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May 11, 2012 Hutch High School junior's work in KU protest art show Cassie Zook is her own person. So, when a teacher made a joke about her choice of lipstick color, the young woman turned her feelings into art. Protest art.
May 3, 2012 Spencer announces recipients of second annual Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards A poetry collection by English major Becky Mandelbaum and a site-specific installation by art and art history student Rena Detrixhe are the recipients of the second annual Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards from the Spencer Museum of Art.
May 1, 2012 Occupying Minds, Not Streets Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra-politically correct ...
March 9, 2012 NEA Chairman to visit Spencer Museum National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman will visit Lawrence on March 15, the latest stop on his nationwide Art Works tour.
February 21, 2012 Internationally acclaimed sculptor Karen LaMonte to speak on 'Beauty & Catastrophe' Karen LaMonte has earned international praise for her striking cast-glass sculptures. The New York-born artist, who now lives and works in Prague, the Czech Republic, will speak on 'Beauty & Catastrophe' at 4 PM on Sunday, March 4, at the Spencer.
January 24, 2012 Spencer Museum Soliciting Submissions for 2012 Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards Awards celebrate outstanding creativity among undergraduate students at the University of Kansas. Submissions Deadline: Friday, March 16, 2012 at 4 PM
January 19, 2012 Spencer Museum to serve as Lawrence location for 2012 International Craftsy Meetup Party 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
January 18, 2012 Art in pieces: How the details of a piece of art make it whole. The Crafting Continuities exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art provides insight into a little thought of piece of the artistic puzzle, the materials and processes that go into creating the final work.
January 12, 2012 Spencer Museum soliciting submissions for 2012 Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards The Spencer is soliciting submissions for the second annual Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards. Benefactor Lavon Brosseau established the prizes to celebrate undergraduate students at KU who engage in creative scholarly work in any discipline.

December 19, 2011 Spencer Museum of Art Receives Highest National Recognition The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums.
October 13, 2011 SMA Fall Press Preview & Lunch The Spencer Museum of Art invites members of the press to a light lunch and preview of the Museum’s fall 2011 lineup of exhibitions next Wednesday, October 19, from Noon to 1 PM.
October 10, 2011 SMA's Second Life island earns international acclaim for 2010 commissioned work a Petrovsky Flux SL creator Linden Labs touts the Spencer island as a top destination; Italian Vogue name-checks the Spencer in a recent feature article; and respected SL blogger Bryn Oh praises a Petrovsky flux as the author’s top 2010 SL art destination.
October 3, 2011 KU alumnus Jon 'J.T.' O'Neal returns for Oct. 16 screening of Au Pair, Kansas Filmmaker, photographer, and physician Jon “J.T.” O’Neal graduated from KU with an honors degree in history of art. His latest feature film, Au Pair, Kansas, took inspiration from O’Neal’s long-time interest in the artist Birger Sandzén.
September 21, 2011 Material Madness & Process Pandemonium! A Family Fun Day at the Spencer The Spencer Museum of Art will conclude KU’s 2011 Homecoming weekend in style with a Family Fun Day from 1-3 PM on Sunday, October 2. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Continuities, the free event will feature a variety of ...
September 1, 2011 Vocalist Genaro Méndez and accompanist Robert Hiller to perform concert at Spencer On Sunday, September 11 at 5 PM, Mexican-American lyric tenor Genaro Méndez, a KU associate professor of voice, and accompanist Robert Hiller, a KU alumnus and university voice coach in Germany, will perform a program that celebrates music...
August 19, 2011 Crews to remove The Bedazzler sapling sculpture on Friday, Aug. 19 For more than two years, sculptor Patrick Dougherty’s The Bedazzler, a temporary sculpture commissioned by the Spencer for a 2009 exhibition about trees, has anchored the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Spooner Hall.
June 22, 2011 Smithsonian Institution, Kansas Humanities Council fund Native American art exhibitions at Spencer An $11,000 grant from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and a $7,900 grant from the Kansas Humanities Council will provide critical funding for two fall 2011 exhibitions at the Spencer.
June 9, 2011 Heard on the Hill: 50 Works for 50 States collection at Spencer Art Museum has interesting back story Herb and Dorothy Vogel, as the article said, lived in New York City and had a large collection of art. They lived modestly, however. He was a postal worker and she worked as a librarian in Brooklyn.
June 6, 2011 Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, Pageantry, and Performance in Art A sparkling and diverse study in parades, processions, and ceremonies throughout history that will be on view June 12-September 4 on the Conversation Wall of the Spencer’s 20/21 Gallery.
May 23, 2011 Spencer Museum of Art announces first recipients of Brosseau Creativity Awards Benefactor Lavon Brosseau, a former high school teacher from Concordia, established the prizes last fall to celebrate outstanding creativity among undergraduate students at KU.
May 19, 2011 Rocket Grants 2011-2012 Project Awards Announced The selection panel for this year’s Rocket Grants chose ten multidisciplinary projects to receive funding.
May 18, 2011 Spencer Museum announces inaugural recipients of Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards 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.
May 13, 2011 Student installation at the Commons provides opportunity for collaboration The culmination of the Motion Graphic Design class will be on view to the public at the Commons in an art installation titled 'An Experimental Provocation about the Screens We Use Every Day.'
May 11, 2011 Spencer Museum of Art, KU Libraries earn major grants for cataloging and digitization In support of projects to thoroughly document two significant and historic collections at the University of Kansas, the National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded grants totaling $245,939 to the Spencer Museum of Art and KU Libraries.
May 9, 2011 It figures he would fall It’s a shocker, no matter how many times you watch it. A new installation by Shanghai-based artist Jin Shan in the Spencer Museum’s central court features a 180-pound silicone policeman that falls from the 'sky' with a thud.
May 2, 2011 Artist-led tours and film screenings with internationally renowned Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney 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.
April 27, 2011 Spring Arts & Culture Festival SMA Student Advisory Board presents its fourth annual Spring Arts & Culture Festival Featuring local and student artists, live music and activities for everyone.
April 26, 2011 Chilling Exhibit on Campus It may be spring but and art exhibit on campus has spectators visualizing icy temperatures. KUJH-TV's Ann Wilson has the story.
