Fall 2012 Newsletter

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Friends of the Art Museum celebrated at the Annual Meeting & Purchase Party on July 19. Entertainment included demonstrations by SMA exhibition design and collections management staff, live music, and a photo booth featuring wearable props inspired by works from the Spencer collection.

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If Giorgio Vasari is not on your list of artists to know, he should be. In this day of the artist as entrepreneur and

master of open-source sites and technologies, Vasari serves as an enviable archetype for any contemporary artist who navigates multiple venues and social connections. Artist, architect, writer, historian, creative facilitator, and businessman, he is known as one of the first artists to pen biographies of his colleagues, establishing many conventions and protocols for art historians in the West. His most well-known book, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550, 1568), garnered him a place in history, but it is Vasari’s many talents and diplomatic aplomb that stimulated and sustained the prodigious amount of activity and artistic foment in and around Florence during his time. His social network was vibrant and pulsating. It continues to resonate through his brilliant artworks and vivid writings.

It is often a daunting task to place a work of art separated by time and place from its creation and initial reception within a rich and accurate social and historical context. Still, there is no more compelling historical presence than the material truth of a building, landscape, or object that has borne witness to and participated in the artistic, spiritual, and political discourses of the past. The Spencer’s Christ Carrying the Cross by Giorgio Vasari is such an object. It deftly expresses its context in an array of beautifully painted arguments, invoking questions of style and iconography, coded precedence, and historical correspondences with other artists. It transports viewers from their own time and place into the splendid courts and learned academies that Vasari

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frequented. Those who gaze long enough, however, come to realize that the small jewel-like painting holds court well beyond the Medici circle and the late Renaissance.

The role of a museum exhibition is not only to evoke an object’s original context, but also to place it in a theatre of experience that is memorable and mind-transforming. The upcoming exhibition Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy will share the energetic scholarly investigations of Dr. Sally Cornelison, associate professor of Italian Renaissance art, who is largely responsible for our celebration of Vasari and the careful historical attention given to our treasured painting. Her understanding of the period laid the foundation from which the entire project grew. This collaboration with Dr. Cornelison represents yet another success in our long and valued partnership with the Kress Foundation Department of Art History. The project brings together Dr. Cornelison’s rigorous scholarship and teaching with the resources and capacities of the Spencer Museum in order to enhance research and education at the University of Kansas.

In June 2012, SMA director Saralyn Reece Hardy and KU history of art professor Sally J. Cornelison led SMA patrons on a tour of Florence and Tuscany to explore the work of Giorgio Vasari, Italian Renaissance artist whose painting Christ Carrying the Cross is the centerpiece of the Spencer’s fall exhibition Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy. Photos courtesy of Nick Zhan.

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Dr. Cornelison came to the Museum with a clear vision for the exhibition, one that required all of us to undertake many important and challenging endeavors before it could be realized. Among these was the stunning restoration of our painting so carefully carried out by Scott A. Heffley, senior conservator of paintings at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Heffley conducted a technical analysis of the painting, including infrared and X-ray studies, before removing the old, yellowed varnish, in-painting the small losses, and applying fresh varnish to restore the original brilliance of Vasari’s creation. Following the conservation work, the painting was displayed in the Renaissance art galleries of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, where it attracted the attention of Kansas City art enthusiasts for nearly four months.

Dr. Cornelison is currently teaching her third course related to the project (Renaissance Art in Italy: The 16th Century). Her two previous classes have focused on Italian painting and sculpture in the Spencer Museum, and Vasari and Renaissance court culture. These classes not only expanded the minds of students but also fattened our curatorial files with many useful research papers that incorporated new insights into a number of the museum’s works of art. In addition, Dr. Cornelison and I led a small group trip to Florence last summer to gain a deeper understanding of our Vasari painting and other Italian works in our collections. All this hard work culminates this fall in the opening of the exhibition and accompanying programming —we have prepared a sumptuous feast of lectures and programs for students, faculty, and the public. In addition to a dynamic panel discussion and a series of Renaissance dance events, the Spencer will celebrate the exhibition by hosting the seventh quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference in November.

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Finally, we have produced a Vasari Edition, an issue of our scholarly Register dedicated to the project. Again, Dr. Cornelison’s efforts were central to this issue: she produced three articles on topics related to the exhibition, ranging from the story of the painting’s journey to Lawrence to a discussion of its condition and conservation co-authored with conservator Scott Heffley. Dr. Crystal Hall, assistant professor of Italian at KU, has been another key faculty member; we thank her so much for her contributions to the overall project, as well as for her wonderful article in the Register on Vasari and Renaissance literary culture.

My appreciation goes to the entire staff of the Spencer Museum of Art, who raised funds, organized events, produced the Register (please read its many contributors) and mounted the exhibition. In particular, I thank Dr. Susan Earle, who has provided so much support and guidance to the project and has served as the principle editor of the Register. She was ably assisted with editing by Lee Blackledge, Jessica Lea Johnson, and Cathy Blumenfeld. Megan Koza Young and Chassica Kirchoff, 2011–12 curatorial interns, also played important roles in realizing this project.

As you ponder Vasari and his circle, I invite you to consider what his work and life mean to us now. What does his reverence for the act of drawing continue to contribute to the way we visualize ideas? How did Vasari work—and work so well and prolifically—within an unstable political environment? What kind of impact did his writing have on his own work? How did he boost the careers and legacies of other artists? And what can we learn about seeing our own work as part of an entire social context?

— Saralyn Reece Hardy

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Artist unknown (Flanders), The Road to Calvary, 1500s, alabaster, Gift of Judge Irwin Untermyer, 1955.0018


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race/ethnicity, nationality, and parental lineage. This discussion will explore of identification as a method of governing and the formation of identity as a byproduct of such governance.

Performance: Tibetan Sand Mandala / Please visit SMA website for a daily schedule of events / Central Court / Observe, over four days, as visiting Tibetan monks construct a sand mandala to guide people in their pursuit of enlightment. The sand mandala will be constructed in the Central Court. At the end of the four days, the mandala will be swept up in a sacred ceremony reflecting the impermanence of existence.

Reception: Narrative Quilt Project Open House / 6 PM / Lawrence Senior Center / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art, Douglas County Historical Society, Territorial Capital-Lane Museum, Eudora and Baldwin Historical Society / An open house at the Senior Center dedicated to a quilting project with nationally recognized quilt artist Marla Jackson. This project brings together community members ages 55 and older to share in the creative process of narrative art making. Ms. Jackson will have examples of her own quilts. If you are interested in joining the quilting project please plan to attend this open house or contact Rebecca Clancy, Leisure and Learning Specialist, at (785) 842-0543.

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SMA Art Cart: Saturdays 10 AM–4 PM & Sundays 12–4 PM / The Spencer Art Cart is a fun, fresh, and free drop-in art program available every Saturday and Sunday during gallery hours. Designed for children and families but open to everyone, the Art Cart changes monthly, each time highlighting a different gallery and providing prompts for a self-guided art activity. You’ll learn about selected works and then create your own art based on that experience. Spend as little or as much time on your project as you like.

