Brosseau Center for Learning: Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Brosseau Center for Learning: Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book
Brosseau Center for Learning: Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, curator
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Cultivating Reciprocity, an installation that explores connections between the Museum’s collection and the KU Common Book, —“Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is organized into three themes: Indigenous origin and creation stories, the gift of plants, and the history of education for Indigenous peoples.

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Works of art

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Lawrence Lithography Workshop
1995
Molly Murphy Adams
2004
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Lawrence Lithography Workshop
2000
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
late 1800s–1917
unrecorded Coast Salish artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Saanich artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Tlingit artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Northwest Coast artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
1976
David V. Lee
late 1900s
David V. Lee
late 1900s
unrecorded Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) or Mi'kmaq (Micmac) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Haida artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
Orville John Green
1899–1904
Orville John Green
1899–1904
Minnie S. Foster
mid 1900s–1993
unrecorded Kotyit (Cochiti) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
late 1800s–1935
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
late 1800s–1930
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
Madaline Paul
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) artist
late 1800s–1926
unrecorded Musqueam artist
late 1800s–1926
Herbert Ben Sr.
1974
Fah Ambers
circa 1976
Matthew Baker
circa 2000–2005
Andrea Carlson, Highpoint Center for Printmaking
2019
Norman Akers
2019
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
early 1900s
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Women's Studio Workshop
2020
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928