Lawrence, KS. March 7, 2011 – Gwyneira Isaac is Curator of North American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She investigates the relationships societies develop with their past, especially as to how this is expressed through knowledge systems, material culture, and museums. She will speak on "Object 2.0: New Paradigms in the Interpretation of Ethnographic Collections." A reception will follow in the Central Court.

Lawrence, KS, March 8, 2011 – The Spencer Museum of Art will become an experimental performance laboratory for a day as performance artist Ernesto Pujol conceptualizes the representation of gaze—the artist as the embodiment of our human gaze. Pujol stages meditative performances that involve subtle gesture, such as walking, pausing, looking, tracing, and drawing.

Lawrence, KS, March 31, 2011 – University of Kansas students can enjoy a night of science-fiction inspired activities at the Spencer Museum of Art on Thursday, April 7, as the SMA Student Advisory Board (SAB) hosts the Museum’s annual spring student night.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.