Presentation: Idea Café 1 "The Birth Certificate: Shaping Identity in an Age of Documentation" with William Staples, KU Professor of Sociology / 12 PM / The Commons / Sponsored by The Commons / A birth certificate is a credential that is often taken for granted until it is required. It serves as proof of one's age or citizenship and is a requirement in order to be adopted, go to school, get a driver's license or a passport, marry, inherit property, or be elected to office. But in helping us prove who we are, this document also helps define US. It has been involved, at various times and places, in the social construction of our sex,

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Film: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / The feature-length documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present takes us into the world of a fearless performance artist as she prepares for a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. After the 106-minute film, Kansas City provocateur David Ford discusses the transformative power of performance art, drawing inspiration from both the movie and his own art happenings.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Sculpture of Sophie / 10 AM / Central Court / This program focuses on Sophie-Ntombikayise, a life-size sculpture by South African artist Mary Sibande. Former SMA curatorial intern Megan Young, now Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University, will lead the conversation.

Artist Talk: Fred Stonehouse / 6 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by Department of Visual Art / As part of the Department of Visual Art's visiting artist series, painter Fred Stonehouse joins us for a presentation about his life and work. A major figure in the Wisconsin art scene, Stonehouse is known for his witty sense of rebellion and a style that reflects outsider and folk art influences. Kansans might recognize Stonehouse's work from his participation in a 2008 group show titled Blab! at the Beach Museum.

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Gallery Talk: Telling Stories through Art / 1 PM / Central Court / Co-sponsored Douglas County Senior Services / Join SMA staff member Amanda Martin-Hamon and nationally recognized quilt artist Marla Jackson for a gallery talk on narrative art. The talk is held in conjunction with the Douglas County Senior Services Narrative Quilting Project.

Environmental Film Festival: The Battle of Chernobyl / 5 PM / SMA Auditorium / This installment of the Environmental Film Festival is presented by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies. Based on top-secret government documents that came to light only during the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Battle of Chernobyl reveals a systematic cover-up of the true scope of the disaster. Guest Speaker: Tanya Khvitsko, who has two prosthetic legs and is missing fingers on each hand due to having been born near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. She is currently training for the 2012 Paralympics.

The Spencer Museum of Art will display selected works from the SMA collection in conjunction with the film festival. Stop by the Teaching Gallery before or after the films to see works made from recycled materials, a photograph from Edward Burtynsky’s Three Gorges Dam Project, and other related objects.



largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There, he photographs an eclectic band of

“catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Both the dignity and despair of the catadores is revealed as they begin to re-imagine their lives.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Isadora and Kansas Barns / 10 AM / Central Court / Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan and Kansas barns may not have a lot in common, but both emerge as subject matter in works by artist Abraham Walkowitz. Dance historian Joan Stone leads a discussion about these works and performs an original dance as well.

Gallery Talk: A Little Picture with a Lot of Baggage: Vasari and the Christ Carrying the Cross / 6:30 PM / Join us for this talk by professor of art history Sally Cornelison, with additional remarks from Spencer Museum of Art director Saralyn Reece Hardy. The discussion will be followed immediately by our Fall Opening.

Reception: Fall Opening Reception / 7:30 PM / Central Court / The Spencer Museum of Art opens its doors to the public to celebrate the exhibitions on view this Fall.

Activity: Campus Art Walk / 2–5 PM / SMA Galleries & Front Lawn & Multiple Locations around KU Campus / Sponsored by KU Libraries,

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Performance: MGL: Live Music / 5:30 PM / Central Court / The artist known as MGL brings Lawrence audiences a genre-bending musical performance incorporating soul, electronic and outerspace sounds. As a part of the musical lineup, MGL will also perform a new composition dedicated to Mary Sibande's Sophie-Ntombikayise, a contemporary South African sculpture on display in the Central Court. After the show, the sound-artist will be available for informal conversation in the galleries. This public event kicks off a long-term engagement between MGL and the Spencer Museum of Art. Stay tuned, and listen for more of his work in our galleries in the near future.

Activity: Craftsy Meet-up / 5:30 PM / All galleries Performance: Liszt Bechstein CD Release Celebration / 1 PM / The Spencer Museum of Art is home to composer Franz Liszt's famed Bechstein piano. Steven Spooner, Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas, has recorded a track on a new CD using this piano, and will perform a concert in the galleries to celebrate its release.

Environmental Film Festival: Wasteland / 5 PM / SMA Auditorium / This installment of the Environmental Film Festival is presented by the Center of Latin American Studies. Filmed over nearly three years, Wasteland follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to his native Brazil to explore the world’s

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Spencer Museum of Art / The Campus Art Walk is designed to allow visitors to explore a variety of creative works, including 2D, 3D, and digital art. Dance and music performances by KU students, alumni, and local and international artists will take place throughout the afternoon.

Gallery Talk: Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics: Curator’s Perspective / 2 PM / 20/21 Gallery / Explore the visual imagery of the political process with KU professor of political science Burdett Loomis, who curated this timely exhibition examining the spectacle of American presidential elections.

Environmental Film Festival: The Island President / 5 PM / SMA Auditorium / This installment of the Environmental Film Festival is presented by the Center for Global & International Studies. After ending 30 years of despotic rule by bringing democracy to the Maldives, President Mohamed Nasheed now confronts the literal survival of his country and its people. The Maldives is one of the most low-lying countries in the world. A rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands

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of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. A panel discussion follows the screening.

Lecture: Judging Obama: National Politics Five Weeks from Election Day / NOON / Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave / This event, leading up to the 2012 presidential election, features the incisive political insights of KU professor of political science Burdett Loomis, guest curator of the Spencer Museum of Art's current exhibition, Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics. This discussion, part of ECM’s University Forum, will provide an assessment of the 2012 elections five weeks before election day.

Environmental Film Festival: Manufactured Landscapes / 5 PM / SMA Auditorium / This installment of the Environmental Film Festival is presented by the Center for East Asian Studies. Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky posits that manmade landscapes define us. He sees a certain physical beauty in the order and symmetry in these landscapes despite troubling reasons for their existence and the threat of subsequent degradation they pose to the environment. Cameras follow Burtynsky as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China.

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Presentation: Idea Café 1 "Silent Spring 50 years later: Is it still relevant?" with Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin / 12 PM / The Commons / Sponsored by The Commons / Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, first appeared in fall 1962. Fifty years later, we have the opportunity to assess her relevance to twenty-first century environmental priorities. Carson, though prescient, could not have foreseen the way the climate crisis, decarbonization, warming oceans, biodiversity loss, and the Anthropocene would dominate today's environmental debates. Nor could she have foreseen the ways in which the Internet would eclipse long-form journalism to become the primary medium for testimony and activism. In the context of our concerns today, which facets of Carson's thinking resonate deeply, and which seem antiquated?