April 25, 2011 Art installation combines music and visuals with climate change data 'Mutatis Mutandis,' a Latin phrase meaning 'by changing those things that need to be changed,' explores the relationship between time and glaciers. An interdisciplinary group used sound and information graphics ...
April 25, 2011 Spencer Museum of Art redefines itself Permanent collections displayed in new, innovative ways; eye-catching installations open
April 21, 2011 SMA Student Advisory Board's Converging Identities juried art show features work by KU students The Spencer’s Student Advisory Board 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 through May 8 in the Spencer’s Raymond White
April 18, 2011 "Police State": Chinese artist Jin Shan debuts "It Came from the Sky" at the Spencer A glimpse into the Spencer's latest Central Court installation, with comments from Freeman Foundation International Artist-in-Residence Jin Shan, Curator of Global Contemporary & Asian Art Kris Ercums, and Director Saralyn Reece Hardy.
March 31, 2011 Student Advisory Board to Host Spring Student Night, 2011: A Space Odyssey 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.
March 15, 2011 Renowned performance artist spends a day at Spencer Ernesto Pujol's performance was based on the history of painting, which involved subtle gestures through walking, pausing, looking and drawing the entire contents of the Museum throughout the day.
March 8, 2011 Ernesto Pujol to present Visitation, a one-day performance art piece 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.
March 7, 2011 Smithsonian curator Gwyneira Isaac on 'Object 2.0: New Paradigms in the Interpretation of Ethnographic Collections' Gwyneira Isaac is Curator of North American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
February 17, 2011 The Commons bestows funding for research, artist projects The Commons, a partnership at the University of Kansas that promotes learning across disciplines, has awarded more than $20,000 to faculty, staff and students in support of their research in the 2010-11 academic year.
February 14, 2011 Spencer Student Advisory Board to co-host Student Night at Kansas City’s Kemper Museum On Friday, Feb. 18, for the second time in recent years, students from the Spencer’s Student Advisory Board (SAB) will team with Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art co-host a DJ-fueled, art-centered party at the Kemper.
January 27, 2011 Celebrating final week of Dan Perjovschi installation, SMA Student Advisory Board to host Dunk & Draw As part of a week-long 'Drawathon' celebrating the final days of the the Dan Perjovschi Central Court drawing exhibition, the Spencer Museum of Art and its Student Advisory Board will host a 'Dunk & Draw' event Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at 5:30 PM.
January 20, 2011 2011 Governor’s Arts Award winner Louis Copt to give painting demonstration at Spencer Louis Copt, one of five Kansans named as recipients of the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards, will discuss his working methods, materials used, and philosophy in choosing subject matter during a 6:30 PM painting demonstration in the Spencer on January 27.
January 1, 2011 Rocket Grants propel artistic innovation Leralee Whittle mimicked the motion of cardio exercise, jerking her arms and torso back and forth. Dumbbells hanging in a sling formed by her stretchy workout clothing echoed her body’s movements....

December 3, 2010 Dan Perjovschi Central Court review: "You'll laugh until you frown" Critic Mindy A. Besaw offers her take in Review magazine on Spencer International Artist-in-Residence Dan Perjovschi's drawing installation.
December 2, 2010 Jayplay cover story focuses on campus outdoor sculpture SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and Curator of European & American Art Susan Earle are sources for this feature, which follows a Kansan cover story earlier this week about the Spencer's "An Ear for Art" cell-phone audio tour expanding outdoor
November 29, 2010 "KU art has hidden history" A front-page University Daily Kansanfeature about the Spencer's "An Ear for Art" campus cell-phone audio guide expanding to include 15 outdoor sculptures on the KU campus.
November 11, 2010 Rocket Grants fuel creativity The Journal World features two art projects supported by Warhol Foundation-funded Rocket Grants, which are administered by the Spencer and Kansas City's Charlotte Street Foundation.
November 10, 2010 Kansas City Star review of "Dan Perjovschi Central Court" Critic Alice Thorson weighs in on the Spencer's Fall 2010 International Artist-in-Residence.
November 10, 2010 An Ear for Art cell-phone audio guide expands outdoors with sculpture tour The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to announce the expansion of its popular cell-phone audio guide to include public sculpture located across the KU campus.
November 8, 2010 Leralee Whittle - Forces presents WorkArtOut This weekend, performance art will usurp sport for two nights on basketball courts in Lawrence, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., as Warhol Foundation-funded 'Rocket Grant' recipients Leralee Whittle and Paul Sprawl present Work/Art/Out
November 3, 2010 Art branches out with pieces on trees From a woodcut depicting the scene of the Fall of Man with vine-covered, leafy trees to a print of a tree farm in China littered with plastic bags, the latest exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University looks at trees...
November 2, 2010 Love in the Time of Beer Bellies ... a Mass. St. Romance Lawrence Magazine gave 5 art collectives 5 days to come up with a work of art based on 1 theme -- 'Love in the time of beer bellies ... a Mass. St. romance.'
October 20, 2010 As Heard From The Hill: Romanian Film Series Starts Thursday Recently, Lawrence has been doing it’s best Bucharest imitation. Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi just finished up a residency at the Spencer Musuem, and his central court installation will be up until February 6th. This week, the Spencer screens...
October 19, 2010 'Media Memes' exhibit takes collaborative approach to explore meaning of photos It’s Celka Straughn’s job to bring the academic side of KU to the Spencer Museum of Art. Mike Williams was looking for a way to take the work of the journalism school to a wider campus audience. It was a perfect fit.
October 4, 2010 KU alumnus and author Robert Day to speak, sign books at Spencer Author and professor Robert Day, a Kansas native and KU alumnus who gained national acclaim for his 1977 novel The Last Cattle Drive and, more recently, for his 2010 collection of nonfiction essays ...
September 30, 2010 Kansas Arts Commission awards SMA Arts Leadership Program grant The Kansas Arts Commission recently awarded the Spencer an $18,000 Kansas Arts Leadership Program grant, recognizing the Museum as a statewide pacesetter in comprehensive arts-learning programs united by a cohesive educational approach.
