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	Lincoln Artist Profile: Su Harvey
	Book Review: Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan
	Haydon Art Center Presents 2010 Professional Practice Program 'Empowering Artists: DIY'
	Science Odyssey: Does Salt Intake Really Matter?
	'Shrew'd' Survey of American Women Artists Opens Feb. 12 at the Sheldon
	"The Marvelous Wonderettes" Truly Marvelous
	Second Annual Lincoln Wine & Food Experience to Benefit the Lincoln Community Playhouse
	'Red Theater: Love’ to Bring High Energy to the Bourbon for Valentine's Day
	Porridge Papers to Assist Cupid in Annual 'Love on the Run'
	Take Part in Star City Blog's First Annual Short Story Contest!

Lincoln Artist Profile: Su Harvey

By Ladd Wendelin

"Nature is what we know-" wrote poet Emily Dickinson, in poem 668. "Yet have no art to say."  

This point, no matter what the Belle of Amherst contends, could be argued. Consider the work of local artist and longtime Eagle resident Su Harvey. For the past five years, Harvey has captured all manner of flora and fauna within the quaintly condensed confines of a space no bigger than a bathroom tile - clean, shiny and blazed to a crisp luster.

Her work has been featured in just about every room of her patrons’ homes, in local art galleries including Gallery 9 and the Lux Center for the Arts, and, coming very soon, the Antelope Valley Project.

Haydon Art Center Presents 2010 Professional Practice Program 'Empowering Artists: DIY'

This year’s Professional Practice Program investigates the non-traditional 'do-it-yourself' art careers that allow artists the freedom to personalize their art-based lifestyles. The program will be held Tuesday, February 9th at 4 p.m. at the Haydon Art Center (335 N. 8th).
 
The Haydon Art Center's Professional Practice Program is an event held every year at the Haydon that focuses on an aspect of professionalism in the arts. Last year's program concentrated on Artist Residencies, how to apply for them and what to expect. The panel consisted of Anderson Ranch Arts Center of Snowmass Village, CO and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art of Omaha, NE.

Science Odyssey: Does Salt Intake Really Matter?

Clay Farris Naff While the medical journals debate the issue, nutritionists and dietitians aren't waiting for the last nail in the coffin to be hammered into place. Convinced that the balance of evidence shows a real threat to health, they are warning us all to cut down on amount of salt we are taking in.

First aired Feb. 6, 2010

Salt Intake, Part 1 12:40

Salt Intake, Part 2 10:39

Clay Farris Naff is (claynaff.com) is a science author and blogger whose weekly radio program, Science Odyssey, airs Saturday mornings from 8:30 - 9:00 on KZUM, Lincoln's community radio station. You can hear it over the air at 89.3 FM or on  the web live at kzum.org. Clay's science-oriented blog, Ad Astra, can be seen here. His religion blog on the Huffington Post can be seen here.

'Shrew'd' Survey of American Women Artists Opens Feb. 12 at the Sheldon

Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents "Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists," its biennial invitational exhibition, beginning Feb. 12. It features work by a diverse group of American women artists who use aesthetic media to question social norms of representation in art, popular culture and everyday life.

The opening reception for the exhibition will be 5-7 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Sheldon, 12th and R streets on the UNL City Campus. Sheldon director J. Daniel Veneciano and Sharon Kennedy, curator of cultural and civic engagement, will introduce the exhibition. The reception is free and the public is welcome.

Ann Marie Sayer Presents Talk and Storytelling Event

Sheldon Museum of Art welcomes Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction with an opening reception and children's program this weekend. Ann Marie Sayer, Executive Director of the Slobodkina Foundation, will present the life and work of Esphyr Slobodkina, a pioneering abstract artist and children's book illustrator. Both events are free and open to the public.

• First Friday Opening Reception, February 5, 5 to 7 p.m.  Sayer will give a gallery talk about the artist and the exhibition beginning at 5:30 p.m. 

