Spring 2010 Newsletter

S P E N C E R M U S E U M O F A R T

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SPRING NEWSLETTER 2010

SPRING 2010NEWSLETTER vol. XXXII, no. 5

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

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

Cover image:Chesley K. Bonestell, 1888–1986Esquire in New Orleans, circa 1948probably gelatin silver print, paint,Gift of Esquire, Inc., 1980.0720

In upcoming Utopia–Dystopia exhibition.

Back cover: Scenes from the Halloween kid’s class, Knight at the Museum, featuring a medieval battle re-enactment by the Society for Creative Anachronisms.

Dialogue

From the Director

Calendar of Events

Exhibitions

The Spencer in Brief

Friends & Contributors

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

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“This gift from the Anschutz Foundation recognizes the critical role the Spencer Museum plays in the life of the University. It is my

hope that this generous gift will help inspire other gifts, so that we can match the grant provided by the Mellon Foundation.”Bernadette Gray-Little, University of Kansas Chancellor

“While the Spencer has always been regarded as a top university art museum, the Mellon grant brings national and prestigious recognition to the Spencer Museum of Art and the University

of Kansas. The importance of this honor is crucial to KU’s reputation as a leading educational and research university.”

Melissa Padgett, SMA Advisory Board Chair

“The Mellon grant is a ‘challenge grant’ for the Spencer in two ways. Most literally, we must meet a substantial financial challenge.

But more profoundly, the Mellon grant challenges the Museum to act imaginatively and energetically in bringing its extensive

holdings and exciting scholarship into the full mainstream of the University’s academic life, broadly defined. I have no doubt that

both challenges will be met in full.”Burdett Loomis, KU Professor of Political Science

& Friends of the Art Museum Board Member


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

From the Director

As many of you will recall, in fall 2008, New York’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Spencer Museum a $1.2 million challenge grant to support substantial expansion of the Museum’s impact on teaching and research across the University of Kansas campus. The current grant comes in two parts: A $1 million endowment challenge grant that the Museum must match within a three-year period, and $200,000 to be used as the Spencer advances its initiatives and raises matching funds.

It is my great pleasure to announce that the Anschutz Foundation of Denver, Colorado, has honored the Museum with a generous gift of $200,000. Other friends of the Spencer have also committed to meeting the Mellon match—we are now more than one-third of the way toward our goal. For a list of donors, please turn to page 52.

The Mellon challenge acknowledges the Spencer Museum’s leadership among the nation’s university art museums. The award also emphasizes the Museum’s fundamental role as an innovator in higher education and calls attention to its place at the creative center of the University.

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A year after securing the Mellon award, we are pleased to have taken several decisive steps toward fulfilling these challenges.

First, we have recruited a superb scholar with international experience and expertise to launch the Mellon Initiative at KU. Dr. Celka Straughn will combine object-based historical research with innovations in education and interdisciplinary partnerships to infuse Museum projects and programs with rigor and relevancy to students, faculty, and the public. We are delighted to have Celka join our academic staff.

Second, we have begun to recruit formal and informal advisors to help shape the Mellon Initiative. Some will address new and exciting curricular opportunities, others will focus on leading-edge research agendas, and an even broader group will help to develop a strong, sustainable future by proposing funding and growth strategies. Conversations with scholars, students, and friends will guide the program.

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

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

Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director


Calendar of Events for Spring 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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University Lecture Series: Writing Jazz / 7:30 PM / The Commons in Spooner Hall / Tammy Kernodle, Department of Musicology, Miami University, on Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit: Constructing Black Women’s Conversion Narratives in Jazz / Sponsored by the KU Honors Program

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on A Musical Party presented by Sarah Crawford-Parker, Associate Director, University Honors Program / 10 AM / SMA 17th-Century Gallery *

Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series ***

Book Discussion: One of Ours by Willa Cather / 6 PM / Kress Gallery

Film: A Very Long Engagement /7 PM / SMA Auditorium

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Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series *** [ Note Today’s Location: Lawrence Public Library. ]

Book Discussion: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque / 6 PM / Lawrence Public Library

Film: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) / 7 PM / Lawrence Public Library

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

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

To register, contact the SMA Education Department, 784-864-0137 or [email protected]

Music Performance: The Goldenburg Duo / 12 PM / Central Court

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman presented by SMA curatorial assistant Kate Meyer / 10 AM / North Balcony Gallery *

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

Please contact Continuing Education, 785-864-KUCE(5823), www.kuce.org, or [email protected]

Lecture: 2010 Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer Toshio Watanabe / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / Reception follows / Watanabe is professor and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts, London.

