Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
Exhibition Overview
For decades the Spencer Museum of Art has collected prints made by visiting artists and by faculty in KU’s Department of Visual Arts, along with works from portfolio exchanges they helped organize. Six Degrees of Separation highlights previously unknown information about the circumstances leading to the creation of these prints, including both technical information and facts about the artists, their time in Kansas, or their connection to KU. Interviews with KU Visual Art faculty members Yoonmi Nam and Michael Krueger, both of whom created or helped create prints in this exhibition, greatly assisted with this research.
Globalism has made conversations about connections between seemingly disparate people and places more relevant than ever before. By bringing together this diverse selection of artworks on paper, Six Degrees of Separation brings to light the connections which bind together people separated by distance to a specific place.
The mobile app exhibition includes extended content, including additional explanations of printmaking techniques and links to multimedia.
This exhibition was curated by the 2017–18 graduate student interns: Marco Polo Camacho, Kelly Kotlinski, Ashley Offill, Reilly Shwab, Katelyn Trammell, Lesley Wheeler, Tyler York, & Pinyan Zhu.