RSVP by October 16:[email protected] Registration is limited.

Gallery Talk: Renaissance Dance: Discussion and Workshop / 5:30 PM / Gallery 318 and Central Court / Professor Emerita Joan Stone leads a multimedia gallery talk about the history of dance during the Renaissance, drawing connections to the art and architecture of Giorgio Vasari and his time period. Following the discussion, participants will have the opportunity to learn a few Renaissance dance steps and to practice them in the Museum's Central Court.

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Vasari on View / 10 AM / Gallery 318 / This discussion is presented by Sally J. Cornelison, associate professor of Italian Renaissance art at KU and curator of the exhibition, Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy.

Artist Talk: Chido Johnson / 6 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by Department of Visual Art / As part of the Department of Visual Art's visiting artist series, the Spencer Museum welcomes sculptor Chido Johnson to speak about his life and work. A Detroit artist hailing originally from Zimbabwe (when it was still known as Rhodesia), Johnson claims to have become an artist in order to be a clown, a gorilla and a priest. Throughout the day leading up to and following Johnson's talk, the Spencer Museum lobby will be home to Johnson's traveling Love Library, where visitors can enjoy original, artist-made romance novels.

Performance: Spencer Consort / 2:30 PM / Central Court / The Spencer Consort performs Baroque music on instruments similar to those in popular use during the 17th and 18th centuries. Musicians in the Spencer Consort include Baroque flutists Joy Laird and John Boulton, harpsichordist Elizabeth Egbert Berghout, and Baroque cellist Paul Laird. The concert is free and open to the public.

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Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Politics as Symbol /Symbol as Politics / 10 AM / 20/21 Gallery / Stop by the Museum for an in-gallery discussion presented by Burdett Loomis, professor of political science at the University of Kansas and curator of Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics. This exhibition considers the relationship between politics and image, emphasizing symbol over substance.

SMA Student Night / 5:30 PM / Central Court / Sponsored by Student Advisory Board & KU Student Senate / The SMA Student Advisory Board invites students to enjoy its annual Fall Student Night featuring free food, music, and art. / Supported by KU Student Senate.

Final Friday: Day of the Dead / 5 PM / Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts Street / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art & Watkins Community Museum of History / Celebrate "Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) at the Watkins Museum with a special exhibition and hands-on activities for the whole family. This event is part of Final Fridays in downtown Lawrence.

Activity: Celebrate KU's 100th Homecoming / Please check SMA website for start time / Front Lawn / Enjoy pre-game art making activities in conjunction with KU's 100th Homecoming. Family Day: Kings, Queens, and Courtly Life / 1 PM / Central Court, Front Lawn, Gallery 318 / Travel back in time to Renaissance Italy and enjoy music, art, and hands-on activities. No registration necessary. All ages.

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Lecture: Finding Leonardo or Losing Vasari? The Search for "The Battle of Anghiari" in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio / 7 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by KU Department of Humanities and Western Civilization / Presented by Dr. Sally J.Cornelison, associate professor of Italian Renaissance art at KU, this is the twenty-fifth annual James E. Seaver Lecture. The Seaver lecture series was founded in 1988 as a tribute to James E. Seaver, professor emeritus of history, who directed the KU Western Civilization Program for 27 years.

Family Activity: Playing with Pattern / 10:30 – 11:30 AM / Central Court, 20/21 Gallery / Experiment with pattern and texture in the museum galleries and create your own mixed media work. Ages 5–8.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Northwest Totem / 10 AM / North Balcony Gallery / A totem pole from the Pacific Northwest is the focus of this talk, presented by SMA docent Dee Link.

Symposium: Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference / Please check SMA website for a detailed event schedule / Sponsored by

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Kress Foundation Department of Art History & Spencer Museum of Art / The seventh quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference convenes at the University of Kansas. As part of the program, William E. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University, will deliver a plenary lecture followed by a reception to kick off the weekend's events. The conference is free and open to the public, but registration by November 1 is required. For further information on the symposium, read more here: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/conferences/vasari/

Artist Talk: Conversation with Artist Randy Regier / 5 PM / SMA Auditorium / Sponsored by Spencer Museum of Art & KU Office of First-Year Experience / Contemporary artist Randy Regier, whose Impending Future Bus has been selected as this year's Common Work of Art, visits KU for a public presentation. This is a special opportunity to discuss issues raised by his work. If you would like to learn more about this work of art and what it means that it was selected to be the Common Work of Art for this school year, information is available at http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/education/university/academic-programs.shtml.


Activity: World AIDS Day / 1 PM / Central Court / The Spencer Student Advisory Board and Douglas County AIDS Project (DCAP) invite you to an intersection of an awareness-raising art event commemorating World AIDS Day.

Family Activity: Let’s Get Movin’! / 10:30–11:30 AM / Central Court / Explore balance and movement with your child in the galleries and in your own artistic creations. Ages 5–8.

Activity: Midnight at the Museum Student Study Night / 4 PM–Midnight / Central Court / Sponsored by Student Advisory Board / The paintings and sculptures may not magically spring to life, but the Spencer Museum’s Central Court surely will buzz with brainpower during (Mid)Night at the Museum when the SMA Student Advisory Board hosts a finals study night for KU students. Prep for finals, gaze at art, and enjoy refreshments and Wi-Fi.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session 2 on Hughes Haitian Art Gift / 10 AM / 20/21 Gallery / This talk focuses on selected

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works from the Mary Lou Vansant Hughes Collection of Haitian Art, which the Spencer recently received as a generous gift. Former SMA curatorial intern Megan Young, now Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University, leads the discussion.


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1 Idea CaféThe Idea Café consists of a 15-minute introduction to a provocative topic by an expert in the field, followed by a dinner-table-style discussion among members of the audience. It is intended to serve as an alternative model of engagement among scholars and among scholars and the broader community, with the goal of eliciting energetic exchanges in response to the speaker’s introduction.

2 Senior SessionsThis popular series of informal gallery discussions is designed for senior citizens but open to everyone.

3 Craftsy Meet-upShare your crafting spirit with kindred souls and make some crafty new friends. Share a current project over coffee, form a craft stash swap, or demonstrate a crafting technique at this community event. All are welcome to attend and participate.

Ansel Adams, 1902–1984, Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1948, gelatin silver print, Gift of Terry J. Sutcliffe and Sally S. Sutcliffe, 1993.0340

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Politics as Symbol / Symbol as PoliticsJuly 17, 2012 – January 27, 2013 | 20 /21 Gallery Conversation Wall

Politics is simultaneously about substance and symbol. If art is in

part spectacle, there is no political spectacle to match an American presidential election. Each such contest produces thousands of images and scenes, almost every one planned and executed like a work of art, be it a poster, portrait, or performance. This exhibit takes advantage of the Spencer collection and includes works ranging from buttons, to historic photographs, to highly politicized prints, to abstract art. They are mostly not about presidents or presidential

elections; rather, they explore the relationship between politics and image, emphasizing more the symbol than the substance. The exhibit derives in part from political scientist Murray Edelman’s path-breaking approach to the role of symbols in political life. In his later work, Edelman assessed how art can perform the function of distancing us from our ordinary reactions to political symbols, and thus potentially re-order our interpretations of the familiar. For example, in the exhibit a seemingly benign photograph of a presidential inauguration is paired with Marion Palfi’s striking photo, Washington, D.C., 1946–49, In the Shadows of the Capitol, which depicts a young black girl,

playing in the street, with the Capitol dome looming in the background.