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on James Rosenquist’s 1, 2, 3 Outside presented by SMA intern Natalie Svacina / 10 AM / SMA 20/21 Gallery *

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


Book Discussion: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway / 6 PM / Kress Gallery

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

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

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

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian presented by SMA docent Alice Ann Johnston / 10 AM / Central Court *


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery Talk: Senior Session on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Portrait of a Day presented by SMA docent Dee Link / 10 AM / 20.21 Gallery *

Films: KU Student Video Premiere / 5:30 PM / SMA Auditorium / KU Design students present new Video work. Experimental, documentary, story telling, and non-linear narrative styles are explored, emphasizing personal expression.

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

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

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

**It Starts With Art! Our entertaining, interactive programs for children ages 5–14 combine art education with hands-on creation. Each week, students explore selected artworks in the Museum and make their own art based on the techniques, media, and traditions they discover. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Ages 5–8 meet 10:30 AM–12:30 PM and ages 9–14 meet 1:30–3:30 PM. Classes are $12 / $10 for Friends of the Art Museum members. Enroll in four or more classes and receive the FAM price.

To enroll, contact the Education Department, 785.864.0137, [email protected], or visit www.spencerart.ku.edu

***Machine in a Void Book Discussion / Film Series This collaborative program pairs film screenings at the Spencer with book discussions sponsored by the Lawrence Public Library. In conjunction with the exhibition Machine in a Void: World War I & The Graphic Arts, the Library has created a book discussion group on the subject, and the Spencer has assembled a series of films with storylines or themes similar to those found in the literature. A book discussion precedes each screening.

To register for the Book Discussion group, contact Maria Butler at (785) 843-3833 ext.123 or email [email protected]

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Instant silliness! Next time you are strolling around Spencer Museum of Art’s excellent spring exhibits, remember to use the authentic photobooth in the Big Shots exhibit to capture your silly face!


Big ShotsAndy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980sNorth Balcony | August 15 – January 24, 2010

Big Shots highlights a recent gift to the Spencer from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. of rarely seen photographs by Warhol, dating from 1970 to 1986, presented within the context of the dynamic period of art and cultural production during which they were made. The photographs include “celebrity” portraits shot as black-and-white prints or as unique color Polaroids using the eccentric Big Shot camera that Warhol made famous.

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

True to the spirit of this intermingling of different art forms and social

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

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Andy Warhol, 1928–1987, Flowers, 1964,

offset color lithograph, Gift from the Gene

Swenson Collection, on display, 1970.0175

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

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

Polaroid™ print (Polacolor Type 108),

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the

Visual Arts, Inc., on display, 2008.0091

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

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

display, 1980.0324


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Earthly VesselsAfrican CeramicsSouth Balcony | September 12– February 7, 2010

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

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Zande, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

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Extra/OrdinaryVideo Art from AsiaKress Gallery | October 24–February 14, 2010

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

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

Lida Abdul, born 1973 Kabul, Afganistan, White House, 2005, single channel video,

Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.0032


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

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Chen Shaoxiong: Ink Things.

Tsui Kuang-Yu, born 1974 Taipei, Taiwan, Invisible

City series, Taiparis York, 2008, single channel video,

Courtesy of Eslite Gallery, Taipei and the artist

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

Bottom of the Lake, 2008, single channel video,

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

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

Karl Marx, Das Kapital

In the last few years, China has emerged as the top exporter of consumer goods to the United States. From toys to socks, now more than ever, the Chinese economy is shaping our daily material existence in this country.

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

A provocateur of the Chinese art world, Chen’s first forays into experimental art were in the 1980s as part of the “urban

guerilla” collective known as Big Tail Elephant Group. A pioneer in video art, Chen continues to exhibit widely throughout Europe and Asia including the Venice Biennale (2003), Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (2004) and most recently Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale (2008).

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia.

