Past events at Spencer Museum of Art

Aug. 28, 2008: Artist Lecture: Gonkar Gyatso
Aug. 21, 2008: Hawk Week Film: "Back to the Future"
Aug. 17, 2008: Quilting Demonstration
Aug. 10, 2008: Quilting Demonstration
Aug. 3, 2008: Quilting Demonstration
July 27, 2008: Quilting Demonstration
July 26, 2008: Childrens Art Appreciation Class: Tiny Treasures
May 24, 2008: Goldenburg Duo Concert
May 11, 2008: Nicky Taylor Concert
May 10, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
May 10, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
May 8, 2008: Film: "Branded to Kill"
May 4, 2008: Nikki Taylor, viola recital
May 3, 2008: Spring Arts Festival
May 1, 2008: Spring Student Night: "Peace, Love and Art"
May 1, 2008: Gallery Conversation: Shuyun Ho, Asian Art Intern
April 30, 2008: Film: "Everything is Illuminated"
April 26, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
April 26, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
April 25, 2008: Jack Rees Lecture and Book Signing: "Inspiring the Surface: The Bloch and its Architectural Futures"
April 25, 2008: SUA's Sidewalk Arts Festival
April 25, 2008: Walk-Ins Welcome Friday
April 24, 2008: "Branded to Kill"
April 24, 2008: John Moore lecture
April 24, 2008: Lecture: Giuseppe Vasi's Panorama of Rome
April 22, 2008: "Invisible Children" Screening
April 21, 2008: Melissa McCormick Lecture: "Becoming a Woman in Sixteenth-Century Japan"
April 21, 2008: Lecture: "Becoming a Woman in Sixteenth-Century Japan"
April 20, 2008: Concert: "Flutesong on the Kansas Prairie" with Betty Hensley
April 19, 2008: Panel Discussion: Dance in a Global Society
April 17, 2008: Film: "Kwaidan"
April 17, 2008: Art Talk: SMA Curator Kris Ercums
April 12, 2008: Film: "Walkout"
April 12, 2008: "Art, Politics and Revolution: The Russian Avant-garde and the Struggle for Ideas"
April 11, 2008: "The Best of James Gunn"
April 5, 2008: Film: "Trade"
April 5, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
April 5, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
April 3, 2008: Film: "Woman in the Dunes"
April 3, 2008: Gallery Conversation: Ellen Raimond, Photography Intern
April 1, 2008: Film: "Storm of Emotions"
March 29, 2008: CLAS Feature Film Festival: "Quinceanera"
March 27, 2008: "A Peripheral Vision: 'International Contemporaneity' in the Japanese Art Discourse"
March 25, 2008: Film: "Company Jasmine"
March 13, 2008: Lecture: "About Face: World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the American Beauty Revolution"
March 11, 2008: Artist Lecture: Karl Wirsum
March 8, 2008: Film: "Lone Star"
March 8, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
March 8, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
March 7, 2008: Town & Gown Forum: "Japan and International Modernism: 1950-1970"
March 6, 2008: Opening reception for "Japan and International Modernism" and Expanded Media Performance
March 6, 2008: Poetry reading with Lyn Hejinian, University of California-Berkeley
Feb. 28, 2008: "Ere Ibeji: Twin Figures of the Yoruba"
Feb. 23, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Feb. 23, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Feb. 21, 2008: "Ballets Russes"
Feb. 14, 2008: "Aelita, Queen of Mars"
Feb. 9, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Feb. 9, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Feb. 7, 2008: "Victory Over the Sun" and "Man with a Movie Camera"
Feb. 7, 2008: Art Talk: SMA intern Ellen Raimond
Jan. 31, 2008: "How to Help A Sexual Assault Survivor: What Men Can Do"
Jan. 26, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Jan. 26, 2008: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Jan. 24, 2008: "The Rape of Europa"
Dec. 13, 2007: Senior Session: 19th Century Gallery
Dec. 9, 2007: Janet Wehrle solo piano recital
Dec. 8, 2007: Beads to Bangles
Dec. 8, 2007: Beads to Bangles
Dec. 6, 2007: Film: "Alex Grey: Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"
Dec. 6, 2007: Gallery Conversation with SMA intern Rob Fucci
Dec. 1, 2007: Film: "Manufactured Landscapes"
