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FALL NEWSLETTER 2010

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART

FALL 2010 NEWSLETTER vol. XXXII, no. 6 Newsletter is published by the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas.

www.spencerart.ku.edu spencerart@ku.edu Office Hours Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 5 PM ph. 785.864.4710 fx. 785.864.3112 Gallery & Museum Shop Hours Please visit our website for the latest information on the Museum’s open hours.

Cover image: Dale Eldred, untitled, 1968, photo collage, lithograph, Gift of Dale Eldred, 1968.0056 From the Site Specifics exhibition.

Back cover: Scenes from the Emilio Said exhibition, children’s art appreciation class, and Kim Jonku’s installation.

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.

Above: Scenes from the Volunteer Appreciation Party 2010; at right, SMA staff members Dalton Howard and Robert Hickerson performed as part of the festivities.

Contents

Lawrence artist K.T. Walsh

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Dialogue with Mimi Smith

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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 & Contributors

Richard and Nancy Hernandez with Carolyn Chinn Lewis, assistant director.

Dialogue with Mimi Smith

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New York artist Mimi Smith recently visited the Spencer and walked the galleries with Director Saralyn Reece Hardy.

The two enjoyed a lively discussion of Smith’s life and work, including her major sculpture housed in the 20/21 Gallery, Steel Wool Peignoir. Created in 1966, Steel Wool Peignoir is one of the first works of art to use clothing as sculpture. It is also a major monument of the Feminist Art movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, a movement that has been highly influential on American art of the past 30 years.

Born in Boston, Smith earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1963 and an MFA at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1966, studying with Minimalist artist Robert Morris and Fluxus artist Robert Watts. She made Steel Wool Peignoir, her best-known work, before either Morris or Watts (and many other contemporary artists) began working with clothing. In addition to having this major work in the Spencer’s collection, Smith has ties to Lawrence and KU because her son, Dr. Bruce Lieberman, is a professor of geology and a paleontologist on the Hill.

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Saralyn Reece Hardy: Can you talk a little about what led you to work with clothing?

Mimi Smith: I’ve always sewed. My grandmother taught me how to sew on an old treadle machine, and while I was at Rutgers I actually was making some of my clothes. I’d made a suit and a dress at Mass Art. The only female teacher I’d ever had that was a studio teacher in my schooling was this woman who taught design prints or something. So I’d made a dress and blocked these little flower things on it.

SRH: So early on, the clothes had more meaning than just wearing the clothes.

They were works of art.

MS: Yes. My grandmother used to do piecework. This is a funny thing, because afterwards, I thought of this.

My grandmother, she worked in a sweatshop when she first came to the United States at the turn of the last century. Then she would do piecework at home when she had children. She would make men’s suits. She once said to me, “By the time I’ve finished a man’s suit, it’s a work of art.” Now, I only thought about that many years later, probably when I was about 20.

But, I always liked that.

SRH: That’s beautiful.

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MS: I liked to sew. But I was doing this jewelry chain thing and I hung it up like… well we called it “an environment” in those days, but it was really what we call an installation in these days. And when I looked at it hanging, I thought of them as giant earrings. I said to Bob Watts, “I would like to make clothes.” He was my thesis advisor, and my advisor. He said, “So, make clothes.”

So I started to really think about clothes and I started to think about them from all different viewpoints—just the role they have in society and how they affect a woman, really, in society. At the same time, I was kind of looking around and noticing, and I would see women in stores, and even think of myself. It seemed to me that women looked at clothing and thought of it much like you would think of a work of art, visually, like a work of art. They’d look at it, they’d touch it. This whole kind of thing fascinated me. So I thought, I want to make clothing as a visual object, and that is what I started to do.

The first couple of ones I made, I actually wore. Lots of them were made out of plastic. It had nothing to do with The Graduate telling him to go into plastic. But this was the ‘60s and I lived not far from Canal Street and I started to buy plastic. I didn’t really think of them as political objects in the sense of

doing political art or anything like this.

Everyone I knew at the time thought of themselves as part of the counterculture.

We were all anti-Vietnam War and we spent almost a year reading [Marshall] McLuhan and John Cage at Rutgers.

I was thinking of these things, not really super politically, but I was aware of all of the meanings, like uniforms and all this and that. The first ones, I actually stood in the middle of some of them.

I made a hat that covered me on top of a plastic dress, and then somewhere in 1965 I made my first clothing pieces that were just visual objects. Honestly, I thought this was the simplest idea in the world. I thought people would look at it and just get it instantly. Of course, I was totally wrong. It took about 30 years, but I just thought of it as the most simple, obvious thing.

SRH: I’m actually intrigued, Mimi, because in the documentation of your work that I’ve read, you on several occasions say as you’ve just said, that there’s this artfulness to clothes that attracted you, but there’s also this more populist idea that you talked about which was wishing people would look at art with the same kind of familiarity as they looked at clothes.

MS: Yes. That’s why I thought people would get it instantly, you see.

I noticed that women, particularly, not

really men—I wasn’t paying that much attention to men—but I noticed that women in particular, they looked at clothes like I would go into a museum and look at a painting. They would look at a dress like that. So I thought that if I made these clothes as sculpture—which is what I thought they were—people would instantly get the idea. But they didn’t. They never did, actually.

SRH: And when you say “get the idea” what do you mean? You thought they would immediately get what idea?

MS: Get that these were sculpture.

SRH: Okay, so in some ways aestheticizing the work.

MS: Yes. I was trying to really say something about my life, and I felt like I had a really ordinary life. I’d grown up outside of Boston and I didn’t think my life was particularly interesting or unusual. It was like everyone else’s life.

SRH: Which is interesting and unusual— everyone has an interesting and unusual life somehow.

MS: Well in a way, but I wanted for these early clothes to say something about what I….There are very few pieces— there are some—but most of the pieces that I’ve done, clothing pieces, not-

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clothing pieces, they’re more broadbased, they’re not super personal.

There are some, but most of them aren’t. For my thesis show when I was at Rutgers, I did a wedding installation because it seemed like all the girls I knew were into weddings. I was in my early 20s and that’s all they were into: weddings. So I did this wedding installation. I got married in City Hall by the way, for other reasons. But I did this wedding installation and I had made a wedding gown which was on a dress form.

MS: Yes, like this painting here. And it had a wedding train—that may be a little obvious—but it was made out of 30 feet of carpet runners. Then I took the whole thing and put it in a 12 x 12 x 12 plastic box, so you had to look through the box to see. It was like a frozen memory box. I was young and that’s what I thought was the main focus as far as clothing, for a lot of young women. Then I started to make other clothing pieces all at the same time, slightly after the wedding dress, that I felt had a lot to do with my life.

One of them was the peignoir.

SRH: Like this painting. [below] SRH: So can you tell us what this had to do with your life?

MS: Well, Id’ been married for a couple of years, and I felt, actually, that it symbolized my marriage. Peignoirs kind of fascinated me because I’d always loved old movies and they always slipped into them.

SRH: Slipped into something more comfortable.

MS: Yes. But they were very seductive and I and all my friends, when we got married, got one, for our shower.

Jan Matulka / 1890–1972 / Still Life with Dress Form, circa 1930 / oil on canvas / Museum purchase: State funds / 1982.0010

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SRH: Your trousseau?

MS: I have a peignoir myself. Nowadays

when you say peignoir, young women don’t even know the word, but in the ‘60s, they knew the word. They knew it big.

SRH: Was it an extension of the wedding?