For more information about the artist, visit his website: www.chenshaoxiong.com

Chen Shaoxiong, born 1962; lives and works in Beijing,

China, ink things, 2006–2007, video/film, three minutes

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”


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Utopia – Dystopia20/21 Gallery Conversation Wall | January–April, 2010

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

Margaret Bourke-White, 1904–1971, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937, gelatin silver

print, Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund, 1985.0120

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Charles Pratt, 1926–1976, Housing Development, South Bronx, New York, mid 1900s,

gelatin silver print, Gift of Julie Pratt, 1985.0182

Ever since the appearance of Thomas More’s Utopia in 1516, humankind’s musings about an ideal state of affairs acquired its proper name. The word

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

Is utopia an impractical dream irrelevant to our lives? Or is it a visionary plan delineating our current boundaries of the possible and providing a trajectory to cross those boundaries in the future?

Is there a clear demarcation between utopia and dystopia? Are our ideas about perfection indeed the best possible scenarios for our future?


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Qiu Anxiong: New Book of Mountains and SeasCentral Court | February 20 – May 30Artist-in-Residence | March 28 – April 11

When Qui Anxiong comes to campus this semester as part of the Spencer’s International Artist-in-Residence Program, the Spencer will unveil for the first time his experimental video work New Book of Mountains and Seas, acquired by the Museum last year.

The International Artist-in-Residence Program is made possible by the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the William T. Kemper Foundation.

Qiu (born 1972 in Chengdu, China) graduated from the Sichuan Art Academy in 1994 and then studied painting at Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2003. From his studio in Shanghai, he has created work exhibited in international exhibitions, including the Shanghai Biennale (2006), the Sydney Biennale (2008), the Guangzhou Biennale (2008), and most recently Utopia (2009) at Arken Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. After seeing the work of South-African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) in early 2000, Qiu began to experiment with ways to enliven his painting. Working exclusively in acrylic, he began to explore methods to capture the movement of painted imagery as seen in his first video Jiangnan Poem (2005). Stringing together photographs that document the gradual manipulation of layer after layer of paint on a single canvas, Qiu employs computer software to stitch the images together, thus creating animated painting. By limiting his palate to black and white, Qiu purposely evokes the monochromatic ink-and-brush traditions of literati painters, thus affecting an ancient aesthetic through modern technology. One abiding theme in his video work is the exploration of history, memory and tradition. He writes:

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These days, most people consider new and old to be mutually exclusive concepts. The new is completely novel; the old, totally outdated. The old can be eradicated for the sake of the new and creation of the new world necessarily implies destruction of the old world. But somehow the world that emerges from the gap between us and the old order never seems to add up to our idealization of it. It’s never as perfect, nor nearly as peaceful.

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

Xin Shanhai Jing 新山海经, New Book of Mountains and Seas, 2008, set of 12 woodblock

prints (ink on rice paper), Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

These days, most people consider new and old to be mutually exclusive concepts. The new is completely novel; the old, totally outdated. The old can be eradicated for the sake of the new and creation of the new world necessarily implies destruction of the old world. But somehow the world that emerges from the gap between us and the old order never seems to add up to our idealization of it. It’s never as perfect, nor nearly as peaceful.


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

Coy Avon Seward, 1884–1939, Adobe

Village—New Mexico, 1936, lithograph, Gift

of Steven Schmidt, Class of ‘58, Prarie Print

Makers’ Gift Print Collection, 1992.0044

(pg 25) Coy Avon Seward, 1884–1939,

Bruce Moore, 1929 , lithograph, Gift of

Drew, Elder and Carole Gardner, 2007.0040

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

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

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


(above) Julia White Bull in traditional Lakota dress.

Beaded Heritage 20/21 Gallery Process Space | March 27–May 7

Haskell Indian Nations University seniors Julia and Twila White Bull are accomplished bead workers of Lakota and Chippewa Heritage. Initially trained by their parents in the art of beadwork, they explore their creative talents within the traditional bounds of their cultural identity, experimenting with style, color, and technique to suit their own artistic goals. Students in Haskell’s American Indian Studies program, Julia and Twila are working with Robin Bang, the Spencer’s Berkley Curatorial Intern for the Arts & Cultures of the Americas, Africa & Oceania, to present their personal dance regalia along with historic examples of beaded bags and moccasins from the Museum’s collections.

