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SPRING 2011 vol. XXXII, no. 7 Newsletter is published by the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas.

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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.

From left: A guest peruses a publication by Dan Perjovschi during Drawn Together, the fall Friends of the Art Museum reception;

Cover image (detail*): Charles Clough, Male and Female (DSB and JPM), 1978, The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Musem and Library Services, 2009.0045 Back cover clockwise from top left: Internationally recognized enamelist and metalsmith Harlan Butt (center) poses with KU art students and faculty following his November 2 lecture at the Spencer; Meredith Moore, Andrew W. Mellon Intern, Collection and Print Room, talks about Esquire collection photographs with the KU class “Human Sexuality in Everyday Life”; guests ponder a giant crossword puzzle October 7 during the Student Advisory Board’s Black, White, and Read All Over student night; Lawrence artist Ben Dory shows how to solder together metal objects during the children’s art appreciation class Metal Beat.

Celka Straughn, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs, was instrumental in bringing Perjovschi to the Spencer as fall 2010 International Artist-in-Residence.

CONTENTS

Dialogue with Megumi Sasaki

Calendar of Events

Exhibitions

The Spencer in Brief

Friends & Contributors

SSAB Member Hillary Carlson poses next to her favorite exhibited piece, Joseph Ducreuxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Le Discret, in the 19th Century Gallery.

A KU student class presentation in the SMA galleries

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Daryl Trivieri, born 1957, untitled, 1990, oil on aluminum, The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009.0076

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This edition’s Dialogue with the Director, available to read on the Spencer’s website, is a conversation between SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and filmmaker Megumi Sasaki, whose documentary Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a New York City couple of modest means who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. In 2009 the Spencer received 50 works from the Vogels, and the Museum this spring will exhibit them for the first time.

“Herb and Dorothy’s story—the way they built a collection without very much money—caused me to think about how I help people, and not only about my work or my career. I was so taken by their generosity; I feel I have to be generous in return.” “The creative process is all about overcoming obstacles. At first, it was very difficult for me to face it, deal with it. Making a film, making creative work, always involves facing a series of obstacles. And that can stop you very easily from going forward in your project. I just finally came to the realization that an obstacle is pretty great.” – Megumi Sasaki Filmaker for Herb & Dorothy

Calendar of Events for Spring 2011 JANUARY 1.15 SAT

It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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Lecture: Janice Leoshko on Powers of the Buddhas at Bamiyan and Bodhgaya / 5 PM / Room 211 / Sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, the Spencer, and the Center for Global and International Studies / Leoshko is Associate Professor of Asian Art, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas, Austin / Big XII Faculty Fellow.

Artist-in-Residence Dan Perjovschi’s exhibition in style, the Spencer and its Student Advisory Board will host a “drawathon” during the show’s final week. As part of the festivities, please join us for a “Dunk and Draw” reception in the Central Court the evening of Feb. 3 where you can make your own drawings and enjoy donuts, coffee, and, of course Perjovschi’s drawings throughout the Central Court. 2.12 SAT

It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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Performance: Spencer Consort / 2:30 PM / Central Court

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Lecture: Braden Allenby on Mind, Body, Machine: The Human Design Space / 7 PM / The Commons, Spooner Hall / Sponsored by The Commons

FEBRUARY Reception: Dunk and Draw / 5:30–7:30 PM / Central Court / Sponsored by the Spencer Student Advisory Board in conjunction with Dan Perjovschi Central Court. / To conclude fall 2010 International

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Special Event: Q&A with Braden Allenby / 10–11:30 AM / The Commons, Spooner Hall / Sponsored by The Commons / This question and answer session provides members of the public, faculty, staff and students with a second opportunity to discuss the theme of Allenby’s Wednesday evening lecture.

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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Lecture: D. Max Moerman on The Pilgrim’s Map: India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination / 5:15 PM / Room 211 / Sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History and the Spencer / Moerman is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College and Associate Director of the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Columbia University. / Murphy Lecture Fund

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Lecture and Reception: Prof. R. Tripp Evans, author of “Grant Wood: A Life” / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, the History of Art Graduate Students’ organization, and the Spencer / Keynote speaker for the History of Art Graduate Students symposium on “Articulating Identity in Visual Culture.” The reception and book signing will be sponsored by the Spencer’s Advanced-Level Interns and the Andrew W. Mellon Academic Programs Initiative.

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session on a topic to be announced, by John Pultz, Associate Professor of Photography and 20th Century Art / 10 AM / Central Court

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Lecture and Reception: Keynote, Gwyneira Isaac, Curator of North American Ethnology, Department

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Lecture: Artist Glen Baldridge / 6:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by the KU Department of Visual Art and the Spencer Museum of Art

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Dialogue: Roots and Journeys / 10 AM–4 PM / The Commons, Spooner Hall

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Panel Discussion: KU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: Vogel collection / 2 PM / $ / Asia Gallery / Sponsored by KU Continuing Education and the Spencer / Enrollment required / Please contact Continuing Education, 785-864-KUCE(5823), www.kuce.org, or kuce@ku.edu

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Reception: SMA Student Night / 5:30 PM / Central Court / The SMA Student Advisory Board invites students to enjoy its annual Spring Student Night. Featuring free food, live and DJ music, and art!

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session on a topic to be announced, by Artist Stephen Johnson / 10 AM

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Reception/Party: Spring at the Spencer / 5:30 PM / Central Court

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / ** 3.13 SUN

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Performance: Poet Laureati: A Convergence of U.S. Poets Laureate / 3 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Lawrence Public Library, the Raven Bookstore and the Spencer / Poet Laureati: A Convergence of U.S. Poets Laureate features 18 poets laureate from throughout the United States, including former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser, giving readings, participating in a special conference, and other special events March 13–14, 2011, in vibrant downtown Lawrence, Kansas. Day–long performance: artist Ernesto Pujol presents Visitation / SMA all galleries / 10–4 PM Performance: The Goldenberg Duo / NOON / Central Court / The Goldenberg Duo will present a concert of classical music representative of our universe and the natural beauty of living things.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on The Art of Elizabeth Layton by Don Lambert / 10 AM

of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Insitution / SMA Auditorium followed by a Reception in the Central Court

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It Starts with Art! Children’s art appreciation classes for ages 5–14 / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM / $ / **

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

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SAB Reception/Party: Spring Arts & Culture Festival / 1–4 PM / Front Lawn, Spencer Museum of Art / Sponsored by the Spencer Student Advisory Board and the Spencer Museum of Art. / Celebrate the season at the annual Spring Arts & Culture Festival. The event, which is free and open to the public, will include live music by local bands, performances by various artists, the SSAB Juried Art Show, and the opening of the annual Children’s Art Exhibition featuring works from the Spencer’s “It Starts with Art!” program.

