Brosseau Center for Learning: First-Year Seminars
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Brosseau Center for Learning: First-Year Seminars
Ryan Clasby, curator
October 13, 2026–November 8, 2026
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This installation features works from the Spencer’s collection Global Indigenous art that support several KU courses designed for first-year students.
Works of art
unrecorded Bora artist
painting on bark cloth,
late 1800s–1985
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
joni chomo (human-shaped liquid storage jar),
1956–1970
unrecorded Iyo'wujwa Chorote speaking artist
eite wake Ɂu (fire starting kit),
late 1800s–1976
backstrap loom with partially completed weaving,
late 1800s–1991
llama figure,
late 1800s–1965
unrecorded Valley Zapotec artist
Hubert Koonuk
baleen basket with lid,
circa 1972
Monica Cairuna Picota
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
joni chomo (human-shaped liquid storage jar),
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
necklace with pendant,
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
beads,
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
kenpo (drinking bowl),
1956–1970
cupisnique stirrup-spout bottle (replica),
mid 1900s
Rosalba Bereca
doll in ceremonial regalia depicting a parrot,
date unknown
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
tonkon ati (fiesta drinking container),
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
ani shrëati maiti (puberty ceremony crown),
1956–1968
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
body paint roller stamp,
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
wino (sword club),
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
winti (canoe oar),
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
shinitapon (pipe bowl),
1956–1970
unrecorded Shipibo-Konibo artist
pisha (satchel),
1956–1970