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SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART

Cover image: Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Pia Miller, 1985, Polaroid print (Polacolor ER), Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2008.0048

September –December 2009 CALENDAR vol. XXXII, no. 4 Calendar is published by the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas.

Gallery and Museum Shop hours Please visit our website at www.spencerart.ku.edu for the latest information on the Museum’s open hours.

Office Hours Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 5 PM ph. 785.864.4710 fx. 785.864.3112 www.spencerart.ku.edu spencerart@ku.edu

Location The Spencer Museum of Art is located at 1301 Mississippi St., on the northeast corner of The University of Kansas campus, just west of the Kansas Union. From I-70, take the West Lawrence exit and proceed south on Iowa St. to Ninth St., then east to Mississippi, and south four blocks. From K-10, go west on 23rd St. to Massachusetts St., proceed north to Ninth, then west to Mississippi, and south four blocks.

The 2009–2010 Exhibitions and programs are supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; Shumaker Family Foundation; Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts; Ethel and Raymond F. Rice Foundation; Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation; Piersol Foundation; KU Student Senate; Marybelle and Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund; Mary Margaret Brett Fund; Mary P. Lipman Children’s Education Fund; Docent Scholarship Fund; the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency; the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts, federal agencies; and vital corporate, foundation, and individual contributors.

Above left: In April, the Monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery presented an evening of Tibetan spiritual music and dance to a packed crowd in the SMA Auditorium. Above right: As part of International Artist-in-Residence Wang Tiande’s Up/Down installation in May, professionally tethertrained animals grazed the SMA lawn, creating concentric consumption circles that dotted the grass.

Contents

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Dialogue with the Director

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Calendar of Events

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Exhibitions

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The Spencer In Brief

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Friends and Contributors

Above left: DJ Stackswell spun the beats for the Student Advisory Board’s “Art on the Green” Spring Student Night, which included a runway show of sustainable fashion by student and faculty designers.

Above right: The May 2 Spring Arts & Culture Festival, also sponsored by the Student Advisory Board, included instruction in classic Chinese ink painting—this young artist demonstrates his technique.

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Dialogue with Kate Hackman and Meredith Moore

Last spring, the Spencer exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture offered an openended look at some of the many ways that trees are meaningful to humanity and important in the natural world.

Organized by Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings Steve Goddard, Trees & Other Ramifications also literally branched out beyond the Museum’s galleries, connecting on campus with projects at the SUA Gallery, the Natural History Museum, and The Commons @ Spooner Hall, and reaching beyond the Hill through several affiliated, independently curated shows at galleries in Lawrence and Kansas City. Kate Hackman,

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associate director of Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation, organized Happy Tree Friends (or Standing: Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire) as a two-part exhibition presented at La Esquina Gallery and Paragraph Gallery. Happy Tree Friends blended photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, quilting, collage, audio, video, performance, installation, urban design, and even cooking to address the tree theme through a wide swath of creative investigations by artists from across the country.

Recently, Spencer director Saralyn Reece Hardy and curatorial intern Meredith Moore discussed the collaboration with Hackman.

Saralyn Reece Hardy: It’s been so exciting for me to think about these two exhibitions together, because the Kansas City contemporary art world and the university art museum world rarely come together. So I’m hoping this is the first of a long line of things that we can do together. But I want to ask both of you about the concept of the shows.

Kate Hackman: The Happy Tree Friends exhibitions started under the same umbrella and sort of veered into two shows. The way we work at Charlotte Street Foundation and in the Urban Culture Project is we tend to be sort of nonlinear in terms of how things evolve, and look to the artists to be driving the ideas. Really what I did was frame a call to artists that was thinking through a range of different ideas, asking contemporary artists to propose artworks that incorporated trees and somehow were talking about culture, thinking about trees as skins that revealed things about the nature of our behavior, trees as place-makers, trees as agents of our own industry and creative expression. So the subtitle for the show—Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire—embodied three different strains of things I was asking artists to think about and respond to. I put the call out there with a couple of pages worth of loose ideas, and just got left to

right field of responses. It really became about how artists thought their work plugged into this sort of loose structure, then how I responded to their ideas and tried to create a cohesive series of two exhibitions—but not worrying too much about it all making sense together.

SRH: That’s one thing I admire about the way you work, Kate—that there’s a theme out there, but there’s also the reality of the presence of the artist, and how one brings those two things together in a contemporary setting is extremely important. Otherwise we’re stuck with living in two worlds and never getting the opportunity to go somewhere in between. Meredith, can you talk a little about the concepts behind the show at the Spencer?

Meredith Moore: Kate talked about a nonlinear approach to her exhibitions and working with artists. Meanwhile, in the Museum, we made a beeline for our permanent collections, which resulted in finding a lot of works that formed very circuitous paths around the idea of trees. A lot of it was historical artwork or objects that relate to the concept of tree as a rigid, formal structure that humans have used to organize their thoughts— essentially, ramifications or branching of ideas into new directions….We found some incredible books that speak to

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Dialogue

the intellectual level of trees as parts of nature and as parts of human thought, and we also have some beautiful images of trees that are simply very spiritual or relate to certain social instances. We found many objects that used the tree as a starting point to move in a line somewhere, but when we brought all those objects together it created sort of a hairy mess of tangled roots that have formed a really rich place for us to discuss all sorts of social and art historical issues.

SRH: What did experiencing trees from this broad topic lead you to? In some ways, “trees” is simplistic, and of course we never wanted it to be that way, but we hoped that it would somehow drive us toward something where the layers and possibilities were endless. So after having thought about not only the structure of trees but also the attraction they hold for people, what did it lead you to think in new ways about?

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KH: I think it goes beyond thinking about trees. On one hand it was a crystallizer for the idea of attentiveness and connection. Trees emblematize for many people this idea of emotional and physical and time-span kinds of connection to place, to one another, to something larger than yourself….What came across most deeply to me was a longing for grounding, for connection, for a kind of rounded sensitivity towards things. Not in an outcome-based way, but a longing to be attentive to your life, be attentive to your behavior, be attentive to your environment.

MM: I think it’s impossible not to be led that direction because when we look at the show we see again and again people’s desire to understand things and to understand them visually, which is why so many family trees came about, because it’s an easy way to break down a complicated series of relationships into something that you can immediately understand. The form of a tree is something that’s in every culture. I think it’s interesting to find a node that you can put in a gallery that maybe everyone can agree on, but what was led to think about also was the very different ways that people think. On the one hand we have these very spatial thinkers who put their ramifications

to the edge of the paper and they just keep going and there’s no end or beginning to their artistic or scientific idea. Whereas there are other works that

of difference. The other thing that was striking to me about the show at the Spencer was that if you looked at that through a contemporary art lens…there were so many objects that felt contemporary. In having such a broad subject, it begins to allow that to happen—these differences across time can almost collapse. You begin to realize that there’s sort of perpetuation of relationships we have with this thing that’s still around and was around thousands of years ago. It show how people really want a neat and was interesting to me just how so many tidy package. Either they want to offer a of those very old in some cases works tidy answer to a social problem through felt very contemporary and currently their political work of art, or they simply relevant and aesthetically immediate. draw a very symmetrical tree that’s very visually appealing but its meaning is all on the surface—and that’s fine, too, because trees have been a decorative theme for a long time. So that’s what interested me about the direction that the circuitous nature of trees led us towards. Even though we see that it’s all interconnected, ultimately, people are irreconcilably different in terms of their mental approach to life.