MS: Yes. It was to carry this romance into the wedding, I felt. Into the marriage, forget about into the wedding. The peignoir was really the first piece that I made using something that you’d use as a household item. I mean I did other things that had them incorporated, but this was the first one, really, to do with housework. I wanted to take the steel wool and make it look not like steel wool, like it was something luxurious, like fur. And that was my whole impetus for making it. I wanted this to look like chinchilla on the sleeves. And a couple people actually thought it did. They thought it was [fur] from far away.

SRH: When people come into the Museum and look, at first glance, they still do.

MS: So I felt that this piece symbolized my young marriage—that it was basically the reality of my life combined with the romance of what I thought it would be. I grew up with 1950s, ‘40s, ‘30s movies. I believed in romance, or something like that.

SRH: Well, romance can take you far.

MS: Yes it can. It can sustain you for many years. So that’s what the peignoir was.

SRH: To go back to your comment about everyday materials, I think it was Judith Tannenbaum who wrote about your work in a very wonderful way in the catalogue. She says you made art of the stuff of everyday life. But even though other artists were making art from recycled materials and trash and various kinds of substances, I think you were one of the first artists who dove into using materials from the more domestic realm.

MS: Right. Because also, I think part of it was because of the form of the clothing. I didn’t just take steel wool and stick it on a painting. Being at Rutgers at the time, the idea of new art was all over the place. It was a very tiny department. For many years there were only about 10 students a year.

And everyone was just searching within themselves. They were trying to push the boundaries. It seemed to me that everyone was trying to do that in one way or another. The students there were terrific and wonderful and everyone was just telling me that we lived, breathed contemporary art and went to talks.

That was the focus, the entire focus.

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Calendar of Events for Fall 2010 SEPTEMBER

9.07 Lecture: Dan and Lia Perjovschi tue

the Spencer Museum of Art at KU and was an assistant professor of history of art. During her last year at KU, she also was the acting director for the Spencer Museum. In 1983, Broun joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum, first as chief curator and assistant director, then as acting director. For the past 15 years, she has been the Margaret and Terry Stent director of the museum and its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery (Crafts and Decorative Arts) in Washington, D.C. / Sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History and the Spencer

on Surviving Kit. Making Art from Censorship to Market / 12 PM / 318 Bailey Hall / Roy D. Laird Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Brown Bag lecture series and the Spencer Museum of Art

9.09 Gallery Talk: Senior Session thu

on Impressionism at the Spencer presented by SMA curator Susan Earle / 10–11 AM / 19th Century Gallery * Lecture: Murphy Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Betsy Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum / 5:30 PM / Room 211 / Elizabeth “Betsy” Broun received a bachelor’s degree in French in 1968, a master’s degree in history of art in 1969 and doctorate in history of art in 1976, all from KU. She also holds a certificate of advanced study from the University of Bordeaux, France.

From 1976 to 1983, Broun was curator of prints and drawings at

9.16 Lecture: Artist Dan Perjovschi on thu

Dan Perjovschi. Free style / 5–6 PM / Central Court Reception: Fall at the Spencer / 6 PM / Central Court / Sponsored by the Friends of the Art Museum

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Lecture & Reception: Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice / 5–7:30 PM / SMA Auditorium and Central Court / Keynote speaker, Professor Carolyn Sargent of Washington University, St. Louis, on “Voices from the West African Diaspora in Paris: Bintou’s Story and the Prospect for Global Ethnography in Medical Anthropology.” Her talk will address the impact of Africanist scholarship on health beyond the boundaries of the continent, in migrant communities and in the wider study of health, illness and healing. Reception follows. / Sponsored by the Kansas African Studies Center and The Commons

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Paint the Wheel: Explore how artists choose and mix colors. Learn how the eye interprets color and create your own color wheel / Teacher: Amanda Monaghan ** Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Still Life with a Dog presented

by SMA docent Sharyn Brooks Katzman / 10–11 AM / 17th & 18th Century Gallery *

Reception: SMA Family Day / 2–4 PM / Central Court & Galleries / Presented in conjunction with KU’s Family Day / Band Day

It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Media Me: How does media and technology influence self image?

Study the exhibition Media Memes: Images, Technology & Making the News. Create a collage in the shape of your silhouette, using newspaper and magazine cuttings. / Teacher: Amanda Monaghan ** Reception: SMA Student Night with Artist Karen McCoy / 5:30– 7:30 PM / Central Court & Galleries / Sponsored by the SMA Student Advisory Board

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appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Vanishing Point: Explore one-point perspective across a range of art works, featuring roads, hallways, railway tracks and buildings. Create your own imaginary cityscape applying what you learn. / Teacher: Margaret Springe-Hennessy **

of the Rose O’Neill Literary House; and founder and publisher of the Literary House Press at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, where he is an Adjunct Professor of English Literature. Day’s novel The Last Cattle Drive was a Book-of-theMonth Club selection.

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10.12 Lecture: Professor Robert Day tue

/ 4:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art, American Studies and Kress Foundation Department of Art History / Robert Day presents “Bar Art: John Sloan’s McSorley’s Ale House Paintings, a Vargas Girl Behind the Bar at Ruby Red’s in New Orleans, ‘The Luncheon of the Boating Party’ on the Kansas Prairie, and Manet’s Folies-Bergere in the Old Gaslight Tavern—plus e.e. cummings, Bob Dylan, and Joseph Mitchell: A Travel Memoir with Pictures.”

Day is past President of the Associated Writing Programs; the founder and former director

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on Christ Carrying the Cross presented by SMA intern Chassica Kirchhoff / 10–11 AM / Renaissance Gallery *

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East of Bucharest / 6–8 PM / SMA Auditorium / Introduction

by Professor Tamara Falicov / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art ***

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on Kathe Kollowitz: A Dancer’s Perspective presented by Joan Stone, choreographer and dance historian / 10–11 AM / Central Court *

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Courtesy of Dan Perjovschi.

Romanian Film Series: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / 6–8 PM / SMA Auditorium / Introduction

by Professor Tamara Falicov / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art ***

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Ghouls and Gargoyles: Enroll early for this special Halloween class featuring beasts and other grotesque creatures. Create your own mask, inspired by what you see, or to complement your costume. ** Performance: Spencer Consort / 2:30 PM / Central Court

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by Amy McNair, Professor of Chinese Art / 10–11 AM / Central Court * Romanian Film Series: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days / 6–8 PM / SMA Auditorium / Introduction

by Professor Nathan Wood / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art ***

Romanian Film Series: Police, Adjective / 6–8 PM / Auditorium / Introduction by Professor Tamara Falicov / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Yolk It Up!: Look at and learn about egg tempera painting in the Spencer’s Medieval Gallery. Experiment with pigments and egg yolk to create your own “ancient” glazes. / Teacher: Margarent SpringeHennessy **

It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Machine Mountain / Study old and new landscape paintings throughout the Museum with local artist Lee Piechocki, whose work was featured recently in American Painter magazine. Consider the ways in which technology and other

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Please visit www.spencerart.ku.edu for a complete & updated Calendar of Events

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on A Kansas Ranch presented by graduate student Mindy Besaw / 10–11 AM / 19th Century Gallery *

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appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Wet Wool: Explore the texture of wool and how it compares to other fibers in textile art. Learn about the art of Wenda Gu and the process of wet felting. Create your own “fuzzy” landscape. / Teacher: Amanda Monaghan **

Courtesy of Dan Perjovschi.

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appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Moku Hanga: Study a selection of Japanese woodblock prints from the Museum’s Asian collection.

Learn how to make rice paste and use water-based inks and “barrens,” to create your own woodblock image. / Teacher: Kolene Dietz **

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EXTENDED INFORMATION

* Senior Sessions This popular series of informal gallery discussions is designed for senior citizens but open to everyone!