September 27, 2010 Spencer Museum of Art is site for retirement event honoring Librarian Emeritus William J. 'Bill' Crowe The University of Kansas Libraries will host a retirement event honoring Librarian Emeritus William J. 'Bill' Crowe, former dean of KU Libraries, on Friday, Oct. 1.
September 27, 2010 'Black, White, and Read All Over' Fall 2010 Student Night @ the Museum The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board invites students to enjoy its annual Fall Student Night on Thursday, October 7. Taking cues from the Museum’s current exhibitions, the evening’s activities revolve around ...
September 23, 2010 $200,000 in gifts bring Spencer Museum of Art closer to reaching challenge grant Including these gifts, the museum has received commitments of $800,000 toward the challenge grant.
September 22, 2010 Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Arts Center welcome three artists-in-residence Specializing in drawing, printmaking and sculpture, the artists-in-residence this fall at the Spencer Museum of Art and the Lawrence Arts Center cover a wide spectrum of skills, while all working toward the same goal...
September 21, 2010 These Moved Me exhibition run extended The Spencer has extended the run of a special exhibition honoring the life and legacy of Dalton Howard (1943-2010), a longtime member of the SMA family and a beloved local artist, musician, raconteur, and thinker.
September 15, 2010 African Healing Journeys: Historical & Contemporary Responses to Disease A new exhibition brings together an array of African objects from the collections of the Spencer and the Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, in conjunction with an upcoming international conference at KU. On view through Oct. 3.
September 15, 2010 Dan Perjovschi’s Work Perjovschi is the artist in residence at the Spencer Museum of Art. His exhibit, Dan Perjovschi Central Court, will officially open Thursday and run until Feb. 6, 2011.
September 13, 2010 African Healing Journeys: Historical & Contemporary Responses to Disease On view through October 3 A new exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art brings together an array of African objects from the collections of the Spencer and the Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, in conjunction with an upcoming international conference at KU.
September 12, 2010 Romanian artist’s work on display at Spencer A man with a thick black and grey beard stands 20-feet high on a cherry picker in the Spencer Museum of Art, drawing on the walls. He wears a green fly-fishing jacket, which holds everything he needs -- a few markers and a notebook.
September 9, 2010 Dalton Howard Remembered KUJH's video report on the Dalton Howard exhibition, These Moved Me
September 9, 2010 Can you see the writing on the walls? JayPlay Photo Gallery of pieces from Dan Perjovschi's Dan Periovschi Central Court debut on Sept. 16, in the Spencer Museum of Art.
September 9, 2010 Exhibit displays areas of African culture Like People or Cosmopolitan magazines of Western societies, African societies portray their cultural perspective of beauty and culture through popular images and art. Now students of the University of Kansas can see glimpses of those perspectives...
September 7, 2010 Dan Perjovschi: Fall 2010 SMA International Artist-in-Residence Romania-based international artist Dan Perjovschi is working at the University of Kansas from September 2-16, 2010, as the fall Spencer Museum of Art International Artist-in-Residence.
August 31, 2010 Site Specifics on view through January 16, 2011 Contemporary art and the natural world collide in a new exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art. Site Specifics considers several objects and related sketches made from or for specific sites or conditions, most on land and one in the air.
August 26, 2010 KU student TV station KUJH covers "Media Memes" exhibition More coverage of the Spencer's Media Memes: Images, Technology & Making the News.
August 25, 2010 Art Tattler features SMA exhibition "Media Memes: Images, Technology & Making the News" "Media Memes" seeks to raise additional questions regarding the ways in which technology contributes to our changing relationship with the news media.
August 23, 2010 Spencer showcase examines photography in the digital age A new exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art will enable anyone to become a photo editor and choose how history is framed -- at least for a day.
August 23, 2010 Media Memes: Images, Technology & Making the News Understanding how we make meaning from photography constitutes a key element of media literacy. Our perceptions of news, privacy, awareness, the past and the present are culturally and emotionally anchored in the visual reality that we perceive ...
August 19, 2010 These Moved Me exhibition honors longtime SMA colleague, local artist and musician Dalton Howard A special exhibition opening this weekend at the Spencer Museum of Art will honor the life and legacy of Dalton Howard (1943-2010), a longtime member of the SMA family and a beloved local artist, musician, raconteur, and thinker.
August 16, 2010 Spencer shortens hours for memorial service The Spencer Museum of Art, which normally opens at noon Sundays, will open at 2 PM on Sunday, August 22, so that staff members can attend the celebration of life for Dalton Howard, a long-time member of the SMA family who recently passed away.
August 12, 2010 SMA Student Advisory Board Presents... The Spencer’s Student Advisory Board kicks off the 2010-2011 school year with a special Hawk Week screening of the critically acclaimed new documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, next Thursday, August 19, at 6 PM in the SMA Auditorium.
July 12, 2010 Academic journal dedicates issue to KU's Aaron Douglas exhibit Three years after the Spencer Museum of Art premiered its landmark exhibition 'Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist,' a special double-issue of the journal American Studies celebrates Douglas’s legacy.
July 7, 2010 Debbie Divine to recreate design talk of famed Emporia quilter Rose Kretsinger On Thursday, July 15, at 6 PM, Salina-based historical re-enactor and quilter Debbie Divine will assume the persona of Rose Good Kretsinger, a legendary quilter from Emporia, Kansas, whose dynamic artworks have garnered international praise.
June 29, 2010 SMA galleries closed for Independence Day In recognition of the Independence Day national holiday, the Spencer Museum of Art galleries will be closed on Sunday, July 4, 2010.
June 15, 2010 Event Horizons: A Touring Program of New Work by Thomas Comerford, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown At 6 PM this Thursday at the Spencer Museum of Art, film, video, and new media artists Thomas Comerford (Chicago), and Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (Madison, Wisconsin) will present Event Horizons--a 90-minute-long touring program of their work
June 14, 2010 Saralyn Reece Hardy named treasurer for AAMD board of trustees At the annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) last week in Indianapolis, the membership elected Spencer Museum of Art Director Saralyn Reece Hardy as treasurer of its Board of Trustees. The appointment is for a two-year term.
June 11, 2010 SPELLING OUT A LANDSCAPE A review of Kim Jongku's Mobile Landscape
June 8, 2010 Quilting Time & Space: On view through May 30, 2010 A new summer exhibition at the Spencer, organized and curated by the Museum’s advanced-level student interns from 2009-2010, presents quilts from different times and places in conversation with each other.
