Empowerment
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Empowerment
Susan Earle, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
Gallery 405, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Empowerment explores ways that art can speak to, question, and subvert various forms of social, institutional, and individual power.
Exhibition images
Works of art
簪 kanzashi (hair ornament),
late 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
unrecorded Chokwe artist
men's comb,
late 1800s–1914
unrecorded Hawazma artist
hair pick with Black fist,
circa 1979
Ada Bosin
Hollis Sigler
David V. Lee
Mother Earth,
late 1900s
Chizuko Yoshida
Michael Mxakaza
Max H. Gerbier
End of Day,
circa 1970
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
woven food cover,
1982
Richard Emile Miller
La Toilette,
circa 1910
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Green and Gold,
circa 1910
Studio of Domenico and Valore Casini
Maria Maddalena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany,
1610–1628
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Pia de' Tolomei,
1868–1880
Stephens
Portrait of Charlotte Sullivan,
1940–1975
Roger Shimomura
Sansei Woman,
1980
Bernard Séjourné
Asefi (enough daughters),
1975
Beatrice Mandelman
Thomas Hart Benton
Ivan Meštrović
Shepherd,
1908–1911
Ivan Meštrović
The Muse of Music,
early-mid 1800s
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Achilles Discovered with the Daughters of Lycomedes,
early 1700s
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Harry Bertoia
untitled (sounding sculpture),
circa 1968
Ruth Harris Bohan
Hilda and Studio Light,
1935
Elizabeth Murray
Chaotic Lip,
1986
Augusta Savage
Portrait of Hugh Samson,
circa 1939–1940
Joyce J. Scott
Caffeine,
1994–1999
Richard Mawdsley
Alpha-Omega: Water Tower #5,
1995–1999
Petah Coyne
Untitled #751 (Craig's Piece),
1992–1993
Wendell Castle
Hanging in the Balance,
2002
Albert Bloch
Frieze for a Music Room,
1915
Clementine Hunter
untitled (scenes of life),
circa 1958
unrecorded Bini artist
commemorative head of an Iyoba (Queen Mother),
late 1800s–1975
Luke Watson
totem pole,
1937
Nampeyo of Hano
jar,
early 1900s
Teresita Romero
mother and child figure,
late 1900s–1979
Teresita Romero
skeleton with guitar,
1985–1995
Teresita Romero
skeleton with clarinet,
1985–1995
Teresita Romero
skeleton with guitar,
1985–1995
Teresita Romero
skeleton with accordion,
1985–1995
Margaret Trujillo
storyteller figure,
circa 1979
Fannie Nampeyo
pot,
1950s
unrecorded Igbo artist
udu (pot-drum),
1925–1990
Kehinde Wiley; Cerealart Projects LLC
St. Francis of Adelaide,
2006
Frantz Beauvoir
Erzuli as Piper,
1974
Salnave Philippe-Auguste
Colère (Anger),
1974
Edith Stephane
mother and children,
circa 1970
Moke Fils
Felicia Fragua Curley
coyote storyteller figure,
late 1900s
June Pino Cheromiah
olla with flute player designs,
circa 1990s
Frances Suina
male storyteller figure,
circa 1970s
Du Kun
Marjorie Schick
Night Bloom,
2003
Rachel Namingha Nampeyo
jar with migration pattern,
mid-late 1900s
Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo
seed jar,
mid-late 1900s
Nampeyo of Hano; Annie Healing Nampeyo (Queuchawa)
bowl,
circa 1915–1920
Hisi Quotskuyva Nampeyo
bowl,
late 1900s
Ulrick Jean-Pierre
Marie Laveau,
2018
Ryan RedCorn
Otto Dix
self-portraits,
1914
Frederick William MacMonnies
Pan of Rohallion,
cast 1894, modeled 1890
unrecorded Chokwe artist
sansa (thumb piano),
late 1800s–1914
Yelimane Fall
David V. Lee
Father Sky,
late 1900s
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
Yei rug,
1940s–1950s
Grant Wood
Near Sundown,
1933
David Teniers II
The Deluge,
circa 1655
Robert Carston Arneson
Forge,
1984
Kay WalkingStick
Winter Flight,
1988–1989
Elva Nampeyo
bowl,
1930
unrecorded Bini artist
oba (king) figure,
mid-late 1900s
Angelica Kauffman
Elaine de Kooning
Arena,
1959
Benjamin West
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Portrait of a Young Boy,
circa 1782
John Singer Sargent
Arlie Regier
Prairie Steelscape,
1995
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
