Exhibition Photo Gallery Time/Frame

August 23 – December 14

Schedules, appointments, deadlines, PDAs, day planners, calendars, wristwatches...

Such timekeeping devices give structure to our lives, and we rely on them to chart the minutes of our days and the moments of our existence. As astronomer and anthropologist Anthony Aveni notes, “Time gets spent, wasted, killed, kept, and lost. We have leisure time, quality time, good times, bad times, hard times, and even hot times.” Our interest in keeping time is by no means a recent phenomenon, when one recalls that prehistoric man, by simple observation of the stars, changes in seasons, and conditions of day and night began to come up with early methods of measuring time to pursue such activities as farming, hunting, and the celebration of sacred feasts. Our concern with time has continued unabated to the present day.

In Fall 2008, the Spencer Museum of Art will consider the ways in which artists have pondered and pictured time. Assembling works from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and across various media, the exhibition Time/Frame considers how time is manifested visually in art and material culture from around the world.

Time/Frame is organized collectively by the 2007-08 Spencer Museum of Art graduate student interns: Robert Fucci, Shuyun Ho, Lauren Kernes, Lara Kuykendall, Ellen Raimond, and Stephanie Teasley.

• 8.21
  Hawk Week Film: Back to the Future / 7 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by the Spencer Student Advisory Board
• 9.13
  It Starts With Art!: Children's art appreciation classes for ages 5-14 / Turning Time /10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / To enroll, contact Jessica Johnson, SMA Education Department, 785.864.0137 or smakids@ku.edu, or enroll online.
• 9.18
  Film: 49 Up / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Introduction by Assistant Professor Mark Landau, psychology
• 9.27
  It Starts With Art!: Children's art appreciation classes for ages 5-14 / It’s About Time /10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / To enroll, contact Jessica Johnson, SMA Education Department, 785.864.0137 or smakids@ku.edu, or enroll online.
• 10.2
  Opening Reception: Time/Frame and Wendell Castle: About Time / 5:30-7 PM / Central Court & Galleries
• 10.2
  Artist Lecture: Wendell Castle on "An Idea in Transition"/ 7 PM / SMA Auditorium / Murphy Lecture Fund / Co-sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History
• 10.10
  Town & Gown Forum: Time/Frame / 10 AM / Central Court & Galleries / Co-sponsored with KU Hall Center for the Humanities. / Join KU faculty members for a series of gallery presentations about the exhibitions / Presenters are: Adrian Melott, cosmology, astrophysics, and astrobiology; Mark Landau, psychology; Larry Martin, ecology and evolutionary biology; and Susan Earle, SMA curator of European and American art
• 12.1
  KU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: It’s About Time / 2 PM / Central Court & Galleries / Join KU faculty members and others for a series of gallery presentations about the exhibitions / $ / Class sponsored by KU Continuing Education. Enrollment required. Please contact Continuing Education, 785-864-KUCE(5823), www.kuce.org, or kuce@ku.edu.