** 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.

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Figure Before Blackness presented by David Cateforis, Professor of American Art, modern and contemporary art / 10 AM / 20/21 Gallery

To enroll, contact the Education Department, 785.864.0137, smakids@ku.edu, or visit www.spencerart.ku.edu

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Conversation IX Media Memes: Images, Technology and Making the News 20 / 21 Century Gallery / August 14, 2010 – February 6, 2011 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

Media Memes in the Process and Conversation Space in the 20/21 Century Gallery.

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technology alters every aspect of mass media production and consumption. A significant feature of 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. With thanks for their support and assistance to the following:

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

Exhibitions Site Specifics New Media Gallery / August 28, 2010 – February 27, 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; most on land and one in the air. In diverse ways, they are intimately linked to nature and natural elements: earth, wind, sun, gravity, water. These works connect to specific sites in Kansas, upstate New York, Iowa, Hawaii, and New York City. All the works are large in size and concept and exacting in their specificity. Several were made between 1969 and 1972, 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.

Photograph of the kite being flown by the Goetz family. Tal Streeter, born 1934, Oklahoma City, Flying Red Line, circa 1972, handmade paper, bamboo, cotton string, Gift of Professors Raymond and Elizabeth Goetz and Family, 1998.0002

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Some of the works are wildly overblown, like Eldred’s “imaginary graphic” fabrications. 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 mighty oak tree there. Local artist Lisa Grossman shows us the 86 bends in the Kansas river from the air. All of these works relate in their exacting specificity and sensitivity to natural elements to the concurrent outdoor sculpture Talking Trees, created for a tree in Marvin Grove behind the Spencer Museum by artists Karen McCoy and Robert Carl. Go outside and experience their sculptures that allow you to listen to the trees. And be sure to also visit Dale Eldred’s actual Salina Piece right here on West Campus. Stay tuned for a future display, focused as precisely on an indoor museum space as these other objects focus on outdoor sites in nature, of James Turrell’s cross-corner light projection piece of this same period (1968) called Gard Blue, to be shown here soon.

Dale Eldred, untitled, 1968, photo-collage, cut-outs, lithography, Gift of Dale Eldred, 1968.0053

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Exhibitions Dan Perjovschi Central Court Fall 2010 International Artist-in-Residence Project Central Court / September 16, 2010 – February 6, 2011 Romanian-born and -based international artist Dan Perjovschi came 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 shared 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. To conclude Perjovschi’s exhibition in style, the Spencer and its Student Advisory Board will host a drawathon during the show’s final week. As part of the festivities, you are invited to a Dunk and Draw reception in the Central Court the evening of Feb. 3 where you can make your own drawings and enjoy donuts, coffee, and, of course Perjovschi’s drawings throughout the Central Court. For his Central Court project, Perjovschi has drawn 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 incorporates drawings related to local and current stories and events, integrated with previously created images from his repertoire. He also works with newspapers as his “gallery” and some of his past newspapers are on view.

Dan Perjovschi working in the Central Court.

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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 Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Artist-in-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 Artist-in-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. The Spencer thanks the KU Libraries and Memorial Union for their contributions.

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Exhibitions Talking Trees: Karen McCoy/Robert Carl Artist-in-Residence Project: Outdoor Sculpture Installation Marvin Grove / Fall 2010 through Spring 2011 The Spencer Museum of Art has collaborated with Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) professor and sculptor Karen McCoy and sound artist Robert Carl on a site-specific installation that evokes 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 takes the form of listening trumpets connected to a tree in Marvin Grove and a tree in front of the Spencer, as well as a tree at KCAI. The three trees “talk” as we draw near to interact with them. This project also relates to the Spencer’s upcoming Glorious to View, a lobby exhibition inspired by the collective legacy of the KU campus.

Talking Trees installation in Marvin Grove.

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a Petrovsky flux SMA Second Life Island / Current Project blotto Epsilon and Cutea Benelli, a remarkable cromulent [blotto’s edit] scripter/builder/ designer team, have installed their organic architecture on the Spencer Museum’s digital Second Life island. a Petrovsky flux is a cluster of devices that grow, assembling themselves from modular units, only to blow apart and rebuild themselves. Each time they rebuild differently so the overall flux is, as the name implies, constantly changing. There is much to explore here! In addition to the mighty Petrovsky Flux itself, a few of the many things you might encounter are: lost flower, tv mountain, terrace cafe, and the all ears pavillon. Visitors to a Petrovsky flux can also explore the inside of the organic architecture, and they also receive a free “noggin protector”—a miniature version of the flux that is worn on the head to protect against falling debris. The project takes its name in part from a previous project, the Bogon flux, and in part from the “Petrovsky lacuna,” named for Russian mathematician Ivan Petrovsky. blotto summed up the impulse for the Bogon flux in the now defunct blog, Not Possible In Real Life: “The organic architecture idea had been rattling around in my head for a while, like buckshot in a rusted tuna can.” That idea is now out of the tuna can and is being explored by hundreds of visitors. A KU student, Lysanias Septimus, encountered in the shadows of a Petrovsky flux, commented “wow / mind=blown.” If you have a Second Life browser you can visit a Petrovsky flux on the Spencer’s island at this slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spencer%20Art%20Museum/56/36/21

Exhibitions Conversation X …That Invisible Dance: Art & Literature under the British Empire from the 1800s to Beyond 20/21 Gallery / February 26 – May 22, 2011 By displaying literary material from the Spencer Research Library alongside an array of interrelated art works from Spencer Museum of Art, from different locales within and beyond the geography of the British Empire, That Invisible Dance explores how artists and authors collectively, collaboratively, and individually used ambivalent forms to navigate and question, if not resist, imperial conventions and power structures. That Invisible Dance is organized by Sorcha Hyland, SMA Youth & Family Outreach Coordinator, and takes its title from a book inscription written by Oscar Wilde to Aubrey Beardsley. The exhibition is designed and physically positioned around three concepts and locales: the heart of the empire, England; the troublesome colony, Ireland; and the ambivalent outcasts of Bohemian culture such as Wilde and Beardsley. The central locale of the installation aptly takes its title from one of the smallest works on paper in the Museum’s collection: Heart of the Empire. It features multiple images of UK expansion, ships, tea-cups, smoke stacks, industry, the Victorian novel (in all its plurality and multiple forms, including male author/female author, femalepretending-to-be-male author, and conforming and confronting), a corset, a petticoat, an opium pipe, Patrick Procktor’s Coleridge-inspired response to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and so forth.

