The School of Natural Resources is hosting an Arts for Conservation Night, featuring “Time and the River,” the Platte Basin Timelapse project, community conservation art and silent auction beginning at 6 p.m. Nov. 21 in Hardin Hall.
The event will open with a gallery-style show, featuring conservation and scientific photography, video, drawings and more. The show will be followed by a viewing at 7 p.m. of “Time and the River,” a multi-media work of chamber music and Platte Basin Timelapse photography.
A panel discussion about arts and conservation will follow with Bob Kuzelka, Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music president and former SNR associate professor, and Michael Forsberg, Mike Farrell and Mariah Lungren, of the Platte Basin Timelapse Project.
In conjunction with the Arts for Conservation Night, SNR will be hosting a silent auction, featuring more than 50 art prints, paintings and multi-media works from the collection of Mary Bomberger Brown, who died earlier this year.
Bomberger Brown was a well-known ornithologist and an associate professor of practice in the school. She was probably best known for her work with endangered bird populations, including Lesser Terns and Plovers in Nebraska, and for mentoring more than 75 students in pursuit of higher education degrees.
In her death, she chose to establish the Mary Bomberger Brown Scholarship Fund through the Nebraska Foundation. The scholarship is specifically for students majoring in fisheries and wildlife at the School of Natural Resources, with a sophomore standing or above, and who have a GPA of 3.55 or higher.
All money raised from the silent auction will be donated to this fund.
The community engagement event, as well as parking, are free.