Le Parc,
1915
Tom Knechtel
Diaspora,
1987
Tom Knechtel
hairpin (kanzashi) with turtle,
Edo period (1600–1868)
Richard Fool Bull
pib-be-gwun (flute),
circa 1971
Gilbert Minthorn
purification whistle,
mid 1900s
Fah Ambers
Hamatsa whistle (metses),
circa 1976
Fah Ambers
fife,
circa 1860
Reliable Brothers
ceramic flute,
mid 1900s
The Clarke Tinwhistle Company
penny whistle,
mid 1900s
Johannes Adler
alto recorder,
mid 1900s
George Cloos
flute in C,
late 1800s
George Cloos
piccolo in D,
mid 1800s
George Cloos
fluier (flute),
late 1800s–1994
George Cloos
dvojnice (shepherd's flute),
circa 1963
George Cloos
sylfa floyte (flute),
mid-late 1900s
George Cloos
rondador (flute),
circa 1970
unrecorded Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) artist
ohe hano ihu,
circa 1970
unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist
didgeridoo,
mid-late 1900s
unrecorded Abelam artist
crop blessing flute,
mid 1900s
unrecorded Tonga artist
nyele (horn),
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Tonga artist
walking stick flute,
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Tonga artist
flute,
late 1800s–1987
unrecorded Tonga artist
flute,
1960s
unrecorded Tonga artist
slompret (trumpet) with mouthpiece,
1975–1985
unrecorded Tonga artist
flute,
1900s
unrecorded Tonga artist
cross flute,
circa 1961
unrecorded Tonga artist
dizi (flute),
circa 1970
unrecorded Tonga artist
shakuhachi (flute),
late 1800s–1977
unrecorded Tonga artist
miniature painting of Krishna with milkmaids,
early 1900s
Jorge Daher Guerra
serpent shaped triple vertical whistle,
1950–1971
Jorge Daher Guerra
tarka,
circa 1969
Jorge Daher Guerra
nay,
mid 1900s
Juan Palomino
quena,
mid-late 1900s
Louise Nevelson
Melania Mazinyani
Child Taken by Mermaid,
1988–1996
unrecorded Achomawi, Northern Maidu, or Shasta artist
basket,
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
basket,
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
basket,
mid 1900s
unrecorded Musqueam artist
berry basket,
late 1800s–early 1900s
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
cloth with fish design,
1981
Andreas Michel
lobed cup with floral engravings,
circa 1620
Andreas Michel
chasse reliquary,
mid 1200s
Andreas Michel
布団じ futonji (bed cover),
early 1900s, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Andreas Michel
standing bearded pleurant or prophet,
circa 1390–1400
Andreas Michel
one of two huipil panels,
1916
Andreas Michel
one of two huipil panels,
1916
Andreas Michel
prayer mat or household furnishing,
early 1900s
Events
March 26, 2023
Performance
1:00–2:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 405 Michaelis Gallery
April 22, 2023
Activity
1:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 405 Michaelis Gallery
October 6, 2023
Tour
11:00–11:50AM
Spencer Museum of Art, 315 Long Ellis Gallery, 316 Simons Gallery, 317 Perkins Central Court, 401 Loo Gallery, 405 Michaelis Gallery, 406 Stewart Gallery, 407 Kress Gallery
November 19, 2023
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 407 Kress Gallery
November 30, 2023
Tour
1:00–2:15PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 315 Long Ellis Gallery, 316 Simons Gallery, 317 Perkins Central Court, 401 Loo Gallery, 405 Michaelis Gallery, 406 Stewart Gallery, 407 Kress Gallery
December 14, 2023
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, 405 Michaelis Gallery
February 13, 2024
Talk
12:30–1:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 405 Michaelis Gallery
February 29, 2024
Performance
5:30–7:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
June 24, 2024
Activity
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 401 Loo Gallery, 405 Gallery, 406 Stewart Gallery, 407 Kress Gallery
September 12, 2024
Social
4:00–6:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi St
October 11, 2024
Activity
2:30–3:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 405 Michaelis Gallery
October 17, 2024
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, 409 Lee Study Center
July 24, 2025
Talk
10:15–11:00AM