Leon Pecheret, Heart of an Empire, etching, Paper Type: wove, Gift of Hal M. Davison, Class of 1949, 1998.0552

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In the process space, Satanic Wilde features what Lord Chamberlain derided as the hybridized “pornographic and biblical” work of the Irishman. Or was he an Englishman? Catholic or Protestant? Homosensual or homosexual? The Bohemian space, a no-man’s land. This opening, exploratory space features the Museum’s entire collection of Beardsley Salome prints, with a copy of Lord Alfred Douglas’ review (and really defense!) of the play in The Spirit Lamp, “the Oxford magazine without news.” Lastly, the installation gives us Hibernia—the Latin term for IrishEnglish. This section meditates on the Irish locale, and the colonial subject—the island of saints, scholars, and squalor—and features a woodcut of James Joyce, who exiled himself to escape the hatred launched on anyone who questioned the forming and newly formed “nation” of Ireland, but who returned to his native land again and again in his writing. As Joyce wrote, “One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.” That invisible dance.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872–1898, The Black Cape, circa 1907, lineblock (photomechanical relief print), Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund, 1992.0006.07

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Exhibitions Nature/Natural South Balcony Gallery / Opening in Spring, 2011 In few cultures has nature played such a dynamic role as in those of East Asia (China, Korea and Japan). From the picturesque slopes of Mount Fuji in Japan to the mythical Mt. Taebaek-san, where Korea’s semi-divine founding-king was born, and the sacred five peaks of China, mountains have always been imbued with an ineffable power. Scenery of mountains and water conceived through the idealized picturing of nature in the mind’s eye forms the basis for much of East Asian painting and poetic traditions. This spring, the Museum’s Asian Art Gallery reopens in a new home on fourth floor with the thematic exhibition Nature/ Natural. Through an exploration of natural media used in Asian art—earthenware, lacquer, glass, metal, and ivory for example—this installation explores changing notions of the idea of Nature as posed by human interpretation through the visual and applied arts. This five-year exhibition organized by Kris Ercums, Curator of Asian Art, will feature many never-before-seen objects from the Spencer’s diverse holdings including: ceramics, lacquer ware, wood carving, glass, ivory, metalwork, and sculpture. Three times each year, light sensitive works like textiles, photography, prints, and paintings will be rotated in order to expand on the larger topic of Nature/Natural, and objects will frequently be changed to keep the installation fresh. As part of the installation, the new gallery will also include expanded display facilities for large-scale objects such as Japanese folding screens. Thematic selection of objects will be highlighted in new cases designed specifically for the Museum-wide gallery reinstallation, which is slated to be completed by 2012.

Artist unknown, covered box, circa 1750, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), lacquer, Gift of Mrs. DeVere Dierks and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox, 1976.0058.a,b

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Artist unknown, landscape, 1800s, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), carved resinite, cameo glass, William Bridges Thayer Memorial, 1928.2961.a,b

Roots and Journeys North Balcony Gallery / Opening in Spring, 2011 The Spencer’s new Gallery of Global Indigenous Arts, organized by Nancy Mahaney, Curator of Arts and Cultures of the Americas, Africa and Oceania, will explore artistic inspirations from nature, heritage, travel and crosscultural interaction. From the most ancient types of instruments to the most detailed and sophisticated design techniques, these arts speak to the connections of people to place, the importance of traditions, and the essential creativity of the human spirit. Sculptural works from around the world such as carved Senufo doors from Africa will remain on view, serving as anchors for rotational segments that will occasionally change to highlight different cultures, provocative topics, or new acquisitions. The first rotation will highlight Markets and Migrations in American Indian Arts, with visually stimulating pairings that capture the imagination while illuminating the complexities of history made personal through artistic exploration. In conjunction with the unveiling of Roots and Journeys, Mahaney has worked with Celka Straughn, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs, to organize a March 11–12 symposium about the past, present and future of indigenous arts and cultures in museums. Details follow. Roots and Journeys: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? A dialogue about the past, present, and future of indigenous arts and cultures in museums 3.11 / Lecture & Reception: Keynote Lecture: Gwyneira Isaac, Curator of North American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / 4 PM / SMA Auditorium, reception follows in Central Court 3.12 / Dialogue: 10 AM–4 PM / The Commons, Spooner Hall Times are subject to change; please check the SMA website for updates. www.spencerart.ku.edu

Luke Watson, adopted Haida, died 1948, totem pole, 1937, wood, paint, carving, Gift of Gertrude Green, 2007.3118

Exhibitions 50 x 50: A Reception for the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection New Media Gallery / March 31â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 24, 2011

In 2009 the Spencer received a gift from the collection of two extraordinary patrons. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New Yorkers of modest means, decided to begin collecting the work of emerging artists shortly after their marriage in 1962. Through their patronage, the Vogels encouraged and supported 177 remarkable artists, 25 of whom are represented in their gift of 50 works to the Spencer. 50 x50 celebrates the merging of the Vogel donation with the Spencer Museum collection by exhibiting their gift alongside other, previously collected works in the Spencer collection that were made by members of that same diverse group of 177 artists.

Daryl Trivieri, born 1957, The Elements of Drawing, 1990, airbrushing, inkwash on paper, The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009.0077

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The 50 works donated to the Spencer range from studies and sketches to highly finished works of art. What they have in common is the collectors’ willingness to take risks in acquiring provocative works, whether by established or (more frequently) emerging artists; regardless of theoretical alignment of the artist (conceptualist, minimalist, pop, etc.) One has the sense that the Vogels were aware that they were in a special environment for the arts—essentially the second half of the twentieth century in New York City—and they collected with a compulsion to do justice to the churning and excitement of that time and place. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection came to the Spencer through the auspices of the National Gallery of Art, which has collaborated with the Vogels since the early 1990s. More than 2,500 objects from their collection have been given to American museums through the program Fifty Works for Fifty States. The Spencer was chosen as the recipient in Kansas. The entire Vogel collection can be accessed through the Fifty Works for Fifty States website, http://vogel5050.org/.

Mark Kostabi, born 1960, Flaws are Opportunities, 1983, ink, crayon or pastel, graphite, and charcoal on paper, The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009.0056

Exhibitions Jin Shan Freeman Foundation Artist-in-Residence Central Court / April 2011 Straight from the bustling streets of Shanghai, look out for Chinese artist Jin Shan, coming to the Spencer in April 2011. As part of a three-week residency, Jin Shan will install a new work in the Central Court and share his artistic practice with students and faculty. Funded by the Freeman Foundation through KU’s Center for East Asian Studies, Jin Shan’s residency is part of a three-year initiative to foster vibrant connections between the broader KU community and global currents in contemporary art. Jin Shan creates interactive, playful installations that drive at issues erupting out of China’s dizzying transformation into a globalized, commercial society. For the 2006 Singapore Biennale, his work In the Game, Outside the Game turned shopping into a romping event in a Chinese pavilion outfitted with a trampoline, smoke machine, and the latest fashion accessories that visitors could grab from the rafters above. In 2007 his lifesize self portrait Desperate Pee, installed on a bridge as part of the Venice Biennale, incited vandalism—the work was burned to a crisp one night! His recent solo show featured the six-part work Stephen the Speculator. Based on the proto-Christian martyrdom of St. Stephen, the work focuses on the sheep as a central motif. Through performance, animation, and installation Jin Shan explored themes of persecution, reflection, and retaliation that culminate in the instruction manual “How to Produce

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an Atomic Bomb,” derived entirely from online, open-source information. Jin Shan is one of the most promising young artists working in China today. His diverse deployment of media reflects approaches to art making familiar to a new generation of emerging artists in contemporary China. A graduate of East China Normal University, Jin Shan lives and works in Shanghai. In 2008 Jin Shan founded the Comfortable Collective (Shufu), a loosely organized artist group aimed at curing “Visual Fatigue Syndrome” caused by the art world. In 2009, Comfortable took over a Soviet-period house in Vilnius, Lithuania and mechanized it with haunting effects as part of The X Baltic Triennial of International Art 2009. This year, Comfortable participated in the exhibition Double Infinity, which featured relational works exploring cultural frictions in the collection of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Responding to John Körmeling’s Parking Carpet (1991)—a foldable mat designed to fit in the trunk of a car and solve traffic congestion—Jin Shan created Sweep (2010). With two mechanical arms covered in floral forearm guards, a traditional reed broom methodically sweeps trash off of a replica of Körmeling’s Parking Carpet, recalling an all-too-familiar scene from backstreet life in Shanghai.