Dec. 1, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Nov. 15, 2007: Lecture: "The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo"
Nov. 10, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Nov. 8, 2007: "A Night in Harlem" SMA Student Party
Oct. 31, 2007: Lecture: "The Image of Desire"
Oct. 29, 2007: Lecture: "Frankenstein on Ice: A Halloween Romance Starring Painter Frederic Church"
Oct. 26, 2007: Harlem Renaissance book discussion group – "Passing" by Nella Larsen
Oct. 25, 2007: Film: "Imitation of Life"
Oct. 25, 2007: Marla Prather Lecture: "Observations on Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art"
Oct. 25, 2007: "Retrospective at Mid-Career: Some Observations on Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art"
Oct. 25, 2007: Gallery Conversations: Shunyun Ho for "Seals, the Fourth Perfection"
Oct. 21, 2007: Gallery conversations: Marla Jackson's "Sankofa"
Oct. 20, 2007: Gallery Talk: Marla Jackson
Oct. 20, 2007: Gallery Talk: Marla Jackson
Oct. 20, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Oct. 19, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Oct. 19, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Oct. 18, 2007: Harlem Renaissance book discussion group – "Cane" by Jean Toomer
Oct. 18, 2007: Film: "Without Fear or Shame"
Oct. 14, 2007: Family Day
Oct. 11, 2007: Film: "Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy"
Oct. 11, 2007: Harlem Renaissance book discussion group – "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Oct. 10, 2007: Author Ann Hagedorn with "Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919"
Oct. 6, 2007: "It Figures" Children's Art Appreciation Class
Sept. 28, 2007: Opening: "Aaron Douglas, African American Modernist"
Sept. 27, 2007: Lecture: Arnold Rampersad on "The Enigma of Ralph Ellison"
Sept. 27, 2007: "Asian Soundscapes: Silk and Bamboo in Japanese Music"
Sept. 24, 2007: Lecture: "Wartime Elegies: Childe Hassam and Marsden Hartley in 1916"
Sept. 24, 2007: Lecture: "The Dragon's Gift: Contextualizing Buddhist Art in Bhutan"
Sept. 21, 2007: Walk-Ins Welcome Friday: Lee Friedlander
Sept. 20, 2007: Lecture: "The Art and Science of Making and Restoring Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise"
Sept. 20, 2007: Gallery conversations: Marla Jackson's "Sankofa"
Sept. 15, 2007: Kansas University African Drumming and Dancing Ensemble
Sept. 13, 2007: Lecture: "Senior Sessions: Meet the Collectors"
Sept. 6, 2007: Film: "Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti and Voodoo and the Church in Haiti"
Aug. 26, 2007: Webster-Liou Duo
Aug. 24, 2007: Town & Gown Forum: "The Spirit of Haiti: Art, Life and Culture"
Aug. 23, 2007: Gallery Conversation: Haitian Art & Culture
Aug. 16, 2007: "Hot Fuzz"
July 28, 2007: Children's art appreciation class: "Seeing and Hearing"
July 28, 2007: Children's art appreciation class: "Seeing and Hearing"
July 27, 2007: "Walk-Ins Welcome Fridays" Apollo 16 moon photograph
July 21, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Playing with Letters"
July 20, 2007: "Walk-Ins Welcome Friday"
July 16, 2007: "Haitian Art: Reflections on a Unique Island"
July 14, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Haitian Art"
July 12, 2007: Documentary Films: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" and "The River"
June 30, 2007: Family Day : "An Abstract Alphabet: New Work by Stephen Johnson"
June 29, 2007: "Walk-Ins Welcome Friday" with Louis Lozowick
June 29, 2007: "Walk-Ins Welcome Friday" with Louis Lozowick
June 28, 2007: Panel Discussion for "Claimed: Land Use in Western America"
June 11, 2007: Susan Craig
June 7, 2007: “Silent Spring/Silencing Rachel Carson”
May 10, 2007: The Prints of Roger Shimomura, Reception/Book Release
May 3, 2007: Destination: Spencer
April 26, 2007: Lecture: Xu Bing
April 5, 2007: Johanna Jackson Lecture
March 30, 2007: Concert and Dialogue with Fred Ho
Feb. 27, 2007: Okwui Enwezor lecture
Feb. 22, 2007: Gallery Conversations with Spencer Intern Ellen O'Neil Rife
Feb. 18, 2007: Spencer Consort Concert
Feb. 17, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Art with a Purpose"