** It Starts With Art! Our entertaining, interactive programs for children ages 5–14 combine art education with handson creation. Each week, students explore selected artworks 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

*** Romanian Film Series Since the fall of the Ceausescu regime, filmmakers have taken the role as cultural critics to view the recent past with new eyes

and ears. The majority of these directors are in their 20s and 30s, and have been hailed as “A New Wave” by Western critics. This series of contemporary Romanian cinema asks the audience whether one can see these films as a collective, uniform movement. Most of the filmmakers drew draw their inspiration from the Communist regime that dominated Romania from 1967–1989, a time frame that spans most of their childhoods.

Films such as 12:08 East of Bucharest and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu explore the absurdity of the government system and the ways citizens were forced to work around the rules to survive.

Many of the films employ humor and other mechanisms for adapting to an increasingly dark and oppressive culture.

This film series has been organized by Tamara Falicov, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at KU. It is presented in conjunction with visiting Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi’s installation in the Spencer Museum of Art’s Central Court.

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Conversation IX Media Memes: Images, Technology and Making the News 20 / 21 Gallery | August 14 – December 19, 2010 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 in photographs. This exhibition seeks to generate conversations around questions of media literacy and how “media memes” or cultural ideas and categories of visual information are produced and transmitted over several generations.

It raises additional questions regarding the ways in which technology contributes to our changing relationship with the news media. As the volume of imagery increases, how do we filter the truthful from the fraudulent, the important from the inane, the significant from the random? What message is being delivered and what is being received? What choices are made and who is responsible?

With photographic works drawn primarily from the Spencer’s permanent collection Media Memes explores shifts in the creation and distribution of visual journalism and the impact of new technologies. Source credibility, content accuracy and story context remain significant concerns as technology alters every aspect of mass media production and consumption. A significant feature of

Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Central Park, Love-In, 1969, gelatin silver print, Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 1988.0030

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the exhibition includes a hands-on participatory opportunity in which visitors can engage with and consider the ways that new technologies shape image capture, selection, and distribution.

Organized by Michael Williams (Associate Professor of Interactive Media, School of Journalism) with assistance from Luke Jordan (Adjunct Lecturer of Photography, Department of Design and Visiting Lecturer, Spencer

Museum of Art) and Celka Straughn (Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs, Spencer Museum of Art), the exhibition presents a collaboration between the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas and the Spencer Museum of Art. For their support of Media Memes, the Spencer thanks the Associated Press; the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Wolfe’s Camera, Topeka; and The Tech Shop, Kansas Union.

Art Kane, Truckers (not published), mid 1900s, gelatin silver print, Gift of Esquire, Inc., 1980.0372

Gilles Peress, Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderia, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1993, gelatin silver print, Museum purchase: Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund, 2003.0089

Lewis Wickes Hine, Girls with Newspaper #16, 1911, lantern slide, Transfer from Anthropology Museum, KU, 1973.0059

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Site Specifics New Media Gallery | August 28, 2010 – January 16, 2011 This exhibition, organized by Curator of European & American Art Susan Earle, considers several objects and related sketches made from or for specific sites or conditions: five on land and one in the air. In diverse ways, they are intimately linked to nature and natural elements: earth, wind, sun, gravity, water. Four of the works relate closely to sites in Kansas, while another was made in New York City, from tree roots there.

All the works are large in size and concept and exacting in their specificity.

Several were made between 1968 and 1975, amidst campus unrest in the United States and Europe, the development of the Land Art movement and Earth Day, and the famous rock music festival Woodstock in 1969.

More than two decades later, Scott D. Jost’s monumental Book of Nine Februarys poetically documented soil erosion in Kansas.

Derived from the minimalist and reductivist visual vocabulary of many artworks made in the 1960s, these objects engage with the absolutist ideals of direct and pure perception, and unqualified specificity, as critic Carter Ratcliff has described.

From Dale Eldred’s 40-ton steel sculpture that seems to defy gravity even as it tracks the sun’s movements each day, to Tal Streeter’s delicately engineered kite, which he calls a “flying painting,” these works probe deeply into the sublime specifics of place and precise sites (or wind conditions). They explore the imaginative possibilities of what came to be called site-specific sculpture in the 1970s.

Scott D. Jost, A Book of Nine Februarys, circa 1991, 2009.0110.aw

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Some of the works are wildly overblown, like Eldred’s “imaginary graphic” fabrications (as seen below). Others, like Alan Sonfist’s Landscape of the Earth of the White Oak of 1969, take on the gigantic task of trying to preserve the ever-diminishing forest that once inhabited New York City in his rubbing made from the roots of a might oak tree there.

All of these works relate in their exacting specificity and sensitivity to natural elements to the concurrent outdoor sculpture Talking Trees, which is being created this fall for trees in Marvin Grove behind the Spencer Museum by artists Karen McCoy and Robert Carl. Be sure to go outside and experience their sculptures that allow you to talk with the trees. And be sure to also visit Dale Eldred’s actual Salina Piece right here on West Campus. For an indoor “site” work, visit Dan Perjovschi’s concurrent installation in the Spencer’s Central Court.

Dale Eldred, untitled, 1968, 1968.0055

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Exhibitions Dan Perjovschi Central Court International Artist-in-Residence Project Central Court | September 16, 2010 – February 6, 2011 Romanian-born and -based artist Dan Perjovschi comes to the University of Kansas from September 2–16, 2010, as the fall Spencer Museum of Art International Artist-in-Residence. Since the opening of Romania to foreign travel, Perjovschi has adopted a nomadic life and he describes his studio as his notebook. For him, travel is a “research mission” that involves constant reflection; sharing what he learns also forms part of his mission. During his residency he will share his art and his reflections with KU and the community through talks and the creation of an installation in the Spencer Museum’s Central Court.

For his Central Court project, Perjovschi will draw directly onto the walls with permanent black markers serving as the primary medium. Perjovschi employs humor to render complex issues in, as he describes, “three lines” that capture viewers’ attention and engage them in a deeper intellectual exchange. His cartoon-like drawings allow him to push public speech a little further. Extracting visual imagery from contemporary narratives, texts, and situations, Perjovschi’s project at the Spencer will incorporate, or “patch” together, drawings related to local and current stories and events with previously created images.

He also works with newspapers as his “gallery” and some of his past newspapers will be on view.

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Perjovschi has participated in projects across the globe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, and most recently The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Toronto. For more information on the work of Dan Perjovschi, please visit his website http://www.perjovschi.ro.

By bringing artists from around the world to KU, this major international artist-in-residence program expands the Spencer Museum of Art’s international partnerships, stimulates innovative ways of thinking and creating, and offers new frameworks for interaction among artists, students, faculty, and members of the community. For their generous support the Spencer thanks Elizabeth Schultz, who provided the initial funds to create the International Artistin-Residence Program endowment fund, as well as Linda Bailey and Ron Manka, Hope Talbot, Arthur V. Neis, and Judith and Frank Sabatini who have generously contributed to the challenge match. Selection for the International Artistin-Residence Program is made by the University-Community Committee and includes Kris Ercums, Stephen Goddard, Saralyn Reece Hardy, Elizabeth Kowalchuk, Rick Mitchell, Celka Straughn, and Elizabeth Schultz.

For their additional support of the Perjovschi project, the Spencer thanks the KU Libraries.

Images are courtesy of Dan Perjovschi.

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Talking Trees: Karen McCoy/Robert Carl Artist-in-Residence Project: Outdoor Sculpture Installation Fall 2010, Marvin Grove The Spencer Museum of Art is collaborating with Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) professor and sculptor Karen McCoy and sound artist Robert Carl on a site-specific installation that will evoke spatial memories of the KU and KCAI campuses. The collaboration constitutes the Spencer Museum’s and KU’s contribution to a broad-based celebration of the 125th anniversary of KCAI, and it underscores the creative interplay between Kansas City and Lawrence. The project will take the form of listening stations connected to trees in Marvin Grove that will incorporate an auditory component that audiences will hear when they interact with the artwork. This project also features in the Spencer’s upcoming Glorious to View, a spring 2011 exhibition inspired by the Getty Foundation-funded Campus Heritage Project and the collective legacy of the KU community.

Talking Trees is supported in part by The Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts.

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African Healing Journeys Historical and Contemporary Responses to Disease Raymond White Teaching Gallery | September 7 – October 3, 2010 This exhibition is presented in conjunction with “Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice,” an international conference organized by The Kansas African Studies Center, the University of Kansas, at The Commons at Spooner Hall, September 17–18, 2010. This exhibition was curated by Prof. John Janzen, KU Department of Anthropology, in consultation with Celka Straughn, the Spencer’s Mellon Director of Academic Programs.

African healing journeys are quests for healing and better health at multiple scales and spans. These include the short-term local journey that happens thousands of times daily in African lives, the larger-scale family or community confrontations with misfortune that take months or years to play themselves out, the life cycle of individuals and families, as well as the long-term journey of adaptive cultural response to epidemics and other large-scale health challenges that African communities have encountered through the ages.

These journeys are presented through three broad themes that frame this installation: The Measure of Humanity in Health and in Suffering; Living in Balance with Nature; and Divination: The Interpretation of Misfortune.

African Healing Journeys features objects from the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas, and the Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, and is presented in conjunction with the international conference, “Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice,” organized by The Kansas African Studies Center at the University of Kansas. Curated by Prof. John Janzen in the Department of Anthropology at KU, this exhibition draws from his joint exhibition project with Prof. Lee Cassanelli, the University of Pennsylvania, for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. A digital version of the proposal for this larger project is available at www.africanhealingjourneys.com.

Mask representing the pox-marked face of Tundu, the trickster. Carved mid-1960s by Pende sculptor Ngeleko of Kamuania village in the style of mid-20th century master carver Gabama; purchased from sculptor by Henry Goertz for Kauffman Museum, 1970. (KM 6569.A-18)

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SAVE THE DATE! September 16 is annual Friends fall event Make plans now to join us the evening of Thursday, September 16, for the Friends of the Art Museum’s annual Fall at the Spencer reception, which this year features a talk by Romanian-born and –based artist Dan Perjovschi, who is the Spencer’s fall 2010 International Artist-in-Residence.

Perjovschi will be concluding a two-week stay at the Museum and unveiling his Central Court installation. He will speak from 5 to 6 PM in the SMA Auditorium, followed by a reception in the Central Court celebrating his Dan Perjovschi Central Court project and all the other fall 2010 exhibitions.

For more information about the artist, please turn to the exhibitions section of this publication.

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The Spencer in Brief SMA Assistant Director completes Getty’s Museum Leadership Institute Spencer Assistant Director Carolyn Chinn Lewis spent part of her summer immersed in advanced studies as part of the Getty Leadership Institute’s 2010 Museum Leadership Institute, a concentrated program in which participants explore the increasingly complex challenges that museums face.

From July 9–30, Lewis attended classes at the Getty Center in Los Angeles with more than 30 museum leaders from the United States and around the world. Now in its 32nd year, the MLI offers intensive executive education and is the world’s foremost professional development program for senior museum executives. This is borne out through the geographic diversity of the museums represented and the caliber of the program’s participants, who are selected based on their ability to influence policy and effect change at their institutions.

“MLI provides an intellectually rich environment for learning and developing your strategic thinking, communication, and leadership skills. It was an honor to be taught by some of the top-ranked faculty in the country. But, what I will carry with me for a lifetime is the experience of being surrounded by 29 amazing museum colleagues from around the world who worked together to provide the perfect environment for expanding and embracing both your personal and professional capacity. This is the kind of experience I wish for everyone!”

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SMA Assistant Director Carolyn Chinn Lewis with fellow MLI participant Gonzalo Casals, Director of Education & Public Programs at El Museo del Barrio New York.

Along with Chinn Lewis, who has worked on the Spencer staff since 1978, this year’s MLI group included senior leaders from some of the world’s most prominent museums, including the National Museums of Science and Industry in London; the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Attendees also represented a wide cross-section of institutions, including the California Science Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Queensland Museum / The Workshops Rail Museum, and the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. They included international museum leaders from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Portugal and Scotland.

MLI 2010 participants represent a variety of roles in the museum field—including directors, curators, educators, and those in finance and fundraising, among others—further creating a diversity of perspectives and experiences for group discussions.

For more information on the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University, visit www.cgu.edu/gli.

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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.

Two $100,000 pledges, one from John and Linda Stewart of Wellington, Kansas, and the other from M. Lavon Brosseau of Concordia, Kansas, bring the Museum nearer to meeting the $1 million in matching funds stipulated by a $1.2 million endowment challenge grant from New York’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supporting the Spencer Museum of Art’s ongoing initiatives to embed its collections within interdisciplinary teaching and research, from the humanities to the sciences. The Mellon challenge grant supports an expansion of the Museum’s research and teaching influence across campus with the establishment of a fulltime Director of Academic Programs.

“This grant will enable the Spencer Museum to engage more deeply with faculty and students and to provide in-depth involvement with art as an important educational tool throughout all of the KU disciplines,” says Linda Stewart, who is a member of the SMA National Advisory Board.

Brosseau’s gift is made in honor of Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the Chancellor and member of the Spencer Museum of Art Advisory Board. Brosseau, a former highschool English teacher, taught Weinberg when he was a sophomore at Coffeyville High School, and the two have remained close for decades—Weinberg has said that he considers her a “second mother.”

M. Lavon Brosseau with Jeff Weinberg.

“Teaching has always appealed to me—even before I knew what education entailed,” Brosseau says. “Getting a college degree was made possible for me through the generosity of others. Thus, I know that an education is important; it is also costly.

Somehow, my being helped financially brings ‘giving’ to mind. Lines from James Russell Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal say it well: ‘…not what we give but what we share / for the gift without the giver is bare.’”

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“We are excited to be a participant in the matching of this grant, which is sure to bring our University enhanced, national recognition.”

—Linda Stewart The award marks the fourth time since 1992 that the Mellon Foundation has funded a Spencer proposal in its College and University Art Museums program.

The current grant comes in two parts: A $1 million endowment challenge grant that the Museum will match within a three-year period, and $200,000 to be used as the Spencer moves ahead with its initiatives and raises matching funds. The endowment portion Director Saralyn Reece Hardy will enable the Spencer to build substantially upon with John T. and Linda Stewart. its existing Mellon endowment.

Other important funding news includes: • A $22,500 grant from the William T. Kemper Foundation to support the International Artist-in-Residence program.

• A $15,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to support the Asian International Artist-in-Residence program.

• A $12,000 grant from the Shumaker Family Foundation to support the Museum’s “An Ear for Art” cell-phone tour for a second year.

• A $10,000 grant from the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts to support Spencer initiatives in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

• A $10,000 grant from the Anonymous to support public programs.

• A $5,286 grant from the Kansas Arts Commission to provide general operating support.

• A $4,500 grant from the Douglas County Community Foundation to support education and public programs.

• A $3,030 grant from KU’s Student Senate to support SMA Student Advisory Board programming.

• A $17,000 grant from the E. Rhoades and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation to support the 2010–2011 intern in Asian Art.

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The Spencer in Brief Kansas Arts Commission awards SMA Arts Leadership Program grant The Kansas Arts Commission this summer awarded the Spencer an to a $16,000 Kansas Arts Leadership Program grant, recognizing the Museum as a statewide pacesetter in comprehensive arts-learning programs united by a cohesive educational approach.

Objectives of the competitive grant program include: supporting innovative, exemplary arts education programs; supporting arts education partnerships among nonprofit organizations, schools, and other educational agencies; supporting artists as teachers in educational and community settings; and supporting arts education programs that serve the needs of children and their communities.

The Spencer will use the money to support its broad-based K–12 education programming. These programs include: • It Starts with Art!: Year-round art appreciation classes for children ages 5–14 combine the study of art with hands-on activities in the museum. The creative outcomes of these classes are exhibited each year in May at a professionally installed exhibition in a dedicated museum gallery space.

• Children/youth workshops: The Spencer regularly offers 1–4 day workshops for children ages 7–16. In 2009, the Spencer offered Sonic Stories: Music into Art, a four-day storytelling and musical workshop for children ages 7–12 with professional percussionist, composer and storyteller Cory Hills; and Act Out! Art In!, a day-long theater workshop for children ages 11–16 with the Lawrence Youth Ensemble.

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• Museum/Schools Program: The Museum/Schools Program is a collaboration between the Spencer docent program and USD 497 elementary school art teachers and classroom teachers. The program for each grade level includes a slide talk prepared by the Spencer Museum of Art and given by the art teacher in the art classroom, followed by a docent-led tour of the art museum.

• Southwest Junior High “Bulldog” podcasts: In 2008 the Spencer began a collaborative project with Lawrence Southwest Junior High School to create student-generated podcasts about works in the collection. These recordings are available on the SMA website, as well as on MP3 players that Museum visitors can check out; they also are part of the Museum’s An Ear for Art cell -phone tour project.

• Classroom Collection: The Spencer’s Classroom Collection contains 29 original works of art in various media, with accompanying resource notebooks. The objects in the collection are available to all area teachers to check out for use in their classrooms, and the collection features local and internationally known artists.

• Exhibition spaces: The Spencer’s Teaching Gallery is a flexible, interactive, multipurpose teaching and study space and is available for educators and students to view specific works of art. The lobby and hallways are available to educators to display student work created in conjunction with an exhibition or the permanent collection.

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• Exhibition and kids’guides: The Spencer regularly produces kids’ gallery guides, self-guided gallery activities for elementary school-age children and families designed to stimulate looking and discussion about works of art.

The staff also creates family guides for specific exhibitions.

• Community events: Twice-yearly Family Days focusing on specific exhibitions are fun, stimulating events that include hands-on activities for visitors of all ages and provide a colorful, self-directed gallery guide for families to work on together. The Spring Arts & Culture Festival offers opportunities for artists to exhibit, demonstrate and sell their work, and for visitors to participate in hands-on art making activities, tour the special exhibitions, and watch (or sometimes participate in) performances.

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Spencer’s FY09 Register now available Featuring on its cover the striking recent acquisition Structure of Thought 15 by brothers Doug Starn and Mike Starn, the Spencer’s FY09 Register is now available. The book features four scholarly articles that relate to works in the permanent collection, and its design centers on the theme of branching— expanding, connecting, growing—represented visually in the Starn brothers’ magnificent composition and corresponding to the ongoing work of the Spencer Museum. Friends of the Art Museum members may pick up their copy in the museum shop.

In addition to new scholarship on the SMA collection and an overview of the artwork acquired by the Museum from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, including major gifts, the Register offers programming and exhibition details, and facts and figures about Museum activities.

The forthcoming edition will present the following scholarly articles: • “The Ascetic as Savior, Shakyamuni Undergoing Austerities by Kano Kazunobu,”

by Patricia J. Graham • Introduction to Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture, by Stephen Goddard • “Gifts of Distinction,” by Lee Blackledge • “A Legacy of Passionate Patronage: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,” by Chassica Kirchhoff The Register was edited by Lee Blackledge and designed by Tristan Telander, with photography by Robert Hickerson. For their help in producing the Register, the Museum extends special thanks to Catherine Blumenfeld, Marilyn Gridley, Marilyn Stokstad, and Bret Waller.

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The Spencer in Brief Loans from the SMA Collection Several works from the Spencer’s collection are traveling to other institutions for display — as near as Oklahoma City and as far away as London, Paris, and Vienna.

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York (May 21–December 31, 2010)

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis, 1882, oil on canvas (1960.0059)

1960.0059

1970.0130

Jean-Léon Gérôme J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (June 15–September 12, 2010) Musée d’Orsay, Paris (October 18, 2010–January 23, 2011) Jean-Léon Gérôme, Conversation près du feu / A Fireside Chat, 1811, oil on canvas (1979.0008)

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1960.0055

The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (September 9, 2010– January 2, 2011) Sebastiano Ricci and Marco Ricci, Death of Saint Paul the Hermit, circa 1700–1710, oil on canvas (1960.0055)

Roy Lichtenstein: The Black and White Drawings (1961–1968) The Morgan Library & Museum New York (September 24, 2010 – January 2, 2011) The Albertina Graphische Sammlung, Vienna (February–April, 2011)

Roy Lichtenstein, No-Nox, 1962, pencil on paper (1970.0130)

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“An Ear for Art” cell-phone guide to expand outdoors Discovering more about works in the Spencer’s collection is as easy as dialing a few digits on your cell phone. Made possible by a grant from the Shumaker Family Foundation, the Spencer’s “An Ear for Art” cell-phone audio-guide program is the first of its kind among art museums in the region.

And now, in addition to providing information about objects in the Spencer’s galleries, “An Ear for Art” will soon reach beyond Museum walls! This fall the guide is expanding to offer programming about public sculpture across the KU campus. Below is a list of the sculptures that will be featured in the campus sculpture tour.

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The Kansas Jayhawk, Peter Fillerup (KU Alumni Center) Moses, Elden Tefft (Smith Hall) Classic Jayhawk, Katie Kring (Kansas Union) Water Carrier, Craig Dan Goseyun, (Spooner Hall) The Bedazzler, P. Dougherty (Spooner Hall) Uncle Jimmy Green, Daniel Chester French (Lippincott Hall) Prairie Formation, Jim Bass (Blake Hall) The Pioneer, Frederick Hibbard (Fraser Hall) Jayhawk: Academic Jay, Elden Tefft (Strong Hall) Korean Cranes Rising, Jon Havener (Memorial Drive) Interstate 70, Richard Hollander (Marvin Grove) Untitled, James Rosati (Spencer Museum of Art) Seventh Decade Garden IX–X, Louise Nevelson (Spencer Museum of Art) Tai Chi Figure, Ju Ming (Green Hall) Statue of Phog Allen, Kwan Wu (Allen Fieldhouse) Salina Piece, Dale Eldred (West Campus)

Access to the guide is free; callers simply pay for their personal airtime charges. To use the guide, dial 785.338.9467 from your cell phone.

Enter the corresponding number, followed by the pound key (#).

Press 0# to leave comments.

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Stokstad SMA Student award announced Annette Becker, a junior from Lenora, Kansas who is double-majoring in English and the history of art, was named the 2010 recipient of the Marilyn J. Stokstad SMA Student Award, which annually recognizes a student employee at the Spencer who has contributed in an outstanding manner to advancing the Museum’s mission.

Becker has been involved at the Spencer since her freshman year, when she began serving as a volunteer with visitor services and special events. As a sophomore she joined the Museum’s Student Advisory Board, and for the past two years she has worked as the Education Department’s student assistant. During the 2010–2011 academic year she will continue as student assistant in education, and will also serve as Student Advisory Board president.

In presenting the award at a ceremony in late April, SMA Assistant to the Director Jennifer Talbott read remarks prepared from statements by various staff members, “I can think of no more fitting recipient of the Stokstad award than Annette,” she said. “Her adventurous spirit, which has taken her to England, India, and Kenya during school breaks, follows well in Dr. Stokstad’s footsteps.

“Annette has an incredibly contagious energy and enthusiasm for life and art. Her ‘can-do’ and tireless attitude is always accompanied by passion and eloquence. She is dedicated, smart, extremely responsible, and a tremendous asset to the Spencer staff. Thank you for everything you have done and do for the Museum.”

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Student Advisory Board highlights include juried student art show and arts festival A juried student art show, a student night featuring performance art and music, and a community-wide arts and culture festival concluded the Spencer Student Advisory Board’s sixth year as a key voice for KU students in the life of the Museum.

On April 29, as part of its annual Spring Student Night festivities, the SAB opened the Museum’s front lawn and Central Court to performance art by students in Professor So Yeon Park’s communitybased expanded media class. The free event also included dance music by a student deejay from 90.7 KJHK, food donated by local restaurants, spray-paint stenciling of commemorative tee-shirts, and a performance by Kansas City musician Brodie Rush.

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The same evening marked the opening, in the Spencer’s Teaching Gallery, of the SAB’s juried art show for KU students. This year’s theme, Illusion, Disillusion, Impression, Reality, related to concepts in the exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts.

More than 150 student artists from a variety of academic disciplines submitted works for the show; 27 were selected for inclusion by a panel of SAB members and Museum curatorial staff representatives Susan Earle and Kate Meyer.

Thanks to a $1,000 gift from an anonymous donor, jurors selected five artists to receive $200 Student Advisory Board Arts Awards.

The winners were Bethany Christiansen, Rose Kopf, Matt Kuhlman, Mari LaCure, and Olivia Tedford.

Two days later, on the afternoon of May 1, hundreds of people attended the SAB’s third annual Spring Arts & Culture Festival.

With Mississippi Street closed off in front of the Museum, local and student visual artists set up booths with art for sale, local bands played live music inside and outside, and parents and children celebrated the kickoff for the 2010 Southwest Junior High School “Bulldog” podcast series and the opening of the Spencer’s annual It Starts With Art! children’s art exhibition. Performance highlights included a simmering half-hour set by the KU African Drum Ensemble and a May Pole Dance led by students of KU dance instructor Joan Stone, who is the Spencer’s Honorary Curator of Gesture.

Previous page & above: Scenes from the Student Advisory Board’s Spring Student Night and Juried Show.

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AAM awards honorable mention to SMA’s Graphic Designer Spencer Graphic Designer Tristan Telander has been selected as a winner of the American Association of Museums’ 2009 Museum Publications Design Competition. Within the category of “Invitations to Events” for institutions with budgets greater than $750,000, judges awarded honorable mention to Telander’s design for the 2009 SMA Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Purchase Party invitation.

Photo by Aaron Paden

Winners were recognized at the 2010 AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo™ in Los Angeles, May 23–26.

A complete list of winners is available on the association’s website (www.aam-us.org) and the competition was featured in a special section in the July / August 2010 issue of Museum. Congratulations, Tristan!

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Spencer announces interns for 2010–2011 academic year The Museum is pleased to welcome the following students as interns for the 2010–2011 academic year: Chassica Kirchhoff Mellon Foundation/Loo Family Intern in the Department of European & American Art Ellen Raimond Mellon Foundation Intern in the Department of Academic Programs Denise Giannino Sloan Intern in the Department of Works on Paper Natalie Svacina Berkley Intern in the Department of Education Meredith Moore Mellon Foundation Intern of Collections Amanda Wright Carpenter Foundation Intern in the department of Asian Art Sarah Schroeder Mellon Foundation Intern in the Department of Arts and Culture of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania

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Visit the Museum Shop We hope you’ll drop by the Spencer’s Museum Shop this fall and check out our selection of artist-created jewelry, note cards, and variety of publications related to the Museum’s collections and exhibitions. Among the new arrivals are three special-edition posters featuring the Aaron Douglas community mural, moccasins from the Spencer’s American Indian art collection, and Structure of Thought 15, by brothers Doug Starn and Mike Starn.

Remember, all proceeds from the Shop benefit Spencer programming, so come by the next time you’re visiting—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 Thursday: 11– 8 Saturday: 10– 4 Sunday: 12– 4

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Gifts establish funds to benefit Museum programs and acquisitions The Spencer strives to be an exciting, interactive regional resource for dialogue and exploration of the arts, and in difficult economic times, the continued generosity of our friends takes on added significance.

Please remember that no matter the size, every gift makes a difference. Gifts of any size, given over time, can grow into major support for student research, a children’s art program, or a new exhibition. Major gifts include outright gifts that can be spent immediately, as well as endowed funds, which are invested to provide financial support in perpetuity. Endowed funds can be named for you or for someone you wish to honor.

To learn more, please contact Gaye Leonard, Development Director, at 785.832.7452, or gleonard@kuendowment.org.

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors The 2010 –2011 exhibitions

and programs are supported in part by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Anschutz Foundation E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation William T. Kemper Foundation Shirley Cundiff and Jordan L. Haines Art Acquisition Fund Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Anonymous Shumaker Family Foundation KU Student Senate Price R. and Flora Reid Foundation Piersol Foundation Marybelle and Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund Avis Chitwood Fund Mary Margaret Brett Fund Mary P. Lipman Children’s Education Fund Docent Scholarship Fund Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts Douglas County Community Foundation Brooking Fund for Interdisciplinary Research Olin K. and Mary Ruth Petefish Fund Joseph D. and Ester G. Berkley Fund Mitchell Art Museum Education Fund Marilyn J. Stokstad Museum of Art Student Award Fund International Artist-in-Residence Fund Judith M. Cooke Native American Art Fund Donald E. Sloan Intern Fund Terry and Sam Evans Photography Fund Kress Foundation Conservation Fund Adair / Dyer Fund Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency The Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency

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AMBASSADORS ($100,000+) M. Lavon Brosseau in honor

of Jeff Weinberg John T. and Linda Stewart

PILLARS ($25,000–99,000) Linda Bailey and Ron Manka Mark and Lauren Booth Arthur V. Neis A. Scott and Carol Ritchie Elizabeth Schultz Marilyn Stokstad Hope Talbot

Keystone ($10,000–24,999) Margaret M. Daicoff Tom and Jill Docking Randall and Saralyn Reece Hardy David and Gunda Hiebert Burdett and Michel Loomis J. Hammond McNish Brent and Melissa Padgett Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Valentino and Elizabeth Stella Richard and Stephanie Surface Brad and Susan Tate

Cornerstone ($5,000–9,999) Reed and Stacey Dillon Carolyn Dillon Barbara M. Duke Drew Elder Jason A. Elder Charles and Jane Eldredge H.H. and Kathleen M. Hall Don and Jene Herron Emily Hill and Burke Griggs

Larry and Barbara Marshall Mike and Dee Michaelis Marynell Reece Mary Lou Reece and Scott Jones

Fellow ($2,500–4,999) John and Melinda Couzens David C. Henry Michael and Cindy Maude Rob and Betsy Weaver

