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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2016 KU Common Book

Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2016 KU Common Book

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

Display of objects from the collection in dialogue with the 2016 KU Common Book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Display includes the 2016 Common Work of Art, three prints by Willie Cole.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Willie Cole (born 1955), Man, Spirit, and Mask

Willie Cole (born 1955), Man, Spirit, and Mask

Willie Cole (born 1955), Man, Spirit, and Mask

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Calpurnia

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Bertha Mae

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Lula Bell

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Beginning

Kara Walker (born 1969), Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Hunt

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Chase

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Plunge

Kara Walker (born 1969); Steve Campbell, The End

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), American Gothic, Washington, D.C.

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), Malcolm X Holding up Black Muslim Newspaper, Harlem, New York

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), Auto Maintenance

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), Pilots Gambling in Ready Room

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Harlem Document 18

Roy DeCarava (1919–2009), Dancers, New York

Glenn Ligon (born 1960), untitled suite (1 of 4 prints)

Glenn Ligon (born 1960), untitled suite (1 of 4 prints)

Glenn Ligon (born 1960), untitled suite (1 of 4 prints)

Glenn Ligon (born 1960), untitled suite (1 of 4 prints)

Robert Adelman (1930–2016), James Baldwin

Robert Adelman (1930–2016), James Baldwin

Robert Adelman (1930–2016), James Baldwin

Lorna Simpson (born 1960), III

Elizabeth Catlett (1919–2012), Sharecropper

Betye Saar (born 1926); The Limited Edition Club; Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), Bookmarks in the Pages of Life

Daniel S. Williams (born 1942), Festival on the Parkway

Accra Shepp (born 1962), Occupying Wall Street - October 15, 2011

Accra Shepp (born 1962), Occupying Wall Street - December 18, 2011

Leonard Freed (1929–2006), A Young Boy Plays "Tough" in the Streets of Harlem

Kehinde Wiley (born 1977); Cerealart Projects LLC, St. Francis of Adelaide

Charles Moore (1931–2010), Birmingham Alabama policemen use police dogs during civil rights demonstrations

Charles Moore (1931–2010), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial, Montgomery, Alabama

Charles White (1918–1979), Frederick Douglass

Minoru Aoki (born 1936), Stokely Carmichael

Carl Fischer (1924–2023), "Edward A. Oquendo, co-initiator of B.A.N.D. (Blacks Against Negative Dying)"

Andy Warhol (1928–1987); Wadsworth Atheneum, Race Riot

United Press International (founded 1907); Robert L. Greger (1939–2013), "In New York, a policeman attempts to remove a Negro demonstrating against racial discrimination"

Adrian Piper (born 1948), Calling card, "Dear Friend, I am Black..."

Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, John Brown figure

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), At the Time of the Louisville Flood

Joe Schwartz (1913–2013), Promises, Promises

Alison Saar (born 1956); Vinalhaven Press (active 1985–1999), Blue Plate Special

Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900–1980), By Parties Unknown