KU curators, museum staff to make connections between Indigenous art collection, repatriation
KU curators and museum staff will open up a dialogue Thursday about where Indigenous art at the Spencer Museum of Art came from.
KU curators and museum staff will open up a dialogue Thursday about where Indigenous art at the Spencer Museum of Art came from.
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.
Three Lawrence-based artistic projects, including a Palestinian cultural dance organized in the community, have earned $6,000 of funding each through Rocket Grants.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“Emmett Till’s story is not a pleasant story. It’s not a pretty story, but it has to be told,” Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. told a Lawrence crowd of his cousin and friend who was brutally murdered in 1955.
The cousin and childhood best friend of Emmett Till will speak at a KU event this week. The talk will be livestreamed.
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