Benefactor ($1,000–2,499) Matt and Ashley All James and Linda Ballinger Jeff and Colette Bangert Cathy Blumenfeld Carol Ann and Clifton Brown Kay, Tom, Tyler, and Jeff Carmody Bill and Barbara Carswell Brad and Ellen Chindamo Joe and Vicki Douglas Archie and Nancy Dykes Anne Foresman Mrs. David Francisco Chuck and Sandy Garrett Randy Gordon and Lori Shannon John and Nancy Hiebert Carolie and Bill Hougland David and Sacie Lambertson Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mitchell Charlotte Mueller Edith Black and John Poertner Richard and Virginia Nadeau Phyllis and Ronald Nolan Margaret Perkins-McGuinness John and Deanell Tacha Georgina and Andrew Torres Bret and Mary Lou Waller Jeff and Mary Weinberg Lee F. Young

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Patron ($500–999) Ken and Katie Armitage Jane V. Barber Jim and Carolyn Chinn Lewis Edith Clowes and Craig Huneke John and Ellen Goheen Don and Sandra Hazlett Stephen and Cara Ingalls Donald and Alice Ann Johnston Don and Gerry Miller James and Virginia Moffett Richard S. Paegelow George and Judy Paley Lew and Gwen Perkins Frank and Judith Sabatini Dolph and Lisa Simons, III Dolph and Pam Simons, Jr. Elinor and Michael Tourtellot Roger B. Ward

Donor ($200–499) Leonard and Deborah Alfano David A. and Mary Kate Ambler Ellen B. Avril Beverly A. Smith Billings Michael L. Carnahan Joyce Castle Paul A. and Rose Coker John and Jan Conard William J. Crowe Ann Cudd and Neal Becker Candice Davis Sally K. Davis Mrs. James Dowell Jerry and Mary Dusenbury Jerry G. and Debra Duncan Elliott

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Sam and Terry Evans Ted and Nancy Haggart Tom Harper Dean and Barbara Henrichs Stephen and Marcia Hill Jessica Johnson David and Sharyn Katzman Laura and Richard Klocke Leonard and Beth Krishtalka Ted and Jane Kuwana Carol and Dave Kyner Mark and Jill Lapoint Stuart and Susan Levine Janey Levy Forest and Dee Link Jane Malin Barbara Nordling Jim and Vickie Otten John and Ardith Pierce Dan and Nicole Sabatini Robert and Gladys Sanders Sally Hare-Schriner Tim and Julie Shaftel Roger Shimomura and Janet Davidson-Hughes Fred and Lilian Six Marjorie Swann and Bill Tsutsui Tim and Jerrye Van Leer Steven Warren and Eva Horn Arnold Weiss

Friend ($50–199) Conrad Altenbernd Bob and Marcia Anderson Carol Anderson and John Fowler Tom and Francie Arnold Gretchen Day Atwater

Jeffrey and Janet Aube Michael Aurbach Victor and Kathryn Bailey Price T. and Marjorie Banks Ofelia A. Baradi Richard Barohn Dan Bernstein Bill and Martha Barr Frank and Barbara Becker Doug Bergstrom Carolyn and Gordon Berry Marlene Bien Gary and Nancy Bjorge Chuck and Dee Blaser Sally G. Bloom Rolf and Laura Borchert Robert and Wilma Bowline Anne Bray Jack Bray George Brenner Lynn Bretz Mark Brodkey Patricia Brooks Robert and Sharon Brown James Brundage Rose Bryant Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Buck Tim and Rachel Epp Buller R. Cord Burk John and Janet Burnett Huchingson Winslow M. and Sue Cady Kit Carlsen Peter and Rosalea Carttar Lois E. Clark Frederick P. Conboy Warren and Mary Corman Sally Cornelison Sarah and Doug Crawford-Parker

Judith Culley Peter and Virginia Curran Paul Davis Stanley and Alice Jo DeFries Richard and Fernande DeGeorge Dorothy Devlin Kolene and Paul Dietz John and Deborah Divine Patrick and Mary Dooley Mary and John Doveton Patricia Dubose Duncan James and Nancy Dunn Katherine L. Eddy Susan and Jack Elkins Hilda Enoch Ann Evans Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett and Stephen Fawcett Clark and Helen Fisher Jeanne Fletcher J. Robert Fluker Sherry Fowler and Dale Slusser Hank and Paula Frankel William Freeman Robert J. Friauf Charles and Diane Frickey Harvey and SuEllen Fried Larry and Jacqueline Gadt Ligia Galarza Norman and Helen Gee Mrs. William Gilbert Helen Gilles Rich and Susan Givens Phillip and Phoebe Godwin Steve and Diane Goddard Webster and Joan Golden Patricia Graham and David Dunfield Lynne Green

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Roy and Marilyn Gridley Brenda Groskinsky Robin Gross George and Susan Gurley Susan Haley and Jason Franchuk Janet Hamburg Gary and Kay Hale Jerry and Liz Hare Matt and Diane Henk Richard and Nancy Hernandez Charles and Laurie McLane Higginson Richard and Sue Himes Ronald and Barbara Hinton Carol Holstead Nancy Hope Harry and Mary Lou Hughes Jeffrey and Sherry Ingles Wes and Joan Jackson Louise and Charles Jarvis Ted and Mary Johnson Dan and Jeannette Johnson Stephen and Debra Johnson Mike and Kitty Johnson Topper and Linda Johntz Nancy Jorn Maurice and Betsy Joy Mike and Elaine Kautsch Patrick and Amy Kelly Bradley Kemp Jean Grosjean and J. Patrick Kerich Lesley T. Ketzel Karen L. Koehler Ed and Karen Komp Liz Kowalchuk Andy Kroeker John and Margie Kuhn Tom and Jennifer Laming Betty A. Laird

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Rusty and Paula Leffel Alice A. Lieberman Richard and Karen Lind Loretta Loftus Stan Lombardo and Judy Roitman James and Larissa Long John and Linda Lungstrum Joseph A. Lutz Judith Major Robert and Anita Markley Mrs. Robert A. Marshall Jackson Martin Maureen Martin Stephen Mazza Paul J. and L. Jean McCarthy B. Kent and Janette McCullough Barbara B. McCorkle Sally McGee William and Mary McGuinness Ross and Margaret McKinney Sidney A. and Carole McKnight Genevieve McMahon Rosalie McMaster Vicki Meadows Susan C. Meyer Deborah and Charles Milks Allan and Sandi Miller Elizabeth Miller and Lindy Eakins Ken Miner Nancy S. Mitchell John and Kathryn Mollett Mary L. Mortensen Herman and Phyllis Munczek Bridget E. Murphy Jack and Rosemary Murphy Patrick and Mary Beth Musick JoAnn Myers Art and Connie Neuburger

Marjorie Z. Newmark Virginia Ann Nichols Bill and Harolyn O’Brien Dick and Georgia Orchard Dean and Doris Owens James V. Owens John and Pamela Peck William E Pfeiffer Diana B. and G. Joseph Pierron Ken and Rowena Pine Austin and Karley Porter Laurance and Johanna Price Polly Reed Matthew D. and Jennifer Richards Richard and Joan Ring W. Stitt and Connie Robinson Jean Rosenthal and Dave Kingsley Mary Ross James K. Rowland Sylvie and Glenn Reuff Jeannett B. Runyan Henry and Lynn Russell Emily Ryan Neil and Leni Salkind Janet Satz Richard and Barbara Schowen Robert and Jan Schwartz Sharon Scoggins James E. and Virginia S. Seaver Simran Sethi Will and Margaret Severson Todd and Jeannot Seymour Larry E. Shankles Carolyn and Bob Shelton Diane W. Simpson Greg and Mary-Margaret Simpson George and Terry Smith Lucille Smith

