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SPRING NEWSLETTER 2010

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART

SPRING 2010 NEWSLETTER vol. XXXII, no. 5 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: Chesley K. Bonestell, 1888–1986 Esquire in New Orleans, circa 1948 probably gelatin silver print, paint, Gift of Esquire, Inc., 1980.0720 In upcoming Utopia–Dystopia exhibition. Back cover: Scenes from the Halloween kid’s class, Knight at the Museum, featuring a medieval battle re-enactment by the Society for Creative Anachronisms.

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: Matt Kirby and Andrea Repinsky performing an interpretive dance as Steve Mason (not pictured) from the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band plays and sings “It’s a long way from Amphioxus.” The Darwin Cabaret event was arranged by The Commons, a KU partnership among the Biodiversity Institute, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art.

Contents

Dialogue

From the Director

Calendar of Events

Exhibitions

The Spencer in Brief

Friends & Contributors

Above: Dalton Howard, Security Officer, and Cindy Waterman, Chief of Security, pose as they celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SMA Docent Program.

Dialogue

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“This gift from the Anschutz Foundation recognizes the critical role the Spencer Museum plays in the life of the University. It is my hope that this generous gift will help inspire other gifts, so that we can match the grant provided by the Mellon Foundation.” Bernadette Gray-Little, University of Kansas Chancellor

“While the Spencer has always been regarded as a top university art museum, the Mellon grant brings national and prestigious recognition to the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas. The importance of this honor is crucial to KU’s reputation as a leading educational and research university.” Melissa Padgett, SMA Advisory Board Chair

“The Mellon grant is a ‘challenge grant’ for the Spencer in two ways. Most literally, we must meet a substantial financial challenge. But more profoundly, the Mellon grant challenges the Museum to act imaginatively and energetically in bringing its extensive holdings and exciting scholarship into the full mainstream of the University’s academic life, broadly defined. I have no doubt that both challenges will be met in full.” Burdett Loomis, KU Professor of Political Science & Friends of the Art Museum Board Member

From the Director

As many of you will recall, in fall 2008, New York’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Spencer Museum a $1.2 million challenge grant to support substantial expansion of the Museum’s impact on teaching and research across the University of Kansas campus. The current grant comes in two parts: A $1 million endowment challenge grant that the Museum must match within a three-year period, and $200,000 to be used as the Spencer advances its initiatives and raises matching funds. It is my great pleasure to announce that the Anschutz Foundation of Denver, Colorado, has honored the Museum with a generous gift of $200,000. Other friends of the Spencer have also committed to meeting the Mellon match—we are now more than onethird of the way toward our goal. For a list of donors, please turn to page 52. The Mellon challenge acknowledges the Spencer Museum’s leadership among the nation’s university art museums. The award also emphasizes the Museum’s fundamental role as an innovator in higher education and calls attention to its place at the creative center of the University.

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As director of the Spencer, I welcome the high expectations and responsibilities that accompany this national recognition. The Mellon Initiative at the University of Kansas must weave the Museum’s collections of objects of aesthetic, historical, and cultural significance and the scholarship they generate into the fabric of the KU community. It must help the University unify the arts, sciences, and humanities with inquiry, synergistic teams, and joint ventures. It must help lead the University into the landscape of the future, guided by the accumulated knowledge and aesthetics of the past and present. Our exhibitions, programs, and projects must integrate academic standards into interdisciplinary approaches at KU. Our work must have creative power and embrace experimentation. As part of the state’s flagship research university, we must also become even more responsive to the needs and ambitions of our friends and colleagues across Kansas. In short, the Mellon award can help establish KU as a national and international leader in higher education that is known for its contribution to creative learning and powerful discovery in a rapidly changing world.

A year after securing the Mellon award, we are pleased to have taken several decisive steps toward fulfilling these challenges. First, we have recruited a superb scholar with international experience and expertise to launch the Mellon Initiative at KU. Dr. Celka Straughn will combine object-based historical research with innovations in education and interdisciplinary partnerships to infuse Museum projects and programs with rigor and relevancy to students, faculty, and the public. We are delighted to have Celka join our academic staff. Second, we have begun to recruit formal and informal advisors to help shape the Mellon Initiative. Some will address new and exciting curricular opportunities, others will focus on leading-edge research agendas, and an even broader group will help to develop a strong, sustainable future by proposing funding and growth strategies. Conversations with scholars, students, and friends will guide the program.

Commons, a partnership among the Biodiversity Institute, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art; the University Honors Program; the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (including the History of Art, Anthropology, and Art departments); the School of Architecture (including Urban Planning & Design); the KU libraries (including the Art & Architecture Library and the Spencer Research Library); the School of Journalism & Mass Communications; the KU Center for Research; the Lied Center; the Center for Teaching Excellence; and the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centers for area and cultural studies. The list grows daily! Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director

Third, we are continuing to benefit from and further develop several dynamic interdisciplinary partnerships across campus. These include The

Calendar of Events for Spring 2010 JANUARY

1.28 Gallery Talk: SMA Curator Kris thu

Ercums on Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia / 5:30 PM / Kress Gallery *

2.10 Lecture: Megan Holmes, associate wed

1.30 It Starts with Art! Children’s art sat

appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Face It! / Create a unique and personal statement in an art box that reveals who you are, what you see and what you do not see, as you explore various forms of portraiture. Teachers: Sorcha Hyland & Denise Stone, PhD **

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2.06 It Starts with Art! Children’s art sat appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Fan Fanatics / Discover the importance of the fan in Asian cultures / Use this rare opportunity to learn about some very old and delicate fans in the Spencer’s collection. Create your own hand painted, flip-style fan! / Teachers: Katie Turner & Jamie Babcock **

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professor of Italian Renaissance Art, University of Michigan / 5:15 PM / SMA Room 211, please use west Museum entrance / Murphy Lecture Series

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freelance editor & writer, on When Medieval Meets Victorian: The Development of Scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance Dress / 5:15 PM / SMA Room 211, please use west Museum entrance / Murphy Lecture Series

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Tall Tales / Pick your favorite objects from our 20/21 Gallery / Work in small groups to devise a story. Use ladder chairs to drop “paint-balls” and create your own group murals. / Teacher: Sorcha Hyland **

