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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2017-18 KU Common Book

August 15, 2017–September 10, 2017

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

Selections related to the 2017-18 KU Common Book, Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Somewhere in the South, 1946-49, City bus, Marion Palfi — Marion Palfi

Somewhere in the South, 1946-49, City bus, 1946–1949

Irwinton, 1949, Wife of the victim ("Caleb was a good man . . . he believed in his rights and therefore he dies." Wife of the Victim), Marion Palfi — Marion Palfi

Irwinton, 1949, Wife of the victim ("Caleb was a good man . . . he believed in his rights and therefore he dies." Wife of the Victim), 1949

untitled, Charles Rodrigues — Charles Rodrigues

untitled, circa 1972

Joe Louis, Art Kane — Art Kane

Joe Louis, circa 1962

Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama, Arthur Rothstein — Arthur Rothstein

Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1937

untitled, Peter Sekaer; Edmund Yankov — Peter Sekaer; Edmund Yankov

untitled, 1936

Harlem Document, Aaron Siskind — Aaron Siskind

Harlem Document, 1940

Harlem Document 24, Aaron Siskind — Aaron Siskind

Harlem Document 24, 1939

Polly, December 14, 1985, Debbie Fleming Caffery — Debbie Fleming Caffery

Polly, December 14, 1985, 1985

Man Peeking from Manhole, Harlem, Gordon Parks — Gordon Parks

Man Peeking from Manhole, Harlem, 1952

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), Glenn Ligon — Glenn Ligon

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), 1992

Front, Lesley Dill; Landfall Press — Lesley Dill; Landfall Press

Front, 1994

Calling card, "Dear Friend, I am Black...", Adrian Piper — Adrian Piper

Calling card, "Dear Friend, I am Black...", circa 2001

"In New York, a policeman attempts to remove a Negro demonstrating against racial discrimination", United Press International; Robert L. Greger — United Press International; Robert L. Greger

"In New York, a policeman attempts to remove a Negro demonstrating against racial discrimination", circa 1963

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), Glenn Ligon — Glenn Ligon

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), 1992

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), Glenn Ligon — Glenn Ligon

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), 1992

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), Glenn Ligon — Glenn Ligon

untitled suite (1 of 4 prints), 1992

"I think there should be more of US in this school!", Elmer Simms Campbell — Elmer Simms Campbell

"I think there should be more of US in this school!", mid 1900s

K Form, William Christenberry — William Christenberry

K Form, 1997

Magenta Colored Girl, Carrie Mae Weems — Carrie Mae Weems

Magenta Colored Girl, 1989

Events

March 6, 2018

Talk

An Evening with Alexandra Bell

5:30–7:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Auditorium, 309