KH: Sometimes in investigating such an almost universal subject, it does really crystallize the individuality of responses to it and becomes sort of a mechanism for looking at that spectrum

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Calendar of Events NOVEMBER

11.07 Workshop: Reimagining Central sat

Europe: Transition and Identity / 8:30 AM–1 PM / SMA Auditorium / As part of a semester-long commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Soviet Communism in East Central Europe, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas announce a K-16 Workshop for Educators. The workshop will be held during the Velvet Revolution Week which will be filled with exciting events / Presenters include KU Professor Svetlana VassilevaKaragyozova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, KU Professor Nathaniel Wood, History / For more information and to register please contact tvw@ku.edu

Hand-build a pot or weave recycled phone wires into a basket form. / Instructor: Emily Barr, KU design student / $ / In conjunction with the exhibition Earthly Vessels: African Ceramics *

11.09 Murphy Lecture Series: Yui Suzuki, mon

Assistant Professor of Ancient & Medieval Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland, College Park. / 5:15 PM / Room 211 / Murphy Lecture Fund

11.12 Gallery Talk: Senior Session on thu

Madonna and Child, a medieval sculpture, presented by Valija Evalds, KU Assistant Professor of Medieval Art. / 10 AM / Medieval Gallery / This popular series of informal gallery discussions is designed for senior citizens but open to everyone!

11.07 It Starts with Art! Children’s art sat

appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / Where on Earth? / Excavate what clay and plastic vessels can tell you about a place and its people.

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Poetry Reading: NewWork, a late afternoon poetry reading with Kenneth Irby, Joseph Harrington and William J. Harris. / 4:30 PM / Central Court Film: Moolaade / 6 PM / SMA Auditorium / Senegalese writerdirector Ousmane Sembene makes an impassioned plea against the practice of salinde, or female circumcision, in this moving portrait of a society in transition.

In a West African village run by uncompromising Muslim males, fiery Colle (Fatoumata Coulibaly), provides safe harbor for young girls fleeing their “cleansing” rituals.

Colle casts a “moolaade” spell which will bring harm to anyone who attempts to hurt those under her care, and the villagers are angry but powerless in the face of this magic. But what one man terms “a minor domestic issue” soon puts the whole town on the verge of bloodshed. In Senegalese with English subtitles (2004, 124 minutes). / In conjunction with the exhibition Earthly Vessels: African Ceramics

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Town & Gown Forum: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s / 10–11:30 AM / North Balcony Gallery / Co-sponsored with KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities / Join KU faculty members for a series of gallery presentations about the Spencer’s exhibition Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s. / SMA Curator Susan Earle, moderator Gallery Talk: Third Thursday at SMA / Intern Sooa Im on Extra/Ordinary / 12 PM / Kress Gallery / Hosted by the SMA Student Advisory Board Murphy Lecture Series: Burglind Jungmann, Professor of Korean Art History at UCLA / 5:15 PM / Room 211 / Murphy Lecture Fund Poetry Reading: Judith Roitman and Jim McCrary / 6:30 PM / SMA Central Court / Roitman, who is continued...

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Calendar of Events NOVEMBER a KU professor of mathematics and a poet, will read from recent works and from her 2008 book No Face — New and Selected Poems published

by First Intensity Press. Longtime Lawrence poet McCrary will read from his 2008 publication All That—The Collected Chapbooks published by ManyPenny Press.

He will also read recent works some of which appear on his blog. / The above publications and more will be available at the reading.

12.10 Gallery Talk: Senior Session on thu

12.10 Films: KU Student Video Premiere thu

DECEMBER

12.05 It Starts with Art! Children’s art sat

appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / Roll a Scroll / Study a variety of Chinese ink rubbings from our permanent collection. Experiment with Chinese ink and brush techniques to create your own bamboo hanging. / Instructor: Jane Wilson / $ *

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French Impressionist Paintings, presented by Susan Earle, Curator of European & American Art / 10 AM / 19th Century Gallery / This popular series of informal gallery discussions is designed for senior citizens but open to everyone!

/ 4:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / KU Design students present new video work. Experimental, documentary, story telling, and nonlinear narrative styles are explored emphasizing personal expression.

12.10 Film: Kaleidoscope / 7 PM / SMA thu

Auditorium / This film examines changes in Macedonian folk culture caused by the country’s struggle to cope in today’s global world. / Sandra Ristovska, director, producer and screenwriter of the film and a junior in film and media studies at KU.

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*It Starts With Art!

EXTENDED INFORMATION Our entertaining, interactive programs for children ages 5–14 combine art education with hands-on creation. Each week, students explore selected art works in the Museum and make their own art based on the techniques, media, and traditions they discover. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.

Ages 5–8 meet 10:30 AM–12:30 PM and ages 9–14 meet 1:30–3:30 PM. Classes are $12 / $10 for Friends of the Art Museum members. Enroll in four or more classes and receive the FAM price. To enroll, contact the Education Department, 785.864.0137, smakids@ku.edu, or visit www.spencerart.ku.edu

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Exhibitions

Big Shots Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s North Balcony | August 15 – January 24, 2010 Big Shots highlights a recent gift to the Spencer from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. of rarely seen photographs

by Warhol, dating from 1970 to 1986, presented within the context of the dynamic period of art and cultural production during which they were made. The photographs include “celebrity” portraits shot as black-andwhite prints or as unique color Polaroids using the eccentric Big Shot camera that Warhol made famous.

In light of Warhol’s near iconic status and his views on the topic of fame, the exhibition features artists and other celebrities in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s, looking at the interconnections between Warhol’s Factory, performance art, the underground music club scene, punk and new wave, and the cult of celebrity.

True to the spirit of this intermingling of different art forms and social interactions, the exhibition encompasses a variety of media. The show features photographs, prints, posters, music, and music videos. The exhibition also includes a vintage photobooth to allow visitors to shoot self-portraits and enjoy their own “15 minutes of fame.”

(left) Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Andre Leon

(right) Hans Namuth, 1915–1990, Leo

Talley and unidentified man, 1982, gelatin silver

Castelli, circa 1964, gelatin silver print, Gift

print, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for

of Esquire, Inc., 1980.0304

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Artists in addition to Warhol include Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Anderson, Keith Haring, Martha Rosler, Larry Fink, and Bud Lee, among others. Celebrities and culture-producers portrayed include Mick Jagger, Patti Smith, William Burroughs, Joseph Kosuth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Calvin Klein, Brooke Shields, Iris Love, Victor Hugo, Cherry Vanilla, Carmen d’Alessio, and punk rocker/New Waver David Yarritu, among others.