June 7, 2010 Cateforis featured in PBS program on contemporary art, calligraphy You never know where research will lead you. David Cateforis’ knowledge of a contemporary Chinese artist led to his involvement in a national television special -- about a completely different artist.
June 3, 2010 Spencer, Charlotte Street Foundation announce recipients of 'Rocket Grants' The Spencer and Charlotte Street Foundation are pleased to announce the 2010-2011 recipients of Rocket Grants, a new program that provides direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects in the Lawrence-KC area.
June 2, 2010 Conversation VIII: Serious Play Summertime is perhaps the season most associated with play and playfulness, so it seems the perfect time for a fresh 'conversation' in the Spencer’s 20/21 Gallery that goes beyond mere fun and games to explore the topic of play in a variety of way
May 29, 2010 KU’s Spencer Museum is looking to expand For years, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has sought to expand. Now it’s taking a major step in that direction.
May 28, 2010 Spencer Museum of Art Looks to the Future with Expansion Plan Over the last three decades, the Spencer Museum of Art has nearly doubled the size of its collection. Looking ahead to future expansion, the museum recently hired an internationally renowned architectural firm to create a plan.
May 27, 2010 KU museum expansion taps renowned architectural firm The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas isn’t the Louvre, but the museums have this in common: the same internationally renowned architectural firm.
May 25, 2010 Editorial: Bright future It’s good to see Kansas University’s art museum taking a dynamic approach to its future.
May 24, 2010 Spencer Museum of Art taps I.M. Pei firm to produce expansion plan An enlarged facility will allow the Spencer to house the recently added collection of art and cultural objects of the Americas, Africa and Oceania.
May 23, 2010 Spencer wants to be 'museum of the future' Spencer Art Museum at Kansas University is making some big plans for the future, starting with a study by world-renowned architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
May 19, 2010 'Beaded Heritage' Explores Traditions and Identity The art of bead work has a long tradition in the Native American culture, passed down from one generation to the next. An exhibition at the Spencer Museum in Lawrence, Beaded Heritage, pairs...
May 19, 2010 EXHIBITION EXTENDED: Machine in a Void The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to extend by one week the run of its major spring exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts. The show will now remain on view through Memorial Day weekend.
May 10, 2010 International Museum Day: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Guided tours, free gifts, shopping discounts, and a 2 PM talk in the SMA Auditorium by conceptual artist and educator Ernesto Pujol highlight the Spencer’s celebration of International Museum Day on Tuesday, May 18.
May 5, 2010 FINAL DAYS: Machine in a Void Thursday, May 13, at 12 PM, curator Stephen Goddard will give an in-depth gallery talk on the Spencer’s major spring exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts...
April 20, 2010 Spring Arts & Culture Festival The SMA Student Advisory Board presents its third annual Spring and Arts & Culture Festival Featuring live music and dance, local and student art for sale, family activities, the SMA spring exhibitions and more.
April 20, 2010 Spring Student Night and Juried Art Show The Spencer Student Advisory Board presents its annual Spring Student Night and Juried Art Show. Thursday, April 29, 2010 / 5:30-7:30 PM Free & Open to the Public
April 13, 2010 Booths available at Spring Arts & Culture Festival The SMA Student Advisory Board invites KU and Lawrence area Artists to showcase and sell their work at the 3rd annual Spring Arts & Culture Festival, Saturday, May 1 from 1-4 PM inside and outside the Museum. Deadline for participation: Friday, April 22
April 1, 2010 Artist Talk: Ann Hamilton At 5 PM on Thursday, April 8, acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton will give an informal presentation about her work in the SMA Auditorium. Hamilton, who earned her bachelor’s degree in textile design from KU in 1979...
March 25, 2010 Connections close to home Seoul-based artist Kim Jongku spent two weeks in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art in February.
March 15, 2010 Museum program brings Kim Jongku's Mobile Landscape to Lawrence From looking at Kim Jongku’s work, it is obvious that steel powder is his medium of choice. Much of Kim’s paintings and other artwork include this material...
March 1, 2010 Machine in a Void: World War One & the Graphic Arts March 4, the Spencer will unveil Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts, presenting approximately 200 works of graphic art made during the years of the First World War (1914-1918), with a post-script on the art of the decade following the war..
February 18, 2010 SMA International Artist-in-Residence speaking on the installation Mobile Landscape On Thursday, Feb. 25 at 6 PM, Seoul-based artist Kim Jongku will talk about his site specific video installation Mobile Landscape, which opens that evening and will remain on view through June 25 in the Spencer’s Electronic Media Gallery.
February 18, 2010 Artist Kerry James Marshall on 'John Brown’s Body: The Representation of Black Bodies as Revolutionary Gesture' Nationally renowned painter, installation artist, and filmmaker Kerry James Marshall will speak on 'John Brown’s Body: The Representation of Black Bodies as Revolutionary Gesture,' on Wednesday, March 3, at 5:30 PM in the Spencer Museum of Art Audit
February 9, 2010 Spooner Hall to undergo $1.1 million exterior renovation Work will include consolidating and patching deteriorated stone and replacing capstones that are beyond repair.
February 4, 2010 This weekend: Art of Utopia at the Spencer Our tragic human flaw may be our desire for perfection. From plastic surgery to hippie communes, people are constantly looking to improve themselves and society. But, is a utopian society tangible or ultimately unattainable?
January 21, 2010 Anschutz Foundation donates $200,000 to Spencer Museum of Art A $200,000 gift from The Anschutz Foundation of Denver significantly advances an academic programs initiative launched by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas....
January 19, 2010 Rocket Grants Informational Sessions There will be a series of informational sessions for artists about Rocket Grants, a new program that will provide direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven and centered projects in the Lawrence-KC area. Held at diverse locations ...
January 19, 2010 Mel Chin’s Fundred Dollar Bill Project The Spencer Museum of Art, in partnership with the Lawrence Arts Center, brings artist Mel Chin to Lawrence this weekend for a special presentation on his past and present work and his unique conceptual approach....