Boyd and Heather Smith Glee and Jerry Smith Margery W. Smith Bill and Dona Snead Paul and Deborah Sokoloff Robert L. Speer Joe and Rita Spradlin Byron and Marion Springer Virginia Marshall Starkweather Don and Tammy Steeples Denise L. Stone Gloria and William Straughn Patrick Suzeau and Muriel Cohan Ryan and Jennifer Talbott Thomas and Edith Taylor Dixie Robinson and Tom Telander Shirley Thomas James Woefel and Sarah Chappell Trulove Ruth A. Turney Bill and Kathryn Tuttle Mary F. Ventura Graham and Anne Walker Marvin and Rosemary Walter Charles and Karne Warner Deborah West Pete and Ann Wklund Sue Grosjean Wilcox Betty Wilkin Sheila Wilkins and Kim Kern Bill Woods Jack and Judy Wright Robert and Judy Wright Norm and Anne Yetman Robert and Marilyn Zerwekh

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Senior ($35+) Betty W. Alderson Marnie and William J. Argersinger Robert and Jean Ayers Patricia Mink Balsamo Lillian M. Barker Frank and Betty Baron Maynard and Virginia Bauleke Grace H. Beam Miriam W. Blum-Baur Jean-Pierre Boon Joachimand Jutta Brill Julia Brooks Ann Church Ardis June Comfort Albert B. Cook Grace P. Cooper Susan Craig Douglas H. and Kari Dean David and Barbara Downing Edmund and Pamela Eglinski Elaine and Keith Fellenstein Carol Floersch Dorothy Fritzel Elizabeth Galloway Katherine Carr Giele Howard and Helen Gilpin Leo R. Goertz Marrillie Good Margaret Schutz Gordon Nancy Lindsey Helmstadter Betty Austin Hensley Anita Herzfeld Richard C. and Edith Olson Hite Kenneth Irby John and Reinhild Janzen Howard F. and Shirley Joseph

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Don J. Kallos Edie Kelly R. Keith and Phyllis Lawton Alice Leonard Sue Leonard Bernie and Joan Levine Loraine H. Lindenbaum Claudine S. Lingelbach Pamela Loewenstein Bill and Beverly Mayer C.M.S. and Janet Mody Ruth Moss John and Carol Nalbandian Susie Nightingale Mary Alice Pacey Stephen J. and Marie-Luce Parker Nancy Peterson Patricia Roth Rosemary G. Schrepfer Brilla Scott Al and Jane Sellen John O. and Karen Somers Katherine E. Stannard Judy Suchey Susan Suhler Luella Vaccaro Alice Weis George J. and Carol D. Worth Mary Lou Wright Morgan and Joan Wright

Student ($15+) Mara Aubel Julia Barnard Emily Barr Rebecca Barton Annette Becker

Katy Billups Sarah Bluvas Cory Boor Lily Boyce Chase Bray Elizabeth Bunker Mick Cottin Brenna Daldorph John Dennis Alli Derks Rena Detrixhe Emmeline Erkison Lauren Fulton Jennifer Hunt Katie Jones Nichole Lovetro Kirsten Marples Nicole McClure Hallie McCormick Richelle Mechem Josh Meier Melissa Melling Colleen Murbach Ashley Petitjean Riz Preena Nicole Rome Jennifer Scheer Scott Sheu Adam Strunk Nick Surface Alyssa Thiel Laura Vinci Adam Vossen Ruth Alexandra Walters Milton Wendland Sam Willger

Corporate Sponsors Corporate Cornerstone

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

*updated August 5, 2010

($5,000+) Emprise Financial Corporation The O’Connor Co. - Piller Foundation

Corporate Benefactor ($1,000–1,499) Coca Cola Evan Williams Catering Sabatini Architects, Inc.

Corporate Members Corporate PATRON ($500–999) The Olivia Collection

Corporate Donor

($300–499) Cork & Barrel Hallmark Corporate Foundation, Inc. KU Memorial Unions Mass Street Music Meritrust Credit Union TCK Trust & Financial Advisors

Corporate Friend ($150–299) Golf Course Superintendents Association Honor Vodka Intrust Bank Landmark National Bank Weavers Wilkerson, Saunders & Anderson

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The Spencer Museum of Art wishes to thank supporters who are helping to launch the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Spencer Museum of Art Academic Programs Initiative campaign with annual contributions and multi-year pledges.

The Anschutz Foundation Kenneth and Katie Armitage Michael L. Aurbach James and Linda Ballinger M. Lavon Brosseau in honor of Jeff Weinberg Carol Ann and Clifton Brown Rose L. Bryant Estate of Gladys and Frank Burge Bill and Barbara Carswell Margaret Daicoff Carolyn Dillon Reed and Stacey Dillon Jill and Tom Docking Victoria and Joseph Douglas Barbara Duke Charles and Jane Eldredge Emprise Financial Corporation

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Anne H. Foresman Chuck and Sandy Garrett H.H. and Kathleen Hall Saralyn Reece Hardy and Randall Hardy David C. Henry Don and Jene Herron Dave and Gunda Hiebert Nancy and John Hiebert Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Mary Lee and Raymond Hummert Stephen and Cara Ingalls Don and Alice Ann Johnston Mary Lou Reece and Scott Jones David and Sacie Lambertson Burdett and Michel Loomis Anita J. and Bob Markley Larry and Barbara Marshall Michael and Cindy Maude

The Spencer Museum of Art extends special thanks to Emily Hill and Burke Griggs, Nancy and John Hiebert, Jeffery and Mary Weinberg, Stephen and Marcia Hill, Daniel and Nicole Sabatini, Susan and Brad Tate, Burdett and Michel Loomis, Melissa Padgett, Harrison Jedel, Elizabeth and Valentino Stella, and Barbara Duke for special support of this initiative.

J. Hammond McNish Michael and Dee Michaelis Richard and Virginia Jennings Nadeau Arthur V. Neis Phyllis and Ronald Nolan The O’Connor Company -Piller Foundation Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Melissa and Brent Padgett Margaret Perkins-McGuinness Marynell Reece Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation Trust Scott and Carol Ritchie

Pete Rowland Elizabeth Schultz Roger Shimomura Richard D. Smith Valentino and Elizabeth Stella John T. and Linda Stewart Marilyn Stokstad John and Deanell Tacha Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Andrew and Georgiana Torres Bret and Mary Lou Waller Elizabeth and Robert Weaver Jeffery and Mary Weinberg

* as of August 5, 2010

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

Friends of the Art Museum Board Burdett Loomis, PhD., President Reed Dillon, Past-President Matt All Brad Burnside Sarah Crawford-Parker, PhD. Ernie Cummings Paul Davis Laura Gregory Emily B. Hill

Nancy Jackson Stephen Johnson Tim Metz Vickie Otten Reggie Robinson Josh Shelton Susan Tate Lynn Russell, Docent Rep. Annette Becker, Student Rep.

SMA ADVISORY Board Mike Michaelis, Chair Linda Bailey James K. Ballinger Carol Ann Brown Rose Bryant Victoria Douglas Randy Gordon David Hiebert, M.D. Larry Marshall Richard Nadeau

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Arthur Neis Phyllis Nolan Melissa Padgett A. Scott Ritchie Elizabeth Schultz Karen Smoot Linda Stewart Marilyn Stokstad Jeff Weinberg

Above: Scenes from the Spencer Student Advisory Board’s 2010 Juried Show / Spring Student Night.

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