(left) Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Linda Cossey (And Her Camera), 1980, Polaroid print (Polacolor 2), Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2008.0062 (right) Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Cherry Vanilla, date unknown, gelatin silver print, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2008.0159

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The Graphic Imperative International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, and the Environment, 1965–2005 Central Court | September 5 – November 29, 2009 “The poster is the prime field for experimenting with visual language. It is the scene of changing ideas and aesthetics, of cultural, social and political events.” — Pierre Bernard, French designer The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. Themes include dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy, and tolerance, and collectively provide a glimpse into an age of profound change. The 111 posters in this exhibition emphasize the issues of our turbulent times and endeavor to show the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of many cultures and divergent political realities.

The Graphic Imperative is organized

by Elizabeth Resnick, Chaz MaviyaneDavies, and Frank Baseman in collaboration with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, supported in part by The Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation and Philadelphia University. The Spencer venue is supported by Richard and Virginia Nadeau, and John and Nancy Hiebert.

In conjunction with the exhibition, organizing institution the Massachusetts College of Art and Design created an in-depth website: www.thegraphicimperative.org AES Group (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky) New Freedom, 2006, Russia, 1996, From the series, “AES: Witness of the Future, Islamic Project 1996–2005”

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Earthly Vessels African Ceramics South Balcony | September 12 – February 7, 2010 The development of African ceramic traditions in agricultural and pastoral societies has yielded a diversity of vessels with unique forms, functions, and symbolic meanings. Vessels are not just containers for food, water and other necessities of life; they also symbolize life itself from creation to culmination. Drawn from the Spencer’s collection by Nancy Mahaney, SMA Curator of Arts & Cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania, this exhibition of African ceramics will explore the form, function, and meanings of ceramic vessels from across the continent.

Zande, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

Zande, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

bottle, PG2008.029

bottle, PG2008.027

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Reviving the Past Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art Asia Gallery 1 | ongoing through 2010 Reviving the Past is a regularly changing thematic presentation of the Spencer’s permanent holdings in the arts of China, Korea, and Japan.

The installations explore the idea of “antiquity” as a resonating force in the creative reframing of art and visual culture in East Asia from the Neolithic period to the contemporary. Reviving the Past not only examines how the phenomena of antiquarianism informed artistic production within East Asia but also considers the development of international trade and modern national identity as relevant factors in this process.

In late November, the installation will shift its focus to Japanese Buddhist art. Please see next page for the description.

Richard Notkin, born 1948, Skull Teapot, Variation #17, 1991, stoneware, Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 1993.0033

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Compassionate Beings Selections of Japanese Buddhist Art November 28– January 3, 2010 Drawn from the Spencer’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the diverse pantheon of deities loosely associated with the trait of compassion in Japanese Buddhist painting and sculpture. From Kannon, commonly known as the “bodhisattva of compassion,” to the Amida Buddha, who is believed to descend at the time of death and deliver the faithful to the Western Paradise, this rich assemblage encompasses devotional art made in the 13th century to more recent paintings by Zen masters completed in the Edo period (1600–1868).

Fu¯gai Ekun, born 1568 Hijishio, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, died 1654 Lake Hamana, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Daruma crossing the river, late 1500s –early 1600s, ink on paper, Museum purchase: State funds, 1984.0135

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Exhibitions Extra/Ordinary Video Art from Asia Kress Gallery | October 24 –February 14, 2010 Extra/Ordinary investigates new ways of transforming mundane experiences, familiar environments and daily routines into moments of expanded meaning, contemplation and humor. Organized by the Spencer Museum of Art, this exhibition features recent video by artists from across Asia, including: Taro Izumi (Japan), Tsui Kuang-yu (Taiwan), and Jung Yeondoo (Korea) and the Xijing Men’s Collective, which includes Chen Shaoxiong (China), Gimhongsok (Korea), and Tsuyoshi Ozawa(Japan).

By repositioning our constructed notions of the “everyday” as absurd encounters, unexpected discoveries, or comical interventions this exhibition explores the imaginative potential embedded in the everyday.

Together the artists in this exhibition uncover the potential of quotidian experience and the material stuff of the world as mutable, un-tethered reservoirs of possibility and in the process turns ordinary moments into celebrations of hidden meaning, wondrous encounters, and poetic meaning.

Xijing Men’s Collective, Chen Shaoxiong,

lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, Invisible

Gimhongsok, born 1964; lives and works in

Cities series, 2006–2008, single-channel video

Seoul, South Korea, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, born 1965; Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan Xijing Olympic Competitions (2008) Single-channel video 18

Tsui Kuang-Yu, born 1974 Taipei, Taiwan;

born 1962; lives and works in Beijing, China,

Chen Shaoxiong Ink Things Electronic Art Space | November 7– March 14, 2010 “A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing.

But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.” —Karl Marx, Das Kapital In the last few years, China has emerged as the top exporter of consumer goods to the United States. From toys to socks, now more than ever, the Chinese economy is shaping our daily material existence in this country.

In Ink Things, Chen Shaoxiong (born 1962) ponders the place of all this “stuff” in our daily lives. Merging digital photography, ink painting, music and video Chen captures the discontinuity of urban memory. Seemingly without plot, Chen delves into the associative meanings of things to create a work that rarely has the same meaning twice.

A provocateur of the Chinese art world, Chen’s first forays into experimental art were in the 1980s as part of the “urban guerilla” collective known as Big Tail Elephant Group. A pioneer in video art, Chen continues to exhibit widely throughout Europe and Asia including the Venice Biennale (2003), Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (2004) and most recently Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale (2008).

Chen Shaoxiong, born 1962; lives and works in Beijing, China, ink things, 2006–2007, video/film, three minutes

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The Spencer In Brief Meet Gaye Leonard The KU Endowment Association has named Gaye Leonard as the Spencer Museum of Art’s new KUEA Development Officer. Leonard will work closely on Museum fundraising initiatives with Margaret PerkinsMcGuinness, the Spencer’s Director of Museum Advancement.

Leonard, who holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, started her career in advertising, television-station promotion, and community affairs. Her television work with various non-profit organizations prompted a career move from media to the non-profit sector. She has worked in non-profit development and community relations for the past 12 years, first as Development Director for the Central California Blood Center and most recently as Executive Director of the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation, supporting the Cherry Creek School District in Denver, Colorado.

To contact Gaye, email gleonard@kuendowment.org or call 785.832.7452.

Gaye Leonard

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Friends of the Art Museum announces 2009–2010 board Susan Tate concluded two years as FAM president, Reed Dillon was announced as the 2009–2010 president, and Burdett Loomis was designated president-elect at the July 16 Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting & Purchase Party.

Barbara Duke and Jean Epstein retired from the board, as did student representative Sierra Falter, last year’s president of the Spencer Student Advisory Board. This year’s Student Advisory Board president, Chase Bray, assumes Falter’s student representative seat. Coming onto the board are Paul Davis, Tim Metz, Vickie Otten, and Francie Arnold (docent representative).

In addition to Dillon, Loomis, and Tate, returning board members are Matt All, R. Ernie Cummings, Brad Chindamo, Nancy Hiebert, Emily B. Hill, Steve Ingalls, Mike Maude, George Paley, Sarah CrawfordParker, Sally Piller, and Gladys Sanders.

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The Spencer In Brief SMA welcomes Celka Straughn as Director of Academic Programs

Celka Straughn

Last fall, the Spencer received an award totaling $1.2 million from New York’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the establishment of a full-time Director of Academic Programs and expand the Museum’s research and teaching influence across campus. Now, after a national search, the Museum is pleased to announce the hiring of Celka Straughn, who comes to KU from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she served as a research assistant for the Developing Minds and Digital Media study at Project Zero.

Straughn brings to the position a compelling mix of academic, museum, and educational experiences.

She received her PhD in art history from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, a multidisciplinary study, analyzed early twentieth-century German discourses of modern Jewish art in relation to broader issues of the social production and reception of art, as well as questions of artistic identity and its intersection with notions of nation, race, culture, and religion. Both prior to and during her doctoral work, she gained curatorial and museum education experience at several university museums, including the Sony Gallery for Photography at the American University in Cairo, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Art Museum.

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“We are delighted to welcome an outstanding scholar and educator to the Universtiy of Kansas,” says Director Saralyn Reece Hardy. “Celka will greatly expand the Spencer’s ability to reach across departments and disciplines to further our work as one of the centers of academic life at KU.”As Director of Academic Programs, Straughn will further reinforce the many collaborative initiatives already underway at the Spencer. Working with the director, curators, and educators, she will serve as liaison between SMA staff and KU faculty, generating, developing, and managing collaboratively taught courses, along with scholarly exhibitions, publications, and symposia that involve students and faculty.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private, not-for-profit corporation formed in 1969 under the laws of the State of New York; it currently offers grants in six core areas: higher education and scholarship, scholarly communications, research in information technology, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment. The Mellon Foundation program for art museums is designed to help institutions build and sustain their capacity to undertake serious scholarship on their permanent collections, preserve their collections, and share the results of their work with scholars and the broader audience.

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The Spencer In Brief Curious about art? Call “An Ear for Art,” SMA’s new cell-phone audio guide The Spencer is excited 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.

Access to the guide is free; callers simply pay for their personal airtime charges. Visitors can hear additional information about specific works by calling in and entering the corresponding prompt number. There’s even a feedback feature that allows museum goers to leave their comments and suggestions. “An Ear for Art” is made possible by a grant from the Shumaker Family Foundation.

To access the audio guide, dial 785.338.9467 from your cell phone. Enter the corresponding number, followed by the pound key (#). Press 0 # to leave your feedback.

And stay tuned for Phase II of the project, which will focus on public sculpture across the KU campus!

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Spencer goes paperless for book about Trees & Other Ramifications No trees were felled for the Spencer’s most recent scholarly publication—a catalogue about last spring’s blockbuster exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture. The Trees publication is free and accessible through the Spencer’s website and includes the full exhibition checklist with images, with articles by Stephen Goddard, Senior Curator and Curator of Prints & Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, and Professor, Kress Foundation Department of Art History; Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director, Spencer Museum of Art; and Leonard Krishtalka, Director, Biodiversity Institute, and Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

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...The Spencer In Brief Foundation & granting agency support advances SMA programs and research The Spencer is pleased to announce several important grants supporting a variety of initiatives at the Museum.

• A three-year, $50,000 grant from the William T. Kemper Foundation will support the Museum’s International Artist-in-Residence program. Shanghaibased experimental calligrapher Wang Tiande, who held a residency during the month of April, was the first artist in the program. Tiande’s residency was also supported by Freeman Foundation funds.

“We are exhilarated by the prospect of welcoming practicing artists to the Spencer to develop new work in a supportive, collaborative environment and to be part of the artistic life of the Museum and its diverse audiences,” says SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy. ‘As we build relationships in the region to further integrate the riches of the Spencer in to everyday life, we owe a great debt of gratitude to the generous organizations such as the William T. Kemper Foundation who support our efforts.”

Up/Down installation by artist Wang Tiande

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• SMA Curator of Asian Art Kris Imants Ercums will use a $21,500 curatorial research fellowship grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., to investigate more deeply his interest in how the introduction of new technology—cell-phone texting capabilities, internet blogs, digital cameras and camera-phones, for example—has affected Asian artists who have grown up in the digital age and who have adopted visual and artistic strategies informed by what Ercums calls “the mutating culture of our time.”

Beginning in 2010, Ercums will make three research field trips over a 14-month period. The first will be to Korea, China, and Vietnam, the second to the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and the third to the Himalayan region and Central Asia—North India, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan.

“I’ll be looking at both the social context of this change and the art and artists who are driving new cultural phenomena as a way of both advancing curatorial and artistic understanding of contemporary Asia in the United States and building a thriving exhibition and residency program at the Spencer,” Ercums says. “I am grateful to the Warhol Foundation for its generous support of these objectives.”

• A one-year, $12,900 grant from the Shumaker Family Foundation will fund the inaugural year of “An Ear for Art”—the Spencer’s new cell-phone tour program.

Paul K. Shumaker, who established the foundation passed away on July 5. Shumaker, a dedicated philanthropist, was a founding partner in the Olathebased company Garmin, Ltd., a world leader in global positioning systems, and was a committed philanthropist with a focus on peace-building missions around the world and other humanitarian efforts.

“This generous grant significantly increases our ability to add supportive technology to our galleries and provide meaningful experiences for our audiences— first in the form of first-hand encounters with visual art in the Museum and then as online audio access to our cell-phone tours, something unique in the area,” SMA Director of Education Kristina Walker says.

Kris Ercums in the Big Shots’ photobooth

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“The cell-phone initiative will make a great difference in our ability to serve communities of learners in the region, on the KU campus, and across Kansas.”

Other recent awards to the Spencer are: • $8,000 from the Kansas Arts Commision supporting “It Starts with Art” children’s art appreciation classes during the 2010 fiscal year.

• $7,808 from the Kansas Arts Commission supporting general operating expenses during the 2010 fiscal year.

• $4,000 from the KU Student Senate to fund a visitor kiosk at the Museum’s main entrance.

• $2,000 from the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation to provide a student assistant in support of the Spencer’s ongoing collection digitization project.

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Spencer’s FY08 Register now available!

Featuring on its cover the stunning Aaron Douglas gouache painting The Founding of Chicago, the Spencer’s FY08 Register is now available for $8 in the Museum Shop. Edited

by Lee Blackledge and designed by Amanda Schwegler with photography by Robert Hickerson and assistant editing by Emily Ryan, the 144-page book centers on the Museum’s groundbreaking, national traveling exhibition Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, and the 30th anniversary of the Spencer, which opened in 1978.

The book leads off with new scholarship on two recently acquired works. SMA Curator of European & American Art Susan Earle meditates on the cover image in “An allegory of black power: Aaron Douglas’s The Founding of Chicago,” and KU Professor of Art History David Cateforis writes about how “Wenda Gu’s Metamorphoses” significantly advances the Spencer’s commitment to the collection and display of international contemporary art.

In addition to the standard overview of new acquisitions (some of which are highlighted by brief articles), programming and exhibition reviews, facts, and figures, the FY08 edition includes a special, one-time section called “Then and Now,” offering an article by Marilyn Stokstad and a poem by Bret Waller called “Riemenschneider’s Jungfrau,” among other reminiscences about the Spencer’s first three decades. Stokstad’s article, “Lament for a Lamentation (or how the tympanum over the doors to the Spencer’s Central Court came to be where it is today)” is the Museum’s first online Register publication, since only the first paragraph— as a teaser, appears in the printed Register—the entire article, with color images, can be seen only online at http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/stokstad_lament.shtml).

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...The Spencer In Brief Artist Patrick Dougherty completes The Bedazzler The cylindrical structure swirls and climbs around a large American Elm tree anchoring the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Spooner Hall.

Curious pedestrians pause, gaze upward, and enter through one of several arched portals to consider this fresh addition to the lawn of the oldest building on the KU campus.

Patrick Dougherty

Commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art in conjunction with the spring 2009 exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture, North Carolina-based sculptor Patrick Dougherty spent three weeks in May working with a large team of volunteers to create The Bedazzler, the latest of more than 200 natural-wood works he’s made worldwide since the early 1980s. For each of his monumental, site-specific sculptures, he gathers saplings from local sources and shapes them into massive forms that soar as high as 40 feet. The Spencer project, presented in cooperation with The Commons @ Spooner Hall, was constructed predominantly of Silver Maple and Rough-leaf Dogwood saplings that were harvested from dense, sustainable populations west of Lawrence.

About 6,000 pounds of saplings were used.

By their nature, Dougherty’s sculptures are ephemeral, typically lasting 18 to 24 months. The Spencer work is expected to be on view for about two years before the natural decomposition of the branches requires its removal and recycling. In the meantime, The Bedazzler beckons, welcoming us to take a recess from the bustle of contemporary life and let our imaginations climb through its many branches.

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Dougherty’s residency and commission represents yet another Spencer collaboration involving KU faculty and students, and the Lawrence community. A project of this magnitude requires a large team and diverse talents, and the Museum thanks all of the volunteers who have made this work possible.

Carolyn Chinn Lewis, Spencer Museum of Art assistant director, and Emily Ryan, Spencer project coordinator/ administration, served as project coordinators.

Matthew Burke, assistant professor of sculpture, was project site coordinator. KU film student Sandra Ristovska filmed the activity for a documentary about the project. Craig Freeman, curator in the Division of Botany for the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center and associate scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey, assisted with site selection and the harvesting of saplings. Chris Lecuyer, Clinton Wildlife Area manager for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, helped secure the harvesting site. Kevin Wilson of First Management Inc. helped bundle, tie, and load material at the harvest site, and delivered the saplings to campus. Numerous student and community volunteers helped harvest, deliver the saplings to the project site, and assisted the artist over a three-week period in the creation of The Bedazzler on campus. The installation team was led by KU sculpture students David Cogorno, Rachel Kirkendoll, David Platter, and William Vannerson.

Community and student volunteers assisting on the project included Ami Ayars, Bob Bogan, Chase Bray, Cassidy Creek, Whit Bones, Jordan Briceland, Emily Dunlap, He Xing, Andrew Hoxey, Tom Huang, Bryan Lloyd, Mingyang Liu, Matt Weaver, and Julie

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Whitney. From KU Facilities Operations, Mike Lang, project manager for landscape and construction, and Bill Siebenaler, engineering technician, provided key logistical and construction support on campus.

For their generous support of this project, the Spencer thanks the O’Connor Company-Piller Foundation, Reed and Stacey Dillon, the Capitol Federal Foundation, the School of Architecture & Urban Design, Doug Compton and First Management Inc., The Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation, the School of Fine Arts Department of Art & Design and Department of Theatre & Film, the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, KU Facilities Operations Landscape and Engineering, the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Visit the Museum Shop We hope you’ll come by the Spencer’s Museum Shop and check out our selection of artist-created jewelry, note cards, and variety of publications related to the Museum’s collections and exhibitions. So please, drop in. You’ll find something of interest for everyone in your family and, as always, let us know if there are other items you’d like to see in the shop!

Museum Shop Hours Monday: Closed Tuesday–Friday: 11– 4 Saturday: 10 – 4 Sunday: 12– 4

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...The Spencer In Brief Connect! Spencer social networks Social networking at the Spencer Museum of Art engages and increases new and current participants from across the globe to better understand art, themselves and their place in communities. SMA’s social networking creates forums for new connections, discussions, and collaborations, encouraging participants to be full contributors. Here are several ways the Museum is available—all accessible through the SMA website (www.spencerart.ku.edu).

• Facebook: Facebook is a free, social networking site which allows users to connect with a network of friends and acquaintances. Join the Spencer Museum of Art group for information and updates, connections, and discussion.

• Twitter: Twitter is a free micro-blogging site where participants can post 140-character updates for their followers. Follow @spencerart for the inside scoop from the Museum.

• Spencer Museum of ArtBlog: The Museum’s blog provides a variety of posts by Museum staff on topics ranging from Second Life to current exhibitions.

• Second Life: Second Life is an online, virtual world inhabited by residents across the globe. The Spencer Art Museum Island provides a space to see work by virtual artists, explore topics from a real-life exhibition in more depth, or attend an event.

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Loans from the SMA Collection Several works from the Spencer’s collection will be traveling to other institutions for display this fall.

• For its exhibition The Portent: John Brown’s Raid in American Memory, the Virginia Historical Society is borrowing John Steuart Curry’s sketch for Tragic Prelude I, a 1937 oil on canvas rendering of one of Curry’s Kansas Statehouse murals.

• For its exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, the Whitney Museum of American Art is borrowing O’Keeffe’s Pink and Green Mountains No. 1, a 1917 watercolor on paper.

• For its exhibition W YETH: Three Generations of Artistry, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is borrowing James Wyeth’s The Big Inch, a 1965 watercolor on paper.

• For its exhibition The Sacred Feminine: Prehistory to Post-Modernity, The University of Missouri Museum of Art & Archaeology is borrowing two works: Cleopatra before Augustus, a late-18th century oil on copper by Swiss painter Angelica Kauffmann, and The Goddess Neith, an Egyptian bronze sculpture dated after 650 BCE. from top: John Steuart Curry, sketch for Tragic Prelude I (John Brown), 1937, 1957.0059 Georgia O’Keeffe, Pink and Green Mountains, No. 1, 1977.0043 James Browning Wyeth, The Big Inch, 1983.0011 Artist Unknown, The Goddess Neith, 1957.0088 35

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Spencer Keystone ($10,000+) Anonymous Linda Bailey and Ronald Manka Mark and Lauren Booth David and Gunda Hiebert Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation Kansas Arts Commission William T. Kemper Foundation Estelle S. and Robert A. Long

Ellis Foundation Arthur V. Neis Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation Elizabeth Schultz Marilyn Stokstad Hope A. Talbot

Cornerstone ($5,000–9,999) Capitol Federal Foundation Reed and Stacey Dillon William and Judy Docking Ray C. Fleming Jr. H.H. and Kathleen M. Hall Lee Phillips The O’Connor Co.— Piller Foundation Ethel & Raymond F. Rice Foundation Scott and Carol Ritchie John C. Shawver Donald C. Slawson Richard and Sondra Smith

Fellow ($2,500– 4,999) Colette and Jeff Bangert

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Melinda and John Couzens Randall and Saralyn Reece Hardy David C. Henry Mrs. H.W. Reece Mr. and Mrs. Dolph C. Simons III Brad and Susan Tate

Benefactor ($1,000–2,499) Barbara Brackman David Cateforis Brad and Ellen Chindamo Dr. Allan Cooke Margaret M. Daicoff Archie and Nancy Dykes Georgann Eglinski and Ron Schorr Joseph C. Fabian and Anna Jantz Ann Foresman Mrs. W. David Francisco SuEllen and Harvey Fried Ellen Goheen Randy D. Gordon John L. Hampton John and Nancy Hiebert Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Carolie and Bill Hougland Steve and Cara Ingalls Brian and Barbara King Richard and Janis Lariviere Burdett and Michel Loomis Larry and Barbara Marshall Mike and Cindy Maude Don and Gerry Miller Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mitchell Robert S. and Charlotte Mueller Virginia and Richard Nadeau Lynn and Sally Piller Marynell Reece

Jeff and Mary Weinberg Sue Grosjean Wilcox

Donor Patron ($500–999) Ken and Katie Armitage Jane V. Barber John Poertner and Edith Black Kay, Tom, Tyler, and Jeff Carmody Paul Coker, Jr. and Rosemary Smithson Joe and Vicki Douglas Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Harry and Becky Gibson Mrs. William Gilbert David T. Graves Don and Sandra Hazlett Nancy Lindsey Helmstadter Bryan and Linda Johnson Sacie and David Lambertson Jim and Carolyn Chinn Lewis Chuck and Mary Loveland Hammond McNish James and Virginia Moffett Richard S. Paegelow Piersol Foundation Mary Ruth Petefish James and Carol Roberts Barry Shimelfarb MD Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Simons Mr. and Mrs. Dolph C. Simons, Jr. Karen Smoot Valentino and Elizabeth Stella John T. and Linda Stewart, III Steven F. Warren and Eva Horn Rob and Betsy Weaver

($200–499) Leonard and Deborah Alfano Dave and Mary Kate Ambler Ellen B. Avril Linda and Jim Ballinger Beverly Smith Billings, In Memory

of Bob Billings Michael L. Carnahan Bill and Barbara Carswell Paul Carttar and Mary Frances Ellis Joyce Castle Edith Clowes James and Elaine Elrug Connell William J. Crowe Candice Davis Sally K. Davis Mary Elizabeth Debicki Jim and Marilyn Dowell Jerry and Mary Dusenbury Susan Earle and John Pultz Jerry Elliott and Debra Duncan Jean and Steve Epstein H. Bernard Fink Family Ruth Garvey Fink Jacqueline and Larry Gadt Norman and Helen Gee Web and Joan Golden Robert and Karen Gould Jean and Moulton Green, Jr. Rowan A. Greer Lewis and Laura Gregory Sally Hare-Schriner Tom Harper Don and Jene Herron

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Frank and Judith Sabatini Gladys N. and Robert B. Sanders Marjorie Swann and William Tsutsui Lee F. Young

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

John and Kristin Hillis D.M. and Jeanne Hrabe Raymond and Mary Lee Hummert Mike and Kitty Johnson Scott J. Jones and Mary Lou Reece David M. and Sharyn Brooks Katzman Mike and Elaine Kautsch Mary Klayder and David Brown Carl and Excie Kurz Ted and Jane Kuwana Carol and Dave Kyner Mark and Jill LaPoint Susan and Stuart Levine Dr. Janey Levy Forest L. and Dee A. Link Jane W. Malin Bridget E. Murphy New Generation Society of Lawrence Keith and Laura Nilles Judy and George Paley Lew and Gwen Perkins Margaret Perkins-McGuinness John and Ardith Pierce Carol Prentice and David Shulenburger Richard and Kathleen Raney Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Rose Jean Rosenthal and Dave Kingsley Dan and Nicole Sabatini Mary Kay and Jerry Samp Dick and Barbara Schowen James and Virginia Seaver Tim and Julie Shaftel Roger Shimomura The Hon. Fred and Lilian Six Marty Smith John and Karen Somers Mr. and Mrs. Morton I. Sosland St. James Academy Judith and Peter Thompson

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Peter and Ann Thompson Tim and Jerrye Van Leer Kevan and Gail Vick Steven F. Warren and Eva Horn Drs. Judy and Jack Wright Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zanatta

Friend ($50–199) Anonymous Daniel Alam Conrad Altenbernd Deena Amont Marcia F. Anderson Carol Anderson and John Fowler Arbuthnot Software Solutions Tom and Francie Arnold The Arts Appreciation Group

of Hollywood Florida Michael L. Aurbach Ric and Jean Averill Walter and Barbara Bailey Price and Marge Banks Ofelia A. Baradi Richard and Nancy Barohn Martha B Barr Bob and Margaret Bearse Barbara and Frank J. Becker Shellie Bender Chuck and Beth Berg David M. Bergeron Carolyn Berry Kara Tan Bhala Marlene Bien Judy Billings Nancy and Gary Bjorge Chuck and Dee Blaser Sally G. Bloom

Richard and Fern DeGeorge Kolene and Paul Dietz John and Deborah Divine Gwen and Jerry Dobson Patrick and Mary Dooley Mary and John Doveton Barbara M. Duke Patricia DuBose Duncan Don and Teresa Duncan James and Nancy Dunn Ben and Katy Eddy Jason and Machaela Edmonds Stephen and Chris Edmonds Edmund and Pamela Eglinski Susan Elkins and Jack Winerock Hilda Enoch Ann Evans Stephen Fawcett & Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett Melinda and Gary Fish Monika P. Fischer Jeanne Fletcher J. Robert Fluker Sherry Fowler and Dale Slusser Marci Francisco Hank and Paula Frankel The Freise Family Susanne Frensley Robert J. Friauf Charles and Diane Frickey Elaine L. Frisbie Paula Fried and Brad Stuewe Ligia M. Galarza Chuck and Sandy Garrett Sidney A. Garrett Garvey Kansas Foundation George E. and Ruth B. Gibbs Helen Gilles Rich and Sue Givens