Politics as Symbol /Symbol as Politics aims to provide an alternative view of political life in the midst of a presidential campaign that bombards us with images.

This exhibition is curated by Burdett Loomis, professor of political science at the University of Kansas, and has been organized with the Andrew W. Mellon Department of Academic Programs at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Marion Palfi, 1907–1978, Washington, D.C., 1946–49, In the Shadows of the Capitol, mid 1900s,gelatin silver print, Gift of Marion Palfi, 1973.0179

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Mary Sibande & Sophie-Ntombikayise Take Central CourtAugust 10 – November 11 | Central Court

This exhibition focuses on the Spencer’s recent acquisition of Sophie-

Ntombikayise by South African artist Mary Sibande. Sophie-Ntombikayise is the culmination of Sibande’s series of sculptural installations featuring four generations of women in her family, all of whom worked as domestic servants. These women represent Sibande’s impetus to transcend and interrogate constructions of domestic servitude and expectations of simplicity and submission based on race and gender. As a self-portrait, Sophie-Ntombikayise interjects the artist into the guise of domestic worker. Sibande states, “Adopting a new position as artist, yet celebrating the women in my family, this figure represents my appreciation and acknowledgement of

the hardships borne by my family and countless others in South Africa.” Sibande explores constructions of gender, class and race while also enriching the Spencer’s growing collection of contemporary African art.

With eyes downcast and arms outstretched in a dual gesture of resignation and jubilation, Sophie-Ntombikayise transports viewers to an alternate realm where history, fantasy, and identity become outwardly expressed through clothing, and cultural stereotypes are dismissed. The artist currently lives and works in South Africa. This is the first of her work to enter a museum collection in the United States.

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Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance ItalySeptember 15 – December 9, 2012 | Gallery 318

Often billed as the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari (1511–74) is best known as the author

of the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a compilation of artists’ biographies that was among the first of its kind. The lion’s share of scholarship on Vasari’s life and work is devoted to the Lives, but he was also a successful painter and architect, and his workshop included many of the leading artists active in late 16th-century Italy. Coming one year after the 500th

anniversary of Vasari’s birth, this exhibition celebrates the Spencer Museum’s small, but important, Vasari panel depicting Christ Carrying the Cross. The painting belonged to Vasari’s close friend and collaborator Vincenzo Borghini (1515–80), a learned Benedictine monk, pioneering philologist, and one of the great Florentine intellects of the period. Indeed, the exhibition reunites Vasari’s Christ Carrying the Cross with its pendant from Borghini’s collection, a painting attributed to Ventura di Vincenzio Ulivieri (called Livo) that depicts St. Paul’s conversion from Judaism to Christianity. Remarkably, the two paintings remained together from 1580, when they were recorded in an inventory of Borghini’s possessions taken shortly after the monk’s death, until they were separated in the early 1950s.

Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy investigates the place Vasari’s Christ Carrying the Cross occupies within Vasari’s career and 16th-century Florentine and Roman court culture. Additionally, it documents the picture’s technique, condition, and recent restoration. The exhibition also brings together many of the graphic images that inspired the panel and it explores Vasari’s relationship with Michelangelo. Capitalizing on the Spencer Museum’s rich collection of late medieval and early modern religious art and the Spencer Research Library’s extensive holdings of rare, early modern Italian books, this exhibition situates the Christ Carrying the Cross within its visual, devotional, historical, and literary contexts. In doing so, it elucidates the significance of a local treasure for the first time since it entered the University of Kansas’ art collection in 1953.

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Giorgio Vasari II, 1511–1574, Christ Carrying the Cross, circa 1562–1565, oil on panel, 1953.0015

Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy is made possible by the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. The exhibition curated by Sally J. Cornelison, Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art in KU’s Kress Foundation Department of Art History, with the assistance of Susan Earle, Spencer Museum of Art Curator of European & American Art.

The interdisciplinary scholarly publications related to the exhibition are available in the Register of the Spencer Museum of Art 8, no. 3 (2010–11).

Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference November 8–10, 2012 | Spencer Museum of ArtIn conjunction with this exhibition, the seventh quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference will convene at KU November 8–10, 2012. William E. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University, will deliver a plenary lecture the evening of Thursday, November 8, followed by a reception, and scholars will present additional papers on Friday and Saturday, November 9–10. The conference is free and open to the public, but registration by November 1 is required. For further information on the symposium, read more here: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/conferences/vasari/

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we are asked to follow specific formalities and procedures as we agonize over the time spent or wasted. We obsess on whose turn is next. In the medical waiting room this sense of powerlessness can be compounded by anxiety over the implications of examination and treatment.

The Drop-In/Pop-Up Waiting Room Project with M-PACT (Medical Policy Access & Care Triage) Interface turns this dynamic upside down by providing shared spaces where emotions and experiences are expressed, recorded, collected and represented. The project aims to stimulate public dialogue about healthcare access and experience through two intertwined narrative

threads: what do we expect from healthcare and what do providers, policy makers and researchers bring to the table? Participants drive the content of this artistic collaboration with the medical community and the public.

Comprised of two spaces for interaction, the Drop-In Waiting Room includes a custom chair transformed with a

sculptural slipcover, a talking table, and an interactive kiosk. Located in the Museum lobby, the Pop-Up Waiting Room allows participants the opportunity to share their thoughts about what they want from health care at a “voting booth” computer station. Data from anonymous responses to “The SUPER Health Care Questionnaire!” drive the

visualization animation displayed in the Drop-In Waiting Room installation in the Process Space gallery.

The Drop-In/Pop-Up Waiting Room Project with M-PACT (Medical Policy Access & Care Triage) Interface is organized and curated by Marguerite Perret, Bruce Scherting, Robin Lasser and James Stone. Visit the main gateway website of The Waiting Room Project at: www.thewaitingroomproject.org.

The Drop-In/Pop-Up Waiting Room Project with M-PACT (Medical Policy Access & Care Triage) InterfaceSeptember 15, 2012 – January 27, 2013 | 20/21 Gallery, Process Space & Front Lobby

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Nationally recognized quilt artist Marla Jackson worked with Liberty Memorial Central Middle

School 8th graders in Michel Loomis’ English class, and Topeka area 4th graders from the Williams Science and Fine Art Magnet School to produce a number of painted and quilted works inspired by Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition features two large paintings, made by the 8th-graders, and 18 individual quilts made by the 4th-graders. Jackson and Loomis collaborated with Joan Wilson of the National Park Service on this project.