Images courtesy of Jin Shan.

Exhibitions Cherry Blossom Festival Teaching Gallery / March 29-April 10, 2011 In recognition of the annual celebration held in Japan, Cherry Blossom Festival displays SMA works organized by Carpenter Foundation Intern in Asian Art Amanda Wright and Prints and Drawings Curatorial Assistant Kate Meyer in collaboration with the Center for East Asian Studies.

Artist unknown, active circa late 1810s, cosmetic box, date unknown, ivory, William Bridges Thayer Memorial, 1928.0609

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Utagawa Yoshifuji,1828-1887, Shunya (Spring Evening), circa 1843-1847, Edo period (1600-1868), color woodcut, Gift of Mrs. Alice Dains?, 1949.0009.02

Utagawa Sadahide, 1807-1873, Ueno, 1847, Edo period (1600-1868), color woodcut, Anonymous gift, 1982.0383

Ernesto Pujol to present Visitation, a one-day performance at the Spencer SMA Galleries / Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 10 AM–4 PM The Spencer Museum of Art will become an experimental performance laboratory for a day as performance artist Ernesto Pujol conceptualizes the representation of gaze—the artist as the embodiment of our human gaze. He stages performance as walking, pausing, looking, tracing, drawing. For the Spencer he has created Visitation, a site-specific performance based on the history of painting, as an act of copying the entire contents on view within the Museum on this given day, creating a painterly time capsule, shadow-collecting all visual experience. Pujol engages in a silent institutional intervention, gentle and laborious, through the body of the artist for an entire uninterrupted day, from opening to closing time. His durational piece can be followed through a trail of drawings, left on view all day, freely handled by the audience. This is a six-hour work that can be imitated by students, who can come and go, drawing with Pujol, ultimately ending in a humble exit after the Museum is formally flooded with paper. Ernesto Pujol is a contemporary performance artist with a site-specific public practice. He is interested in performance as the portraiture of a place and a people. Pujol is currently a graduate advisor at the Parsons School of Design, and is the founder and director of The Field School project and the new UteHaus performance group. His writings can be found in “Awake: Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art,” and “Learning Mind: Experience Into Art,” edited by Mary Jane Jacob. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, the artist works between New York and the West/Midwest.

Ernesto Pujol, Farmers Dream /Salina, 2010 performance, Photo by Aniko Safran; Courtesy of Ernesto Pujol

Exhibitions Glorious to View: The KU Campus Heritage Project Lobby Gallery / May 7-September 11, 2011 Inspired by the Getty Foundation-funded Campus Heritage Project and the collective legacy of the KU community, the Spencer Museum of Art will celebrate Mount Oread’s history and traditions by highlighting connections between the many memories that are spread across the KU landscape. Several on-campus events throughout the year, such as the Talking Trees installation by sculptor Karen McCoy and sound artist Robert Carl in Marvin Grove, reflect the themes of the Campus Heritage Project. The exhibition will coincide with KU’s Spring 2011 Commencement. Glorious to View—a name culled from the beloved KU Alma Mater song—will present an exciting array of artworks and archive materials to share the history of the KU campus, including items from the Spencer Research Library. The exhibition will be installed on the third floor of the Spencer Museum and all objects will be displayed as reproductions so that they may be accessible to a variety of audiences outside of formal Museum hours. The exhibition will include a small number of “case studies” focusing on campus locations that are of historic importance to the KU community and that have vivid artistic presences within the collection of the Spencer Museum. These will document both artists’ perceptions of the campus over time and the physical life-cycle of each place. Such “case studies” will underscore the tension between spaces or buildings as they exist in memory and art and their physicality and mutability. Each study will incorporate images from both the Spencer Museum of Art and from the University of Kansas Archives, housed in Spencer Research Library.

Maud Alene Ellsworth, born 1895, Spooner-ThayerMuseum, woodcut, Gift of Christopher Bunn, Class of 2002, 2003.0181

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A fond farewell to Carolyn Chinn Lewis For more than 32 years, Carolyn Chinn Lewis has been an integral part of the growth, development, and ongoing success of the Spencer Museum of Art, beginning as secretary to Charlie Eldredge in 1978 and serving in growing capacities until becoming assistant director in 2001. It is with great fondness and not a little sadness that we announce her retirement from the Spencer as she moves forward to pursue new adventures. “There is nothing like working in an environment that intellectually stimulates you each and every day,” she wrote in a letter to staff announcing her decision. “For me it has always been about learning…I have had the privilege of learning from my colleagues on the SMA staff, faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, artists, docents, donors, Friends of the Art Museum members, and so many others too numerous to list. Each and every one of them has actively participated in the Spencer’s and in my continued development and growth.

“It has been a wonderful ride.Take care of the Spencer for me.” As a small token of gratitude for her years of devotion, Museum staff members presented Chinn Lewis with a work for her personal collection, a drawing by one of her favorite artists, Dan Kirchhefer, called Navigating by the Stars, but Lost in the Universe. Director Saralyn Reece Hardy calls Chinn Lewis the Spencer’s “steady and vibrant heartbeat.”

“The Museum owes so much to her creative spirit, commitment and personal warmth,” Hardy says. “She has made immeasurable contributions to the Museum and to all who cycled in and out of its walls.We will miss her presence on a daily basis.” 29

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Save the Date for Spring at the Spencer Friday, April 15, 2011 Please make plans now to join us the evening of Friday, April 15, for the Friends of the Art Museum’s annual Spring at the Spencer reception, which this year features the Vogel Collection exhibition, the North and South Balcony reinstallations, and Freeman Foundation International Artist-in-Residence Jin Shan.

$50,000 Long Ellis Foundation grant supports SMA public programs The Spencer Museum of Art is delighted to announce receipt of a $50,000 grant from the Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation, which will support a variety of public education initiatives at the Museum including visitor services/tours, docent education, It Starts with Art! children’s art appreciation classes, youth workshops, Museum/Schools program, Family Day, “Bulldog” Podcasts, Arts & Culture Festival, the SMA Student Advisory Board activities, and other public programs. In addition to this extensive youth programming, the SMA also reaches out to area adults by organizing gallery and artist talks, book discussions related to current exhibitions (in conjunction with the Lawrence Public Library), and lectures, conferences, and symposia.