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Music Performance: Spencer Consort / 2:30 PM / Central Court University Lecture Series: Writing Jazz / 7:30 PM / The Commons in Spooner Hall / Fred Moten, Department of English, Duke University, on Jurisgenerative Grammar: For Alto, For Black / Sponsored by the KU Honors Program

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Lecture: Artist Kerry James Marshall / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Co-sponsored with Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University

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Reception: Spring @ the Spencer / 5:30–7 PM / SMA Galleries & Central Court / A celebration of the Museum’s spring exhibitions It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Printing the Prairie / Journey to the world of the Prairie Print Makers / Look at images of the Great Plains and create your own multimedia print using different textures and printing processes. / Teacher: Libby Heidrich & Audrey Baye **

University Lecture Series: Writing Jazz / 7:30 PM / The Commons in Spooner Hall / Tammy Kernodle, Department of Musicology, Miami University, on Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit: Constructing Black Women’s Conversion Narratives in Jazz / Sponsored by the KU Honors Program Gallery Talk: Senior Session on A Musical Party presented by Sarah Crawford-Parker, Associate Director, University Honors Program / 10 AM / SMA 17thCentury Gallery * Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series * * * Book Discussion: One of Ours by Willa Cather / 6 PM / Kress Gallery Film: A Very Long Engagement / 7 PM / SMA Auditorium

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Calendar of Events MARCH

3.15–19 Workshop: Sonic Stories: mon–fri Music into Art II with Cory Hills / 10 AM– 4 PM / Central Court & Galleries / Cory Hills, percussionist/ performer /story-teller, leads his second Music into Art workshop for children at the Spencer Museum of Art. Using narrative and storytelling techniques, students will devise their own interpretations of the works under study and create percussive sound-effects to embellish and perform their stories. A public performance of completed works will occur on March 19 in the Central Court of the Museum.

3.25 Machine in a Void Book thu

Book Discussion: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque / 6 PM / Lawrence Public Library Film: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) / 7 PM / Lawrence Public Library

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To register, contact the SMA Education Department, 784-864-0137 or smakids@ku.edu

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Discussion / Film Series * * * [ Note Today’s Location: Lawrence Public Library. ]

It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Diamonds & Eggs / Learn about the House of Fabergé and a few other “egg-works” then assemble and decorate egg sculptures and baskets. / Teacher: Sorcha Hyland **

Goldenburg Duo / 12 PM / Central Court

3.25 Gallery Talk: Senior Session on thu

C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman presented by SMA curatorial assistant Kate Meyer / 10 AM / North Balcony Gallery * MARCH SUN

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KU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: Machine in a Void: World War I and the Graphic Arts / 2– 4 PM / Kress Gallery / Join us at the Spencer Museum of Art for a multidisciplinary panel discussion of the exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I and the Graphic Arts. / For more information about this exhibition, please visit the exhibition section of this newsletter. / Enrollment required / $ / Class sponsored by KU Continuing Education.

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Lecture: 2010 Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer Toshio Watanabe / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Reception follows / Watanabe is professor and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts, London. Gallery Talk: Senior Session on James Rosenquist’s 1, 2, 3 Outside presented by SMA intern Natalie Svacina / 10 AM / SMA 20/21 Gallery *

Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series * * * Book Discussion: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway / 6 PM / Kress Gallery

Please contact Continuing Education, 785-864-KUCE(5823), www.kuce.org, or kuce@ku.edu APRIL

Lecture: 2010 Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer Toshio Watanabe / 6 PM / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO / Watanabe is professor and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts, London.

Film: The Sun Also Rises (1957) / 7 PM / SMA Auditorium

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It Starts With Art!: Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5-14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / War of the Worlds: Pencil V. Print / Explore the exhibition, Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts. Study line and composition and experiment with creating the same image in print and pencil. / Teacher: Natalie Svacina **

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Calendar of Events APRIL

4.15 Lecture: 2009 Franklin D. Murphy thu

Lecturer Christopher M.S. Johns on “China and the Church: Chinoiserie and the Roman Connection” / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Johns is the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History, Vanderbilt University. This lecture was originally scheduled for fall 2009.

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Writing Jazz / 7:30 PM / The Commons in Spooner Hall / Paul Lopes, Department of Sociology, Colgate University, on From Hepcat to Rebel to Heroin Fiend: The Jazz Trope in the Popular Imagination / Sponsored by the KU Honors Program

4.18 Lecture: 2009 Franklin D. Murphy sun

4.22 Gallery Talk: Senior Session on thu

appreciation classes for ages 5 –14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / What a Relief! / Learn how stories are told in stone and clay. Create your own tale using real earthenware materials and have your finished work fired on campus in a KU kiln. Teacher: Katherine Rossiter & Catherine Meihaus **

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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian presented by SMA docent Alice Ann Johnston / 10 AM / Central Court *

4.22 Machine in a Void Book thu

Discussion / Film Series * * * Book Discussion: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf / 6 PM / Kress Gallery

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Lecturer Christopher M.S. Johns on The Art and Visual Culture of European Chinoiserie / 2:30 PM / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City / Johns is the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History, Vanderbilt University. This lecture was originally scheduled for fall 2009.

Film: Mrs. Dalloway (1997) / 7 PM / SMA Auditorium

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Special Event: Spring Student Night & Juried Art Show Opening / 5:30–7:30 PM / Central Court & Galleries / Sponsored by the SMA Student Advisory Board

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It Starts With Art!: Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / Monsters in the Mix? / Hunt for images of the gory and the grotesque in ancient and medieval art. Use natural materials and found objects to create your own hairy, scary, monstrous mask. / Teacher: Sorcha Hyland **

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Arts & Culture Festival / 1–4 PM / SMA Galleries and Front Lawn / Co-sponsored by SMA Student Advisory Board / In conjunction with SMA spring exhibitions

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Alberto Vargas / 10 AM *

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Portrait of a Day presented by SMA docent Dee Link / 10 AM / 20.21 Gallery * Films: KU Student Video Premiere / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / KU Design students present new Video work. Experimental, documentary, story telling, and non-linear narrative styles are explored, emphasizing personal expression.

