Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
February 20, 2021–May 16, 2021
Galleries 315, 316, and 317, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition explores our ongoing curiosity of the human body through historic and contemporary works of art that expose the diverse ways that people have attempted to understand the human body in its many physiological, psychological, and symbolic dimensions.

Exhibition images

Works of art

藥師佛 Yaoshi fo (Medicine Buddha)
late 1500s–early 1600s, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Gōshō Mandara (Mandala of Amitābha’s Welcoming Descent)
possibly 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Elizabeth Layton (1909–1993), Fear
November 4, 1981

Events

February 5, 2021
Activity
2:30–4:00PM
Join us via Zoom by registering online at https://deptsec.ku.edu/~spencerart/forms/form/17
March 1, 2021
Activity
7:00–8:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://bit.ly/KU-VirtualZineClub
March 2, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkc-iuqT8jH9aJSohRvYOygrs5fd8mKsTS
March 16, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:30PM
Register here https://tinyurl.com/Covering-Sarah
March 23, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtceuurDIjHte4mDp0Wel4HUbG3RWo3tdo
April 2, 2021
Audience
April 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-Goqz4tGdVSIJOiY6R48uDKzUdY9uWZ
April 23, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
April 24, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
April 26, 2021
Talk
4:00–5:00PM
Access the livestream at https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/iari/inquiries/tending-to-the-body
April 27, 2021
Audience
April 27, 2021
Performance
7:30–10:00PM
Join us via Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/509026820, Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr
April 29, 2021
Audience
April 29, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-isqTsjHtQJn3Oc1v36KJzg70sZzQbY
April 30, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 1, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcO6gqT8iEtbXl3acx5FgdMmgxdK4fmMl
May 1, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
Register here to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceyrrT8tH90G7MVJ4Zg68DeRfgtyrEsH
May 7, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 8, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 14, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 15, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
November 4, 2021
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Brosseau Learning Center, 318

Resources

Documents