Nebraska Public Media
Arts in Nebraska - Leah Sorensen-Hayes
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- Arts in Nebraska - Leah Sorensen-Hayes
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Lincoln's Leah Sorensen-Hayes is a textile artist who works with quilts. In this profile, Leah is hard at work on her latest piece, an experimental quilt incorporating nontraditional quilting techniques associated with the studio quilting art movement. Sorensen-Hayes, a North Platte native, meets with her quilt group (including her mother from North Platte) to discuss quilting techniques and individual projects. Leah also visits the newly opened International Quilt Study Center to see the latest exhibit. To view all the videos in the series, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/nextexit.
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- Arts in Nebraska - Thomas Thomas
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Thomas Thomas is a former heavy equipment operator-turned-wood sculptor. Thomas creates his unique sculptures in his studio at Omaha's Hot Shops Art Center. Thomas creates life-size creatures and animals out of wood, layering pieces of wood together in a three-dimensional form that often incorporates movable and functional parts. To view all the videos in the series, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/nextexit.
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- Arts in Nebraska - Leslie Iwai
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Leslie Iwai is an artist who lives in Omaha and works in a variety of mediums, including performance, performance installation, and sculpture, among others. In this segment, we go to the MONA (the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney) where Iwai did a four-month-long performance installation based in part on the classic story of Jack and the Beanstalk. The installation explores how some of the fable's themes connect with contemporary issues. To view all the videos in the series, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/nextexit.
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- Pearl Harbor veteran who watched the attack unfold while on board the ill-fated U.S.S. Utah
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- 3:04
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Boatswain’s Mate Warren Miller experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor from a most unusual location, the brig of the U.S.S. Utah. He shares why he was there, how he was let out, and how he escaped from the sinking battleship. 6 officers and 52 men on the Utah lost their life that day.
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- Forgiveness - The War, a Nebraska Story
- Runtime
- 3:14
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- By the fall of 1945, the war was over. Yet around the globe, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and refugees were yet to go home. In this video, Corporal Roger Peters tells us how he learned about forgiveness from German soldiers.
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- Freedom - The War, a Nebraska Story
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- In this video Corporal Roger Peters learns the meaning of freedom after meeting a group of freed concentration camp survivors on the road outside of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
An estimated 50,000 prisoners died there, with 35,000 of them dying in the three months before the camp was liberated.
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- The Atomic Bomb - The War, a Nebraska Story
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- On August 6, 1945, Pvt. Wayne Winslow was on Tinian Island decoding messages from Reconnaissance planes over Hiroshima.
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- Concentration Camp - The War, a Nebraska Story
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- 1st Lt. Roy Long describes the conditions at the Gunskirchen, Austria concentration camp which he helped liberate. Approximately 15,000 prisoners were housed at Gunskirchen.
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- Nuremburg - The War, a Nebraska Story
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Maj. Carlyle Wilson and 1st Lt. Roy Long describe their experiences while on duty during the Nuremburg trials.
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- D-Day and the Battle of Saint Lo - The War, a Nebraska Story
- Runtime
- 3:15
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Pvt. Herman Genrich, 1st Lt. Francis Greenlief, 2nd Lt. Ray Carrol, and Maj. Sam Huston tell us what they saw as they landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. They also describe the battle for Hill 122, the key to the liberation of the French town of Saint Lo. From the NET Television production of "All Hell Can't Stop Us."
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- The Sinking of the Bismarck Sea - The War | Nebraska Stories
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- The escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk in 1945 by a Kamikaze attack off of Iwo Jima. PO2. Richard Kaplan was aboard ship that day. He tells of the attack and his rescue at sea by American sailors.
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- Operation Exercise Tiger - The War, a Nebraska Story
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Operation Exercise Tiger was a rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy. SSG. Richard Connell tells how that rehearsal went tragically wrong, leading to the loss of several landing craft. He also tells how the Army "forgot" the existence of that tragedy for forty years.
