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This black-and-white photograph shows a solitary woman identified as the artist, Carrie Mae Weems, standing at the bottom of the stone steps leading to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Her back is to the viewer and her stance mimics that of the statue seen at the top of the steps behind the columns of the monument.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Access

Untitled

Debut the New

yei rug

Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Underwater Orchestra

Art and Activism: 50 Years of Africana Studies at KU

Restoring and Redefining the Body

Restoring and Redefining the Body

Vairocana

Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s)

Audubon in the Anthropocene

Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson

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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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