Featured in the exhibition will be a collection of pieces recently donated from the collection of Saul and Carol Rosenzweig of Beverly Hills. Among this important collection are pieces designed by well-known American artists not widely known as jewelers. Artists such as William Wiley, Red Grooms, Fletcher Benton, Joan Brown, and Lynda Benglis are represented by strikingly original works in which their own diverse aesthetic vocabularies are adapted to and translated through the medium of small-scale jewelry. Also featured in this special holiday exhibition will be the work of local artists, including the work of Judith Andre, Ray and Ila Kunc, Sydney Lynch, and Tom Wright. The full range of the aesthetic diversity of contemporary jewelry will be on display as well, with the Native American Hispanic tradition represented by a silver buckle and belt, and pieces derived from the modern age, from jewelry made from found material and plastic to a computerized battery-operated kinetic piece.
Admission is free.
Introduced by Chancellor James Moeser, the gala concert will feature solo songs on texts by Dickinson and a premier work for soprano and chamber ensemble by UNL composer Randall Snyder entitled A Route of Evanescence. Snyder has set letters and poems by Dickinson as texts for this work. Finally, the gala concert will end with choral works for women's chorus on Dickinson texts. The UNL Chorale, under the direction of Carolee Curtright, will present these works. Following the film their will be an opportunity to view articles from the Lowenberg Collection in the Music Library, located in the basement of Westbrook.