Inventing Childhood
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Inventing Childhood
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Gallery 404, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition explores how children have been intellectually, philosophically, and practically treated differently across time and across cultures. Inventing Childhood acknowledges that the range of cultural conceptions of childhood is incredibly diverse; some works reveal an artist’s own memories of childhood, while other works speak to the cultural expectations of young people.
Exhibition images
Works of art
Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) (active 1982–2017)
2001
Elisabeth Pitcher
1720
circa 1800
Betty Evans
1809
Leah Townsend
1815
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
1920s–1930s
circa 1913
Janna Faro
1770
Mary Ann Melten
1800
Sarah Mills
circa 1800
Polly Hix (1819–1898)
1834
Roza Jaso
1820–1860
Rosa Andreu (1800s)
1846
circa 1800, Edo period (1600–1868)
circa 1802, Edo period (1600–1868)
circa 1950
late 1400s–early 1500s
Filippo da Verona (active 1509–1514)
early 1500s
Samuel Bell Waugh (1814–1885)
1843
1800s, Edo period (1600–1868) or Meiji period (1868–1912)
mid 1500s
circa 1896–1897
Martha Mynott
1844
1890
circa 1908
unrecorded Chokwe artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Chokwe artist
late 1800s–1914
unrecorded Cheyenne artist
late 1800s
unrecorded Cree artist
early 1900s
unrecorded Cheyenne artist
late 1800s–1912
unrecorded Cheyenne artist
early 1900s
unrecorded Cheyenne artist
late 1800s–1925
unrecorded Oyo artist
mid 1900s
unrecorded Lakota artist
late 1800s–1925
unrecorded Wazhazhe (Osage) artist
early 1900s
Melania Mazinyani
1988–1996
unrecorded Kuba artist
1900s
unrecorded Makonde artist
mid 1900s
Events
October 30, 2016
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 404, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony