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Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events October 1, 2025 - 3:43 pm

4 Lawrence-based projects awarded 2025 Rocket Grants

by Lawrence Times

Four Lawrence-based artistic projects, including a documentary on Trans Lawrence Coalition, have been selected from a competitive pool of 114 applications to earn $6,000 Rocket Grants.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Education August 11, 2025 - 4:19 pm

Art exhibitions about Sacred Red Rock and more in Spencer Museum’s fall lineup

by Lawrence Times

Artwork by local artists and Kaw Nation citizens telling the story of the Sacred Red Rock will soon be on display at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Arts & Events October 1, 2024 - 8:53 am

KU curators, museum staff to make connections between Indigenous art collection, repatriation

by Maya Hodison

KU curators and museum staff will open up a dialogue Thursday about where Indigenous art at the Spencer Museum of Art came from.

Carter Gaskins/Lawrence Times
Arts & Events September 19, 2024 - 10:14 pm

Brothers, both KU students, debut fall fashion collection at Spencer Art Museum runway show

by Maya Hodison

In a fashion show curated by a pair of brothers, both KU students, models sashayed down a runway Thursday while artwork adorned the walls around them.

Arts & Events September 10, 2024 - 1:44 pm

Lawrence-based projects, including event centering Palestinian cultural dance, earn 2024 Rocket Grants

by Maya Hodison

Three Lawrence-based artistic projects, including a Palestinian cultural dance organized in the community, have earned $6,000 of funding each through Rocket Grants.

Arts & Events August 28, 2024 - 7:46 pm

‘Native Fashion’ exhibition to celebrate local Indigenous designers, display richness of cultures

by Maya Hodison

A fashion exhibition dedicated to the “resilience, representation, resistance and relations” of Indigenous community members will soon be on display at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence.

Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
Arts & Events August 18, 2024 - 4:59 pm

Brothers, KU students, curating fashion show on campus

by Maya Hodison

Two brothers who have launched into the local fashion and entertainment scene have imagined an experience where art walks among art for their next project.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Arts & Events June 21, 2024 - 3:31 pm

African American quilt convention in Lawrence reveals quilt from Georgia plantation; exhibit open at Watkins Museum

by Maya Hodison

“To me, it symbolizes freedom – how they broke out like birds,” Lawrence quilter and historian Marla Jackson said of an 1800s quilt believed to be made by a Black person who was enslaved.

Arts & Events June 11, 2024 - 1:17 pm

Lawrence community members invited to immerse themselves in ‘here-ing’ labyrinth

by Lawrence Times

Events coming up Friday and Saturday invite Lawrence community members to become immersed in an ear-shaped tallgrass labyrinth, learn about the environment and participate in a poetry exercise.

Education May 14, 2024 - 4:34 pm

Repatriation completed for portion of Native American ancestral remains in KU’s collections

by Maya Hodison

Human remains belonging to at least 104 Native American ancestors and one ceremonial mask that were in KU’s possession have been identified and repatriated with tribal nations in Kansas, Florida and Mexico.

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