“We are so thrilled to receive this generous grant from the Long Ellis Foundation,” says Director of Education Kristina Mitchell-Walker.

“It will allow us to continue to offer creative, engaging, and educational programming for the University and local communities.”

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The Commons presents Braden R. Allenby on Mind, Body, Machine: The Human Design Space Noted author and academic Braden R. Allenby will address the use of science and engineering to design human beings’ internal space for our evolutionary benefit in Mind, Body, Machine: The Human Design Space, a lecture interruptus that is interposed with segments of film and music. Presented by The Commons, Allenby will speak at Spooner Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public. A question and answer session the next morning will provide members of the public, faculty, staff, and students with a second opportunity to discuss the theme. The Q & A session, also at Spooner Hall, will be from 10–11:30 AM on Thursday, Feb. 24. Allenby is Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, and the author of Reconstructing Earth: Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans (2005), and Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering (2009). He explains that for the past 3 million years, humans have used science and technology to design their external inorganic and organic space for their evolutionary benefit. Mind, Body, Machine addresses phase two of the human design space. Genetic engineering promises human bodies by menu for gender, color, physiognomy, physique, and other physical properties. Neuroengineering promises brains by menu for cognition, imagination, creativity, memory, alertness, processing, emotion and other neurological properties. Synthetic biology promises new life forms by menu for various applications internal and external to the human body, e.g., microbes for bodily repair and enhancement. Underlying this new human design space is our notion of progress and the moral sensibilities (ethics, values, safeguards, etc.) inherent in stewarding that progress. One lesson from the past is that progress in science and engineering tends to leapfrog moral/ethical sensibilities—a lesson often presaged by art and literature (e.g., science fiction).

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SMA Student Advisory Board fall highlights include art collective project, student night Now in its seventh year and with an active membership of more than 30 KU students from a wide variety of academic disciplines, the Spencer Student Advisory Board kicked off the academic year with a busy fall that included presenting the Midwest premiere of a new film about Jean-Michel Basquiat, creating a community art project, and hosting the Spencer’s annual Fall Student Night. The SAB is already looking forward to its many spring activities, including its Spring Student Night, Juried Art Show, and the Spring Arts & Culture Festival. Fall-semester highlights included the Hawk Week screening of the critically acclaimed documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child and a visit from Spencer international artist-in-resident Dan Perjovschi, who discussed his artistic process and gave members advice about pursuing a career in the arts. In September, the SAB participated in a project initiated by Lawrence Magazine and involving several local art collectives. SAB members created a collaborative art piece inspired by Perjovschi’s drawings and based on the theme of “Love in the Time of Beer

President Annette Becker

Bellies: A Mass. Street Romance.” The work was displayed in a flashspace gallery in downtown Lawrence during the Final Fridays event on September 24. The art project was also featured in Lawrence Magazine’s winter edition as well in television stories by 6News and River City Weekly.

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Vice President Adam Vossen

The SAB took further inspiration from the Spencer’s fall exhibitions for its annual Fall Student Night. This year’s communications-focused theme of “Black, White, and Read All Over” was influenced by Dan Perjovschi Central Court and Media Memes: Images, Technology, and Making the News. Held in the Museum’s Central Court on October 7, the free event presented music by a student deejay from 90.7 KJHK, a giant crossword puzzle, board games such as Pictionary, food donated from local businesses, and caricatures by student artists. In addition to these activities, partygoers enjoyed a talk by artists Karen McCoy and Robert Carl about their site-specific installation Talking Trees.

Public Relations Officer Richelle Mechem

Secretary Vicky Stadler

Officers for the 2010–2011 school year are: President Annette Becker, Vice President Adam Vossen, Secretary Rena Detrixhe (fall) and Vicky Stadler (spring), Treasurer Melissa Melling, and Public Relations Officer Richelle Mechem.

Treasurer Melissa Melling

–Scott Sheu Manhattan Senior & SMA Communications Intern

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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 Fort Lauderdale, and as far away as Paris and Vienna.

The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme / Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 –1904), L’Histoire en spectacle J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (June 15 – September 12, 2010) Museé d’Orsay, Paris, France (October 18, 2010 – January 23, 2011) Jean-Léon Gérôme, A Chat by the Fireside, 1881, oil on canvas, 1970.0008 (pictured below, left)

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The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Okla. 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

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Roy Lichtenstein: The Black and White Drawings (1961–1968) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York (September 24, 2010–January 2, 2011) The Albertina Graphische Sammlung,Vienna, Austria (February–April, 2011) Roy Lichtenstein, No-Nox, 1962, pencil on paper, 1970.0130

Tom Wesselman Draws Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (October 3, 2010–February 27, 2011) Tom Wesselman, drawing for the Great American Nude #50, 1963, charcoal on paper, 1971.0106 (pictured at left)

Hidden Treasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Midwestern Collections Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dec. 18, 2010–Feb. 27, 2011) Ghent-Bruges School, Illuminated manuscript border leaf with extracts from Gospel of Mark, circa 1500–1510, ink, tempera, gold on vellum, 1980.0021 (pictured above, left, and with a detail, right)

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In Memorial: Richard Pierre Nadeau The staff and Advisory Board of the Spencer will miss our dear friend and Advisory Board member Richard Pierre Nadeau, a Kansas City psychotherapist, art collector, community leader, and former Municipal Art Commissioner who died in early August at the age of 69. Director Saralyn Reece Hardy’s comments to the Advisory Board at the time of Nadeau’s death capture his unforgettable character and the spirit with which he guided and enlivened the Spencer: “How fortunate we were to have his magnificent presence on our Board,” she wrote.

“He kept us grounded. He made us think. He had no time for pretense. He loved art that expressed a message and packed an emotional punch. He spoke the truth—loudly. He was unpredictable and spontaneous.”–Saralyn Reece Hardy

Kris Ercums, Curator of Asian Art, with Richard Pierre Nadeau

The Nadeau family has requested that contributions in his memory be sent to benefit the Spencer Museum of Art. The Spencer is deeply grateful to Richard Nadeau for his enduring support for learning and the arts.

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In Memorial: Dalton Howard A special exhibition at the Spencer last September honored the life and legacy of Dalton Howard (1943–2010), a longtime member of the SMA family and a beloved local artist, musician, raconteur, and thinker.

“Dalton was a Museum treasure because of his passion for the arts, his toe-tapping enthusiasm when performing for us with guitar in hand, and his wonderful sense of humor,” says Janet Dreiling, Assistant Director for Collections. The tribute included a slide show at the Museum’s entrance featuring a multitude of images taken of Howard over the years, and a small installation in the South Balcony entitled These Moved Me, assembled by Steve Goddard, Kate Meyer, and Sue Ashline. The exhibition included a few of Howard’s own paintings, borrowed from area collections, plus a selection of several pairs of works from the Spencer’s collection by artists that Howard had listed several years ago when asked about his favorites. He jotted about the list, “these for the 20th century moved me”—words that inspired the title of the exhibition. Artists on his list included Philip Guston, David Hockney, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Emil Nolde, Fairfield Porter, Richard Smith, Frank Stella, and Wayne Thiebaud, among others.