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

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*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

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***Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series This collaborative program pairs film screenings at the Spencer with book discussions sponsored by the Lawrence Public Library. In conjunction with the exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I & The Graphic Arts, the Library has created a book discussion group on the subject, and the Spencer has assembled a series of films with storylines or themes similar to those found in the literature. A book discussion precedes each screening. To register for the Book Discussion group, contact Maria Butler at (785) 843-3833 ext.123 or email mbutler@lawrence.lib.ks.us

Instant silliness!

Next time you are strolling around Spencer Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent spring exhibits, remember to use the authentic photobooth in the Big Shots exhibit to capture your silly face!

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.”

Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Flowers, 1964, offset color lithograph, Gift from the Gene Swenson Collection, on display, 1970.0175

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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.

Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Marilyn Karp, 1974,

Bud Lee, Warhol’s Factory, New York, 1969,

Polaroid™ print (Polacolor Type 108),

chromogenic color print, Gift of Esquire, Inc., on

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the

display, 1980.0324

Visual Arts, Inc., on display, 2008.0091

Exhibitions

Earthly Vessels African Ceramics South Balcony | September 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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 Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection by Nancy Mahaney, SMA Curator of Arts & Cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania, this exhibition of African ceramics explores the form, function, and meaning of ceramic vessels from across the continent.

Zande, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

bottle, PG2008.029

bottle, PG2008.027

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Extra/Ordinary Video Art from Asia Kress Gallery | October 24 –February 14, 2010 Extra/Ordinary investigates new ways of transforming familiar experiences and daily routines into moments of expanded meaning, contemplation and humorous reflection. By repositioning our constructed notions of the “everyday” as cinematic recreations, comical interventions, or meditative actions, this exhibition explores the imaginative potential embedded in the ordinary stuff of life. Organized by SMA curator of Asian art Kris Imants Ercums, this exhibition features recent video by artists from across Asia: The Xijing Men’s Collective—Chen Shaoxiong (China), Gimhongsok (Korea), and Ozawa Tsuyoshi (Japan)— bring new meaning to “play” in

their alternate world of Olympic competition; in Invisible Cities (2005–2008) Taiwanese artist Tsui Kuang-yu creates action videos that blur “correct behavior” in urban environments; three short videos by Tokyo-based Izumi Taro offers an odd realm of comical daydreams; Lida Abdul seeks healing in the spatial realities of war-torn Afghanistan; and the cine-magician “Mr.

Lida Abdul, born 1973 Kabul, Afganistan, White House, 2005, single channel video, Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.0032

Exhibitions

Wonderful” himself, Yeondoo Jung, produces sweeping vignettes at the confluence of remembrance and imagination in Handmade Memories (2008). The artists in Extra/Ordinary share a common interest in the meaning of our ordinary lives, especially within the context of Asia, where an immense reevaluation of historical consciousness and cultural practices is occurring under the guise of “development.” Together, these artists uncover the potential of daily experience and explore the material stuff of the world as mutable and laden with potential. The use of moving images in this exhibition to restore a lost memory, capture the present, or remake life through cinematic effect, further reflects the fleeting qualities that make the everyday so extraordinary. In the process, ordinary moments are uprooted, transformed into wondrous encounters and, through the “poetics of noticing,” restored as artifacts of memory and meaning. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Chen Shaoxiong: Ink Things.

Tsui Kuang-Yu, born 1974 Taipei, Taiwan, Invisible City series, Taiparis York, 2008, single channel video,

Taro Izumi, born 1977 Nara, Japan, Lime at the

Courtesy of Eslite Gallery, Taipei and the artist

Bottom of the Lake, 2008, single channel video,

Courtesy of hiromiyoshii

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Chen Shaoxiong Ink Things Electronic Art Space | November 7– February 14, 2010

“A commodity appears at firstextremely sight an extremely obvious, trivial “A commodity first sight obvious, Butthing. itsin But itsappears analysisatbrings out an that it is a very strangetrivial thing,thing. abounding analysis brings out thatsubtleties it is a veryand strange thing,niceties.” abounding in metaphysical metaphysical theological 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). This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia. For more information about the artist, visit his website: www.chenshaoxiong.com

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

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Utopia – Dystopia 20 / 21 Gallery Conversation Wall | January–April, 2010 By nature people strive for perfection. We constantly try to better ourselves and the world around us. Whether we educate ourselves formally or informally, advocate social causes, or simply go to a gym and watch our diet, we are engaged in personal and social activities which emerge from a common denominator: our belief in progress and our desire for improvement. But will we ever arrive at a perfect place? Or is a place of perfection nonexistent?

Margaret Bourke-White, 1904–1971, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937, gelatin silver print, Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 1985.0120

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Ever since the appearance of Thomas More’s Utopia in 1516, humankind’s musings about an ideal state of affairs acquired its proper name. The word “utopia”—from the Greek ou, “not,” and τόπος, “place”—is used to imply perfect political, economic, religious, or scientific communities. However, utopia is a double-sided concept. It may also signify an impractical, unattainable ideal with pejorative overtones. Thus it also reflects centuries-old anxieties about the improbability of attaining a state of perfection. 20/21 Conversation VII: Utopia-Dystopia brings together a selection of artists who investigate dimensions of utopian-dystopian thinking in various spheres of contemporary life. Featuring more than 30 photographs and prints drawn from the Spencer’s permanent collection, the exhibition invites the viewer to contemplate various signs of political, social, technological, ecological, and gender utopianism which are intermingled with dystopian and apocalyptic imagery as a counterbalance to utopian enthusiasm.

Is utopia an impractical dream irrelevant to our lives? Or is it a visionary plan delineating our current boundaries of the possible and providing a trajectory to cross those boundaries in the future? Is there a clear demarcation between utopia and dystopia? Are our ideas about perfection indeed the best possible scenarios for our future?

Charles Pratt, 1926–1976, Housing Development, South Bronx, New York, mid 1900s, gelatin silver print, Gift of Julie Pratt, 1985.0182

Exhibitions Qiu Anxiong: New Book of Mountains and Seas Central Court | February 20 – May 30 Artist-in-Residence | March 28 – April 11 When Qui Anxiong comes to campus this semester as part of the Spencer’s International Artist-in-Residence Program, the Spencer will unveil for the first time his experimental video work New Book of Mountains and Seas, acquired by the Museum last year. The International Artist-in-Residence Program is made possible by the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the William T. Kemper Foundation. Qiu (born 1972 in Chengdu, China) graduated from the Sichuan Art Academy in 1994 and then studied painting at Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2003. From his studio in Shanghai, he has created work exhibited in international exhibitions, including the Shanghai Biennale (2006), the Sydney Biennale (2008), the Guangzhou Biennale (2008), and most recently Utopia (2009) at Arken Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. After seeing the work of South-African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) in early 2000, Qiu began to experiment with ways to enliven his painting. Working exclusively in acrylic, he began to explore methods to capture the movement of painted imagery as seen in his first video Jiangnan Poem (2005). Stringing together photographs that document the gradual manipulation of layer after layer of paint on a single canvas, Qiu employs computer software to stitch the images together, thus creating animated painting. By limiting his palate to black and white, Qiu purposely evokes the monochromatic ink-and-brush traditions of literati painters, thus affecting an ancient aesthetic through modern technology. One abiding theme in his video work is the exploration of history, memory and tradition. He writes:

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These days, most people consider new and old tonew be mutually exclusive concepts. These days, most people consider and old to be mutually exclusivenovel; concepts. Thetotally new isoutdated. completelyThe novel; the old, totally The new is completely the old, old can be eradicated outdated. The old can be eradicated for the sake of the new for the sake of the new and creation of the new world necessarily implies and creation of the new world necessarily implies destruction destruction of the oldold world. ButBut somehow thethe world thatthat emerges from thethe gap of the world. somehow world emerges from between us andgap the between old orderusnever seems add never up to our idealization and the oldtoorder seems to add up of to it. ourIt’s It’s never as perfect, nor nearly as peaceful. never as perfect,idealization nor nearlyofasit.peaceful.

The Spencer’s acquisition of this work builds on recent purchases and further expands our holdings in the important area of new media art as seen in the video Muxima (2005), by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, and in Chen Shaoxiong’s digital animation Ink Things (2005). In addition to the video work, the Museum also has acquired a set of 12 accompanying woodblock prints that describe the creatures included in the video work. These prints simulate the format of the original historical version of the Shanhai Jing and offer descriptions written in classical Chinese of these strange new phenomena. As a major work by an international artist still early in his career, The New Book of Mountains and Seas is a haunting and richly complex exploration of historical disjunctions, our dysfunctional relationship with nature and the environment, and the deeply rooted ideological conflicts that threaten to undo the world today.

Xin Shanhai Jing 新山海经, New Book of Mountains and Seas, 2008, set of 12 woodblock prints (ink on rice paper), Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

Exhibitions

C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman North Balcony | February 13–May 16

We wish to thank the Seward Family for their generous gifts that stimulated this exhibition and for their ongoing commitment to recognizing C.A. Seward’s contributions.

Coy Avon Seward, 1884–1939, Adobe

Village—New Mexico, 1936, lithograph, Gift

(pg 25) Coy Avon Seward, 1884–1939,

of Steven Schmidt, Class of ‘58, Prarie Print

Bruce Moore, 1929 , lithograph, Gift of

Makers’ Gift Print Collection, 1992.0044

Drew, Elder and Carole Gardner, 2007.0040

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C.A. (Coy Avon) Seward utilized artistic experimentation that combined the practicality of commercial technology with the pleasure of pursuing fine art. As head of the art department at a commercial printing firm in Wichita, Kansas in the 1920s and ‘30s, Seward used his knowledge of commercial design and printmaking techniques, as well as his position of leadership among fellow artists, to further his own artistic work and technical experimentation in the field of lithography. These combined experiences also made him an invaluable mentor to others. He produced guides

explaining how to create and appreciate lithographs, provided invaluable contributions to the organization and administration of the Prairie Print Makers, and extended his influence well outside the local sphere through his art and his writing. This exhibition of Seward’s prints examines the ways in which his use of printmaking as an artistic medium are informed by his deep knowledge and experience in the technical aspects of commercial printmaking. It also considers his connections to Wichita, to Kansas, and to the Southwest, and acknowledges his impact as an artist and as an arts advocate. An online oeuvre catalogue of Seward’s prints is planned in conjunction with the exhibition.

Exhibitions

Beaded Heritage 20 / 21 Gallery Process Space | March 27– May 7 Haskell Indian Nations University seniors Julia and Twila White Bull are accomplished bead workers of Lakota and Chippewa Heritage. Initially trained by their parents in the art of beadwork, they explore their creative talents within the traditional bounds of their cultural identity, experimenting with style, color, and technique to suit their own artistic goals. Students in Haskell’s American Indian Studies program, Julia and Twila are working with Robin Bang, the Spencer’s Berkley Curatorial Intern for the Arts & Cultures of the Americas, Africa & Oceania, to present their personal dance regalia along with historic examples of beaded bags and moccasins from the Museum’s collections. Because they have both Lakota Sioux and Chippewa heritage, Julia and Twila employ two distinct design styles in their work—geometric shapes unique to Lakota beading and curvilinear, floral designs of the Chippewa style. Personal regalia on view will include Julia’s dentalium-shell cape with 500 dentalium-shell beads (small tubular mollusks that look like little elephant tusks), and Twila’s jingle dress—displayed with the Chippewa healing story explaining the origins of this style of Pow Wow dance regalia. Highlights from the Spencer’s collection include a Chippewa Bandolier bag and Lakota moccasins with Teepee designs, both dating to the early 20th century.

(above) Julia White Bull in traditional Lakota dress.

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Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts Kress Gallery | March 6-May 23

...undeniable and colossal absurdity, like a machine functioning in a void...

Several years in the making, the Spencer-organized Machine in a Void will present nearly 150 works of graphic art made during the years of the First World War (1914 –1918), with a postscript on the art of the decade following the war. By invoking the perspective of primarily European artists, the exhibition will bring attention to the substantial roles played by the graphic arts during WWI (1914 –1918) as a tool for official propaganda and as means of voicing individual responses to the war ranging from documentation to dissent.