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- After the War - The War, a Nebraska Story
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- In the final days of the war, Nebraska veterans remember what has long been considered one of the defining offensives of WWII -- "the march toward Japan." Learn more about Nebraska veterans at our website, http://www.netnebraska.org/thewar.
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- Most Honorable Son
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- After the Pearl Harbor attack, a Nebraska farmer named Ben Kuroki volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps. He would become the first Japanese-American war hero, surviving 58 missions as an aerial gunner over Europe, North Africa and Japan. Between his tours of duty he would find himself at the center of controversy - a lone spokesman against the racism faced by the thousands of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps.
Through interviews and rare, never-before-seen film, Most Honorable Son tells of one man's remarkable journey through World War Two, while providing context to two seemingly disparate histories - the US air war and the Japanese-American experience.
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- Next Exit - Bone Hunter
- Runtime
- 3:47
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Are ghosts always human? Loren Eiseley didn't think so. Eiseley is one of the greatest nature writers of the 20th century. He was born in Lincoln and the years he spent as a bone hunter in Western Nebraska and South Dakota inspired many of his most unforgettable essays.
In this segment from "Reflections of a Bonehunter" we explore a landscape haunted by strange mammals that roamed Nebraska long before the first humans arrived.
For more information, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/extras/nextexit/stories_ghosts.htm
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- The Price of Water
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Visit netNebraska.org/priceofwater
Nebraska has been called the "Saudi Arabia of Water."
For most of us, we don't think about where our water comes from when we turn on the tap. We just know clean, clear water is there whenever we need it.
"The Price of Water" explores how Nebraskans are connected to this resource that supports our lives, examines where our water comes from, who uses it and for what purposes, and what people are doing to sustain Nebraska's water for the future.
Segments include the formation of the Ogallala Aquifer and the connection between ground and surface water; the development of the Platte River; the effect of ancient drought in the Sand Hills; how water supports farmers, city folks and nature; and what is being done to protect this vital, limited resource.
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- On the Frontline: Nebraskans at War in Iraq
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- For more program clips, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/extras/onthefrontline/.
Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers spent a year fighting in the "Sunni Triangle" city of Ramadi. They ran hundreds of missions on "Route Michigan," a dangerous stretch of highway called "The Gauntlet." These are their videos and their stories in their own words.
Experience Iraq through their eyes, watch "On the Frontline: Nebraskans at War in Iraq."
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- NET Logo
- Runtime
- 0:06
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- NET logo
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- Saving Nebraska's Treasures
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- In attics and garages, underneath beds, piled in corners, or just closeted away, our heritage is slowly but surely disintegrating. This NET Television program will provide practical and effective methods to help ensure that artifacts, photographs, and documents will survive into the future.
For more information visit http://www.netnebraska.org/treasures
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- Creighton Basketball Half-Time Interview
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- 4:58
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Watch as Creighton Junior, Nick Bahe sits down with team leader, Nate Funk. Bahe, a sports broadcast hopeful, conducts an interview that is far from short on laughs!
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- Every year 80% of the world's Sandhill cranes make their way through a 75-mile stretch of Nebraska
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- The sun rises across central Nebraska. As another spring day gradually comes to life, hundreds of thousands of temporary residents make their presence known through sound.
Every year some 80 percent of the world's Sandhill cranes make their way through a 75-mile stretch of Nebraska's central Platte River Valley on their spring migration.
"Crane Song" weaves together striking visuals and majestic sounds of the birds' journey with the stories and insights of the individuals who observe these creatures, as well as landowners endeavoring to ensure a habitat that is welcoming to the cranes.
Watch the entire documentary at https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/series-media/non-series-video/crane-song-41084915.
© 2006 Nebraska Public Media Foundation. All rights reserved
Production of "Crane Song" made possible by the Elizabeth Rubendall Foundation, the Theodore G. Baldwin Foundation, Sandhills Publishing, Chief Industries, ...
