UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center are entering their second year of a cultural partnership with Joslyn Art Museum.
Created in 2005, Passport Partners offers free visual art and cultural opportunities, both at Joslyn and at the medical center campus, to employees and students of UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center. Upcoming Passport Partners events are scheduled as follows:
Friday, Jan. 6, marks the date of the first session for the 2006 series of Art Express, a drop in lunch and lecture series that provides a closer look at Joslyn’s permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. Art Express is held the first Friday of the month from noon until 12:45 p.m. Bring your lunch and meet in rooms 8807 and 8808 at The Lied Transplant Center to learn more about Joslyn’s upcoming special exhibition Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible through a DVD presentation and discussion led by Sr. Margaret Proskovec, Joslyn’s assistant curator of education and docents and school programs.
On Saturday, Jan. 21, Joslyn opens the exhibition Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible. On view through April 16, all UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center and UMA employees, students and their families receive free admission to the museum by showing their employee ID badge at Joslyn’s entrance desk. A free admission includes two adults and accompanying children during general admission hours, which are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
- More on Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible
Since March 2000, scribes and artists in Wales have been crafting the St. John’s Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible made since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. Commissioned by Saint John’s University, and under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson, one of the world’s foremost calligraphers, this contemporary rendering of a timeless religious text is an extraordinary work of artistic and historical importance. Using natural materials and techniques perfected in the Middle Ages, the St. John’s Bible also reflects our modern multicultural world and humanity’s strides in science, technology, and space exploration. While the 1,150-page manuscript is still in progress, this exhibition will feature nearly 100 pages from the first three finished volumes.
On Sunday, Jan. 22 at 1:30 p.m., Donald Jackson, artistic director and illuminator of the Saint John’s Bible, will present his slide-illustrated lecture, “Inspiration to Illumination: Collaborative Processes and The Saint John’s Bible. Jackson will offer a glimpse at the fascinating process of creating a handwritten and illuminated bible for the 21st century. The lecture will take place in Joslyn Art Museum’s Witherspoon Concert Hall and is free to all UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center employees with presentation of their employee ID badge at any Joslyn entrance.