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
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, 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.
Exhibition images
Works of art
Molly Murphy Adams (born 1977)
2004
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
late 1900s
late 1900s
unrecorded Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) or Mi'kmaq (Micmac) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Haida artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Potawatomi artist
circa 1865
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
Fah Ambers (born 1955, active 1976–present)
circa 1976
Matthew Baker (born 1953)
circa 2000–2005
Brad Starr (born 1957, active 1995–present)
circa 2002
Andrea Carlson (born 1979); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001)
2019
2019
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
early 1900s
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (born 1989); Women's Studio Workshop (founded 1974)
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