Feb. 17, 2007: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Art with a Purpose"
Feb. 15, 2007: "A Late Afternoon Poetry Reading"
Feb. 15, 2007: Gallery Conversations: "Cultural Intersections"
Feb. 8, 2007: "Topsy-Turvey"
Feb. 8, 2007: Gallery Conversations: Renaissance Art
Feb. 2, 2007: "Miss La La's Teeth: Thoughts on Degas and Race"
Feb. 2, 2007: Town & Gown Forum
Feb. 1, 2007: Gallery Conversations with Pok-Chi Lau and May Tveit
Dec. 7, 2006: Opening: "Made in China: Observations and Understanding"
Dec. 7, 2006: Gallery Conversations
Dec. 2, 2006: Helianthus Contemporary Ensemble
Nov. 30, 2006: RESCHEDULED: "Made in China: Observations and Understanding"
Nov. 30, 2006: Gallery Conversations
Nov. 16, 2006: "Frida"
Nov. 16, 2006: Andrea Stanislav Sculpture Installation and Lecture
Nov. 16, 2006: Gallery Conversations with Rick Mitchell
Nov. 3, 2006: College Night at the Kemper
Nov. 2, 2006: Julie Green Lecture
Oct. 27, 2006: "Art Talks: Faculty Inspired Responses"
Oct. 26, 2006: "Art Talks: Lawrence Community Inspired Responses"
Oct. 19, 2006: Joyce Castle performs "Statuesque"
Oct. 6, 2006: "Cartune Xprez"
Oct. 5, 2006: Mary Ann Caws Lecture: "Looking Anew: Surrealism Today"
Oct. 1, 2006: Baroque Music & Art at the Spencer Museum of Art
Sept. 28, 2006: Lawrence Ballet Ensemble
Sept. 22, 2006: Opening Reception for "Art into Art: Inspired Responses"
Aug. 17, 2006: Hawk Week Film: Shaun of the Dead
July 30, 2006: Family Day
July 20, 2006: Page To Screen: A summer book discussion and film series
May 11, 2006: David Cateforis Lecture
May 11, 2006: David Cateforis Lecture
May 4, 2006: Transformers [artists in disguise]
April 27, 2006: "Memoirs of a Geisha"
April 26, 2006: Stan Lombardo Presents "A Reading from Homer"
April 24, 2006: Heiner Schmidt, photographer
April 20, 2006: Carol Bier Lecture
April 10, 2006: Willi Kunz, graphic designer
April 6, 2006: "Take This Moment: Reflection through ARTS"
March 31, 2006: Luce Grant-Douglas Exhibition
March 27, 2006: Donny Rausch, movie special effects
March 13, 2006: Joel Nakamura, illustrator
March 9, 2006: "Taste of Cherry"
March 5, 2006: "The Italian Style in Baroque Music"
Feb. 27, 2006: Jennifer Sonderby, design director, SFMOMA
Feb. 23, 2006: "Bride and Prejudice"
Feb. 16, 2006: Film: "The Last Emperor"
Feb. 13, 2006: Gail Swanlund, graphic designer
Feb. 12, 2006: "Weeping Camel"
Feb. 9, 2006: Mary Dusenbury Lecture
Feb. 2, 2006: Workshop with artist Steve Keene
Jan. 30, 2006: Jim Shrosbree, ceramic artist
Jan. 20, 2006: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek
Dec. 8, 2005: Office Space, special Spencer screening
Nov. 29, 2005: Allison Smith Lecture
Nov. 15, 2005: Printmaker Teresa Mucha James
Sept. 29, 2005: David Rees lecture and booksigning
Sept. 23, 2005: KU Colloquium: Laboring Americans
Sept. 9, 2005: "Dollars for Scholars Tag Sale"
Sept. 8, 2005: "Art:21" Screening
Aug. 18, 2005: "Donnie Darko"
Aug. 11, 2005: "Spider"
Aug. 4, 2005: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
May 15, 2005: Family Day
May 12, 2005: Surrealist Spring Student Soiree
May 5, 2005: "Mulholland Drive"
May 1, 2005: "The Saddest Music in the World"
April 28, 2005: "Little Otik"
April 24, 2005: "The Films of the Brothers Quay"
April 17, 2005: "Juliet of the Spirits"
April 14, 2005: Spellbound
April 10, 2005: "The Films of Maya Deren: Experimental Films 1943-1959"
April 7, 2005: Classic Surrealist Cinema
March 3, 2005: Joseph Grigely, visiting artist lecture
Feb. 10, 2005: Tradition & Modernity Student Night
Feb. 10, 2005: Tour du Jour: "Daguerreotype to Digital"
Dec. 12, 2004: Winter Holiday Party
Dec. 12, 2004: Annual Winter Party
Dec. 9, 2004: "Ordinary People"
Dec. 6, 2004: Lecture: "State Identity in the Art of Henry Worrall (1825-1902)," KSU professor Karen DeBres
Dec. 5, 2004: World AIDS Day Events: Names Project Quilt Panel
Dec. 4, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Dec. 4, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Dec. 3, 2004: Seminar: "Names Project Panel Making"
Dec. 2, 2004: "Raisin in the Sun"
Dec. 2, 2004: "A Raisin in the Sun."
