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Spencer Museum of Art
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Activities for Children

  • Art of Kansas and the Region Fourth Grade Museum Tour
    Learn what creates the mood or feeling in an artwork. Learn how artists work with the elements of art to create: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, movement. Learn what kinds of works artists from Kansas and this region created.
  • "How Does It Feel?" Gallery Activity
    Learn about different kinds of texture in art. You will look at visual texture and real texture to learn about how texture may affect how we feel about a work of art.
  • Langston Hughes at the Spencer Museum of Art with Tim Rollins
    Tim Rollins was artist-in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art, Feb. 4-10, 2002. Rollins worked with 24 Lawrence middle-school students to study the writings of Langston Hughes and produce a collaborative work of art based on Hughes's poetry.
  • Tourin' with the Jayhawk
    Take a tour of the Spencer Museum of Art with the Kansas Jayhawk.