Kerr Eby, 1889–1946, September 13, 1918, St. Mihiel, 1934, etching, aquatint, sandpaper ground, Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund, 2003.0015

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The genesis of the exhibition stems from the Spencer’s acquisition of a rare and extensive treatment of the war by Belgian artist Henri de Groux in the form of nearly 50 etchings. These proofs and trial prints were preparatory to a portfolio, La Visage de la Victoire (The Face of Victory). In his introduction to the printed series, de Groux wrote of the war as an “undeniable and colossal absurdity, like a machine functioning in a void,” an “opulent excess of perfect horror.” The Spencer’s exhibition derives its title from de Groux’s evocative expression. The central goal of the exhibition is to identify and give voice to those artists who, through their work during and shortly after WWI, renounced specific national concerns to articulate a more transcendent vision. These uncommon voices will be exhibited along with mainstream nationalistic and propagandistic works. The exhibition will be drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, and will include material that may provoke discussions of the rise of ironic and ambivalent attitudes toward war, the defenselessness of innocents in the face of modern war machines, the use of the graphic arts to promote official government attitudes, and the role of mechanized warfare within the dystopian idea of the Machine Age. The Spencer’s collections are rich in works from France, Belgium and Germany

Erich Heckel, 1883–1970, Mann in der Ebene (Man on a Plain/self-portrait), 1917, woodcut, Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Fund, 2007.0023

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and the exhibited artists include Otto Dix, Kerr Eby, George Grosz, Jules de Bruycker, Henri de Groux, André Devambez, Erich Heckel, Henri Ibels, Jean-Emile Laboureur, Karl Maes, Maxime Maufra, Ludwig Meidner, Robert Michel, Johannes Molzahn, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Georg Scholz, Max Slevogt, Edmond van Dooren, and Jean Veber.

Stephen Goddard, senior curator of prints & drawings, has organized the exhibition following a sabbatical spent primarily in Germany and a fellowship at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University— one of the world’s great repositories for WWI-era material culture. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Spencer will offer programming that involves the campus and the community, including curricular initiatives at KU, a film/book series, children’s art classes, and social networking. A catalogue is planned.

Otto Dix, 1891–1969, Explosion, 1918, ink, wash, graphite on paper, Museum purchase: Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.0100

Exhibitions Kim Jongku Electronic Arts Space | February 25 – July 25 Artist-in-Residence | February 14 – February 28 Korean artist Kim Jongku (born 1953) works at the juncture between tradition and technology, creating installations that explore constructed vistas of landscapes and the shifting place of humans within the natural world. As part of the Spencer’s International Artist-in-Residence Program, Kim comes to the Museum this semester to create a new video work. The International Artist-in-Residence Program is made possible by the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the William T. Kemper Foundation.

In his ongoing Mobile Landscape series, Kim uses industrial steel filings to form poems, calligraphy, and intricate designs on a pristine white floor. When broadcast by miniature cameras to large monitors, the installation is transformed into stunning vistas similar to the ink-and-brush painting of traditional East Asia. Kim Jongku is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (1996) and Seoul National University (1993) and has exhibited widely in Europe and Asia, including the Gwangju Biennale (2006), Re-Imagining Asia, Berlin (2007), and solo exhibitions at One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Kim Jongku still from Mobile Landscapes series. Courtesy of the artist.

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The Spencer in Brief

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. In recent months, major gifts have established the following funds: • Shirley Cundiff Haines & Jordan L. Haines Art Acquisition Fund Endowed acquisition fund • Frank Rayner Burge & Gladys Frederick Burge Arts Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund • Avis Chitwood Memorial Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund • Marybelle & Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund

Please remember that every gift, small and large, makes a difference. Small gifts, 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.

The Spencer in Brief Docent Program celebrates 40th anniversary In December, the Museum celebrated the 40th anniversary of its docent program, which traces its foundation to 1966, when R. Wayne Nelson, the Director of Music Education for the Lawrence Public Schools, contacted the Lawrence Art Guild and proposed a program to teach local schoolchildren about various fine arts. Three years later, in the spring of 1969, docents at the KU Museum of Art gave the first classroom slide talk and Museum tour. That fall, a full schedule of fifth-grade classes heard the slide talk and visited the Museum. The first-year roster of 14 docents included Barbara Buck, who still serves as a docent today. Throughout the years, the program has expanded in many different ways. The KU Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move and subsequent name-change to the Spencer Museum of Art in 1978 meant larger exhibition space and greater demand for tours and for docents. In an expansion of their original mission, docents now provide tour experiences for a variety of visitor groups. In addition, various curators of education and Museum directors have enriched the program by contributing knowledge and techniques such as inquiry-based methods for acquiring information. The SMA Docent Program currently consists of 27 docents. In fiscal year 2009, docents led a total of 282 tours consisting of 3,187 people ranging in age from four to 94 years of age. The Spencer is grateful for the volunteer service of all its current and former docents, whose passion and dedication have helped cultivate the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong reputation as a welcoming place of art, inquiry, and community.

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Special Thanks! Curator/ Director of Education James L. Enyeart, Director of Museum Education Dolo Brooking, Director of Education Sally Hoffmann, Programs Director Anne El-Omami, Curator of Education Pat Villeneuve, Curator of Education Kristina Walker, Director of Education & Public Programs Docent Program Coordinator Sandy Praeger Betsy Weaver Elizabeth Happy Jerrye Van Leer Amanda Martin-Hamon

Above: Docents celebrate the 40th anniversary of the KU Museum of Art and Spencer Museum of Art Docent Program.

The Spencer in Brief Elevator Poetry Project features “Googlism for Andy Warhol” In connection with the Big Shots exhibition on view through January 24, the Spencer’s Elevator Dialogue Project currently features the poem “Googlism for Andy Warhol,” from Peter Oresick’s 2008 collection WARHOL-O-RAMA, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. The Elevator Dialogue Project provides a forum for an open dialogue with poets/writers about works within the Spencer collection, exhibitions, art in general, specific artists, or even the elevator itself. If you have a poem of your own, or know of an existing poem that you think would be appropriate for the Project, the Museum invites you to make a submission for consideration. Works should be submitted in an MS Word document, set in 12-point type, and laid out as you would like it to appear. Submissions should be of no more than 600 words. The writer should identify the subject or artwork that they have chosen to write about, so that we may provide a picture, as well as the provenance of the object chosen. For further information on submitting a piece, please see our guidelines on the website. Authors should also provide short bios as well as contact information, so that we can call and confirm information, spelling errors, and layout. Space also will be provided on the placard as well as on our webpage for links to the writer’s websites. The Spencer makes all final decisions on the formatting and display of poems submitted.