December 21, 2009 Flemish tapestries, Italian nativity scene highlight Museum’s holiday offerings The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to share rarely-seen objects from its collection with the public this season. In accordance with a long-standing tradition, the 18th-century Italian presepio, or nativity scene, is on view in the Renaissance Gallery...
December 14, 2009 Spencer Sets Winter Break Hours In observation of the annual winter holidays, the Museum will be closed December 24-25, and January 1. We will observe shortened Thursday hours (close at 4 PM) throughout the KU Winter Break (days affected: December 17 and 31, and January 7).
November 28, 2009 Video art from Asia among the new Spencer Museum of Art exhibit 'Extra/Ordinary’ Video shows can be a hard sell. They wouldn’t be if they were all put together as well as 'Extra/Ordinary,' a new exhibit of contemporary video art from Asia, now on view at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence.
November 28, 2009 Spencer curator Kris Ercums keeps a steady stream of art coming from Asia Kris Ercums, curator of Asian art at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art, has a solid foundation in Asian art history, but over the last decade he has become one of the go-to guys for contemporary Asian art.
November 28, 2009 Morning in the Adirondacks 'It’s comforting to look at--a reminder of a simpler time,' says Charles Eldredge, distinguished professor of American art and culture at the University of Kansas, of an 1860s landscape by Sanford Robinson Gifford. 'It is an image of the sort that
November 15, 2009 Poet and anti-poet: The duality of Lawrence writer Jim McCrary McCrary will read with Lawrence poet Judy Roitman from 'All That' on Nov. 19 at the Spencer Museum of Art.
November 15, 2009 Jim McCrary and Judy Roitman, book release and reading This reading is the Lawrence release for local writer Jim McCrary's first 'real' book, 'All That' -- a collection of chapbooks dating from 1987 to 2008 published by ManyPenny Press.
November 12, 2009 Digital Canvas: East meets Midwest in Asian video exhibit, 'Extra/Ordinary' The new exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art, 'Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia' is an exploration of Asian art that’s more YouTube than Louvre, examining the commonplace through video, a medium that has itself become commonplace.
November 12, 2009 Poetry and paintings The exhibits of the Spencer Museum of Art will set the scene for a reading of three of the University’s preeminent poets this afternoon.
November 12, 2009 Spencer Museum of Art to show 'Moolaade' The Spencer Museum of Art is hosting a screening of the Senegalese film 'Moolaade.' The film tells the story of one woman protecting a village's girls from female circumcision and the controversy her stand causes.
November 8, 2009 American heritage: KU contributes to new Native galleries at Nelson-Atkin It’s certainly a star in the Kansas University anthropological collection. But now it’s co-starring in the new American Indian Galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which open to the public on Wednesday.
November 3, 2009 Town & Gown Forum: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s What do Andy Warhol, Boy George, and 1980s photographs have in common? What is it about celebrity culture that is distinctly visual? How have 1980s music videos affected our personal gender politics?
October 31, 2009 The Nelson’s American Indian exhibition -- more than 200 objects -- opens Nov. 11 Spencer loans to the Nelson-Atkins, featured in KC Star article about Nelson-Atkins reopening Native American galleries
October 27, 2009 Spencer display of KU student work highlights Typography 3 class responses to The Graphic Imperative exhibition A new display of KU design student work, inspired by the current Spencer exhibition The Graphic Imperative, will be on view in the Museum’s main entry hall through November 29.
October 25, 2009 Take five: 2009 Phoenix Awards honor best in Lawrence arts community When Richard Klocke goes to art museums, he pays as much attention to presentation as he does the art itself.
October 22, 2009 SMA publishes online exhibition brochure for Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia As part of an in-depth website presentation for the exhibition Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia, the Spencer Museum of Art has published an electronic version of the exhibition brochure.
October 16, 2009 ART:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century Spencer continues partnership with Art21,Inc., will host special screening of Season Five of the Peabody Award-winning documentary as part of National Arts & Humanities Month
October 15, 2009 Press Preview next Friday for EXTRA/ORDINARY: VIDEO ART FROM ASIA Please join us for a guided tour and Q&A with Curator Kris Imants Ercums, followed by lunch.
October 8, 2009 Day-long 'ACT OUT: ART IN!' workshop Fall break in Lawrence promises to be a dramatic experience for seventh- through 12th-graders who participate in a new art-into-theater workshop that focuses on the current Spencer exhibition The Graphic Imperative.
October 7, 2009 Homecoming 2009 @ the Spencer features special activities for KU alumni & fans In celebration of Homecoming 2009 the Spencer Museum of Art will offer special tours led by Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and free art projects for children and teens on Saturday, October 10.
October 4, 2009 Lecture, party mark Andy Warhol exhibition The curator of art at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh will speak this week at the Spencer Museum of Art.
October 1, 2009 WARhol & PEACE: Student Advisory Board Fall Party Art all around, custom screen-printing of t-shirts, live music, '80s-inspired appetizers, a soup-can drive and more add up to make 'WARhol & PEACE,' the SMA Student Advisory Board's 2009 fall student party.
October 1, 2009 Warhol Foundation funding enables Spencer Museum of Art & Charlotte Street Foundation to create 'Rocket Grants" program The SMA and KC's Charlotte Street Foundation announce the launch of Rocket Grants, a new program that will provide direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects in the Lawrence-Kansas City area.
September 30, 2009 LECTURE Warhol Museum Curator Eric C. Shiner Eric C. Shiner, Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, visits the Spencer next Wednesday evening to discuss the Warhol legacy in his talk, 'Andy Warhol: Consumption x Production.'
September 22, 2009 Spencer Museum Shop 'Bag to School' Sale The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to announce the Museum Shop's 'Bag to School' Sale. Shop the Spencer from Tuesday, September 22, through Sunday, September 27, and score sweet savings...
September 17, 2009 Reframing the worlds of art and science For scientists and artists alike at the University, crafting a greater public understanding of their respective fields is crucial....
September 17, 2009 An Ear for Art The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to announce the launch of a new cell-phone audio guide. 'An Ear for Art' enables Museum fans to access information about objects in the galleries simply by dialing their cell phones.
