Spencer Museum of Art

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We are a museum at the University of Kansas with two floors of galleries and a collection that represents different types of art from around the world. Admission is free for everyone!

Drawing on cardboard of a black-and-orange cat holding a fish while a smaller orange-and-black cat peeks out from behind it

Now Open

Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani

This exhibition features 145 artworks by Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani alongside photographs, documentary videos, and works from the Spencer's collection.

Print with a spiral form in the center that goes from blue to purple, pink, red, and orange, overlaid with a repeating pattern of red circles on a purple-and-white background

Brush, Block, and Blood

This exhibition traces over a century of innovation through the work of three generations of women from the celebrated Yoshida family: Fujio, Chizuko, and Ayomi.

Image of a woman sitting at a table painting overlaid on top of an image of rippling water

The River of Time

International artist-in-residence Ayomi Yoshida created this site-specific video work to accompany our spring exhibitions.

Sliced forms of clay stacked and curling upward on one side, forming an undulating edge

Form & Flux

This new installation in our Lee Study Center features contemporary Asian ceramics that blend centuries-old traditions with innovative artistic expression.

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Events

February 27

Activity

10:00AM–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Goddard Study Center

February 28

Activity

Art Cart: Colorful Collage

1:00–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Perkins Central Court

March 5

Talk

Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series: Three Moments of Awakening: Roger Shimomura, TT Takemoto, Tsutaja Gaku

4:00–5:30PM

Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd

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Browse art highlights

Circle of Ignaz Günther (active late 1700s), Saint Cosmas

Circle of Ignaz Günther (active late 1700s)

Saint Cosmas

circa 1750–1765

unrecorded Ka’igwu (Kiowa) artist, cradleboard

unrecorded Ka’igwu (Kiowa) artist

cradleboard

late 1800s–1928

Klaus Staeck (born 1938), Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen (And new Life blossoms from the ruins)

Klaus Staeck (born 1938)

Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen (And new Life blossoms from the ruins)

1979

Ryan RedCorn (born 1979), Portrait of Chantelle Keshaye Pahtayken & Shay Pahtayken, Plains Cree

Ryan RedCorn (born 1979)

Portrait of Chantelle Keshaye Pahtayken & Shay Pahtayken, Plains Cree

2019

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