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Spencer loans two major works to Nelson-Atkins for new American Indian Art Galleries In early November, Kansas City’s NelsonAtkins Museum of Art unveiled its newly designed American Indian Art Galleries, which prominently feature two works on long-term loan from the Spencer Museum of Art’s Spooner Collection: a Cochiti Pueblo standing figure (pictured), and a Hopi jar. The large standing figure was likely made around 1880 and is particularly notable due to his massive size; it has been featured in a number of publications, including the cover of Clay People: Pueblo Indian Figurative Traditions, published by the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe. Installed in the case next to the Cochiti figure is a jar that has been attributed to the Hopi master potter Nampeyo of Hano, and is likely one of her very early works, from the late-nineteenth century. The Spencer is delighted to share these important objects with the Nelson-Atkins.

Artist Unknown, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, figure, circa 1875, pottery, painted, 71 x 46.5 cm, Collected by KU professor, naturalist, and explorer Lewis Lindsay Dyche (1847–1915), Professor of Natural History at the University of Kansas. Gift of James K. Allen

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 Wichita and as far away as London, Paris, and Vienna.

Crossroads: The Art of Gordon Parks Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (January 23–April 11, 2010) Gordon Parks, gelatin silver prints: Malcolm X Selling Newspaper, 1963 (1993.0044) Black Children with White Doll, 1942 (1993.0045) Red Jackson, Harlem Gang Leader, 1949 (1993.0047) Wedding, France, 1951 (1994.0005) Crowded Bedroom, Rio, 1969 (1994.0006) Wooden Privies, Southeast section, Washington, DC, 1942 (2004.0031) Fashion: Long Hair Furs, 1952 (2007.0035)

Modernism and the Black Atlantic Tate Gallery, London (Jan. 29–May 3, 2010) Aaron Douglas, Self Portrait, 1954, charcoal and conté crayon (1995.0042) Aaron Douglas, Opportunity Art Portfolio, six relief prints and cover (2003.0012.01-7)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Feb. 14–May 9, 2010) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (June 15–Sept. 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)

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 and ink on paper (1970.0030)

John Singer Sargent: Painting the Feminine Ideal (tentative title) The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York (May 21 – Dec. 31, 2010) John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis, 1882, oil on canvas (1960.0059)

The Spencer in Brief “An Ear for Art” cell-phone audio guide keeps growing 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. Access to the guide is free. 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. Currently, the program provides information about 13 objects in the Spencer’s galleries, plus temporary exhibitions. The next phase will expand the program beyond Museum walls to include public sculpture across the KU campus. Below is a list of the sculptures that will be featured in the campus sculpture tour, which should be in place by the end of March or the beginning of April. • 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, Patrick 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)

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Innovative, experimental, collaborative—Rocket Grants initiative takes off The Spencer Museum of Art and Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of Rocket Grants, a new program funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., which will provide direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven, and artistcentered projects in the Lawrence-Kansas City area. The partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation builds on the Spencer’s commitment to extend its outreach into the Kansas City metropolitan area. Rocket Grants will fund projects that exist outside of established institutions not likely to attract traditional forms of support, challenge traditional methods of production or presentation, add energy and diversity to the field of visual arts activity in our area, and provide opportunities for the creative growth of those involved.

“The artistic communities of Kansas City and Lawrence form natural relationships and present unique opportunities for this region to benefit from their visions and projects,” says SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy. “The partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation invests in artists of our time. I am delighted to be working with the committed people at Charlotte Street and the Warhol Foundation.” Applications for the first round of Rocket Grants will be available in January through the websites of Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer. Artists, curators, collectives, collaboratives, partnerships, and artist-run spaces within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Lawrence, Kansas, are eligible to apply. If applying as a group, the artistic group can be long-standing or

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created specifically for this project. Non-profit organizations are not eligible. Rocket Grants will provide $40,000 in cash awards of up to $4,000 each to area artists, curators, and writers, or groups thereof, to support the creation and presentation of new work/projects. Supported projects may include visual art, performance, film, video, new media, social practice and interdisciplinary projects. Performing artists are eligible to apply if their work includes a strong visual component/ involves meaningful collaboration with a visual artist or artists.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charlotte Street is thrilled with the potential this offers to our local artists, and honored that the KC-Lawrence region is one of the first four sites in the country partnering with the Warhol Foundation re-granting program,â&#x20AC;? says Charlotte Street Foundation Director David Hughes.

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Visit the Museum Shop We hope you’ll drop by the Spencer’s Museum Shop soon 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 Native American art collection, and the recent acquisition 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

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors The 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2010 exhibitions and programs are supported in part by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation William T. Kemper Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Anonymous Shumaker Family Foundation Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation Ethel and Raymond F. Rice Foundation KU Student Senate Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation Piersol Foundation Marybelle and Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund Avis Chitwood Fund Mary Margaret Brett Fund Mary P. Lipman Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Education Fund Docent Scholarship 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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Spencer Keystone ($10,000 +) Linda Bailey and Ronald Manka Mark and Lauren Booth David and Gunda Hiebert Arthur V. Neis Elizabeth Schultz Marilyn Stokstad Hope A. Talbot

Cornerstone ($5,000–9,999) Reed and Stacey Dillon Ray C. Fleming Jr. H.H. and Kathleen M. Hall

Fellow ($2,500–4,999) Colette and Jeff Bangert Melinda and John Couzens Randall and Saralyn Reece Hardy Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Mrs. H.W. Reece Brad and Susan Tate

Benefactor ($1,000–2,499) Barbara Brackman David Cateforis Brad and Ellen Chindamo Dr. Allan Cooke Margaret M. Daicoff Joe and Vicki Douglas Archie and Nancy Dykes Georgann Eglinski and Ron Schorr Ann Foresman Mrs. W. David Francisco Ric and Ellen Goheen

Randy D. Gordon John L. Hampton John and Nancy Hiebert Stephen and Marcia Hill Carolie and Bill Hougland Steve and Cara Ingalls Brian and Barbara King Gaye Leonard 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 Brent and Melissa Padgett Lynn and Sally Piller Gladys N. and Robert B. Sanders Lee F. Young