• Theatrical Storytelling for Children, Saturday, February 6, 11 a.m. to noon, Sayer will give a theatrical performance for pre-school and elementary school students in Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Her music and development workshop is based on Slobodkina’s legendary Caps for Sale
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'Valor on the Wind' Exhibit Opens for First Friday at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture

"Valor on the Wind: Selected Examples of the Horse in Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan Art" will open Feb. 2 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. A First Friday exhibition reception is 5-7:30 p.m. Feb. 5.

The center's winter/spring show will examine the role the horse has played in China, Japan and Tibet through items from Lentz collections and from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene and the Berea College Museum of Art in Berea, Ky.

"The title 'Valor on the Wind' has been chosen to honor the horse's speed and tractability," said Barbara Chapman Banks, director/curator of the Lentz Center. "The horse has the longest history in China, but horses were important in Japan and Tibet as well."

Porridge Papers to Assist Cupid in Annual 'Love on the Run'

Porridge Papers will host the 3rd Annual Love on the Run event February 12th and 13th. Valentine notes will be hand-delivered on Valentine’s Day. Prior to the delivery date, customers will be able to come into the mill located at 1422 South Street to type up their love notes free of charge.

On February 12th, the typewriters will be available between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. An open house will be held on Saturday, February 13th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with treats and live music provided. Sunday February 14th, the notes will be delivered to locations within Lincoln city limits for no charge.

UPDATED: Blog Talk Live: Interview with Doug Emery, City Councilman

by Dennis Kornbluh

Tomorrow on Blog Talk Live from 6-7pm Central I'll talk to Doug Emery, chairman of the Lincoln City Council.  Doug is a native of Lincoln who has lived in Northeast Lincoln for over 50 years. He is a graduate of Northeast High School and attended the University of Nebraska. Doug's wife Denise is a lifetime Lincoln resident and is a partner at Jack Keef Ford in Crete, Nebraska. Their daughter, Jennifer is a University of Northern Iowa graduate who is married and has three children. Their son, Shane, is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska and works and lives in Fairbury Nebraska.

Clawfoot House Hosts First Art Show

Local artists Brad Krieger and Cathy Patterson exhibit a selection of their individual works at the Clawfoot House from February 5th to March 11th. Both artists avoid the use of representational imagery, in favor of abstract and nonobjective pieces. Kreiger’s pieces vibrate with moving, energetic lines, and engaging space, while Patterson’s pieces draw the viewer in with large areas of fluid, saturated color, and meditative brushstrokes, using repeated simple forms like circles, or more organic abstract shapes.

Both artists work with oil on canvas, or watercolor, pastel, and mixed media on paper. Krieger and Patterson last shared the bill when they exhibited Collaborative Works on Paper at the Haydon Art Center in 2007.

'The Horse Show' Presents Iconic Interpretations at Sheldon Museum of Art

The Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "The Horse Show" beginning Feb. 2. The exhibition of horse images and sculptures from the museum's collections and artworks on loan from private local collections will be on view through May 23.

Art featuring the horse as a subject dates to times earlier than the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain. An animal evoking strength, speed, power and endurance, the horse excites the human aesthetic imagination in interpretations of beauty, power and fantasy.

Science Odyssey: Spotting Killers in Space

We think of space as being empty, but in reality it is studded with rocks that range from microscopic to mountain-sized. Some of the bigger ones have smacked into Earth in the past, causing havoc. NASA, under orders from Congress, has launched an infrared observatory into orbit. Science Odyssey, in a program that aired Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, talks with Dr. Ned Wright, the chief scientist on the project, to learn about how the WISE satellite spotted its first asteroid and whether it's likely to collide with Earth. Later, we hear from physicist Bob Park on why space policy should change to put more resources in to spotting potential killers in space.

The audio for this program is provided below:

Spotting Killers in Space, Part 1 11:20

Spotting Killers in Space, Part 2 09:20