Dec. 2, 2004: KU Chamber Orchestra
Dec. 1, 2004: World AIDS Day Events: Non-Ecumenical Service
Nov. 30, 2004: World AIDS Day Events: "It's a Family Affair"
Nov. 29, 2004: World AIDS DAY Events: "Humor and Healing"
Nov. 29, 2004: Hoite Caston, producer, lectures on "Kansas Historical Documentaries Project"
Nov. 22, 2004: Hallmark Symposium: KimDickey, ceramics
Nov. 22, 2004: Artist Stan Herd lectures on "Crop Art and Site-specific Works"
Nov. 20, 2004: Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia
Nov. 20, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Nov. 20, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class
Nov. 18, 2004: Professor Anthony Lee on "Arbus, Fashion, and the Grotesque"
Nov. 11, 2004: Trudy Wilner Stack on "Fear and Loving: Arbus and Winogrand's New America."
Nov. 11, 2004: Tour du Jour: "A Kansas Art Sampler"
Nov. 4, 2004: "The Ice Storm"
Nov. 1, 2004: Oread Jazz Quartet performs Kansas City jazz
Oct. 21, 2004: Photographer Tina Barney on Diane Arbus
Oct. 7, 2004: "Princess Mononoke"
Sept. 27, 2004: Hallmark Symposium Series
Sept. 23, 2004: "Spirited Away"
Sept. 9, 2004: Bluegrass to Beats: A Student Party Celebrating 150 Years of Lawrence Art & Music
Aug. 26, 2004: Vanished Voices: The Legacy of Northeast Kansas Indians
July 18, 2004: Vanished Voices: The Legacy of Northeast Kansas Indians
June 11, 2004: Public lecture, "The Joyce of the Future"
May 13, 2004: Spencer student party: Get your proper art on.
May 8, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
May 8, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Family Ties"
May 1, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
April 29, 2004: Tour du Jour: "A Painting for Over the Sofa (That's Not Necessarily a Painting)"
April 25, 2004: Art Videos: Whistler and Cassatt
April 24, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
April 24, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "African American Artists"
April 24, 2004: A Painting for Over the Sofa (That's Not Necessarily a Painting)
April 22, 2004: Roberta Smith Lecture: 'Content is a Glimpse: The Battle Over Meaning from DeKooning to Now'
April 22, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Marion Palfi photographs"
April 17, 2004: Marion Palfi Photographs
April 15, 2004: Lecture: Reed Anderson on "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939"
April 15, 2004: An Afternoon of Silk Road Music
April 15, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Asian Art"
April 8, 2004: Film: "An American in Paris"
April 8, 2004: Tour du Jour: "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939"
April 3, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
April 3, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Extravagant Eggs"
April 3, 2004: American Etchers Abroad: 1880-1939
April 1, 2004: Tour du Jour: Medieval Art
April 1, 2004: Lecture: Ann Jensen Adams on "Portraiture in the Age of Rembrandt"
March 29, 2004: Film: "The Way Home."
March 18, 2004: KU Camerata
March 18, 2004: Tour du Jour: Selected Works from 'Conflicting Memories'
March 11, 2004: Video: 'Woman Artists: The Other Side of the Picture'
March 11, 2004: Gallery Walk: "Conflicting Memories"
March 11, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Women/modern art"
March 6, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
March 6, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Make it Modern"
March 4, 2004: Lecture: Artist Willie Cole on his work
March 4, 2004: Jazz Changes
March 4, 2004: Tour du Jour: William Kentridge's Animated Film 'Felix in Exile'
Feb. 28, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
Feb. 28, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: 'Remember When'
Feb. 26, 2004: The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies
Feb. 26, 2004: Tour du Jour: Conflicting Memories
Feb. 22, 2004: "Shanghai Ghetto."