Marla Jackson’s story-quilts have been exhibited nationally, including at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. She is an active participant in the Women of Color Quilters Network. Michel Loomis is an award-winning teacher and longtime faculty member at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School in Lawrence.

This exhibition was organized by Susan Earle, SMA curator of European and American Art, and Marla Jackson, artist.

This project was sponsored by Accessible Arts; the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka; and by the Spencer Museum of Art.

The Ray of Hope: Aaron Douglas-inspired Quilts and MuralsThrough September 16, 2012 | Lobby Gallery


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The third phase of Project Redefine, the Spencer’s gallery renovation

in broadly conceived thematic installations, will present an eclectic assortment of objects—blue-and-white ceramics, Persian rugs, Roman glass, African ivory, and architectural fragments—that explore the concept

of things, or materiality. Designed to elicit wonder and wanderlust, Empire of Things, addresses topics such as taxonomy and order, collectors and collecting, and exoticism and empire and encourages visitors to stroll through a densely populated and flowing installation scheme.

Gillis van Tilborgh, A Picture Gallery, 1660–1670, oil on canvas, 1954.0157

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LOOKING AHEAD

Ann Hamilton + Cynthia Schira a commission for the Spencer Museum of ArtMarch 2 to August 31, 2013 | Central Court and other galleries

Mark your calendars & plan to engage!

The Spencer Museum of Art is commissioning internationally recognized artists Ann Hamilton and Cynthia Schira to create

room-sized, site-specific installations in the Museum’s galleries, opening March 2, 2013. Using digital technologies to explore the fundamental nature of cloth and the ways museums organize and maintain material legacies, Hamilton and Schira will consider the role of the hand and human practices that reveal and conceal. Working with current KU visual art students and Spencer Museum staff, the artists are also investigating their former relationship as student and teacher (Hamilton came to KU in 1976 to study

fiber arts with Schira). Transforming multiple galleries with their immersive installations, both artists will employ images of and actual objects from the SMA’s permanent collection to create a multisensory tapestry that will feature changing interactive elements. The exhibition will include a scholarly book and significant community and student involvement.

For more information, please contact SMA curator Susan Earle. The exhibition is supported by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support comes from Emprise Financial Corporation and Dave and Gunda Hiebert.

Top: Artists Ann Hamilton and Cynthia Schira explore the Spencer collection during a recent site visit to prepare for their Spring 2013 commission.

Bottom: Cynthia Schira, Etymon, 2010, Damask; Egyptian cotton, woven on electronic Jacquard loom at Oriole Mill.


Henry Luce Foundation supports SMA 2013 color symposium

A $40,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation of New York will support Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia, an international research symposium and exhibition sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art. Convened by SMA Research Curator Mary M. Dusenbury, the symposium will bring together an international team of scholars from the arts, humanities, and sciences to explore the roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia. The symposium will take place March 8 –9, 2013, at The Commons at KU.

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featured image:Artist unknown (Japan), wedding obi, 1868–1911, Meiji period (1868–1912), silk, silver-wrapped thread, jacquard, 0000.1107

SMA receives KU Research Investment Council grant

The University’s newly established Research Investment Council has awarded the SMA a grant of $276,000 to support the initial development of a center for innovative research in the arts, sciences, technology, and society. Convened by Provost Jeffrey S. Vitter, the Research Investment Council is tasked with strategically directing University resources to further four interdisciplinary research initiatives that have been identified as the University’s highest priorities for the next five years. The SMA’s proposed Initiative for the Arts in Collaborative Research will position KU as an emergent leader for new research endeavors integrating the arts, technology, and sciences; it will also infuse new models and methodologies for creativity and collaboration into the University’s existing research profile across disciplines.

“Discovery relies on creativity, which is the cornerstone of the arts. This project brings in wonderful opportunities for creativity in and through the arts.”

— Jeffrey Vitter, KU Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

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Dick and Jeannette Sias complete the International Artist-in-Residence Challenge

Dick and Jeannette Sias of Edmund, Oklahoma, have given $150,000 to support the International Artist-in-Residence challenge grant established in 2008 by Dr. Elizabeth Avery Schultz, professor emerita of literature at the University of Kansas. This extraordinary gift by the Sias family completes the challenge set forth by Dr. Schultz to establish an endowed International Artist-in-Residence Program. To date, the program has provided residencies for artists from Romania, Korea, and China, with additional support from a number of donors. The IAiR initiative is designed to bring contemporary, multicultural artistic and curatorial practice into closer dialogue with the creative life of the University, the community, and the region. By creating an artist-centered program, the SMA recasts itself as a generative force that motivates new discourse about contemporary art, stimulates cross-disciplinary inquiry, and builds strategies to address the increasingly global challenges of the 21st century. The international perspective provided by the program is unique in the Lawrence-Kansas City contemporary art scene.

“We are truly grateful for the vision-in-action that Dick and Jeannette Sias demonstrate by this gift. The program will have an international impact while distinguishing the Spencer Museum and the University of Kansas as leaders in creative work.”

— SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy

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International Artist-in-Residence projects (clockwise from top left): Jin Shan, Chen Shaoxiong, Dan Perjovschi, and Kim Jongku

Dick Sias earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1951, and a law degree from the KU School of Law in 1954; Jeannette Joullian Sias earned a degree in speech therapy from Oklahoma State University in 1954 and a master’s degree from Northwestern University in 1956, and worked as a speech therapist in the Oklahoma City public schools. The couple has provided generous support to a broad range of University projects, bolstering the visual and performing arts, enhancing graduate research in the humanities, and supporting student scholarships. Sias states, “There are two ways for the arts to exist — as a separate part of the community, or woven into the fabric of the community. But they really need to be interwoven into the rest of the community to make a difference. The arts need to be at the heart of the community.”

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Works on Loan*

SMA Collection Around the World

Faces from China’s Past: Paintingsfor Entertainment and RemembranceNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO / April 28 – October 21, 2012

After Qiu Ying, Female Pursuits of the Four Seasons, late 1800s, handscroll, ink, gold on paper, 0000.1216

Accordion-fold album (1978.0119) with paintings byPang Xunqin, Miao Woman, ca. 1944, ink, color on paperLei Guiyuan, Song of Xikang, ca. 1944, ink, color on paper

Henry Varnum Poor: Commemorating 125 YearsBirger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS / July 8 – September 30, 2012

Henry Varnum Poor, The Hudson River at Bear Mountain, oil on Masonite, 0000.0646

Duane Michal, Henry Varnum Poor, New City, NY, gelatin silver print, 1980.0446

KOREAN EYE 2012 Saatchi Gallery, London, England / July 26 – September 23, 2012

Yee Sookyung, Translated Vase, 2009, ceramic shards, epoxy, 24K gold leaf, 24K gold powder, 2012.0033

