April 17

3PM – 5PM
The Burge Union, 1601 Irving Hill Rd, Lawrence, KS 66045

The 8th annual International Jayhawk Festival invites all students. Enjoy the study abroad and international resource fair, international games and performances, as well as food and tee-shirts while supplies last.

April 19

Activity

10AM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 305 Goddard Study Center

Your art wish is our command. Visit the Goddard Study Center on Fridays to request works of art on paper not currently on view or share your interests and let our staff select works for you. You can also drop in to enjoy works requested by other visitors. The Goddard Study Center is open to all during gallery hours with a break from 12-1PM.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art

April 24

Talk

6PM – 8:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art

Join us for a moderated conversation with Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., cousin and childhood best friend of Emmett Till and the last living eye-witness to the whistle and the kidnapping that set the tragedy in motion. A book signing will follow the discussion. The Raven Bookstore will sell books on site. Seating is limited; free tickets are required. Register for tickets at the following link and bring your confirmation email as proof of ticket: https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9H1ZXZCT5pZmQZ0

April 24

Performance

7PM – 8:30PM
Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St

AfroRithm Futures Group will be in residence at KU between April 24-26. During their stay, they will host world-building workshops that use Afrofuturist storytelling and tools that empower groups and individuals to imagine new, more equitable, and inclusive visions of the future. They use collaboration, education, and play to overcome obstacles and drive transformative action for social justice-related issues in any organization. Free tickets are required. https://bit.ly/AfroRithmsLawrence

April 25

Talk

10:15AM – 11AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Perkins Central Court

Learn the true story of a sign that was stolen, throw in a river, replaced, shot, replaced again, and shot again. Follow the sign as it travels from rural Mississippi to the Smithsonian to the White House to Lawrence with KU Professor Dave Tell, author of the 2019 book "Remembering Emmett Till." Senior Sessions are designed with accommodations for older adults but open to all.

April 25

Performance

5PM – 6:30PM
University of Kansas Memorial Union, Woodruff Auditorium, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045

AfroRithm Futures Group will be in residence at KU between April 24-26. During their stay, they will host world-building workshops that use Afrofuturist storytelling and tools that empower groups and individuals to imagine new, more equitable, and inclusive visions of the future. They use collaboration, education, and play to overcome obstacles and drive transformative action for social justice-related issues in any organization. Free tickets are required. Register online at: https://bit.ly/ITSWKey

April 26

Activity

10AM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 305 Goddard Study Center

Your art wish is our command. Visit the Goddard Study Center on Fridays to request works of art on paper not currently on view or share your interests and let our staff select works for you. You can also drop in to enjoy works requested by other visitors. The Goddard Study Center is open to all during gallery hours with a break from 12-1PM.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art

April 26

Performance

10AM – 11:30AM
Hall Center for the Humanities Conference Hall, 900 Sunnyside Ave

AfroRithm Futures Group will be in residence at KU between April 24-26. During their stay, they will host world-building workshops that use Afrofuturist storytelling and tools that empower groups and individuals to imagine new, more equitable, and inclusive visions of the future. They use collaboration, education, and play to overcome obstacles and drive transformative action for social justice-related issues in any organization. Free tickets are required. https://bit.ly/ARFGBlackFuturists

April 27

Activity

1PM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 409 Lee Study Center

Explore the wall of ceramics in our Stewart Gallery, and create your own artwork from Model Magic clay. This drop-in activity station rolls into the galleries each month for children and grown-ups to create hands-on art projects together, taking inspiration from original art on view.

May 01

Talk

11AM – 12:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art

B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence members Alex Kimball Williams and Anthony Boynton share their research and its relationship to art displayed in the exhibition “One History, Two Versions.” Williams will speak about police brutality and protest art and Boynton will discuss Afrofuturism.

May 03

Activity

10AM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 305 Goddard Study Center

Your art wish is our command. Visit the Goddard Study Center on Fridays to request works of art on paper not currently on view or share your interests and let our staff select works for you. You can also drop in to enjoy works requested by other visitors. The Goddard Study Center is open to all during gallery hours with a break from 12-1PM.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art

May 04

Activity

1PM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Reece Memorial Plaza

Co-hosted with the Center for East Asian Studies, our annual Kite Festival provides an opportunity for families to learn about the physics of kites and the art and culture of East Asia. This year, we also celebrate Children’s Day, a national holiday in Japan and South Korea. Learn about how kites are made and decorate your own, enjoy a selection of kite-related art, learn about the wind and make a paper airplane, or create a kabuto (Japanese helmet). In case of inclement weather, the Festival will take place in the first floor of the Kansas Union.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art , Center for East Asian Studies

May 07

Talk

5:30PM – 6:30PM
Lawrence Public Library, Auditorium, 707 Vermont St, Lawrence, KS 66044

Join Curators Susan Earle and Kate Meyer and Collection Manager Angela Watts to learn about art from Africa and the African diaspora in the Spencer’s collection. Q&A follows the presentation. This is the second in a series of public conversations about the Museum’s collection, exhibitions, and programs.

Sponsored By: Lawrence Public Library, Spencer Museum of Art

May 09

Performance

6:30PM – 7:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art

Local John Brown impersonator Kerry Altenbernd visits the Spencer Museum on John Brown’s birthday to answer questions about the abolitionist’s time in Kansas, including events featured in the exhibition “Jacob Lawrence and the Legend of John Brown.”

May 10

Activity

10AM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 305 Goddard Study Center

Your art wish is our command. Visit the Goddard Study Center on Fridays to request works of art on paper not currently on view or share your interests and let our staff select works for you. You can also drop in to enjoy works requested by other visitors. The Goddard Study Center is open to all during gallery hours with a break from 12-1PM.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art

May 14

Activity

1PM – 3PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 409 Lee Study Center

Drop by the Lee Study Center on the second Tuesday of the month to experience different textiles from our collection. In May, celebrate spring flowers with 17th- and 18th-century French textiles. Come back to see different rotations each month.

May 18

Activity

1PM – 4PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 317 Perkins Central Court

Celebrate International Museum Day with the Spencer! Take inspiration from works of Jacob Lawrence and create your own collage. This drop-in activity station rolls into the galleries each month for children and grown-ups to create hands-on art projects together, taking inspiration from original art on view.

May 19

Talk

2PM – 3PM
Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi St

Slow down at the Spencer and spend time getting to know one great work of art. Slow Art Sunday features one work for visitors to contemplate and converse about with Museum staff.

Sponsored By: Spencer Museum of Art

May 23

Talk

10:15AM – 11AM
Spencer Museum of Art, 409 Lee Study Center

Experience the splendor of the Spencer's iconic "Tympanum with the Lamentation (Pieta)." Graduate intern and art history doctoral candidate Sarah Dyer explores the history, original location, function, and style of this impressive portal sculpture once placed over the entrance of a Late Gothic Spanish church. Senior Sessions are designed with accommodations for older adults but open to all.

June 13

Talk

10:15AM – 11AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Marshall Balcony, 404

Curator Kate Meyer leads a tour of the exhibition "Jacob Lawrence and the Legend of John Brown," discussing the artist and his series of prints as well as John Brown and his ties to Kansas. Senior Sessions are designed with accommodations for older adults but open to all.

July 09

12AM – 12AM

July 10

12AM – 12AM