Patron ($500–999) Ken and Katie Armitage Kay, Tom, Tyler, and Jeff Carmody Edith Clowes and Craig Huneke Paul Coker, Jr. and Rosemary Smithson Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Harry and Becky Gibson Mrs. William Gilbert Nancy Lindsey Helmstadter Sacie and David Lambertson Jim and Carolyn Chinn Lewis Piersol Foundation Mary Ruth Petefish James and Carol Roberts Karen Smoot Linda and John T. Stewart, III

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Steven F. Warren and Eva Horn Rob and Betsy Weaver Jeff and Mary Weinberg Sue Grosjean Wilcox

Donor ($200â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 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 Ruth Garvey Fink Jacqueline and Larry Gadt Norman and Helen Gee Web and Joan Golden Lewis and Laura Gregory Sally Hare-Schriner Tom Harper Dean Henrichs Don and Jene Herron John and Kristen Hillis Raymond and Mary Lee Hummert Jessica Johnson

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Mike and Kitty Johnson Scott J. Jones and Mary Lou Reece Joyce Castle David M. and Sharyn Brooks Katzman Mike and Elaine Kautsch Carl and Excie Kurz Ted and Jane Kuwana Carol and Dave Kyner Mark and Jill LaPoint Alfano Leonard Susan and Stuart Levine Dr. Janey Levy Forest L. and Dee A. Link Bridget E. Murphy 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 Dan and Nicole Sabatini Dick and Barbara Schowen Tim and Julie Shaftel Roger Shimomura The Hon. Fred and Lilian Six Paul Coker and Rosemary Smithson Mr. and Mrs. Morton I. Sosland St. James Academy Peter and Ann Thompson William Tsutsui Tim and Jerrye Van Leer Kevan and Gail Vick Steven F. Warren and Eva Horn Saunders and Anderson Wilkerson Drs. Judy and Jack Wright

Friend ($50â&#x20AC;&#x201C;199) Anonymous Conrad Altenbernd Deena Amont Marcia F. Anderson Tom and Francie Arnold Gretchen Day Atwater Jeff Aube Michael L. Aurbach Ric and Jean Averill Victor Bailey Walter and Barbara Bailey Colette Bangert Price and Marge Banks Ofelia A. Baradi Martha B Barr Barbara and Frank J. Becker Doug Bergstrom Neal Becker and Margorie Dozier Shellie Bender David M. Bergeron Carolyn Berry Marlene Bien Judy Billings Nancy and Gary Bjorge Chuck and Dee Blaser Nikki and AndrĂŠ Bollaert Rolf and Laura Borchert Robert and Wilma Bowline David Brackett, David Quinn Patricia M Brady Sara Dale Brandt Jack Bray Anne Bray George Brenner Lynn M. Bretz Dr. Mark J. Brodkey

Mark and Susie Brooks Betsy Broun Robert and Sharon Brown James Brundage Rex Buchanan and Mindy James Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Buck Mark and Marsha Buhler Tim and Rachel Epp Buller R. Cord Burk 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 Bob and Janice Cobb Ardis J. Comfort Fred P. Conboy Warren and Mary Corman Sally Cornelison and Dan DePardo Sarah and Doug Crawford-Parker Ann Cudd and Neal Becker Judith A. Culley Peter and Virginia Curran Paul Davis Hal M. Davison Stanley and Alice Jo DeFries Richard and Fern DeGeorge Daniel L. De Pardo Kolene and Paul Dietz Patrick and Mary Dooley Mary and John Doveton Barbara M. Duke Patricia DuBose Duncan James and Nancy Dunn Suzanne Ecke

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Ben and Katy Eddy Edmund and Pamela Eglinski Georgann Eglinski Susan Elkins and Jack Winerock Hilda Enoch Ann Evans Elaine Fellenstein Deena and James Fischer Clark Fisher Jeanne Fletcher J. Robert Fluker Hank and Paula Frankel Robert J. Friauf Charles and Diane Frickey Elaine L. Frisbie Jacqueline Gadt Ligia M. Galarza Chuck and Sandy Garrett Sidney A. Garrett Slater Gibbon George E. and Ruth B. Gibbs Helen Gilles Rich and Sue Givens Grant Glenn and Donna Reynolds Phillip and Phoebe Godwin Leo R. Goertz Joan Golden Marrillie C. Good Pat Graham and David Dunfield Jean and Moulton Green, Jr. Lynne Green Brenda Groskinsky Robin Gross Kay and Gary Hale Susan Haley Janet Hamburg Dan and Jay Haugh Michelle Haynes W. Dean Henrichs MD

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Richard and Nancy Hernandez Marcia and Stephen Hill John and Kristin Hillis Dick and Sue Himes Ronald L. and Barbara J. Hinton Dennis M. Holmes Carol E. Holstead Nancy Hope John and Janet Burnett Huchingson Harry and Mary Lou Hughes Jeff and Sherry Ingles Prof. Kenneth Irby Nancy Jackson Reinhild Janzen Louise M. Jarvis 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 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 and Ed Komp Liz Kowalchuk Andy Kroeker Missy and Bob Kroeker John and Margie Kuhn

Betty A. Laird Tom and Jennifer Laming Kristine Latta Paula and Rusty Leffel Gaye Leonard Cheryl Lester and Philip Barnard Alice A. Lieberman Stan Lombardo and Judy Roitman Dr. Loretta Loftus Jim and Larissa Long Lila Borgman Lothson John and Linda Lungstrum Josephine Lutz Judith K. Major Matt and Holly Manske Robert and Anita Markley Larry and Barbara Marshall Jackson Martin Larry and Jean Martin Maureen Martin Bill and Beverly Mayer Stephen W. Mazza Mary and Greg McCabe Paul J. and L. Jean McCarthy George and Marilyn McCleary Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett and Stephen Fawcett 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 McLaneHigginson Genevieve T. McMahon Charles Meyer Susan C. Meyer

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Allan and Sandi Miller Christine Miller Elizabeth Miller and William L. Eakin Deborah Milks and Charles Novo-Gradac Nancy S. Mitchell C. M. S. and Janet Mody Mary Mortensen Ruth Moss Bridget Murphy Patrick and Mary Beth Musick JoAnn Myers Samantha Neal Art and Connie Neuburger Marge Newmark Jeannette Nichols Virginia Ann Nichols Keith and Laura Nilles Barbara Nordling SanDee and Jerry Nossaman Bill and Harolyn Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Dr. & Mrs. W. Ronald Olin David F. Oliver Dick and Georgia Orchard Dr. James F. and Vickie Otten Dean and Doris Owens Pamela and John Peck Janet Perkins and Jeff Aube Margaret Perkins-McGuinness Mr. William E. Pfeiffer, Jr. Diana B. and G. Joseph Pierron Ken and Rowena Pine Austin and Karley Ast Porter Peter Pran Laurance and Johanna Price Vickie Randel Polly Reed Richard and Joan Ring James Roberts

