Brosseau Center for Learning: Indigenous Art of the Americas

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Brosseau Center for Learning: Indigenous Art of the Americas
Brosseau Center for Learning: Indigenous Art of the Americas
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The works on display here were selected for the 2022 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, September 7-10th. These works represent just a small cross section of the geographic and temporal breadth of the Spencer Museum of Art’s collection of Indigenous arts from the Americas.

Works of art

unrecorded Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit) artist, female doll
unrecorded Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit) artist
1800s
unrecorded Cowichan artist, basket
unrecorded Cowichan artist
late 1800s–1926
owl figure
late 1800s–1953
Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Rabbit Eating Seaweed II
Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013)
1999
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (born 1989); Women's Studio Workshop (founded 1974), Ul'nigid' (Strong)
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (born 1989); Women's Studio Workshop (founded 1974)
2020
Marisol Teucama (active late 1900s–early 2000s), basket with bird motif
Marisol Teucama (active late 1900s–early 2000s)
1980–1999
unrecorded Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit) artist, male doll
unrecorded Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit) artist
1800s
unrecorded Cheyenne artist, pair of beaded moccasins
unrecorded Cheyenne artist
circa 1870
unrecorded Potawatomi artist, beaded headband
unrecorded Potawatomi artist
early 1930s