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Fashioning Traditions of Japan Through Indigo-Dyed TextilesKrannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / August 31 – December 30, 2012

Stencil for yukata, circa 1826-1834, stencil paper with silk mesh, 0000.2959Stencil for yukata, 1800s or 1900s, stencil paper with silk mesh, 0000.2962Futonji panel with design and chrysanthemum blossoms, 1800s or 1900s, cotton,

1992.0083Yukata panel with design of flowering gourds, 1800s-1900s, cotton, 1992.0084Woman’s jacket, mid-late 1800s, hemp, cotton and tree-bast fiber, 1993.0010Yogi (night garment), late 1800s or early 2900s, cotton with dyes and pigments,

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Circus and the CityBard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY

/ September 13, 2012 – February 3, 2013

< William Hicks, W.P.A. Circus. Ca. 1939, etching and aquatint, 0000.0365

Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter GayFrick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA / October 5, 2012 – January 6, 2013Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL / January 29 – April 21, 2013

Walter Gay, The Sculptor’s Studio, 1885, oil on panel, 0000.0647Walter Gay, Ranston House, Dorset, 1884, oil on board, 1952.0006

Awash in Color: French and Japanese PrintsSmart Museum of Art, University of Chicago / October 4, 2012 – January 20, 2013

13 Western and 14 Japanese prints from the Spencer Museum collections

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Spencer Welcomes 2012–2013 Curatorial Interns

The 2012–2013 cohort of curatorial interns joined the staff at the Spencer in August. Funded through the generous support of donors and family foundations, these internships provide valuable experience for the students, as well as intriguing research and exhibition projects for the Spencer. The Spencer welcomes the following interns:

Yen-Yi Chan, (Ph.D. candidate in History of Art, Japanese), Carpenter Foundation Asian Art Intern

Raechel Cook, (M.F.A. candidate in Textiles), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Academic Programs Intern

Morgan Philippi, (M.A. candidate in History of Art, Western), Berkley Foundation Education Intern

Ellen Raimond, (Ph.D. candidate in History of Art, Photography), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Collections Intern

Kathryn Sparks, (M.A. candidate in Museum Studies, Natural History Track), Donald E. Sloan Works on Paper Intern

Brittany Conge, (M.A. candidate in History of Art, Contemporary American, 18th and 19th Century American Art) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Loo Family Intern, European & American Art

Tony Ray-Jones, 1941–1972, Fourth of June, Eton, 1967, gelatin silver print, 1974.0133.02

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Rocket GrantsArts Granting Program in the Kansas City area

The third crop of Rocket Grants artists have received awards at a ceremony May 31 in Kansas City. The program, now in its 3rd year, distributed a total of $40,000 to artists living within an 80-mile radius of metropolitan Kansas City.

Maria Calderon & Lacey Wozney: POP! A Series of Social Happenings

Sean Starowitz: Byproduct: The Laundromat

Tanya Hartman & Awein Lual Wol: Awein's DreamCart

Rie Egawa & Burgess Zbryk: Those Things That Protrude

Richard Fritz, Crystal Gould & Michele Bridges: Art is Long, Life is Short

Jose Faus, Sharon Eiker, David Arnold Hughes, Glenn North, William Peck, Michelle Pond, Rhiannon Ross & Judith Towse Roberts: (Vox Narro): Tell Me a Story

Andrea Steudel & Karl Fundenberger: Cyclotrope Cinema

Minister of Information (Don Wilkison): We Are Here to Plant a Tree

Dave Loewenstein: Give Take Give

Json Myers & Megan Gallant: Spark Farm Park (with sculpture)

For more information, visit:rocketgrants.org


THE 2012–2013 EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS ARE SUPPORTED IN PART BY THE FOLLOWING FOUNDATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS:

AAMD Educational FoundationAnonymousAdair/Dyer FundAndrew W. Mellon FoundationAndy Warhol Foundation for the Visual ArtsThe Anschutz FoundationArt Mentor Lucerne FoundationBarbara Benton Wescoe FundBlack Hills EnergyBreidenthal-Snyder FoundationBrooking Fund for Interdisciplinary ResearchDaura FoundationDocent Scholarship FundDonald E. Sloan Intern FundDouglas County Community FoundationE. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter FoundationE. F. Pierson Fundel dorado, inc.Emprise Financial CorporationEnid & Crosby Kemper FoundationEthel & Raymond F. Rice FoundationExxonMobil FoundationEsquire Collection FundEstelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis FoundationThe Helen Foresman Spencer Acquisition EndowmentThe Henry Luce FoundationInternational Artist-in-Residence FundJoseph D. and Ester G. Berkley FundJudith M. Cook Native American Art FundLavon Brosseau Creativity Award FundLetha Churchill Walker Memorial Art

Kaw Valley Quilters GuildKress Foundation Conservation FundKU Coca Cola Program FundKU Endowment AssociationKU Research Investment CouncilKU Student SenateMary Margaret Brett FundMary P. Lipman Children’s Education FundMary Ruth Petefish Charitable Lead TrustMitchell Art Museum Education FundNational Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the HumanitiesO’Connor Company – Piller FoundationOlin K. and Mary Ruth Petefish Charitable TrustPiersol FoundationPrice R. and Flora A. Reid FoundationR. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art

Acquisition FundRichard J. Stern Foundation for the ArtsSamuel H. Kress FoundationShirley Cundiff Haines and Jordan L. Haines Art

Acquisition EndowmentShumaker Family FoundationSpencer Museum of Art Acquisitions FundSpencer Museum of Art Collection Catalog FundStokstad Student Award FundTarget FoundationTerra Foundation for American ArtTerry and Sam Evans FundTurkish Cultural FoundationWilliam T. Kemper Foundation

FRIENDS &CONTRIBUTORS

Clare Bell, Snow on Flint Hills, 1982, porcelain, Metal Drawer 5, E2003.003

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AMBASSADORMichael and Dee MichaelisJohn and Ann ProsserMarynell D. ReeceElizabeth SchultzDick & Jeannette SiasDolph Simons, Jr. Family

BENEFACTORArt Mentor Foundation LucerneMark and Lauren BoothM. Lavon BrosseauKay, Tom, Tyler, and Jeff CarmodyDavid and Gunda HiebertThe Estate of Alice E. and

Jim GerstnerScott and Carol RitchieMarilyn Stokstad

SPONSORCathy L. DaicoffMargaret M. DaicoffReed and Stacey DillonCharles and Jane EldredgeKathleen M. HallDavid C. Henry and Matt TaylorKansas Humanities CouncilBurdett and Michel LoomisO'Connor Company-Piller

FoundationEthel & Raymond F. Rice FoundationAlicia and John SalisburySusan and Brad TateTerra Foundation for American Art

COLLECTOR'S SOCIETYLinda BaileyColette and Jeff BangertJean K. FranciscoThomas and Dru FritzelCarolie and Bill HouglandLarry and Barbara MarshallBarbara Nordling

DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE Breidenthal-Snyder FoundationBrad and Bev BurnsideRich ClarksonJoe and Vicki DouglasDouglas County Community

FoundationBarbara M. Duke

el dorado, Inc.John and Rosy ElmoreMrs. Anne ForesmanChuck and Sandy GarrettRandy Gordon and Lori ShannonDean and Ginny GravesLeo P. HallakSaralyn Reece HardyBarbara Head and Mark LitzlerDon and Jene HerronNancy JacksonBrian and Barbara KingSacie and David LambertsonGaye and John LeonardMike and Cindy MaudeGerry MillerSusan and Joe MorrisCharlotte MuellerJames and Vickie OttenBrent and Melissa PadgettScott J. Jones and Mary Lou ReecePrice R. and Flora A. Reid FoundationRoger Shimomura and Janet

Davidson-HuesJohn T. and Linda StewartRob and Betsy WeaverLee F. Young

PATRONJohn Poertner and Edith BlackJoyce CastleEdith Clowes and Craig HunekeMarilyn DowellLewis and Laura GregoryDon and Sandra HazlettMarcia and Stephen HillRobert HillerNora KaschubeDavid M. and Sharyn

Brooks KatzmanChuck and Mary LovelandJean and Bill MitchellRichard S. PaegelowMargaret Perkins-McGuinness

and Nathan BenjaminCharles Edward PersingerPiersol FoundationW. Propst and Carol SchmittMr. and Mrs. Dolph C. Simons IIIJeff and Mary WeinbergSue Grosjean Wilcox

DONORLeonard and Deborah AlfanoDave and Mary Kate AmblerEllen B. AvrilBarbara and Frank J. BeckerJanet and Robert BenzMike and Debra BerkleyBeverly Smith BillingsBob and Dottie BowlineJack H. BrierCarol Ann and Clifton BrownCatherine Crice CarterTheodore and Sumie ChildersPaul A. Coker, Jr. and

Rosemary SmithsonRichard CrankCandice DavisSally K. DavisPaul and Stephanie DavisMary-Elizabeth DebickiJohn and Debbie DivineTyrone and Bozenna DuncanJerry and Mary DusenburyRonald C. EilerSam and Terry EvansCap and Kitty GrayWilliam and Nancy HambletonRandall HardyDean Henrichs M.D. and

Barbara HenrichsRichard and Nancy HernandezJohn and Nancy HiebertDavid HughesLouise M. JarvisJessica Lea JohnsonDonald and Alice Ann JohnstonForrest and Patricia Euhus JunodJohn and Sangeetha KellyRichard and Laura KlockeTed and Jane KuwanaCarol and Dave KynerMark and Jill LapointSusan and Stuart LevineDr. Janey LevyDee Anne and Forest LinkJohn and Linda LungstrumJane W. MalinGeorge and Marilyn McClearyJ. David and Roxie S. McGeePatrick and Mary Beth MusickJoAnn MyersLori Norwood

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SandersDick and Barbara SchowenBryan ScrivnerTodd and Jeannot SeymourTim and Julie ShaftelThe Hon. Fred and Lilian SixMorton I. and Estelle SoslandCharles Stansifer and

Mary MillerValentino and Elizabeth StellaJohn and Deanell TachaJudith and Peter ThompsonGlenda and Andy TompkinsTim and Jerrye Van LeerKevan and Gail VickJeff and Sharon VitterSteven F. Warren and Eva HornArnold WeissBeth and David WittigJack and Judy Wright

FRIENDConrad AltenberndDeena AmontCarol Anderson and John FowlerMarnie ArgersingerTom and Francie ArnoldGretchen Day AtwaterJanet Perkins and Jeff AubeMara AubelMichael L. AurbachVictor and Kathryn BaileyPrice and Marge BanksPeg BaradiRichard BarohnFrank and Betty BaronChuck and Beth BergDavid Bergeron and

Geraldo SousaDoug Bergstrom and

Julie BattagliaDan BernsteinCarolyn BerryMarlene and Greg BienJudy BillingsNancy and Gary Bjorge

Chuck and Dee BlaserSally G. BloomRolf and Laura BorchertDavid Brackett and David QuinnDr. Mark J. BrodkeyMark and Susie BrooksPatricia M. BrooksElizabeth BrounRobert and Sharon BrownRex Buchanan and Mindy JamesDr. and Mrs. Henry W. BuckTim and Rachel Epp BullerCord BurkGeorge W. ByersKit CarlsenJanet CarpenterPeter and Rosalea CarttarLinda Chubbuck and

Stan SlaughterLois ClarkBrigid Murphy and

Jackson ClarkBob and Janice CobbSteven CohenArdis J. ComfortFred P. ConboyWarren and Mary CormanSally Cornelison and

Dan DePardoJane A. CotittaAlex T. CoxSusan V. CraigSarah and Doug Crawford-

ParkerWilliam J. CroweAnn Cudd and Neal BeckerJudy CulleyStanley and Alice Jo DeFriesRichard T. and Fernande M.

DeGeorgeBill Dentler and Kathy

SuprenantDorothy DevlinPatrick and Mary DooleyGay and Michael DoudoroffPatricia Dubose DuncanJames and Nancy DunnKaty EddyEdmund and Pamela EglinskiSusan Elkins and Jack Winerock

Mandy EnfieldHilda EnochTim and Margot EvansStephen Fawcett & Kathleen

McCluskey-FawcettJeanne FletcherDiane FournySherry Fowler and Dale SlusserMarci FranciscoHank and Paula FrankelRobert J. FriaufCharles and Diane FrickeySuEllen and Harvey FriedVictor and Linda FrostLarry and Jacqueline GadtLigia GalarzaNorman and Helen GeeGeorge E. and Ruth B. GibbsWeb and Joan GoldenPat Graham and David DunfieldLynne GreenRoy and Marilyn GridleyBrenda GroskinskyGeorge and Susan GurleyKay and Gary HaleJulie and Greg HamelRex and Cathy HamiltonLouise and Allan HansonKatie and Stephen HardyThomas HardyBrooke and William HardyTom HarperDonald and Carol HattonMatt and Diane HenkCharles and Laurie McLane

HigginsonDick and Sue HimesRonald L. and Barbara J. HintonCarol HintzNancy HopeDave and Linda HowardMatt and Heather HoyJohn and Janet HuchingsonHarry and Mary Lou HughesKenneth IrbyWes and Joan JacksonJohn and Reinhild JanzenLori K. JohnsDan and Jeannette JohnsonJeanene Johnson

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Ted and Mary JohnsonKent Johnson and

Yvonne GibbonsStephen T. Johnson Linda and Topper JohntzNancy JornG. J. and Katherine KallosMegan KaminskiVaun and Sydnie KampschroederMike and Elaine KautschW. Bradley M. KempJ. Patrick and Jean Grosjean

