Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, curator
August 16, 2021–May 15, 2022
The KU Common Book program represents a campus-wide initiative to engage first-year students in a shared reading and learning experience. This year’s selection—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer—has prompted the selection of this year’s Common Work of Art, a series of five signs by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. This virtual exhibition expands on Kimmerer’s ambition to cultivate a spirit of reciprocity in which people and land become good medicine for one another. Cultivating Reciprocity is organized into three themes: Indigenous origin and creation stories, the gift of plants, and the history of education for Indigenous peoples.
Works of art
Brad Starr (born 1957, active 1995–present)
circa 2002
David V. Lee (1948–1996)
late 1900s
David V. Lee (1948–1996)
late 1900s
Matthew Baker (born 1953)
circa 2000–2005
Minnie S. Foster
mid 1900s–1993
Roselyn Rouchman
mid-late 1900s
Teri Greeves (born 1970)
2009
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
early 1900s
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Tlingit artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
Fah Ambers (born 1955, active 1976–present)
circa 1976
Madaline Paul
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Coast Salish artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Haida artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) or Mi'kmaq (Micmac) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Kotyit (Cochiti) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Musqueam artist
late 1800s–1926
unrecorded Northwest Coast artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Tlingit artist
late 1800s–1926
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
1976
unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
late 1800s–1917
unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
late 1800s–1935
Andrea Carlson (born 1979); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001)
2019
Rita Belgarde (1918–2005)
1999
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928
unrecorded Potawatomi artist
circa 1865
Lawrence Lithography Workshop (active 1979–1998); Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940)
1995
Molly Murphy (born 1977)
2004
Norman Akers (born 1958)
2019
Lawrence Lithography Workshop (active 1998–2001); Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940)
2000
Orville John Green (1872–1938)
1897