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- At Close Range with National Geographic
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "At Close Range with National Geographic", check your local listings for times and date. For more information, visit www.pbs.org/atcloserange.
"National Geographic Magazine" photographer Joel Sartore shoots in some of the most exotic locales on earth, but often in wretched conditions for weeks on end, and always under pressure to produce pictures worthy of publication in a legendary magazine. He often wonders if it's the best job in the world, or the worst. "At Close Range with National Geographic" provides a rare glimpse of the havoc a tough, dangerous job can create for one's personal life, especially for someone like Joel Sartore.
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- Deafening Sound - Guns Go Boom
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Gunfire noise can produce up to 180 decibels in milliseconds, a fact sometimes overlooked by recreational hunters. Noises above 140 dB are usually considered to be highly dangerous to human ears, and repeated exposure to noise at this level virtually guarantees hearing loss over time.
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- Deafening Sound - Even Toys Can Hurt
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- Just take the time to put your children's sound-producing toys up to your ears for a minute, then honk, squeeze, push, pull or press to get that sound out of the toy and into your ear. Not so bad?? Okay, now cuddle the toy, like your child might, putting the source of the sound next to your ear. Surprised? 130 decibels or more can cause immediate hearing loss in your child.
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- Deafening Sound - Noise in the City
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- It's not just rock 'n roll. The street noise in a city can be over 90 decibels. That's enough to cause hearing loss through long exposure. This segment listens to the sounds of New York City and explains how just being there can lead to hearing loss.
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- Deafening Sound - How Hearing Works
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- How we hear sounds, and why we loose our hearing over time. Too much noise can temporarily tire hair cells, cutting down signals to the brain. Usually this corrects itself, but repeated exposure to loud noise can leave you with permanent high tone loss and sometimes chronic ringing called tinnitus, a condition that affects tens of millions of Americans.
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- Deafening Sound - How Loud is Too Loud?
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- How loud do sounds have to be to cause hearing loss? Not as loud as you think. This segment explains how loud sounds cause hearing loss.
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- Deafening Sound - International Sound Off
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Journey with "Deafening Sound" to the 1999 International Sound-Off in Kansas City, Missouri, where cars and drivers compete for highest volume, not speed.
This particular car show is considered the Super Bowl of car audio. Proud owners take cars weighing just over a ton at purchase and load them down with so many sound-producing components, and so much heavy-duty steel plating, that by the time the boom car of their dreams is finished, it may end up weighting as much as three tons.
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- Next Exit - Delco Farm Lighting
- Runtime
- 4:37
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- "Delco Farm Lighting". In Silver Creek, Nebraska, in 1918, Delco Lighting Distributor William Lomam privately financed a film showing the wonders of electricity in rural Nebraska. The completed film, printed on tinted stock to give everything a warm "electric" glow, was only shown publicly twice once locally and once at the national Delco Lighting convention. The film shows real life town and farm living in 1918, all focused around the glory of electricity. The film is from the collection of The Nebraska State Historical Society.
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- Next Exit - Building Bombs on the Plains
- Runtime
- 5:40
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Building Bombs on the Plains." In 1942, the US Navy built a 45 million dollar ammo depot in Hastings, Nebraska to make 40% of all ammunition used in the Pacific. The 2000 African-American sailors, commanded by African-American "acting" officers, faced "deep south" style discrimination. Official Navy history omits much of the story of the Hastings depot, but Yeoman and "acting" Lieutenant Willie Tripp tells us about "The Negro Ordinance Battalion". For more information about the Battalion visit Nebraskastudies.org.
