Soundings: Making Culture at Sea

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
Celka Straughn, curator
Emily C. Casey, curator
August 12, 2025–December 14, 2025
Galleries 315 and 316, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Featuring works of art and material culture made in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia, this exhibition shows how in the past and present the world’s oceans are a space for cross-cultural reflections on the relationship between humans and the earth.

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Events

August 24, 2025
Talk
Museum Highlights
2:00–3:00PM
September 4, 2025
Talk
Conversation 6: Migration of Art and Artists
5:30–6:30PM
September 6, 2025
Activity
Map Making
1:00–4:00PM
September 11, 2025
Talk
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
5:30–6:30PM
September 13, 2025
Activity
Map Making
1:00–4:00PM
September 17, 2025
Talk
POSTPONED TO NOV. 19 - Imaq: Maritime Making in Inuit Art Histories
5:30–6:45PM
September 18, 2025
Social
Friends of the Art Museum Fall Reception
5:30–7:00PM
September 25, 2025
Social
Chorus of Voices
4:00–6:00PM
September 26, 2025
Activity
Family Weekend Open House
1:30–4:30PM
September 28, 2025
Talk
Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
2:00–3:00PM
November 6, 2025
Talk
The Useful Stars: The Night Sky as Calendar, Navigational Aid, and Cultural Repository
6:00–7:00PM
November 9, 2025
Performance
Migration and Movement: String Quartet
3:00–4:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art
November 13, 2025
Talk
Soundings Student Perspectives
10:15–11:00AM
November 14, 2025
Tour
Student Tour of Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
12:00–1:00PM
November 16, 2025
Tour
Student Tour of Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
1:00–2:00PM
November 16, 2025
Talk
Cloud Shadows
2:00–3:00PM
November 19, 2025
Talk
Imaq: Maritime Making in Inuit Art Histories
5:30–6:45PM
November 20, 2025
Activity
Trivia Night at the Spencer
5:00–7:00PM

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