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

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

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

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), Somewhere in the South, 1946-49, City bus

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), Irwinton, 1949, Wife of the victim ("Caleb was a good man . . . he believed in his rights and therefore he dies." Wife of the Victim)

Charles Rodrigues (1926–2004), untitled

Art Kane (1925–1995), Joe Louis

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama

Edmund Yankov; Peter Sekaer (1901–1950), untitled

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Harlem Document

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Harlem Document 24

Debbie Fleming Caffery (born 1948), Polly, December 14, 1985

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), Man Peeking from Manhole, Harlem

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

Lesley Dill (born 1950); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004), Front

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

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

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)

Elmer Simms Campbell (1906–1971), "I think there should be more of US in this school!"

William Christenberry (1936–2016), K Form

Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), Magenta Colored Girl

Events

March 6, 2018

Talk

An Evening with Alexandra Bell

5:30–7:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Auditorium, 309