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Nikki and AndrĂŠ Bollaert Rolf and Laura Borchert Robert and Wilma Bowline David Brackett, David Quinn Sara Dale Brandt George Brenner Dr. Mark J. Brodkey Mark and Susie Brooks Betsy Broun Robert and Sharon Brown Rex Buchanan and Mindy James Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Buck Mark and Marsha Buhler Tim and Rachel Epp Buller R. Cord Burk Kenneth and Jean Butler George W. Byers Winslow M. and Sue Cady Kit Carlsen Janet L. Carpenter Paul Carttar and Mary Francis Ellis Peter and Rosalea Carttar Lois Clark Cynthia Claus Melvin Clausen Bob and Janice Cobb Ardis J. Comfort Fred P. Conboy Warren and Mary Corman Sally Cornelison and Dan DePardo Jane A. Cotitta Sarah and Doug Crawford-Parker Hobson and Helen Crockett Ann Cudd and Neal Becker Judith A. Culley Peter and Virginia Curran Paul Davis Hal M. Davison Stanley and Alice Jo DeFries

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Grant Glenn and Donna Reynolds Steve and Diane Goddard Elizabeth Goetz Leo R. Goertz Marrillie C. Good Pat Graham and David Dunfield Lynne Green Roy and Marilyn Gridley Robin Gross George and Susan Gurley James and Diane Guthrie Kay and Gary Hale Susan Haley William and Nancy Hambleton Janet Hamburg Pauline G. Harvey Dan and Jay Haugh Michelle Haynes Steve and Debra Hedden Matt and Diane Henk W. Dean Henrichs MD Richard and Nancy Hernandez Marcia and Stephen Hill Dick and Sue Himes Ronald L. and Barbara J. Hinton Belinda and Thomas Hoover Richard M. Hoover Nancy Hope Vicky and Rex Howard John and Janet Burnett Huchingson Harry and Mary Lou Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Hughes Lisa Daus Imbler Jeff and Sherry Ingles Prof. Kenneth Irby Hobart and Shakura Jackson Nancy Jackson Wes and Joan Jackson Reinhild Janzen Louise M. Jarvis *List current as of August 3, 2009

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Dan and Jeannette Johnson Ted and Mary Johnson Stephen Johnson and Debra Goldberg Donald and Alice Ann Johnston Linda and Topper Johntz Nancy Jorn Dr. Howard and Shirley Joseph Linda G. Josserand Maurice and Betsy Joy Susan Kang and Jeffrey Moran D. James Kallos John and Sangeetha Kelly Patrick and Amy Kelly Bradley Kemp Jean Grosjean Kerich and

J. Patrick Kerich Lesley T. Ketzel Jacob and Maia Kipp Kathy Kirk Karen L. Koehler Karen and Ed Komp Liz Kowalchuk The Krishtalka Family Andy Kroeker Missy and Bob Kroeker John and Margie Kuhn Betty A. Laird Thomas W. Laming Landmark National Bank Bill and Bonnie Lathrop Paula and Rusty Leffel Cheryl Lester and Philip Barnard Alice A. Lieberman Stan Lombardo and Judy Roitman Dr. Loretta Loftus Jim and Larissa Long Lila Borgman Lothson Denise Low-Weso and Tom Weso John and Linda Lungstrum

JoAnn Myers Samantha Neal Art and Connie Neuburger Tim Neuburger Marge Newmark Jeannette Nichols Virginia Ann Nichols Barbara Nordling SanDee and Jerry Nossaman John and Karen Oberzan Bill and Harolyn O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. W. Ronald Olin David F. Oliver Dick and Georgia Orchard Dr. James F. and Vickie Otten Dean and Doris Owens Carolyn and Tom Payne Pamela and John Peck Mrs. Al Pendleton Janet Perkins and Jeff Aube Mr. William E. Pfeiffer, Jr. Diana B. and G. Joseph Pierron Ken and Rowena Pine Christopher and Carolyn Pinet Marsha Poholsky Roberta and May Pokphanh Austin and Karley Ast Porter Peter Pran Laurance and Johanna Price Vickie Randel Polly Reed Beth A. Ridenour Richard and Joan Ring Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Robinson W. Stitt and Connie Robinson Kate and Dan Rockhill Margaret Rose Beverly and Howard Rosenfeld Mary Ross Larry and Kathy Rotert

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Matt and Holly Manske Robert and Anita Markley Larry and Barbara Marshall Mrs. Robert Marshall Larry and Jean Martin Maureen Martin Molly and Stephen Maxwell Bill and Beverly Mayer Stephen W. Mazza Mary and Greg McCabe Paul J. and L. Jean McCarthy George and Marilyn McCleary Robert and Suzanne McColl Barbara B. McCorkle B. Kent and Janette McCullough Sally McGee Mary and William McGuinness Ross and Margaret McKinney Dr. and Mrs. Sidney A. McKnight Jr. Charles and Laurie McLane-Higginson Genevieve T. McMahon Rosalie McMaster Keith and Janet Meyer Susan C. Meyer Allan and Sandi Miller Christine Miller Elizabeth Miller and William L. Eakin Deborah Milks and Charles

Novo-Gradac Kenneth L. and Gloria C. Miner Nancy S. Mitchell C. M. S. and Janet Mody John and Kathryn Mollett Meredith Moody Mary Mortensen Ruth Moss Herman and Phyllis Munczek Brigid Murphy and Jackson Clark Bridget Murphy Patrick and Mary Beth Musick

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Pat Roth Bob and Rosalee Roth James K. Rowland Sylvie Rueff and Glenn Garneau Jeannette Runyan Fred Sack Sara Sack Neil and Leni Salkind Richard and Phyllis Sapp Janet M. Satz D.D. Schaake Carol Schmitt and W. Propst Bob and Jan Schwartz James and Virginia Seaver Simran Sethi Todd and Jeannot Seymour Del and Carol Shankel Larry E. Shankles Carolyn and Bob Shelton Diane Simpson James A. and Geraldine Slater, II Boyd and Heather Smith Glee and Jerry Smith Lucy Smith Terry and George Smith Henry and Janette Snyder Paul and Debbie Sokoloff John and Patricia Solbach Rita Spradlin Byron and Marion Springer Virginia Marshall Starkweather Barbara E Starrett Helen V Starrett Tammy and Don Steeples Denise Stone Stone Dance Foundation Patrick Suzeau and Muriel Cohan Evelyn Swartz John and Deanell Tacha Drs. Thomas and Edith Taylor *List current as of August 3, 2009

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Tom and Dixie Telander Marion Thilking Ronald Gene and Shirley A. Thomas John C. Thorns Sr. Jeffery and Kersten Thornton Benjamin and Marilyn Tilghman Carla Tilghman & Larry Brow Kent and Carol Tomlinson Mrs. Georgiana H. Torres Sarah Chappell Trulove and