September 17, 2009 Mexican artist Emilio Said examines modern metropolis in Unreal Cities: Informal Architecture Zone Emilio Said's unique exploration and dissection of the modern metropolis forms the foundation of the Mexico City artist's exhibition Unreal Cities: Informal Architecture Zone, opening September 22 in the Spencer's Electronic Arts Gallery.
September 15, 2009 The Graphic Imperative on view through November 29, 2009 Why posters? Because they have the power to change our minds. Because they stir our emotions and cause us to reflect. Because they are a call to action....
September 9, 2009 Campus museums getting creative It's another quiet day at the museum, which is a reminder of adjustments it's been forced to make. Like most institutions with an allocated budget, the Spencer Museum of Art face financial setbacks because of the economic recession...
September 7, 2009 Visual Voices Project teaches quilting, patience to junior high girls It might seem like a project that’s about fabric and seams. But Marla Jackson says it’s about much more than that.
August 28, 2009 Warhol Exhibit Focuses on Celebrity Culture at the Spencer Museum When the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence received a collection of 180 of Andy Warhol's photographs in 2008, it wasn't long before the museum's staff felt compelled to spotlight the gift within the context of Warhol's New York circa the 1980s.
August 26, 2009 Exhibit makes statement on masculinity Kris Ercums knew he would be using objects from the Spencer’s permanent collection in a new exhibition, but he didn’t know what that exhibit would be. But as Ecrums, creator and curator of the new xy exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art...
August 26, 2009 Are We Not Men? This synchronized collision of images makes up the Spencer’s latest exhibit, 'xy,' an exploration of the masculine mystique. It’s a collection heavy on the Y chromosome that raises the question, 'Are you man enough to handle it?'
August 24, 2009 Spencer secures grants for 'Ear for Art,' other programs The Spencer Museum of Art has announced several grants that will support a variety of initiatives at the museum.
August 24, 2009 Editorial: Support the University’s Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is flourishing because of the support of students and donors, despite budget cuts being made by the University....
August 20, 2009 Get some culture: Warhol at the Spencer Somewhat like Perez Hilton, Andy Warhol was famous simply for being famous and made a living talking about and photographing celebrities. Similar to Hilton, his pop art examines the ideas and effects of popular culture, fame and mass production.
August 18, 2009 Spencer Museum of Art shows Big Shots - Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s Joan Collins and Wayne Gretzky. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Liz Taylor. Chris Lawford and William S. Burroughs. What do these seemingly dissimilar individuals have to do with each other? The answer is simple: They were among the many celebrities ...
August 14, 2009 KU puts Warhol work on display Most of us are familiar with the work of artist Andy Warhol -- and this Saturday, a KU gallery will present some of his most stylish works.
August 14, 2009 Kansas Public Radio: Warhol Exhibition Puts the Spotlight on Celebrity The Spencer Museum of Art is opening an exhibition of photographs taken by Andy Warhol. It includes portraits of artists, athletes, singers and others Warhol found interesting. Susan Earle is the curator of European and American Art at the Spencer, and ..
August 12, 2009 With Warhol exhibit, Spencer Museum focuses on the 'Big Shots' 'A good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous,' Andy Warhol once said.
August 9, 2009 Big shots: Spencer exhibit offers glimpse into Andy Warhol’s working process Andy Warhol was many things: artist, pop culture icon, filmmaker, author, record producer, photographer. Thomas Sokolowski would add another title to that list. 'He was the consummate packrat,' ...
August 9, 2009 Andy Warhol exhibit opens Saturday in Lawrence An exhibit of dozens of rarely seen photographs by pop artist Andy Warhol goes on display Saturday at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence.
August 5, 2009 Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s Joan Collins and Wayne Gretzky. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Liz Taylor. Chris Lawford and William S. Burroughs. What do these seemingly dissimilar individuals have to do with each other? The answer is simple: They were ...
July 30, 2009 xy exhibition examines male identity Male sexuality is determined by the x and y chromosomes, yet what does it mean to be a man? Through October 5 in the Kress Gallery, the Spencer Museum of Art will explore the complexities of this question via a large-scale exhibition...
July 27, 2009 Foundation and granting agency support advances SMA programs and research The Spencer Museum of Art is pleased to announce several important grants supporting a variety of initiatives at the Museum.
July 10, 2009 Lawrence, Spencer museum finalists in tourism contest The Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association announced that Lawrence has been selected as one of the finalists for the top day trip destination in the area, and the Spencer Museum of Art is a finalist for the favorite art museum or gallery.
July 1, 2009 Climb a Tree Thanks to Patrick Dougherty, nests needn't be for the birds.
July 1, 2009 Friends & Neighbors Sometimes it takes a village to raise an exhibition. At least, that’s the premise of a new installation at the Spencer Museum of Art featuring the selections of four Lawrence community members, each paired with a Spencer curator...
June 30, 2009 Friends & Neighbors exhibition features community curators Sometimes it takes a village to raise an exhibition. At least, that’s the premise of a new installation at the Spencer Museum of Art featuring the selections of four Lawrence community members, each paired with a Spencer curator to create a show that ..
June 13, 2009 Sculpture is swirl of saplings North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty likes to build things with sticks -- and the bigger, the better.
June 9, 2009 Spooner Hall’s lawn gets bedazzled A dying tree on Spooner Hall lawn gave the University a chance to combine art and nature in a sculpture made of tree saplings.
May 26, 2009 SMA Collection Manager to attend national conference on collections care Spencer Museum of Art Collection Manager Sofía Galarza Liu has been selected by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to attend a national forum, June 16 and 17, 2009, in Buffalo, New York.
May 22, 2009 Artist has designs on KU tree What do you get when you take 6,000 pounds of maple and dogwood saplings and put them in the hands of an internationally known sculptor? The answer is taking shape at the corner of 14th Street & Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Spooner Hall on the KU campus.
May 20, 2009 Ink Magazine Daycations: Take a tiny trip to Lawrence
May 14, 2009 Artist Patrick Dougherty to speak about his tree sculpture at KU World-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty will give an artist’s talk about his work, which consists of large-scale tree sculptures, on Thursday, May 21 at 5:30 PM in the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
May 13, 2009 Museum of Modem Art Thanks to the gushings of local art maven Molly Murphy, I decided to check out the Spencer Museum of Art online collection...