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors W. Stitt and Connie Robinson Kate and Dan Rockhill Judith Roitman Margaret Rose Beverly and Howard Rosenfeld Jean Rosenthal and Dave Kingsley Mary Ross Larry and Kathy Rotert Bob and Rosalee Roth James K. Rowland Sylvie Rueff and Glenn Garneau Jeannette Runyan Henry and Lynn Russell Fred Sack Sara Sack Bob and Jan Schwartz Sharon Scoggins James and Virginia Seaver Todd and Jeannot Seymour Del and Carol Shankel Larry E. Shankles 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 Byron and Marion Springer Virginia Marshall Starkweather Barbara E Starrett Helen V Starrett Tammy and Don Steeples Dale and Marianne Seuferling Patrick Suzeau and Muriel Cohan Evelyn Swartz John and Deanell Tacha Drs. Thomas and Edith Taylor

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Tom and Dixie Telander Marion Thilking Ronald Gene and Shirley A. Thomas Mrs. Georgiana H. Torres Sarah Chappell Trulove and James Woelfel Kathryn and Bill Tuttle Mary Ventura Marion and Atlee Vernon David and Wendy Vertacnik Robin and Scott Ward Rosemary and Marvin Walter Chuck and Karen Warner Marian Warriner Deborah West Mary Wharff and Andy Bloomer Ann and Pete Wiklund Betty Wilkin Sheila Wilkins and Kim Kern James W. Woelfel William I. Woods Judy and Robert Wright Morgan Wright Ronald and Alice Wurtz Norm and Anne Yetman Robert and Marilyn Zerwekh

Senior ($35+) Anonymous Betty Alderson Marnie Argersinger Patricia M. Balsamo Lillian M. Barker Rebecca Barton Frank and Betty Baron Maynard Bauleke Grace H. Beam Siri Blakstad

Jean-Pierre Boon Sara Dale Brandt Joachim and Jutta Brill James A. Brundage Ann Church Ann Kuckelman Cobb Albert B. Cook DiAnne Damro Glen and Judy Davis Dorothy Devlin Nancy and David Dinneen Patricia Doemland David and Barbara Downing Frances L. Fischer Helen W. and Clark A. Fisher Carol M. Floersch Elizabeth Galloway Katherine Carr Giele Mrs. Howard Gilpin Margaret Gordon Carol H. Graham Judy Greer Davis Richard C. Hite Betty Austin Hensley Anita Herzfeld Barbara James 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

Mary Alice Pacey Stephen and Marie-Luce Parker Jane B. Pearce Mrs. Al Pendleton 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 Clare E. Statham Judy Myers Suchey Susan Suhler James B. and Thelma Taylor Luella G. Vaccaro Alice Weis George and Carol Worth Mary Louise Wright

Student ($15+) Julia Barnard Emily Barr Annette Becker Sarah Bluvas Lillian Boyce Charles Bray Elizabeth Bunker Bethany Christiansen Michael Cottin Brenna Daldorph John Dennis Allison Derks Adrienne Eilts Leslie Fitzsimmons Lauren Fulton Rebekah Hays Xing He

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Jennifer Hunt Kirsten Marples Nicole McClure Henrietta McCormick Richelle Mechem Melissa Melling Bernadette Meyers Anna Paradis Ashley Petitjean Nicole Rome Scott Sheu Adam Strunk Natalie Svacina Alyssa Thiel Laura Vinci Adam Vossen Samuel Willger

Corporate Sponsors Corporate Cornerstone ($5,000+) Capitol Federal Foundation Emprise Bank The O’Connor Co.- Piller Foundation The World Company

Corporate Fellow ($2,500–4,999) BNIM Architects GouldEvans Associates, LC

Corporate Associate ($1,500–2,499) Douglas County Bank First Management, Inc. Sabatini Architects, Inc.

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Corporate Benefactor ($1,000–1,499) Evan Williams Catering

Corporate Members Corporate Patron ($500–999) 6 Gallery Coca Cola Gaches, Braden and Associates Kansas Union Meritrust Credit Union

Corporate Donor ($300–499) Commerce Bank Cork and Barrel TCK Trust & Financial Advisors Wilkerson, Saunders & Anderson DDS, LLC

Corporate Friend ($150–299) Intrust Bank Landmark National Bank Weaver’s, Inc.

*updated December 3, 2009

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

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.

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

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

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors 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. Anschutz Foundation Marilyn Stokstad Carol and Scott Ritchie Elizabeth Schultz Arthur Neis Stephanie and Richard Surface Gunda and David Hiebert Emprise Bank Larry and Barbara Marshall Elizabeth and Valentino Stella Margaret Daicoff Jill and Tom Docking Saralyn Reece Hardy and Randall Hardy Burdett and Michel Loomis Melissa and Brent Padgett Susan and Brad Tate Michael and Dee Michaelis Carolyn Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burge (Bequest) Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Hall Scott Jones and Mary Lou Reece Marynell Reece

Charles and Jane Eldredge Barbara Duke Sally and Lynn Piller Steve and Cara Ingalls Reed and Stacey Dillon Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Daniel and Nicole Sabatini Michael and Cindy Maude Robert and Betsy Weaver David Henry Victoria and Joseph Douglas Carol Ann and Clifton Brown J. Hammond McNish Rose Bryant James and Linda Ballinger Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Barbara and Bill Carswell Paul and Stephanie Davis Margaret Perkins-McGuinness Jeff and Mary Weinberg Michael Aurbach Roger Shimomura

* as of January 08, 2010

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 and Barbara Duke for special support of this initiative. 54

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Above: Chase Bray, SAB President, checks out his newly screen printed t-shirt at the Warhol & Peace Student Night event in the Central Court. Screen prints done by the Wonderfair Art Gallery and How! and Asteroid Head Art Club members. Below: Big Shots Town and Gown with Curator Susan Earle.

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