Spencer Museum of Art

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We are a museum at the University of Kansas with two floors of galleries and a collection that represents different types of art from around the world. Admission is free for everyone!

Colorful painting with dense, cartoon style imagery including sushi, a teapot, a woman’s face, a map of Japan, and objects with Japanese writing

Looking After:

Art and Care in Education Across Kansas

Explore the many ways that art can facilitate learning through more than 80 works from our collection and interactive stations.

Color photograph of various green plants and white and red flowers with a face in the center and multiple hands covered in white lines protruding

Christian Thompson: Future Ancestor

Future Ancestor presents two photographs and one video work by Australian artist Christian Thompson that explore language preservation and cultural survival.

Abstract sculpture made of reeds woven together; a yellow hourglass shape rests above two blue wheels, both attached to a circular base covered small red flags

A Conversation with Nathalie Miebach

Artist Nathalie Miebach, whose art is featured in the Looking After exhibition, discusses how she transforms data into sculptures.

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Print of a pink starfish-like creature with a single eye in its center; on the right half the pink surface is missing, revealing its complex organs

Alien Forms / Future Worlds

Explore how artists across time, media, and geography imagine the unknown.

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Events

September 10

Social

Graduate Student Reception: Looking After and Looking Toward

4:00–6:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art

September 12

Activity

Art Cart: Animal Portraits

1:00–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Long Ellis Gallery

September 13

Tour

Museum Highlights

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Loo Gallery

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Louis Lozowick (1892–1973), New York (Brooklyn Bridge)

Louis Lozowick (1892–1973)

New York (Brooklyn Bridge)

1923

Abraham van der Schoor (active 1643–1657), A Musical Party

Abraham van der Schoor (active 1643–1657)

A Musical Party

1657

Wendell Castle (1932–2018), Nirvana (chair)

Wendell Castle (1932–2018)

Nirvana (chair)

2007

unrecorded Chokwe artist, ngunja (carved chair)

unrecorded Chokwe artist

ngunja (carved chair)

1908–1914

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