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- Next Exit - Nebraska's Earliest Western Movie
- Runtime
- 4:11
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- In 1915, the Black Hills Feature Film Company of Chadron, Nebraska made Nebraska's first western movie. Titled, "Wild Bill and Calamity Jane in the Days of '75 and '76", it told of the love triangle between Jane, Wild Bill, and Jack McCall. Shot using local talent, the real star of the film was the unspoiled panorama of the Nebraska prairie and bluffs.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - George Segal
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Times Square at Night" (1970). At Joslyn Art Museum, "Times Square at Night" is George Segal's tribute to urban life. Segal, a pop art icon of the 1960s, celebrates routine daily moments as extraordinary cultural expressions. His trademark is crafting plaster castings of real human figures - molded upon friends and acquaintances - and juxtaposing them in mixed media tableaus to reflect his view of urban lifestyle. Times Square at Night depicts a busy, yet lonely street, highlighted by ghostly castings of two isolated men.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Martin Puryear
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "The Nightmare" (2001-2002). Martin Puryear's massive wooden sculpture, The Nightmare, is primitive and modern, familiar yet mysterious. Puryear's art is inspired by the clash between the traditional Africa he experience in the Peace Corps and his upbringing as an African-American in urban Washington, DC. He has handcrafted red cedar into the shape of a calabash gourd used as a water vessel by indigenous tropical Americans. The Nightmare is an art treasure of Nebraska at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Claes Oldenburg
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
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- "Torn Notebook" (1992-1996). "Torn Notebook" is the pop art masterpiece of sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's sculpture garden. The monumental sculpture celebrates lifelong learning, and it appears to interact with nature -- its ripped pages blowing in the wind. And the spiral binding -- bent back in a swirl -- resembles a tornado spinning across the Plains. Pages fluttering like birds in flight evoke poetry in motion -- each containing handwritten phrases reflecting the artists' impressions of Nebraska life.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Jacob Lawrence
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Paper Boats" (1949). Vibrant colors and social overtones shade Jacob Lawrence's Paper Boats. At first glance, the scene appears playful - three men sailing paper boats on a street. But a closer look suggests another scenario. The men are slumped over and their faces express sadness or hopelessness. Lawrence grew up in poverty and was largely self-trained in the arts. But he achieved fame at age 21, using bold colors and angular forms to depict scenes of African-American history. "Paper Boats" captures the Harlem experience, and it's an art treasure of Nebraska at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Native American Clothing
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Sioux, Omaha, Kiowa. A Sioux dress with ornate beading is typical of traditional Lakota ceremonial clothing worn during the reservation era. And this Omaha hide jacket is said to have belonged to Logan Fontenelle, who accompanied a delegation of tribal leaders that signed the government treaty establishing the Omaha Reservation. The jacket shows the dynamic nature of native culture, combining traditional materials and methods with Euro-American tailoring and trade goods. And these Kiowa tennis shoes marry traditional techniques to contemporary materials and uses. The Native American adaptations are art treasures of Nebraska at Joslyn Art Museum.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Edward Hopper
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Room in New York" (1932). This scene is of detached solitude - a man hunched over in an easy chair, intently reading a newspaper, while a woman, turned away from him, sits stiffly at a piano and striking a key as if to break an awkward silence. The couple's alienation is heightened by a table and door that separate them and lighting that casts shadows on their featureless faces. Scholars consider Room in New York a quintessential painting by Hopper and an art treasure of Nebraska at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Sheila Hicks
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Menhir II" (1969-85). Menhir II hangs in a forest pattern of 23 separate fiber strands to compliment its Old French Breton definition "standing" stone. The long strands are hand-wrapped and spliced linen fibers, with bright colored wool and cotton used as binding elements. Draped from the ceiling, the linens gather and cascade onto the floor. Hicks' linear textile sculpture is an art treasure of Nebraska at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Robert Henri
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Portrait of Miss Eulabee Dix in a Wedding Gown" (1910). At first glance, the life-sized painting seems an elegant tribute to a radiant bride. Dix's attire is majestic -- a dazzling white wedding dress dominates the painting. But Henri -- called the Monet of Manhattan - believed that portraits should reveal character rather than glorifying vanity. And Dix's expression is in contrast to the joyous occasion. Henri's portrait is an art treasure of Nebraska at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Lilian Westcott Hale