Feb. 21, 2004: Latin American Film Series
Feb. 19, 2004: Film: "Rabbit in the Moon"
Feb. 19, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Making Sense of Art"
Feb. 15, 2004: Music Performance: Spencer Consort
Feb. 14, 2004: Children's Saturdays at the Spencer Museum of Art
Feb. 14, 2004: Valentine's Day Gala: 'For the Love of Art'
Feb. 14, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Lovin' Art"
Feb. 12, 2004: Japanese Tea Ceremony Demonstration
Feb. 12, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Director's Choice: Difficult and Easy Art"
Feb. 8, 2004: Art: 21 -- Art in the 21st Century
Feb. 5, 2004: Art: 21 -- Art in the 21st Century
Feb. 5, 2004: Tour du Jour: "Zen No Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi"
Feb. 1, 2004: Hallmark Symposium: New Faculty
Feb. 1, 2004: Art: 21 -- Art in the 21st Century
Feb. 1, 2004: Video: "Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season I, programs 3&4: "Identity and Consumption"
Jan. 31, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "Japanese Calligraphy"
Jan. 29, 2004: Art: 21 -- Art in the 21st Century
Jan. 29, 2004: Video: "Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season One, programs 1&2: "Place and Spirituality"
Jan. 29, 2004: Tour du Jour: "German Expressionism in the Spencer's Collection"
Jan. 5, 2004: Children's Art Appreciation Class: "A Painting for Over the Sofa"
Dec. 14, 2003: Winter Holiday Celebration
Dec. 7, 2003: "Teaching from Prints: The Legacy of John Talleur."
Dec. 7, 2003: Gallery Walk: Remembering John Talleur
Dec. 6, 2003: Senior recital
Dec. 6, 2003: "Start the Presses!"
Dec. 6, 2003: Kid's Art Appreciation Classes: 'Start the Press!'
Dec. 6, 2003: "Start the Presses!"
Dec. 4, 2003: The Art of Gold: Lin Stanionis Lecture
Dec. 4, 2003: Tour du Jour
Dec. 1, 2003: Metals Professor Kathy Buszkiewicz talks at Hallmark Symposium
Nov. 23, 2003: Spencer Consort
Nov. 20, 2003: Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885): The Inextricable Engraver
Nov. 20, 2003: Tour du Jour : "20th Century Photography from the Collection."
Nov. 18, 2003: "Hymn to St. Cecilia."
Nov. 17, 2003: Charles Lazor, furniture designer
Nov. 15, 2003: Latin American Film Festival: Y tu mama tambien
Nov. 15, 2003: Kid's Art Appreciation Class: The Art of Gold
Nov. 13, 2003: Nikki S. Lee Lecture
Nov. 13, 2003: Tour du Jour Lecture on the Art of Gold
Nov. 10, 2003: Allan McCollum Lecture and Presentation
Nov. 6, 2003: Renee Stout Lecture
Nov. 6, 2003: Tour du Jour: Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art
Nov. 3, 2003: Hallmark Symposium
Nov. 1, 2003: Senior Recital by KU Music Education Students
Nov. 1, 2003: Patty Hamel and Laura Williams, clarinet and voice
Nov. 1, 2003: Latin American Film Festival: O Amor Natural
Nov. 1, 2003: "O Amor Natural"
Nov. 1, 2003: Kid's Appreciation Class: 'Picture That'
Oct. 30, 2003: "American Photography: A Century of Images."
Oct. 30, 2003: Tour du Jour
Oct. 20, 2003: Hallmark Symposium
Oct. 11, 2003: Latin American film festival
Oct. 11, 2003: Children's art appreciation class
Oct. 11, 2003: Children's art appreciation class
Oct. 9, 2003: Art perspectives, "Collecting and Collections"
Oct. 9, 2003: Tour du Jour: Spencer Museum of Art
Oct. 8, 2003: Art lecture: "I Want Muscle: Male Desire and the Image of the Worker in American Art of the 1930s."
Oct. 6, 2003: "A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China."
Oct. 6, 2003: Hallmark Symposium
Oct. 6, 2003: Tour du Jour
Oct. 2, 2003: "Winston Churchill: The Greatest Adventurer of Modern Political History." Victor Bailey
Oct. 2, 2003: Winston Churchill: The Greatest Adventurer of Modern Political History
Sept. 25, 2003: The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: The Origin of Literary Gathering in China
Sept. 18, 2003: The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting
Sept. 13, 2003: Spencer Consort
Sept. 11, 2003: Contemporary American Indian Art
July 31, 2003: Film: "Far From Heaven"
July 24, 2003: Film: "Imitation of Life"
July 17, 2003: Film: "All That Heaven Allows"

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