May 9, 2009 Branching out: A review of Trees and other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture The exhibition currently on view in the central court at the Spencer Museum of Art plays with this concept of growth systems in alternately scientific, profound, and humorous ways.
May 4, 2009 Style savvy rocks Lawrence runways 'Art on the Green' featured sustainable clothing styled by local companies or created by designers with ties to Kansas University. Models walked through the main gallery at Spencer Museum of Art, wearing sustainable clothing.
May 4, 2009 Do not feed the artwork? Grazers part of new installation A Chinese artist is using animals to connect with KU students and show similarities between the United States and China.
May 3, 2009 Ride Your Bike Percolator Eric Farnsworth has designed new bike racks for the Spencer Museum of Art.
May 1, 2009 Updated: Artist Patrick Dougherty to create large-scale tree-sapling sculpture in front of KU’s Spooner Hall Patrick Dougherty will now arrive in Lawrence May 10, and his residency at the Spencer will continue through May 31. Please note that his artist’s talk remains as originally scheduled.
May 1, 2009 The art of healing The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board will participate in its first relay tonight in hopes of not only raising money toward a cure, but also sharing the healing power of art with the community.
May 1, 2009 Art festival adds a cultural element For the second year in a row, Student Union Activities and the Spencer Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Board are teaming up to bring the Spring Arts and Culture Festival to campus on Saturday.
April 29, 2009 Gnarly! BMXers crash campus (legally!), a sign of the sport's persistent popularity
April 28, 2009 Artist Patrick Dougherty to create large-scale tree-sapling sculpture in front of KU’s Spooner Hall The last month of the exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture will feature the arrival on campus of world-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty.
April 27, 2009 Wang Tiande is Spencer’s inaugural international artist-in-residence Shanghai-based experimental calligrapher Wang Tiande’s work is hailed for dissolving traditional boundaries and definitions of Chinese art. He now brings his innovative ideas to the Spencer as international artist-in-residence.
April 23, 2009 Makoto Nakura: The Wood and Forests Project Japanese marimbist Makoto Nakura will give a concert at the Spencer Museum of Art on Wednesday, May 6 at 7 PM. Accompanied by cellist Matthew Herren and flutist David Fedele, Nakura will perform his original piece 'The Wood and Forests Project.'
April 22, 2009 Spring Arts & Culture Festival Celebrate spring at the Second Annual Spring Arts & Culture Festival on May 2. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature live music, performances by various artists and the opening of the annual Children’s Art Exhibition.
April 21, 2009 Polar explorer Will Steger to give presentation on effects of climate change Steger uses compelling data and satellite imagery to show the extent of global warming at the polar ice caps.
April 16, 2009 Art on the Green: Spring Student Night offers eco-friendly fun The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board invites students to enjoy its annual Spring Student Night on Thursday, April 23. Featuring free food, live and DJ music, an artist’s demonstration, and a fashion show
April 15, 2009 Healing through Art: Local artists to show work at Relay for Life The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board will present art as a message of hope and perseverance at the KU Relay for Life on Friday, May 1.
April 13, 2009 The Fierce and the Fabulous: Lawrence fashion scene raises roof, awareness The Spencer Museum will kick off the Apparel-geddon with Spring Student Night, Thursday, April 23.
April 2, 2009 Festival planned for fans of Liszt The American Liszt Society meets Friday through Sunday in Lawrence for its annual festival, which is expected to draw several hundred people. The theme is 'Liszt and the Art of Transcription.'
April 1, 2009 Lt. Gov. says scientists, not politicians, will save environment SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy talks climate change with KS Lt. Gov. Matt Parkinson.
March 26, 2009 Bruce Mau - Massive Change: the Future of Design and Life on Earth What if the questions surrounding design turned out to be the big questions? What if life itself became a design project? What if the welfare of the entire human race became design’s practical objective? What if we succeeded?
March 24, 2009 Alternate Realities: Installation explores themes of Second Life Opening April 4, 2009
March 10, 2009 Branching out: Tree-themed art exhibits sprout up across town Trees are taking center stage at local art galleries starting this month as three separate exhibits of arboreal art open.
March 10, 2009 Photojournalist, KU grad Stephen Williams to discuss work at North Pole Photojournalist Stephen Williams will be at the Spencer Museum of Art on March 26 and 27 to talk about his photographs and observations of Inuit life that appear in the exhibition Climate Change at the Poles.
March 9, 2009 A Tradition Redefined Expanded exhibition listing in ArtTattler
March 5, 2009 KU museums see increased attendance in tough economic times Attendance is booming at Kansas University museums during the economic recession, and for more than one reason, museum officials said.
March 5, 2009 Percolating at the Spencer Come spin "The Wheel of Willing Diversion" - a Percolator project
February 25, 2009 Opening March 5 - Trees & Other Ramifications The exhibition features prints, drawings, books & photographs drawn from KU and area collections, explores works of art inspired by trees & images from the arts & sciences in which trees have served as a metaphor for real & imagined branching systems.
February 20, 2009 Why University Museums Matter Cease and desist is the advice I give university administrators toying with thoughts of closing their campus museums and peddling the art, as Brandeis recently threatened to do. Just stop. Period. Bad way to go.
February 17, 2009 Opening February 21 - A Tradition Redefined A spectacular national traveling exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art honors Chu-tsing Li--one of KU’s most distinguished retired faculty members and a pioneer in the teaching, study, and collecting of modern and contemporary Chinese art in the West.
February 14, 2009 Chinese Music Ensemble Members of the Kansas City Chinese Music Ensemble perform and give a teachers workshop Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009 at KU's Spencer Art Museum.
February 14, 2009 Art exhibitions track climate change Climate change is the topic of two current exhibitions at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art.
February 12, 2009 Ice Wolf offers lessons on tolerance Ice Wolf, a tragic drama written for a child audience, runs this weekend at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.
February 12, 2009 Inuit Culture Explored in New Production of The Ice Wolf Theater always involves collaboration between like-minded actors, directors, and designers. This weekend, a theater in Lawrence expands that relationship to the staff of the Spencer Museum of Art.