KerichLesley T. KetzelKaren L. KoehlerKaren and Ed KompLiz KowalchukJohn and Margie KuhnBetty A. LairdTom and Jennifer LamingAlice LeonardAlice A. LiebermanRichard and Karen LindLoraine H. LindenbaumDr. Loretta LoftusStan Lombardo and Judy RoitmanJim and Larissa LongAllison LopezLila Borgman LothsonR.W. and Cathy LucasJudith MajorRobert and Anita MarkleyMrs. Robert MarshallAlan MartinSarah and Jack MartinNorman L. and Shirley J. MartinStephen MazzaPaul J. and L. Jean McCarthyBarbara B. McCorkleB. Kent and Janette McCulloughSally McGeeMary and William McGuinnessRoss and Margaret McKinneyDr. and Mrs. Sidney A McKnight Jr.Genevieve McMahonRosalie McMasterMr. and Mrs. Nation MeyerSusan C. MeyerAllan and Sandi Miller

Elizabeth Miller and William L. Eakin

Mary Miller Ross Richard W. MitchellMary MortensenRuth B. MossHerman and Phyllis MunczekJohn and Carol NalbandianArt and Connie NeuburgerMarge NewmarkVirginia Ann NicholsJerry and Judy NiebaumSanDee and Jerry NossamanHarolyn O'BrienRobert and Lisa O'ConnorDr. & Mrs. W. Ronald OlinDick and Georgia OrchardDean and Doris OwensAnn Carlin OzegovicStephen N. PaigeStephen and Marie-Luce ParkerFred and Cathie PawlickiJane B. PearceMr. William E. Pfeiffer Jr.Carolyn and Lew PhillipsAustin and Karley Ast PorterLaurance and Johanna PriceVickie RandelTom and Ann RaneyRichard and Joan RingJeanne RitterW. Stitt and Connie RobinsonPatricia and Lance RodewaldSteven Ramberg and

Margaret RoseBeverly and Howard RosenfeldJean Rosenthal and Dave

KingsleyMary RossPat RothTom and Janette RudkinJeannette RunyanHenry and Lynn RussellBob and Ann RussellDan and Nicole SabatiniFred SackVirginia SeaverWill and Margaret SeversonDel and Carol ShankelLarry E. Shankles

Carolyn and Bob SheltonBob SigmanDiane SimpsonGeraldine Slater and

James A. Slater, IIEric N. Smith and Pat

Roach SmithBoyd and Heather SmithGlee and Jerry SmithMarjorie A. SmithTerry and George SmithLucy SmithMary SmithBill and Dona SneadPaul and Debbie SokoloffGary and Constance SollarsGail SpaitsRobert L. SpeerEmily StameyJohn StaniunasBarbara StarrettClare E. StathamTammy and Don SteeplesCelka StraughnPatrick Suzeau and

Muriel CohanMarjorie Swann and

William TsutsuiJennifer and Ryan TalbottJames B. and Thelma TaylorDeborah and Ron TeeterTom and Dixie TelanderLawrence TenopirSarah Chappell Trulove

and James WoelfelMrs. Ruth A. TurneyKathryn and Bill TuttleLorie VanchenaMary VenturaDavid and Wendy VertacnikGraham and Anne WalkerA. Bret and Mary Lou WallerChuck and Karen WarnerMarion WarrinerAlice WeisRobert Hickerson and

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SENIORBetty W. AldersonPatricia M. BalsamoLillian M. BarkerSusan BarrMaynard and Virginia BaulekeGrace H. BeamLynne C. BodleJeanie BundyDennis CappsAnn and James ChurchAnna CiencialaAnn Kuckelman CobbJudy Greer DavisRay and Kathy DavisHal M. DavisonDouglas H. DeanLeola R. DoyenMarjorie Dozier and

Frances L. FischerClark and Helen FisherJane FortunDrs. Brenda and Mark FreiDorothy H. FritzelKatherine Carr GieleLeo R. GoertzMarrillie C. GoodMargaret S. GordonJames and Jane GunnCindy GustafsonSusan Haley and

Jason FranchukBetty Austin HensleyAnita HerzfeldRichard C. Hite and Edith OlsonDavid and Diana IceDr. Howard and Shirley JosephDon James KallosRuth LawsonR. Keith and Phyllis LawtonPaula and Rusty LeffelPamela LoewensteinJosephine A. Lutz

Bill and Beverly MayerLinda and Doug McKayNancy S. MitchellC. M. S. and Janet ModyMary Alice PaceyPamela and John PeckKen and Rowena PineThomas E. PottJane PronkoMel RiggsJames K. RowlandDr. Rosemary SchrepferBrilla ScottAl and Jane SellenTed L. Sexton Jr.Michael and Margaret Anne

ShawBetty SiskEsther M. SmithHaskell SpringerStepping Stones, Inc.Denise L. StoneSusan SuhlerUniversity Women's ClubLuella G. VaccaroDeborah WestGeorge and Carol WorthMorgan Wright

STUDENTDeneige Barr Emily Bullard Ashley Caldwell Alex Case-Cohen Laura Cook Molly Fister Matthew Hobart Colleen Ireland Colleen Jones Katie JonesSean Kramer Kirsten Marples Johanna McSweeney Ellen Mcgivern Melissa Melling Lauren Miller Kayla Mitchell Colleen MurbachSarah Padilla Rachel Roth

Chloe Seim Richard Shie May Simpson Vicky Stadler Sandra Tickles Bailey Wells Mallory Wiegers

CORPORATE CORNERSTONE Emprise Financial CorporationExxon-Mobil FoundationO’Connor Co.-Piller Foundation

CORPORATE ASSOCIATEBlack Hills EnergyEl Dorado, Inc.Kaw Valley Quilters GuildKU EndowmentTarget Foundation

CORPORATE DONORPiersol FoundationUS Bancorp Foundation

CORPORATE FRIENDThe Bank of America FoundationConoco-Phillips CompanyGolf Course Superintendents

AssociationInternational Business

MachinesIntrust BankLandmark National BankSalina Public LibrarySt. John's Catholic Church

and SchoolWashburn Rural Middle SchoolWeaver's, Inc.Wellsville High SchoolWilkerson, Saunders &

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Vickie Otten, President

Brad BurnsideJason EdmondsLaura GregoryCathy HamiltonNancy JacksonStephen JohnsonNora Kaschube, Docent Rep.

Burdett LoomisDakota LoomisLinda LungstrumVickie OttenReggie RobinsonChloe Seim, Student Rep.

Josh SheltonRobin Ward

Friends of the Art Museum Board

SMA Advisory Board

Mike Michaelis, Chair

Linda BaileyJames K. BallingerCarol Ann BrownRose BryantRandy GordonDavid HiebertLarry MarshallVirginia Nadeau

Arthur NeisPhyllis NolanMelissa PadgettA.Scott RitchieBeth SchultzLinda B. StewartMarilyn StokstadJeff Weinberg


NewsletterSPRING 2012vol. XXXII, no. 10

Newsletter is published by the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas.

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