Dalton Howard with Cindy Waterman, Chief of Security

Frank Stella, born 1936, Six mile Bottom, 1970, silkscreen, lithograph, Museum purchase, 1970.0082

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“An Ear for Art” cell-phone tours continues to grow The Shumaker Family Foundation has funded an additional year of “An Ear for Art”—the Spencer’s cell-phone audio-guide program that was the first of its kind among art museums in the region. “This generous grant significantly increases our ability to add supportive technology to our galleries and provide meaningful experiences for our audiences—in the form of first-hand encounters with visual art in the Museum and also as online audio access to our cell-phone tours, something unique in the area,” SMA Director of Education Kristina Mitchell Walker says. “The cell-phone initiative makes a great difference in our ability to serve communities of learners in the region, on the KU campus, and across Kansas.” Now, in addition to providing information about objects in the Spencer’s galleries, “An Ear for Art” has reached beyond Museum walls, offering programming about public sculpture across the KU campus.

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Why is the Tai Chi figure in front of the law building? Press 62# Tai Chi Figure, Ju Ming, 1985

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Below is a list of the sculptures featured in the campus sculpture tour. • 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)

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Lavon Brosseau establishes SMA awards for creative writing and creativity A gift from Lavon Brosseau has established two Spencer Museum awards that will celebrate outstanding creativity among undergraduate students at the University of Kansas. The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creative Writing Award recognizes outstanding creative writing in conjunction with a collaborative student project by an undergraduate, and the Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Award recognizes outstanding creativity and originality by a student completing his or her junior year. Brosseau, a former high-school teacher from Concordia, Kansas, believes in education and in the profound importance of teaching.

“There is a deep and almost sacred beauty in literature and in art,” says Brosseau. “Each may deal with the abstract and each may involve interpretation but each has its own reality that permits the mind to explore and to soar.” The awards will honor creative work that evidences risk-taking and reflection, provides new insights, forms a part of critical thinking, and generates new ways of understanding. “These awards serve to further the Spencer’s mission to foster interdisciplinary exploration at the intersection of art, ideas, and experience, and we are deeply grateful to Lavon Brosseau for her commitment to these ideals,” says Celka Straughn, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs for the Museum. Deadline to apply for the inaugural award in either category is March 18, 2011. Please visit the SMA website for details.

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For Museum Shop hours or to place an order, visit the Museum Shop online at www.spencerart.ku.edu/ museumshop/ or contact the Museum by phone at 785.864.4710.

New SMA Merchandise Available We hope you’ll drop by the Spencer’s Museum Shop this spring 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 Structure of Thought 15, by brothers Doug Starn and Mike Starn. And be sure to see our new hand-printed “Time for tee shirts” t-shirts featuring the student-selected drawing from Dan Perjovschi Central Court. Thanks to Wonderfair and all who voted!

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 us to offer!

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors The 2010–2011 exhibitions and programs are supported in part by: Anonymous Adair/Dyer Fund Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Anschutz Foundation Avis Chitwood Fund Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation Brooking Fund for Interdisciplinary Research Carpenter Foundation Docent Scholarship Fund Donald E. Sloan Intern Fund Douglas County Community Foundation Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Freeman Foundation International Artist-in-Residence Fund Joseph D. and Ester G. Berkley Fund Judith M. Cooke Native American Art Fund Kress Foundation Conservation Fund KU Student Senate Marilyn J. Stokstad Museum of Art Student Award Fund Mary Margaret Brett Fund Mary P. Lipman Children’s Education Fund Marybelle and Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund Mitchell Art Museum Education Fund O’Connor Company-Piller Foundation Olin K. and Mary Ruth Petefish Fund Piersol Foundation Price R. and Flora Reid Foundation Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts Shumaker Family Foundation Terry and Sam Evans Photography Fund William T. Kemper Foundation The Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency

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AMBASSADORS

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Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts Valentino and Elizabeth Stella Richard and Stephanie Surface Brad and Susan Tate

Anonymous Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Anschutz Foundation M. Lavon Brosseau in honor ofJeff Weinberg John T. and Linda Stewart

PILLARS ($25,000–99,000) Linda Bailey Arthur V. Neis A. Scott and Carol Ritchie Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Elizabeth Schultz Marilyn Stokstad Hope A. Talbot William T. Kemper Foundation

KEYSTONE ($10,000–24,999) Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Carpenter Foundation Margaret M. Daicoff Tom and Jill Docking Freeman Foundation Kathleen M. Hall Randall and Saralyn Reece Hardy David and Gunda Hiebert Burdett and Michel Loomis J. Hammond McNish O’Connor Company-Piller Foundation Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Brent and Melissa Padgett Marynell Reece C.K. Rowland

CORNERSTONE ($5,000–9,999) Estate of Gladys and Frank Burge Carolyn Dillon Reed and Stacey Dillon Barbara Duke Drew Elder Jason A. Elder Charles and Jane Eldredge Don and Jene Herron Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Larry and Barbara Marshall Mike and Dee Michaelis Mary Lou Reece and Scott Jones

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($2,500–4,999) Jeff and Colette Bangert John and Melinda Couzens Mrs. David Francisco David C. Henry Douglas County Community Foundation Michael and Cindy Maude Rob and Betsy Weaver

BENEFACTOR ($1,000–2,499) Matt and Ashley All James K. and Linda Ballinger Edith Black and John Poertner Cathy Blumenfeld Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation Carol Ann and Clifton Brown Rose Bryant Brad and Bev Burnside 43

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Kay, Tom, Tyler and Jeff Carmody Bill and Barbara Carswell Brad and Ellen Chindamo Joe and Vicki Douglas Archie and Nancy Dykes Anne Foresman Chuck and Sandy Garrett Randy Gordon and Lori Shannon Dean and Ginny Graves John and Nancy Hiebert Carolie and Bill Hougland Stephen and Cara Ingalls Bryan and Linda Johnson Richard and Laura Klocke Sacie and David Lambertson Gaye Leonard Jean and Bill Mitchell Virginia Nadeau Phyllis and Ronald Nolan Margaret Perkins-McGuinness Price R. and Flora Reid Foundation Dan and Nicole Sabatini Larry Stark John and Deanell Tacha Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Georgiana and Andrew Torres Bret and Mary Lou Waller Lee F. Young

PATRON ($500â&#x20AC;&#x201C;999) Dr. and Mrs. Ken and Katie Armitage Jane V. Barber Jim and Carolyn Chinn Lewis Edith Clowes and Craig Huneke Landis L. and Joan Dibble Ric and Ellen Goheen Don and Sandra Hazlett Mary Lee and Raymond Hummert

