Events Calendar
Events are virtual and free unless otherwise noted. The Museum is committed to accessibility for all visitors. Our efforts are ongoing. To request an accommodation for an upcoming event, please contact the Museum in advance at spencerart@ku.edu or 785.864.4710.
April 19
Activity
BREAKS AND REPAIR: A KU COMMON BOOK & COMMON WORK OF ART EVENT
12PM
– 1PM
Register via Zoom: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocOGhqTgjEtTYXNkx4H_b7-IAs-X…
All KU students are invited to this lunchtime discussion of common themes from the KU Common Book, Educated by Tara Westover, and the KU Common Work of Art, Translated Vase by Yeesookyung. Facilitated by Meagan Patterson, Educational Psychology, and Ashley Offill, Spencer Museum of Art.
Sponsored By: Office of First Year Experience, Spencer Museum of Art, Lied Center of Kansas
April 22
Talk
SPOTLIGHT ON CARE EARTH DAY, EARTH LESSONS: PRAIRIE DIVINATION AS CLIMATE COUNSELING
11AM
– 12PM
Register here to join us via Zoom: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceyrrT8tH90G7MVJ4Zg68DeRfgt…
How might thinking with plants and animals allow us a different lens through which to see our present world and histories—and help to imagine futures? What do we learn when we seek alternative sources of wisdom, ones that resist narratives of productivity, accumulation, and disposability? How can we practice listening to our intuition, to our own heart? This session will explore and inspire the cultivation of personal and creative practices that deepen our relationships with the more-than-human persons who live with and around us. We’ll explore possibilities for collaboration through a look at the prairie divination project, a brief introduction to divination, as well as a shared practice. Led by poet and associate professor of English, Megan Kaminski.
Sponsored By: The Commons, IPSR Center for Compassionate and Sustainable Communities, The Spencer Museum of Art
April 23
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
April 24
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
April 26
Talk
TENDING TO THE BODY
4PM
– 5PM
Access the livestream at spencerart.ku.edu/iari/inquiries/tending-to-the-body
Join a conversation among artists and researchers about how to better understand and connect to our bodies through multiple perspectives. The event features MacArthur Fellows Janine Antoni, who has explored the body through sculpture, movement, and photography; and John Rich, whose work in public health focuses on violence toward African American men. They will be joined in conversation by artists Ingrid Bachmann and Dario Robleto, whose work is featured in the Museum’s exhibition “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.” This event is part of the Museum’s Integrated Arts Research Initiative inquiry for 2020–2021.
Sponsored By: Integrated Arts Research Initiative (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation), Spencer Museum of Art
April 27
Talk
FRANKLIN D. MURPHY LECTURE SERIES DALI'S DREAM OF VENUS: SEX, SURREALISM, AND EUGENICS AT THE 1939 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
7PM
– 8:30PM
Join us via YouTube youtube.com/channel/UCRJOPyODK_5UQpxza7HBAjg
Join art historian Keri Watson (University of Central Florida) for a discussion of Salvador Dalí’s pavilion “Dream of Venus” in the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The 2020–2021 Murphy Lecture Series “Intersections of Identity” series seeks to amplify the voices of scholars and artists whose work explores individual and collective identities as those intersect with notions of the body, dis/ability, gender, heritage, and race.
Sponsored By: Franklin Murphy Lecture Fund of the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, Spencer Museum of Art, KU Department of Visual Art, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence Public Library, Raven Bookstore, BLACK Lawrence
April 27
Performance
"SNOW ANGEL" AND "AS ONE"
7:30PM
– 10PM
Join us via Vimeo at vimeo.com/509026820
This free livestreamed performance by students in the KU School of Music and KU Orchestra will explore themes of identity, trauma, and resilience through two contemporary operas. “Snow Angel” by Bonnie McLarty with words by Wyatt Townley explores the reclamation of personal identity and agency following a sexual assault of the female protagonist. “As One” by Laura Kaminsky with words by Mark Campbell & Kimberly Reed traces the life experiences of a transgender protagonist named Hannah. Both operas contain mature content including violence and profanity; viewer discretion is advised. A community conversation on April 29 hosted by the Spencer Museum will provide a space to further discuss themes from the operas in relation to the exhibition “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.”
Sponsored By: KU School of Music, Lied Center of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art
April 29
Talk
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: HEALING THE BODY THROUGH ART AND OPERA
6PM
– 7:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-isqTsjHtQJn3Oc1v36KJzg70s…
This community conversation explores themes in the operas “Snow Angel” and “As One” as they relate to ideas in the Spencer Museum’s exhibition “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.” You can stream a performance of these operas for free on April 27 from 7:30-10PM CST at at https://vimeo.com/509026820. Panelists include opera co-directors Neal Long and Lily DeSett, composer Bonnie McLarty, KU Orchestra conductor Carolyn Watson, KU Associate Professor of Law Kyle Velte, and artist Dylan Mortimer. The event will include excerpts from both operas and an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.
Sponsored By: KU School of Music, Lied Center of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art
April 30
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
May 01
Talk
BODY MATTERS A CONVERSATION WITH ARTISTS ANDREW CARNIE, JUAN JOSÉ CASTAÑO-MÁRQUEZ, MARY ANNE JORDAN, NAZANIN AMIRI MEERS, AND SYDNEY PURSEL
11AM
– 12:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcO6gqT8iEtbXl3acx5FgdMmgxdK…
Moderated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the fourth in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." This final session will focus on artist Andrew Carnie's collaborative work with four regional artists that examines the non-medical effects of organ transplants and explores notions of anonymity, consent, and responsibility. In the first half, the artists introduce their work. In the second half, we invite you to join the conversation. To experience the exhibition before it closes on May 16, make a reservation to visit the galleries at https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/plan-your-visit#reservation or explore the virtual version at https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/virtual-exhibition/healing-knowing-seeing-body. This event includes live closed captions in English.
Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art
May 01
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
May 06
Talk
SPOTLIGHT ON CARE ART & WELL-BEING
11AM
– 12PM
Register here to join us via Zoom: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceyrrT8tH90G7MVJ4Zg68DeRfgt…
Casey Mesick Braun (Curator of Global Indigenous Art at the Spencer Museum of Art), and Cara Weeks Neuburger (ATR, LCPC at Sunflower Art Therapy), will co-facilitate a session that explores how art can promote well-being, adaptability, and self-care. Casey will lead a slow exploration of a newly commissioned artwork currently on view in the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body at the Spencer Museum of Art, offering an opportunity for pause, reflection, and contemplation. Cara will then guide us through an art-making activity to promote creative ways for self-care. No special materials are required.
Sponsored By: The Commons, the IPSR Center for Compassionate and Sustainable Communities, and the Spencer Museum of Art;
May 07
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
May 08
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
May 14
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence
May 15
Activity
DAYS OF CREATIVITY
1PM
– 5PM
Spencer Museum of Art
Get creative this spring with the Spencer Museum’s Days of Creativity during public hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Schedule a visit to the galleries on one of these days to experience our exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." Then take home an activity kit to continue exploring themes of health and the human body. A variety of campus and community partners will contribute to the materials in each bag. Activities will be different each week, so visit as often as you like!
Sponsored By: City of Lawrence, KU Student Senate, Unmistakably Lawrence