Because they have both Lakota Sioux and Chippewa heritage, Julia and Twila employ two distinct design styles in their work—geometric shapes unique to Lakota beading and curvilinear, floral designs of the Chippewa style. Personal regalia on view will include Julia’s dentalium-shell cape with 500 dentalium-shell beads (small tubular mollusks that look like little elephant tusks), and Twila’s jingle dress—displayed with the Chippewa healing story explaining the origins of this style of Pow Wow dance regalia. Highlights from the Spencer’s collection include a Chippewa Bandolier bag and Lakota moccasins with Teepee designs, both dating to the early 20th century.

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

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

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

Kerr Eby, 1889–1946, September 13, 1918, St. Mihiel, 1934, etching, aquatint, sandpaper

ground, Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund, 2003.0015


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The genesis of the exhibition stems from the Spencer’s acquisition of a rare and extensive treatment of the war by Belgian artist Henri de Groux in the form of nearly 50 etchings. These proofs and trial prints were

preparatory to a portfolio, La Visage de la Victoire (The Face of Victory). In his introduction to the printed series, de Groux wrote of the war as an “undeniable and colossal absurdity, like a machine functioning in a void,” an “opulent excess of perfect horror.” The Spencer’s exhibition derives its title from de Groux’s evocative expression. The central goal of the exhibition is to identify and give voice to those artists who, through their work during and shortly after WWI, renounced specific national concerns to articulate a more transcendent vision. These uncommon voices will be exhibited along with mainstream nationalistic and propagandistic works.

The exhibition will be drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, and will include material that may provoke

discussions of the rise of ironic and ambivalent attitudes toward war, the defenselessness of innocents in the face of modern war machines, the use of the graphic arts to promote official government attitudes, and the role of mechanized warfare within the dystopian idea of the Machine Age. The Spencer’s collections are rich in works from France, Belgium and Germany

Erich Heckel, 1883–1970, Mann in der Ebene (Man on a Plain/self-portrait), 1917,

woodcut, Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Fund, 2007.0023

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

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

Otto Dix, 1891–1969, Explosion, 1918, ink, wash, graphite on paper,

Museum purchase: Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.0100


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Kim JongkuElectronic Arts Space | February 25 – July 25Artist-in-Residence | February 14 – February 28

Korean artist Kim Jongku (born 1953) works at the juncture between tradition and technology, creating installations that explore constructed vistas of landscapes and the shifting place of humans within the natural world. As part of the Spencer’s International Artist-in-Residence Program, Kim comes to the Museum this semester to create a new video work.

The International Artist-in-Residence Program is made possible by the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the William T. Kemper Foundation.

In his ongoing Mobile Landscape series, Kim uses industrial steel filings to form poems, calligraphy, and intricate designs on a pristine white floor. When broadcast by miniature cameras to large monitors, the installation is transformed into stunning vistas similar to the ink-and-brush painting of traditional East Asia.

Kim Jongku is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (1996) and Seoul National University (1993) and has exhibited widely in Europe and Asia, including the Gwangju Biennale (2006), Re-Imagining Asia, Berlin (2007), and solo exhibitions at One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

Kim Jongku still from Mobile Landscapes series. Courtesy of the artist.

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Gifts establish funds to benefit Museum programs and acquisitions

The Spencer strives to be an exciting, interactive regional resource for dialogue and exploration of the arts, and in difficult economic times, the continued generosity of our friends takes on added significance. In recent months, major gifts have established the following funds:

• Shirley Cundiff Haines & Jordan L. Haines Art Acquisition Fund Endowed acquisition fund

• Frank Rayner Burge & Gladys Frederick Burge Arts Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund

• Avis Chitwood Memorial Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund

• Marybelle & Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund Unrestricted/spendable fund

Please remember that every gift, small and large, makes a difference. Small gifts, given over time, can grow into major support for student research, a children’s art program, or a new exhibition. Major gifts include outright gifts that can be spent immediately, as well as endowed funds, which are invested to provide financial support in perpetuity. Endowed funds can be named for you or for someone you wish to honor.

To learn more, please contact Gaye Leonard, Development Director,

at 785.832.7452, or [email protected].



Docent Program celebrates 40th anniversary

In December, the Museum celebrated the 40th anniversary of its docent program, which traces its foundation to 1966, when R. Wayne Nelson, the Director of Music Education for the Lawrence Public Schools, contacted the Lawrence Art Guild and proposed a program to teach local schoolchildren about various fine arts.

