Elizabeth Kanost
Communications Manager
785.840.0142
elizacat@ku.edu

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SMA Student Advisory Board’s Converging Identities juried art show features work by KU students

Lawrence, KS, April 21, 2011 – The Spencer Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Board (SAB) will open Converging Identities—the group’s third annual juried art show of KU student work—on Tuesday, April 26 at 10 AM. Visitors can enjoy the artwork during normal Museum hours through May 8 in the Spencer’s Raymond White Teaching Gallery.

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Spring Arts & Culture Festival

Lawrence, KS – The Spencer Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Board (SSAB) will host its fourth annual Arts and Culture Festival on Saturday, May 7 from 1 to 4 PM.

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Artist-led tours and film screenings with internationally renowned Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney

Lawrence, KS, May 2, 2011 – Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney will give guided tours of his work and screen his documentary film Traveller (80 min., 2002) at the Spencer Museum of Art on Thursday, May 5, at 6 PM and again on Saturday, May 7 at 2 PM.

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Spencer Museum announces inaugural recipients of Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards

Lawrence, KS, May 18, 2011 – A haunting short story by an architectural engineering student and a proposal for a multi-layered sonic installation by a music composition and theory student are the inaugural recipients of The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards from the Spencer Museum of Art. Benefactor Lavon Brosseau, a former high-school teacher from Concordia, Kansas, established the prizes last fall to celebrate outstanding creativity among undergraduate students at the University of Kansas.

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Spencer Museum to serve as Lawrence location for 2012 International Craftsy Meetup Party

Lawrence, KS, January 19, 2012 – Area craft enthusiasts can come together and share their collective enthusiasm and experience from 5:30-7:30 PM on Thursday, January 26, when the Spencer Museum of Art serves as the Lawrence location for the 2012 International Craftsy Meetup Party—one of 619 such gatherings around the world. Share a current project over coffee, form a craft stash swap, or demonstrate a crafting technique.

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Spencer Museum Soliciting Submissions for 2012 Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards

Lawrence, KS, January 24, 2012 – The Spencer Museum of Art is soliciting submissions for the second annual Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards. Benefactor Lavon Brosseau established the prizes to celebrate undergraduate students at the University of Kansas who engage in creative scholarly work in any discipline.

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Internationally acclaimed sculptor Karen LaMonte to speak on “Beauty & Catastrophe”

Chado by Karen LaMonte

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Rocket Grants 2011-2012 Project Awards Announced!

Kansas City, MO & Lawrence, KS, May 23, 2011 – The selection panel for this year’s Rocket Grants chose ten multidisciplinary projects to receive funding.

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Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, Pageantry, and Performance in Art

Lawrence, KS, June 6, 2011 – A fantastical print of Emperor Maxmilian I’s triumphal chariot, a larger-than-life photograph of Chairman Mao’s limousine tire, a mesmerizing yam mask from Papua New Guinea, and a glittering embroidered parasol from the Philippines.

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Cryptographs! Family Day at the Spencer

Lawrence, KS, June 17, 2012 – The Spencer Museum of Art will celebrate Father’s Day by offering one of its always popular Family Days from 1-3 PM on Sunday, June 17. “Cryptographs!” invites families to spend a captivating and fun-filled afternoon discovering a world of hidden secrets, puzzles, and cryptographs in the Museum’s collection and a special exhibition honoring Alan Turing (1912-1954), the brilliant British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and pioneering computer scientist.