Body Matters: A Conversation with Artists Holland Houdek and Gina Westergard
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS, United StatesModerated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the first in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body. Featuring Holland Houdek and Gina Westergard, this session focuses on the capacity of functional artwork to tell stories and act as interventions for transforming or extending life and confronting death. In […]
Body Matters: A Conversation with Artists Ingrid Bachmann and Sean Caulfield
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS, United StatesModerated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the first in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body. This session features Ingrid Bachmann and Sean Caulfield and focuses on questions of privacy and ethics, the role of artists in demystifying scientific knowledge, and implications of artistic and collaborative […]
The Aorta of an Archivist
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS, United StatesIn conjunction with the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based transdisciplinary artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art: The Aorta of an Archivist. This immersive sound and video installation connects Robleto’s deep and longstanding research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of […]
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS, United StatesThe human body has the potential to serve as a universal point of connection. The feats the human body can achieve, the wonder it can inspire, and the pain it can endure offer possibilities for uniting us through shared experience. Everyone has a body—one that comes into existence, changes through time, and eventually succumbs to […]
Art Me Anything
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS, United StatesGet your Spencer Museum art fix the second Monday of the month on Facebook with Curator Kate Meyer. Between 7 to 8PM CST, head over to our main Facebook page and watch for the Art Me Anything post. Then comment with a prompt, anything from an artist name to an emoji, and Kate will reply […]