February 6, 2009 Climate control: Spencer Museum of Art exhibit examines human interaction with North, South poles The term 'climate change' is steeped in divisiveness. Politics vs. science, nature vs. doomsday, Al Gore vs. George Bush. But what about the artistic aspect of the phrase?
February 5, 2009 Climate Change: Spencer & Lawrence Public Library collaborate to present book discussion and film series The Spencer Museum of Art and the Lawrence Public Library are teaming up to offer a monthly, Thursday night book discussion and film series for community members to further explore the topics presented in the exhibition Climate Change at the Poles.
February 5, 2009 Polarizing Artwork It's difficult for many metro residents to imagine thriving in a biome harsher than the unpredictable Midwest, but for thousands of years, our neighbors to the extreme north and south have lived well, despite the cold.
February 3, 2009 Opening this Sunday - A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change What’s it like for an artist who has revealed ecological issues in her photographs of the American landscape to turn her attention to one of Greenland’s Glaciers? What can her work bring to that of KU scientists who are studying the same glacier?
February 2, 2009 Teaching gallery exhibition to explore images of revolution In collaboration with KU’s international area studies centers, the SMA presents images of revolution in the 20th century in an installation titled Changing the World: Images of Revolution, on view February 12--March 1.
January 30, 2009 New exhibition highlights climate change The Spencer Museum of Art is showing climate change in a way that combines maps, photographs and an 18-foot-long kayak.
January 29, 2009 Spencer Museum Asks for Submissions The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board invites student artists to submit their work for a juried show to be held March 29 through April 18 in the SUA Gallery in the Kansas Union.
January 27, 2009 Technology / Nature: Juried show to display student work; submissions encouraged The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board invites student artists to submit their work for a juried show to be held March 29 through April 18 in the SUA Gallery in the Kansas Union.
January 26, 2009 Spencer Museum of Art the Climate Change at the Poles exhibition The Spencer Museum of Art presents today Climate Change at the Poles, on view through May 24, 2009.
January 23, 2009 Gallery talk, performance to explore life at the Poles TheSMA invites the public to a free gallery talk on the exhibition Climate Change at the Poles and a preview of the Lawrence Arts Center's upcoming play The Ice Wolf on Jan 29. The talk begins at 6:30 PM, with the performance to follow
January 21, 2009 Spencer Museum of Art announces Spring 2009 exhibitions & programs Highlights of the Spencer Museum of Art’s spring 2009 schedule include a retrospective of one collector’s modern and contemporary Chinese art, installations that consider climate change and trees, and a full, diverse slate of public programs.

December 26, 2008 Earle to present lecture Feb. 26 on artist Douglas The Hall Center for the Humanities will present a lecture titled 'Beyond Harlem and Modernism: Aaron Douglas and Art History' by art historian Susan Earle at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Wichita Art Museum.
December 23, 2008 KU Works for Kansas radio spot Hope you enjoy the attached 'KU Works for Kansas' radio spot about the Spencer (and, specifically, Rose Kretsinger), which will be played during KU basketball broadcasts on a rotating basis.
December 18, 2008 Spencer Museum of Art establishes new gallery hours beginning Jan. 12 The museum’s galleries, currently open Tuesday-Sunday, will close one hour earlier each day.
December 16, 2008 The Spencer’s array of Korean toys puts away childish things but not playfulness Toys are never just toys. The playroom remnants of childhood embody the cultural and social mores from which they emerge and suggest a multitude of meanings. Far from benign objects, they function as stand-ins for experiences and memories and retain...
December 12, 2008 Sanford Gifford: A Discovery Joins a University Collection Like every museum curator, I fantasize discovering a major work of art in a second-hand store or an attic, or revealing that a painting previously considered unimportant is actually a masterpiece. It happens rarely. But as director of the Spencer Museum..
December 8, 2008 Grant will allow Spencer Museum of Art to expand teaching, researching capabilities The works in Spencer Museum of Art aren’t just for looking at. They’re also for learning. Or at least that’s the idea behind a grant totaling $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will help expand the use of the museum’s art for .
December 4, 2008 KU museum earns $1.2 million grant to expand use of art in teaching, research The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award underscores the Spencer Museum of Art’s place among select national company.
November 18, 2008 Spencer is selected as Kansas institution to receive major contemporary art donation The Spencer Museum of Art has been selected as the Kansas institution to receive a gift of 50 works of contemporary art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the NEA and IMLS.
October 24, 2008 The Spencer Art Museum Presents Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood On view through January 24, 2009. Toys are more than fun. As cultural artifacts, they embody the fantasies, values, obsessions and anxieties of a generation, speaking to the global relevance of play and the imagination across cultures.
October 8, 2008 About Time: Wendell Castle's Art on Exhibit Question—When is furniture not furniture? When one leg of the chair braces itself against the wall, when the drawers of a dresser protrude from a metallic sphere, or maybe when the surface of the table is smaller than the legs?
October 2, 2008 Climate Change At The Poles Change is coming. From the perspective of an art museum, the prospect of climate change raises some elemental questions. For example, what impact will changing conditions have on current culture, thought, behavior, and artistic expression?
August 23, 2008 Works by Warhol, Arbus part of 'Time/Frame' Lawrence Journal World
August 23, 2008 American Quilt Store: Barbara Backman Ms. Brackman is a noted quilt historian, author, and fabric designer. Her name appears extensively in the quilt world.
August 23, 2008 American Quilt Store: Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art has an exhibit entitled "Quilts: Flora Botanica" on this year from July 12 to October 12. This themed exhibit targets the generation and genesis of patchwork patterns.
August 22, 2008 Graduate students’ works explore time An art exhibition exploring the representation of time throughout history and within cultures will open at the Spencer Museum of Art on Aug. 23.
February 4, 2008 Exhibitions at Spencer Museum of Art explore social change in Russia Artist Alexander Rodchenko called the lens of the camera "the pupil of the eye of the cultured man in socialist society." Now visitors to the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas can see for themselves what Rodchenko meant.

August 27, 2007 All signs point to a unique art experience Even if you’ve been to the Spencer before, you’ve never seen it quite like this. Artists Maria Velasco and Janet Davidson-Hues have created a playful "way-finding" system for the museum called "Stop // Look // Listen"