read their poems responding to paintings in the Poets on Painters exhibition. |
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Katie Geha |
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Poets on Painters Exhibition Katie Geha curated Poets on Painters with Travis Nichols. In this podcast she discusses how the exhibition was created and the response to it. |
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Jerry Johnston |
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Nebraska Poets on Sheldon Paintings Jerry Johnston, senior producer at NET Radio, Nebraska's NPR station, interviews teachers and poets about the Nebraska Poets on Sheldon Paintings Poetry Contest, which ends March 1. |
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Aaron Holz |
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John Singleton Copley's Aaron Holz, an assistant professor of painting, discusses John Singleton Copley's portrait of Nicholas Boyston, an early American masterpiece on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Holz and Wendy Katz, an associate professor of Art History, will give a talk titled "It'll Cost You an Arm and a Leg" at Sheldon Sunday on February 24, 2008. |
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Sharon Kennedy |
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Women Artists in Nebraska, 1880-1950 Sheldon Curator Sharon Kennedy reviews her thesis about 12 early women artists in Nebraska. Talented, indomitable and yet largely overlooked, these art pioneers left an enduring artistic legacy in the state. |
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The University Chamber Singers |
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University Chamber Singers Performance in Sheldon's Great Hall The University Chamber Singers under the director of Therees Hibbard performed in Sheldon's Great Hall on Sunday, December 2. |
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Sandra Scolnik |
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Artist Sandra Scolnik Discusses Her Painting and Art in France Painter Sandra Scolnik discusses her work and the world of art that she has found in France, where now lives with her husband and two children. Responding to questions from the Sheldon staff, Scolnik calls her untitled work in Sheldon Survey: An Invitational a pivotal piece in her career. To view an image of Scolnik with her painting at Sheldon, please click Sandra Scolnik |
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James Surls |
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Artist James Surls Talks About Scupture and Drawing James Surls discusses the art world and his work with Sheldon staff members. Surls, who creates wooden objects with intriguing designs, has had works shown in major museums including the Whitney, Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in 1943 in Terrell, Texas, he now lives and works in Carbondale, Colorado, which is near Aspen. Surls's sculpture in Sheldon Survey is Flowers on the Wall, 2006, wood and bronze, 51 X 80 X 13 inches. |
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Sharon Kennedy |
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John Singleton Copley's Nicholas Boylston Curator Sharon Kennedy tells how John Singleton Copley's became one of America's foremost early painters. His portrait Nicholas Boylston, on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is on view at the Sheldon until March. |
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Jose F. Garcia of Las Artes Cultural Center |
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An Ofrenda for El Dia de los Muertos Jose F. Garcia of Las Artes Cultural Center in Omaha describes the ofrenda constructed in Sheldon's Great Hall for the El Dia de los Muertos celebration. Jose Garcia and his wife, Linda, directed the installation of the ofrenda on October 22, 2007. |
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Jan Driesbach |
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Hung Liu's Meal II Sheldon Director Jan Driesbach discusses artist Hung Liu's painting Meal II, which is on view in the permanent collection galleries. The work was given to the Sheldon by Marjorie Woods on the occasion of the naming of one of the museum's galleries in honor of the Woods Family. |
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Sharon Kennedy |
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The Beat Gallery As part of its American Narratives exhibition, Sheldon Curator Sharon Kennedy introduces the Beat Movement from the 1950s and several artworks from the period. |
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Sheldon Connections 3 Opening More than 200 attended the opening for Sheldon Connections 3 on Friday, September 14. Artists included in the exhbition are: Jake Gillespie, Eddie Dominguez, Caitlin Applegate, Leslie Iwai and Nolan Tredway, in collabortion with Ryan Turner and Lindsey Jonak. In addition, Grant Brownyard and Diane Nelson offer experimental videos in the coffee shop area. Howlooseanation played in the Great Hall at the conclusion of the reception. |
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Kestrel Lemen |
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College Night at Sheldon Art League organizer and Sheldon intern Kestrel Lemen talks to fellow students at the semester's first College Night on September 10, 2007. About 100 students attended the event from 5 to 7 p.m. |
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