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "The Convalescent" (1912). A dreamy feeling pervades Lilian Westcott Hale's impressionist masterpiece, The Convalescent, at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Loose brushwork, warm coloring, and graceful composition direct our attention to the painting's only detail - the alluring face of Rose Zeffler, a friend of the artist, who appears to be relaxing in bed. Her distant, empty gaze suggests she is lost in thought.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Aaron Douglas
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Portrait of a Young Man" (1960). In 1922, Douglas was the first African-American to earn a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Nebraska. Just two years later, he was taking a leadership role in the cultural awakening of African-Americans in New York's Harlem Renaissance. Creating bold and dignified imagery of people, places and scenes of routine African-American life, Douglas' paintings celebrated black history and culture. In the charcoal, Portrait of a Young Man, Douglas displays a simple and pensive pose that captures the essence of the style that established him as the Father of African-American Art...and it's an art treasure of Nebraska at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Edgar Degas
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Little Dancer, Fourteen Years Old (1920-1921)". Degas was enamored with the world of ballet, recording all aspects of backstage activities. In selecting novice Marie van Goethem as his model, Degas violated accepted artistic practices of portraying prima ballerinas in performance settings. The candid pose of a common (ordinary) dancer, adorned with a real hair ribbon and fabric tutu created public outrage - some calling her an ape-like affront to society. But Degas was clearly pioneering modern sculpture with his progressive creation. It's an art treasure of Nebraska at Joslyn Art Museum.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Karl Bodmer
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Mato-Tope (Four Bears) Mandan Chief (1834)" Karl Bodmer captured the character and pride of native people (and their leaders) in a series of watercolor portraits that became models for the prints that illustrated Maximilian zu Wied's book, "Travels in the Interior of North America." Bodmer's pioneering watercolors are art treasures of Nebraska at the Joslyn Art Museum.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Thomas Hart Benton
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "The Oregon Trail" (1945). Considered a visual historian for his ability to paint rural scenes with a storyteller's flair, Thomas Hart Benton transformed dramatic accounts from author Francis Parkman's 1847 book, "The Oregon Trail," into vibrant watercolors. Benton's distinctive realist style brings life to the centennial publication of Parkman's book and Benton's illustrations are art treasures of Nebraska at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
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- Art Treasures of Nebraska - Enrique Chagoya
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- "Le Cannibale Moderniste" (1999). In this visually stunning painting, Chagoya cannibalizes imagery from Aztec, American, European and Asian art to challenge our views about global politics and the exploitation of indigenous people. The result is a thought-provoking experience about multiculturalism. From the collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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- Next Exit - Missile Love
- Runtime
- 5:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- What does your dream house look like? How about an Atlas-E nuclear missile silo? This Nebraska couple has transformed a relic of the cold war into their 15,000 square foot dream house. We'll take a look inside at the renovations, but we'll have to knock hard. The front door weighs forty seven tons.
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- Next Exit - Bus Trip
- Runtime
- 4:44
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The local bank-sponsored bus trip offered a ride through Central Nebraska. The youngest passenger on the bus discovers not only the beauty of several central Nebraska small towns, but also learns a lesson from her bus co-horts on how to be truly young at heart and enjoy the simple beauty of a day away.
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- Next Exit - Beat
- Runtime
- 4:39
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- BEAT is the Nebraska version of the Broadway show "Stomp" and the East Coast has nothing on Midwest! BEAT stands for the Bijot Ensemble of Acoustic Troubadours. Kim Bijot is the teacher, and for her students it's a transformative experience.
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- Next Exit - Los Vaqueros
- Runtime
- 5:10
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The Spanish influence on American culture goes far beyond what many might think. The vaqueros or Spanish cowboys as the gringos may call them have possessed some of the most remarkable skills, in roping, branding, and rounding up cattle. See a new perspective on an old American tradition in this segment of Next Exit.