Three years later, in the spring of 1969, docents at the KU Museum of Art gave the first classroom slide talk and Museum tour. That fall, a full schedule of fifth-grade classes heard the slide talk and visited the Museum. The first-year roster of 14 docents included Barbara Buck, who still serves as a docent today.

Throughout the years, the program has expanded in many different ways. The KU Museum’s move and subsequent name-change to the Spencer Museum of Art in 1978 meant larger exhibition space and greater demand for tours and for docents. In an expansion of their original mission, docents now provide tour experiences for a variety of visitor groups. In addition, various curators of education and Museum directors have enriched the program by contributing knowledge and techniques such as inquiry-based methods for acquiring information.

The SMA Docent Program currently consists of 27 docents. In fiscal year 2009, docents led a total of 282 tours consisting of 3,187 people ranging in age from four to 94 years of age. The Spencer is grateful for the volunteer service of all its current and former docents, whose passion and dedication have helped cultivate the Museum’s strong reputation as a welcoming place of art, inquiry, and community.

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Special Thanks!

Curator/ Director of EducationJames L. Enyeart, Director of Museum Education

Dolo Brooking, Director of EducationSally Hoffmann, Programs Director

Anne El-Omami, Curator of EducationPat Villeneuve, Curator of Education

Kristina Walker, Director of Education & Public Programs

Docent Program CoordinatorSandy PraegerBetsy Weaver

Elizabeth HappyJerrye Van Leer

Amanda Martin-Hamon

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



Elevator Poetry Project features“Googlism for Andy Warhol”

In connection with the Big Shots exhibition on view through January 24, the Spencer’s Elevator Dialogue Project currently features the poem “Googlism for Andy Warhol,” from Peter Oresick’s 2008 collection WARHOL-O-RAMA, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.

The Elevator Dialogue Project provides a forum for an open dialogue with poets/writers about works within the Spencer collection, exhibitions, art in general, specific artists, or even the elevator itself.

If you have a poem of your own, or know of an existing poem that you think would be appropriate for the Project, the Museum invites you to make a submission for consideration.

Works should be submitted in an MS Word document, set in 12-point type, and laid out as you would like it to appear. Submissions should be of no more than 600 words. The writer should identify the subject or artwork that they have chosen to write about, so that we may provide a picture, as well as the provenance of the object chosen. For further information on submitting a piece, please see our guidelines on the website.

Authors should also provide short bios as well as contact information, so that we can call and confirm information, spelling errors, and layout. Space also will be provided on the placard as well as on our webpage for links to the writer’s websites.

The Spencer makes all final decisions on the formatting and display of poems submitted.

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Spencer loans two major works to Nelson-Atkins for new American Indian Art Galleries

In early November, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art unveiled its newly designed American Indian Art Galleries, which prominently feature two works on long-term loan from the Spencer Museum of Art’s Spooner Collection: a Cochiti Pueblo standing figure (pictured), and a Hopi jar.

The large standing figure was likely made around 1880 and is particularly notable due to his massive size; it has been featured in a number of publications, including the cover of Clay People: Pueblo Indian Figurative Traditions, published by the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe. Installed in the case next to the Cochiti figure is a jar that has been attributed to the Hopi master potter Nampeyo of Hano, and is likely one of her very early works, from the late-nineteenth century. The Spencer is delighted to share these important objects with the Nelson-Atkins.

Artist Unknown, Cochiti Pueblo,

New Mexico, figure, circa 1875, pottery,

painted, 71 x 46.5 cm, Collected by KU

professor, naturalist, and explorer Lewis

Lindsay Dyche (1847–1915), Professor

of Natural History at the University of

Kansas. Gift of James K. Allen



Loans from the SMA Collection

Several works from the Spencer’s collection are traveling to other institutions for display — as near as Wichita and as far away as London, Paris, and Vienna.

