The Hastings College Art Gallery is showing works by Adrianne Watson (paintings on acetate and paper), Kathryn van Steenhuyse (mixed media on paper), Lindsay Jessee (graphite on paper), Shannon Bourne (painting), Victoria Goro-Rapoport (printmaking), and Deborah Dohne (sculpture) through March 8.

A reception for the artists is planned for 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays.

The Rev. Karla J. Cooper, pastor of Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lincoln, will speak at a morning of prayer service at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the French Memorial Chapel. Sigma Alpha Iota, Hastings College women's music honorary, will provide music.

Cooper serves as chaplain/coordinator of service programs at Doane College in Crete. She also is an adjunct instructor in the education department. Cooper has studied and worked throughout South India, and completed a Faith Formation and Healing Mission trip to South Africa in 2006.

Keynote speaker Mosemarie Boyd, CEO of American Women Presidents, a national organization committed to electing women presidents and vice presidents of the United States, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in French Memorial Chapel.

Boyd has appeared on CNN's "Inside Politics" and Fox's the "O'Reilly Factor." She has defended candidates such as Elizabeth Dole, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She most recently has been involved with Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Dr. Antje Anderson, associate professor of English, will speak on "Starring Estella: Dickens' 'Great Expectations' on Film," at 10 a.m. Friday in French Memorial Chapel. The ALS Invited Faculty Lecture will feature a feminist analysis of film adaptations of "Great Expectations," with an emphasis on the portrayal of the main female character, Estella Havisham.

Lauren Pelon will present "Women in Music: Someone Will Remember Us," music written for and by women, at 7:30 p.m. March 11 in Perkins Auditorium, Fuhr Hall of Music.

The program will trace the story of women in music and will include music from around the world. Pelon, from Red Wing, Minn., sings and plays about 25 ancient and modern instruments, some of which were traditionally played by women and some forbidden to women in parts of the world.

Pelon's program features original compositions and her own arrangements of music from ancient Greece, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Asia Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Her array of instruments includes lute, guitar, lute-guitar, lyre, recorders, gemhorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfiefe, shawm, racket, pennywhistles, concertina, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy, doucaine, Kiowa courting flute, synthesizers, electric wind instruments, MIDI-pedalboard and her own voice.

Pelon has performed throughout the United States and internationally, as a soloist with symphony orchestras, on television specials and on "Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion."

For more information, call the college at (402) 461-7757.