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Don and Alice Ann Johnston Chuck and Mary Loveland Don and Gerry Miller James and Virginia Moffett Richard S. Paegelow George and Judy Paley Lew and Gwen Perkins Lynn and Sally Piller Mabel L. Rice Frank and Judith Sabatini Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Simons, Jr. Dolph and Lisa Simons, III Elinor and Michael Tourtellot Roger B. Ward Jeff and Mary Weinberg Sue Grosjean Wilcox Leo Hallak

DONOR ($200â&#x20AC;&#x201C;499) Leonard and Deborah Alfano David A. and Mary Kate Ambler Michael L. Aurbach Ellen B. Avril Beverly Smith Billings Judy Billings Ian Bottomley Michael L. Carnahan Joyce Castle Paul A. Coker, Jr. John and Jan Conard William J. Crowe Ann Cudd and Neal Becker Candice Davis Sally K. Davis Mary Elizabeth Debicki and Giles Guiness John and Deborah Divine Marilyn Dowell

Jerry and Mary Dusenbury Jerry and Debra Duncan Elliott Sam and Terry Evans Ted and Nancy Haggart Tom Harper Dean and Barbara Henrichs Stephen and Marcia Hill Louise M. Jarvis Jessica Johnson Stephen Johnson and Debra Goldberg Webster and Joan Golden Sharyn and David Katzman Leonard and Beth Krishtalka Ted and Jane Kuwana Carol and Dave Kyner Mark and Jill Lapoint Stuart and Susan Levine Dr. Janey Levy, PhD Forest L. and Dee A. Link Jane W. Malin Eli and Mary Lou Michaelis Charlotte Mueller Barbara Nordling John and Ardith Pierce Reginald and Jane Robinson Robert and Gladys Sanders Sally Schriner Tim and Julie Shaftel Roger Y. Shimomura Fred and Lilian Six Morton I. and Estelle Sosland Marjorie Swann and Bill Tsutsui Andy and Glenda Tompkins Tim and Jerrye Van Leer Steven F. Warren and Eva Horn Arnold Weiss Jack and Judy Wright

FRIEND ($50â&#x20AC;&#x201C;199) Conrad Altenbernd Bob and Marcia Anderson Carol E. Anderson and John Fowler Tom and Francie Arnold Gretchen Day Atwater Jeffrey Aube Victor and Kathryn Bailey Price T. and Marjorie E. Banks Ofelia A. Baradi Richard Barohn Albert B. and Martha Cook Frank and Barbara Becker Chuck and Beth Berg David M. Bergeron and Geraldo Sousa Doug and Julie Bergstrom Dan Bernstein Carolyn and Gordon Berry Marlene and Gregory Bien Gary and Nancy Bjorge Chuck and Dee Blaser Sally G. Bloom Rolf and Laura Borchert Robert Bowline Jack Bray, Jr. MD Anne Bray, MD George and Mary Ann Brenner Lynn M. Bretz Mark J. Brodkey, MD Patricia M. Brooks Elizabeth Broun Robert and Sharon Brown James A. Brundage Rex and Mindy Buchanan Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Buck Mark and Marsha Buhler Tim and Rachel Epp Buller

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors R. Cord Burk John and Janet Burnett Huchingson Bradley and Beverly Burnside George W. Byers Winslow M. and Sue Cady Kit Carlsen Peter & Rosalea Carttar Lois E. Clark Frederick P. Conboy Warren and Mary Corman Ms. Sally J. Cornelison Susan V. Craig Sarah and Doug Crawford-Parker Judith A. Culley Peter K. and Virginia Curran Paul and Stephanie Davis Stanley and Alice Jo DeFries Richard T. and Fernande M. DeGeorge Kathy and Bill Dentler Dorothy Devlin Kolene and Paul Dietz Patrick and Mary Dooley Mary and John Doveton Patricia Dubose Duncan James and Nancy Dunn Katy Eddy Steve and Chris Edmonds Susan and Jack Elkins Hilda Enoch Ann Evans Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett and Stephen Fawcett Elaine and Keith Fellenstein Jeanne Fletcher Sherry Fowler and Dale Slusser Marci Francisco Hank and Paula Frankel Dr. William Freeman Robert J. Friauf Mr. & Mrs. Charles Frickey

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Harvey and SuEllen Fried Elaine Frisbie Larry and Jacqueline Gadt Ligia Galarza Sidney A. Garrett Mr. Norman and Helen Gee Edwyna Gilbert Helen Gilles Rich and Susan Givens Steve and Diane Goddard Dr. & Mrs. Phillip A. Godwin Patricia Graham and David Dunfield Lynne Green Lewis and Laura Gregory Karl Gridley Roy and Marilyn Gridley Brenda Groskinsky Robin Gross George and Susan Gurley Gary and Kay Hale Jerry and Liz Hare Matt and Diane Henk Richard and Nancy Hernandez Charles and Laurie McLane Higginson John and Kristen Hillis Richard and Sue Himes Ronald and Barbara Hinton Irv and Ellen Hockaday Carol Holstead Nancy F. Hope Harry and Mary Lou Hughes Jeffrey and Sherry Ingles Wes and Joan Jackson John and Reinhild Janzen Mike and Kitty Johnson Dan and Jeannette Johnson Ted and Mary Johnson Linda and Topper Johntz Nancy Jorn Linda Josserand

Maurice and Betsy Joy Mike and Elaine Kautsch John and Sangeetha Kelly Patrick and Amy Kelly W. Bradley Kemp J. Patrick and Jean Grosjean Kerich Lesley T. Ketzel Kathy Kirk Ms. Karen L. Koehler Ed and Karen Komp Liz Kowalchuk Andy Kroeker John and Margie Kuhn Betty A. Laird Tom and Jennifer Laming Kristine Latta Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Leffel Cheryl Lester and Phillip Barnard Judith Levy Alice A. Lieberman Richard and Karen Lind Dr. Loretta Loftus Stan Lombardo James and Larissa Long Lila Borgman Lothson John and Linda Lungstrum Josephine A. Lutz Judith Major Robert and Anita Markley Mrs. Robert A. Marshall Jackson Martin Maureen Martin Norman L. and Shirley J. Martin Stephen Mazza Paul J. and L. Jean McCarthy Barbara B. McCorkle B. Kent and Janette McCullough Sally McGee William and Mary McGuinness Ross and Margaret McKinney

Sidney A. and Carole McKnight, Jr. Genevieve McMahon Rosalie McMaster Vicki Meadows Susan C. Meyer Deborah Milks and Charles Novo-Gradac Elizabeth Miller and William Eakin Allan and Sandi Miller Ms. Mary Miller Ross 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 John and Carol Nalbandian Art and Connie Neuburger Marjorie Newmark Virginia Ann Nichols Jerry and Judy Niebaum Steve and Marianne Noll Jerry and SanDee Nossaman Bill and Harolyn O’Brien Robert and Lisa O’Connor Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Olin David F. Oliver Dick and Georgia Orchard Dean and Doris Owens James V. Owens Stephen J. and Marie-Luce Parker John and Pamela Peck William E. Pfeiffer, Jr. Lewis and Carolyn Phillips Joe and Diana Pierron Ken and Rowena Pine Austin and Karley Porter