Crossroads: The Art of Gordon ParksUlrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (January 23–April 11, 2010)

Gordon Parks, gelatin silver prints: Malcolm X Selling Newspaper, 1963 (1993.0044)Black Children with White Doll, 1942 (1993.0045)Red Jackson, Harlem Gang Leader, 1949 (1993.0047)Wedding, France, 1951 (1994.0005)Crowded Bedroom, Rio, 1969 (1994.0006)Wooden Privies, Southeast section, Washington, DC, 1942 (2004.0031)Fashion: Long Hair Furs, 1952 (2007.0035)

Modernism and the Black AtlanticTate Gallery, London (Jan. 29–May 3, 2010)

Aaron Douglas, Self Portrait, 1954, charcoal and conté crayon (1995.0042)Aaron Douglas, Opportunity Art Portfolio, six relief prints and cover (2003.0012.01-7)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Feb. 14–May 9, 2010)J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (June 15–Sept. 12, 2010)Musée d’Orsay, Paris (October 18, 2010 – January 23, 2011)

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Conversation près du feu / A Fireside Chat, 1811, oil on canvas (1979.0008)

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

Roy Lichtenstein, No-Nox, 1962, pencil and ink on paper (1970.0030)

John Singer Sargent: Painting the Feminine Ideal (tentative title)The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York (May 21 – Dec. 31, 2010)

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



“An Ear for Art” cell-phone audio guide keeps growing

Made possible by a grant from the Shumaker Family Foundation, the Spencer’s “An Ear for Art” cell-phone audio-guide program is the first of its kind among art museums in the region. Access to the guide is free. To use the guide, dial 785.338.9467 from your cell phone. Enter the corresponding number, followed by the pound key (#). Press 0# to leave comments.

Currently, the program provides information about 13 objects in the Spencer’s galleries, plus temporary exhibitions. The next phase will expand the program beyond Museum walls to include public sculpture across the KU campus. Below is a list of the sculptures that will be featured in the campus sculpture tour, which should be in place by the end of March or the beginning of April.

• The Kansas Jayhawk, Peter Fillerup (KU Alumni Center)• Moses, Elden Tefft, (Smith Hall)• Classic Jayhawk, Katie Kring, (Kansas Union)• Water Carrier, Craig Dan Goseyun, (Spooner Hall)• The Bedazzler, Patrick Dougherty, (Spooner Hall)• Uncle Jimmy Green, Daniel Chester French (Lippincott Hall)• Prairie Formation, Jim Bass (Blake Hall)• The Pioneer, Frederick Hibbard (Fraser Hall)• Jayhawk: Academic Jay, Elden Tefft (Strong Hall)• Korean Cranes Rising, Jon Havener (Memorial Drive)• Interstate 70, Richard Hollander (Marvin Grove)• Untitled, James Rosati (Spencer Museum of Art)• Seventh Decade Garden IX–X, Louise Nevelson, (Spencer Museum of Art)

• Tai Chi Figure, Ju Ming, (Green Hall)• Statue of Phog Allen, Kwan Wu, (Allen Fieldhouse)

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Innovative, experimental, collaborative—Rocket Grants initiative takes off

The Spencer Museum of Art and Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of Rocket Grants, a new program funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., which will provide direct support for innovative, experimental, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects in the Lawrence-Kansas City area.

The partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation builds on the Spencer’s commitment to extend its outreach into the Kansas City metropolitan area. Rocket Grants will fund projects that exist outside of established institutions not likely to attract traditional forms of support, challenge traditional methods of production or presentation, add energy and diversity to the field of visual arts activity in our area, and provide opportunities for the creative growth of those involved.

Applications for the first round of Rocket Grants will be available in January through the websites of Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer. Artists, curators, collectives, collaboratives, partnerships, and artist-run spaces within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Lawrence, Kansas, are eligible to apply. If applying as a group, the artistic group can be long-standing or

“The artistic communities of Kansas City and Lawrence form natural relationships and present unique opportunities for this region to benefit from their visions and projects,” says SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy.

“The partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation invests in artists of our time. I am delighted to be working with the committed people at Charlotte Street and the Warhol Foundation.”



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

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

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Visit the Museum Shop

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

Remember, all proceeds from the shop benefit Spencer programming, so come by the next time you’re visiting—you’ll find something of interest for everyone in your family and, as always, let us know if there are other items you’d like to see in the shop!