James Woelfel Mrs. Ruth A. Turney Kathryn and Bill Tuttle Mary Ventura Marion and Atlee Vernon David and Wendy Vertacnik Robin and Scott Ward Graham and Anne Walker Rosemary and Marvin Walter Chuck and Karen Warner Marian Warriner Ruth R. Weir Arnold Weiss The Weiss Family Mary Wharff and Andy Bloomer Ann and Pete Wiklund Betty Wilkin Sheila Wilkins and Kim Kern Tom and Jan Wilson Arina Liao and Alex Wong William I. Woods Carol Wright Judy and Robert Wright Morgan Wright Ronald and Alice Wurtz Norm and Anne Yetman Robert and Marilyn Zerwekh Senior ($35+)

Richard C. Hite Betty Austin Hensley Anita Herzfeld Ron and Joanne Hurst Julie A. Jones Edie Kelly Carole J. Klopp R. Keith and Phyllis Lawton Alice Leonard Sue I. Leonard Bernie and Joan Levine Rebecca Hewson Lewis Richard and Karen Lind Loraine H. Lindenbaum Scottie Lingelbach Pamela Loewenstein Colleen Murbach John and Carol Nalbandian James V. Owens Mary Alice Pacey Stephen and Marie-Luce Parker Jane B. Pearce Theo M. Penny Nancy L. Peterson Susan and Larry Raby Dr. Rosemary Schrepfer Larrie and Brilla Scott Al and Jane Sellen Ted L. Sexton Jr. William A. and Judith Shunk Katherine E. Stannard Clare E. Statham Ilse Steinhardt Susan Suhler James B. and Thelma Taylor Luella G. Vaccaro Alice Weis George and Carol Worth Mary Louise Wright

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Anonymous Betty Alderson Tom and Jane Apostol Marnie Argersinger Patricia M. Balsamo Lillian M. Barker Frank and Betty Baron Maynard Bauleke Prof. Howard Baumgartel Grace H. Beam Siri Blakstad Miriam Blum-Baur Jean-Pierre Boon Joachim and Jutta Brill Byron and Julia Brooks Phyllis A. Brownlee James A. Brundage Ann Church Ann Kuckelman Cobb Albert B. Cook DiAnne Damro Kari Day-Dean and Douglas H. Dean Dorothy Devlin Nancy and David Dinneen Patricia Doemland David and Barbara Downing Ronald C. Eiler Frances L. Fischer Helen W. and Clark A. Fisher Carol M. Floersch Dr. Paul and Winnie Getto Katherine Carr Giele Mrs. Howard Gilpin Irene Goddard Marrillie Good Margaret Gordon Carol H. Graham Judy Greer Davis Rita R. Haugh

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Student ($15+) Jesse Anderson Megan Arthur Mara Aubel Charlotte Berry John B. Blake Whit Bones Lily Boyce Chase Walker Bray Gates Brown Emily Bucher Elizabeth Cattell Emmeline Erickson Ashleigh Ferguson Meg Givens-Sage Jennifer Hamil Annie Harrigan Timothy Hornik Hilary Johnson Susan Kee and Michael Hogg Alexandra Kell Theresa Larson Bryan Lloyd Cavan McCabe Richelle Mechem Bridget Moran Rebecca M. Knox Riz Preena Scott Sheu Alexandra Tunstall Megan Turner Adam Vossen Jamie Warner Katie Wetzel

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($5,000+) Emprise Bank—About Time: The Clocks of Wendell Castle The World Company—About Time: The Clocks of Wendell Castle Capitol Federal Foundation

Patrick Dougherty Corporate Fellow ($2,500–4,999) GouldEvans Associates, LC Corporate Associate ($1,500–2,499) BNIM Architects Douglas County Bank

A Greenland Glacier: The Scale

of Climate Change Kizer-Cummings Jewelers, Inc.

Art Minute Morgan Stanley, Inc.

Quilts: Flora Botanica Sabatini Architects, Inc.

Inside/Outside Corporate Benefactor ($1,000–1,499) Evan Williams Catering First State Bank & Trust—Art Minute Liz Karr Catering

Corporate Members Corporate Patron ($500–999) 6 Gallery Hallmark Cards, Inc. Reece Construction Co., Inc. Meritrust Credit Union

($300– 499) Central National Bank Commerce Bank Cork and Barrel Golf Course Superintendents Association of America TCK Trust & Financial Advisors Wilkerson, Saunders & Anderson DDS, LLC Corporate Friend ($150–299) American Legacy Gallery Au Marché Brown Cargo Van, Inc. Community Mercantile Emprise Bank Haas and Wilkerson Insurance Harris Construction Co., Inc. Intrust Bank Lacy Steel Company, Inc. Landmark National Bank Peoples Bank Prairie Flower Gifts St. John’s Catholic Church

and School Stephens Real Estate, Inc. Teller’s Restaurant Weaver’s, Inc.

Contributors of Art Anonymous (3) BarenForum.org James A. Becker Elliot Berkley George and Mary Anne Brenner Ann Carlin and Jack Ozegovic John Chervinsky

Sherry Fowler and Dale Slusser Drew Elder and Carol Gardner Kathleen McBride Hall David C. Henry M.H. Hoeflich and K.J. Nordheden Jim Innes Ann Stephens Jackson Dr. Ira Jackson Yoshiko Jinzenji Pamela D. Kingsbury Oscar Larmer Bernadette and Michael Lipton Laterza Family Lynda Lee Larry and Barbara Marshall Cydney E. Millstein Robert D. Mowry Arthur Neis Lori Nix David and Linda Peters William Seward Pierce Donald Resnick Judy Ruffner Emily Ryan Roger Shimomura Dave R. Thompson Mel Watkin Edith I. Welch David and Sibyl Wescoe Ward H. White Margaret Moers Wenig Jan Weiner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zanatta

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Corporate Donor

IMO Yao-Wen Kwang Li Janet L. Carpenter PhD IMO Patricia Doemland Mrs. Georgiana H. Torres

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Back cover and below: Scenes from the Student Advisory Board’s Spring Arts & Culture Festival in early May.

Friends of the Art Museum Board Reed Dillon, President Burdett Loomis, PhD., President-Elect Susan Tate, Past-President Matt All R. Ernie Cummings Brad Chindamo Paul Davis Nancy Hiebert Emily B. Hill

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Steve Ingalls Mike Maude Tim Metz Vickie Otten George Paley Sarah Crawford-Parker, PhD. Sally Piller Gladys Sanders Barbara Duke, Docent Rep. Chase Bray, Student Rep.

Top: Chu-tsing Li and family members toured A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950–2000 during “An Elegant Gathering,” the Spencer’s May 9 celebration in his honor. Above left: Green tea cake was on the menu at the “Elegant Gathering” reception, held under a tent in Marvin Grove.

Above right: Another view of the exhibition A Tradition Redefined.

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