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

* updated December 27, 2010

Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors Laurance and Johanna Price Vickie Randel Tom and Ann Raney Polly Reed Matthew and Jennifer Richards Richard and Joan Ring W. Stitt and Connie Robinson Jean Rosenthal and Dave Kingsley Landon and Sarah Rowland James K. Rowland Sylvie Rueff and Glenn Garneau Jeannette B. Runyan Henry and Lynn Russell Emily Ryan Neil and Leni Salkind Janet Satz Michael Schaadt Richard and Barbara Schowen Robert and Jan Schwartz Sharon Scoggins James and Virginia Seaver Simran Sethi Will and Margaret Severson Todd and Jeannot Seymour Del and Carol Shankel Larry E. Shankles Carolyn and Bob Shelton Greg and Mary-Margaret Simpson Diane Simpson Geraldine Slater and James A. Slater, III Boyd and Heather Smith Glee and Jerry Smith Margery W. Smith George and Terry Smith Lucille Smith Bill and Dona Snead Paul and Deborah Sokoloff Robert L. Speer

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Joe and Rita Spradlin Byron and Marion Springer Virginia Marshall Starkweather Clare E. Statham Don and Tammy Steeples Denise L. Stone Drs. Gloria and William Straughn Patrick Suzeau and Muriel Cohan Ryan and Jennifer Talbott Thomas and Edith Taylor Tom and Dixie Telander Lawrence Tenopir Sarah Chappell Trulove and James Woelfel Rud and Anne Turnbull Ruth A. Turney Bill and Kathryn Tuttle Mary F. Ventura Larry and Sue Wagerle Graham (Mac) and Anne Walker Marvin and Rosemary Walter Charles and Karen Warner Marian E. Warriner Deborah West Pete and Ann Wiklund Betty Wilkin Sheila Wilkins and Kim Kern Tom and Jan Wilson Bill Woods Robert and Judy Wright Norm and Anne Yetman Robert and Marilyn Zerwekh

SENIOR ($35+) Betty W. Alderson Marnie and William 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 Lynne C. Bodle Jean-Pierre Boon Joachim and Jutta Brill Julia Brooks Ann Church Kathleen Collins Ardis June Comfort Albert B. Cook Grace P. Cooper Mr. Hal M. Davison Douglas H Dean David and Barbara Downing Leola R. Doyen Marilyn Ebersole Edmund and Pamela Eglinski Clark and Helen Fisher Carol M. Floersch J. Robert Fluker Dorothy H. Fritzel Elizabeth Galloway Katherine Carr Giele Mrs. Howard Gilpin Leo R. Goertz Marrillie Good Margaret S. Gordon Susan Haley and Jason Franchuk Nancy Lindsey Helmstadter Betty Austin Hensley Anita Herzfeld Richard C. and Edith Olson Hite David and Dianna Ice Dr. Kenneth Irby Barbara B. James Howard F. Joseph

Don James Kallos Edie Kelly R. Keith and Phyllis Lawton Alice E. Leonard Sue I. Leonard Bernie and Joan Levine Loraine H. Lindenbaum Claudine S. Lingelbach Pamela Loewenstein Mr. & Mrs. Bill Mayer Donna McCain Linda McKay C.M.S. and Janet Mody Ruth Moss Susie Nightingale Mary Alice Pacey Jane B. Pearce Al Pendleton Nancy Peterson Mary Jo M. Powell Jerry and Joan Riffel Patricia Roth Rosemary G. Schrepfer Brilla Scott Sammy and James Scott Al and Jane Sellen Ted L. Sexton, Jr. Jane Smith John O. and Karen Somers Katherine E. Stannard Judy Suchey Susan Suhler James B. and Thelma Taylor Luella G. Vaccaro Carolyn and Robert Weir Alice Weis George J. and Carol D. Worth Mary Lou Wright Morgan and Joan Wright

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors STUDENT ($15+) Michael Agre Mara Aubel Devon Bartel Rebecca Barton Annette Becker Sarah Bluvas Lily Boyce Cory G. Boor Chase Bray Rena Detrixhe Emmeline Erikson James Farmer Tommy Finch Lauren Fulton Emily Jalinsky Katie Jones Kirsten Marples Hallie McCormick Catherine McElhone Richelle Mechem Josh Meier Melissa Melling Colleen Murbach Bernadette Myers Lauren Nelson Claudia Olea Anna Paradis Riz Preena Sarah Rew Trent Richardson Jessica Rudkin Scott Sheu May Simpson Ryan Smith Vicky Stadler Voranouth Supadulya Olivia Tedford

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Kristofer Voorhees Adam Vossen Ruth Alexandra Walters Lena Warren Milton W. Wendland Pauline Willison

CORPORATE CORNERSTONE ($5,000+) Emprise Financial Corporation

CORPORATE ASSOCIATE ($1,000â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1,499) Black Hills Energy Coca-Cola Evan Williams Catering

CORPORATE DONOR ($300-499) Commerce Bank Cork & Barrel Hallmark 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 Peoples Financial Center Weavers Wilkerson, Saunders & Anderson

Gifts establish funds to benefit Museum programs and acquisitions

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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 childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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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 Thomas and Francie Arnold 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 Paul and Stephanie Davis Margaret Daicoff Carolyn Dillon Reed and Stacey Dillon Jill and Tom Docking Victoria and Joseph Douglas Barbara Duke

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Charles and Jane Eldredge Emprise Financial Corporation 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 Stephen and Marcia Hill Mary Lee and Raymond Hummert Stephen and Cara Ingalls Harrison Jedel Don and Alice Ann Johnston Mary Lou Reece and Scott Jones Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation

David and Sacie Lambertson Burdett and Michel Loomis Anita J. and Bob Markley Larry and Barbara Marshall Michael and Cindy Maude J. Hammond McNish Eli and Mary Lou Michaelis Michael and Dee Michaelis Richard and Virginia Jennings Nadeau Arthur V. Neis Phyllis and Ronald Nolan The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

Mabel Rice Scott and Carol Ritchie C.K. Rowland Daniel and Nicole Sabatini Elizabeth Schultz Roger Shimomura Richard Smith and Sondra Langel Richard and Stephanie Surface Valentino and Elizabeth Stella John T. and Linda Stewart Marilyn Stokstad John and Deanell Tacha Susan and Brad Tate Janet Dreiling and Doug Tilghman Andrew and Georgiana Torres The Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation Rud and Ann Turnbull Bret and Mary Lou Waller Elizabeth and Robert Weaver Jeffery and Mary Weinberg

* as of December 10, 2010

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FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUM BOARD Burdett Loomis, 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 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 Larry Marshall Virginia Jennings 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: Dan Perjovschi at work in the Central Court. Below: More scenes from Drawn Together, the Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fall Friends of the Art Museum receptionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;attendees including former KU

ombudsmen and professor Robert Shelton (right) sketched their favorite Perjovschi drawings and submitted them to determine which would be featured on a t-shirt sold in the Museum Shop.

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