Museum Shop Hours

Monday: CLOSEDTuesday–Friday: 11–4Thursday: 11–8Saturday: 10–4Sunday: 12–4

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Spencer Museum of Art Friends and Contributors

SPRING NEWSLETTER 2010 SMA

The 2009–2010 exhibitions and programs are supported in part by:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

William T. Kemper Foundation

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Anonymous

Shumaker Family Foundation

Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation

Ethel and Raymond F. Rice Foundation

KU Student Senate

Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation

Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation

Piersol Foundation

Marybelle and Lawrence C. Bowman Memorial Fund

Avis Chitwood Fund

Mary Margaret Brett Fund

Mary P. Lipman Children’s Education Fund

Docent Scholarship Fund

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency

The Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency

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

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Steven F. Warren and Eva HornRob and Betsy WeaverJeff and Mary Weinberg Sue Grosjean Wilcox

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Jennifer HuntKirsten MarplesNicole McClureHenrietta McCormickRichelle MechemMelissa MellingBernadette MeyersAnna ParadisAshley PetitjeanNicole RomeScott SheuAdam StrunkNatalie SvacinaAlyssa ThielLaura VinciAdam VossenSamuel Willger

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CORPORATE CORNERSTONE($5,000+)Capitol Federal Foundation Emprise BankThe O’Connor Co.- Piller Foundation The World Company

CORPORATE FELLOW($2,500–4,999)BNIM ArchitectsGouldEvans Associates, LC

CORPORATE ASSOCIATE($1,500–2,499)Douglas County BankFirst Management, Inc.Sabatini Architects, Inc.

CORPORATE BENEFACTOR($1,000–1,499)Evan Williams Catering

Corporate Members

CORPORATE PATRON($500–999)6 GalleryCoca ColaGaches, Braden and AssociatesKansas UnionMeritrust Credit Union

CORPORATE DONOR($300–499)Commerce BankCork and BarrelTCK Trust & Financial AdvisorsWilkerson, Saunders & Anderson

DDS, LLC

CORPORATE FRIEND($150–299)Intrust BankLandmark National BankWeaver’s, Inc.

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Reed Dillon, PresidentBurdett Loomis, PhD., President-ElectSusan Tate, Past-President Matt All R. Ernie Cummings Brad ChindamoPaul DavisNancy HiebertEmily B. Hill

Steve IngallsMike MaudeTim MetzVickie OttenGeorge PaleySarah Crawford-Parker, PhD.Sally PillerGladys SandersBarbara Duke, Docent Rep. Chase Bray, Student Rep.

FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUM BOARD

Linda BaileyJames K. BallingerCarol Ann BrownRose BryantVictoria DouglasRandy GordonDavid Hiebert, M.D.Larry MarshallMike MichaelisRichard Nadeau

Arthur NeisPhyllis NolanMelissa PadgettA. Scott RitchieElizabeth SchultzKaren SmootLinda StewartMarilyn StokstadJeff Weinberg

SMA ADVISORY BOARD

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Anschutz Foundation Marilyn StokstadCarol and Scott RitchieElizabeth SchultzArthur Neis Stephanie and Richard Surface Gunda and David Hiebert Emprise BankLarry and Barbara Marshall Elizabeth and Valentino StellaMargaret DaicoffJill and Tom DockingSaralyn Reece Hardy and Randall HardyBurdett and Michel LoomisMelissa and Brent PadgettSusan and Brad TateMichael and Dee MichaelisCarolyn DillonMr. and Mrs. Frank Burge (Bequest) Mr. and Mrs. H.H. HallScott Jones and Mary Lou ReeceMarynell Reece

Charles and Jane EldredgeBarbara DukeSally and Lynn PillerSteve and Cara IngallsReed and Stacey Dillon Emily Hill and Burke Griggs Daniel and Nicole SabatiniMichael and Cindy MaudeRobert and Betsy Weaver David HenryVictoria and Joseph Douglas Carol Ann and Clifton BrownJ. Hammond McNishRose Bryant James and Linda BallingerJanet Dreiling and Doug TilghmanBarbara and Bill CarswellPaul and Stephanie DavisMargaret Perkins-McGuinnessJeff and Mary WeinbergMichael AurbachRoger Shimomura

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 Spencer Museum of Art extends special thanks to Emily Hill and Burke Griggs, Nancy and John Hiebert, Jeffery and Mary Weinberg, Stephen and Marcia Hill, Daniel and Nicole Sabatini, Susan and Brad Tate, Burdett and Michel Loomis,

Melissa Padgett and Barbara Duke for special support of this initiative.

* as of January 08, 2010

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

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