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Brosseau Center for Learning: Remembrance: Reflections from the Día de Muertos

Brosseau Center for Learning: Remembrance: Reflections from the Día de Muertos

Kate Meyer, curator

Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This installation primarily features Mexican and Chicanx art from the collection concerning mortality, memorial, remembrance, Día de Muertos, and the borderlands.

Works of art

papel picado (cut-paper work)

Francisco Toledo (1940–2019), Calcetines de Cuadros (Checkered Socks)

Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Zapata

Graciela Iturbide (born 1942), Nuestra señora de las iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas)

Carlos Mérida (1891–1985), Mestiza--Estado de Yucatán

Luis Alfonso Jimenez (1940–2006); Lawrence Lithography Workshop (active 1998–2001), El Buen Pastor (The Good Shepherd)

Enrique Chagoya (born 1953), Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien's Survival Guide

"remember me" mug

Alba Matias de Victoria, picture frame

Tom Kiefer (born 1959), Satisfies!

Tom Kiefer (born 1959), Water Bottles

Mario Martinez (born 1953); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Jack Lemon (circa 1935); Steve Campbell; Sarah Pavlus; Marion Karl, Scottsdale Yaquis: Generations

standing skeleton figure

Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1968), Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada

Carlos Mérida (1891–1985), Papantla--Estado de Veracruz

Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1968), Lo que no debe venir (That Which Must Not Come)

miniature offering table

Noche de Muertos bordado (Night of the Dead embroidery)

Tom Kiefer (born 1959), Inside Cover

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002), Day of All Dead

Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), Fête des Morts, Mexico (Day of the Dead, Mexico)

papel picado (cut-paper work)

José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), Rebumbio de Calaveras (Skeletons in a Hubbub)

Michael Menchaca (born 1985); Overpass Projects, Gotta Catch 'Em All!

Enrique Chagoya (born 1953), El Regreso del Canibal Macrobiotico (The Return of the Macrobiotic Cannibal)

Felipe Linares (born 1936), Catrina figure

Pablo Ayson, miniature altar

Tom Kiefer (born 1959), Nuevos Testamentos

Christopher Cardinale; Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999), Primo Tapia de la Cruz

Luis Alfonso Jimenez (1940–2006); Segura Publishing, Dance with Death: Baile con La Talaca

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