Lawrence, KS, May 15, 2014 – As the Spencer Museum’s celebrated exhibition “James Turrell: Gard Blue” draws to a close, the Museum is pleased to announce that collectors Mark and Lauren Booth have donated a significant work of art by internationally renowned light artist James Turrell. Mark Booth, an alumnus of the University of Kansas, and Lauren Booth, an artist, loaned “Gard Blue” as the centerpiece for the Spencer’s 9-month exhibition, and have announced their intent to donate the work, making it a part of the Spencer Museum’s permanent collection.

Rocket Grants, a program of Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, awards $54,000 to 10 grant recipients for 2014.

LAWRENCE, KS, August 11, 2014 – One of the richest collections of World War I-era art in the country can now be found at the University of Kansas’s Spencer Art Museum thanks to Professor Eric G. Carlson’s gift of more than 3,000 objects.

Lawrence, KS, March 15, 2012 – National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman will visit Lawrence on March 15, the latest stop on his nationwide Art Works tour. While in Lawrence, Chairman Landesman will meet with arts and civic leaders to learn about their efforts to use the arts to create vibrant, livable communities. The public is invited to a panel discussion and community conversation on Creative Placemaking with Landesman at 11:30 a.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi Street.

Lawrence, KS – For more than two years, North Carolina-based sculptor Patrick Dougherty’s The Bedazzler, a temporary sculpture commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art for a 2009 exhibition about trees, has anchored the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Spooner Hall.