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Spencer Museum of Art
Climate Change at the Poles. January 24 – May 24, 2009
Climate Change at the Poles is organized by Kate Meyer, curatorial assistant, prints & drawings; Jennifer Talbott, assistant to the director; and Angela Watts, assistant collections manager, with contributions from advisors Steve Goddard, senior curator, Jonathan Chester, Extreme Images, and Dan Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU). The pro¬ject consists of an alliance with the National Science Foundation’s KU-headquartered Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), cooperation with departments across campus, and collaboration with HINU. In addition, the Spencer has commissioned photographer Terry Evans to travel to Greenland to photograph the coasts and ice sheets.
Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture. March 5 – May 24, 2009
Trees and other Ramifications offers an open-ended look at some of the many ways that trees are meaningful to humanity and important in the natural world. The exhibition, predominantly of prints, drawings, books, and photographs drawn from University of Kansas and area collections, is not limited to works of art that were inspired by trees, but also includes images from the arts and sciences in which trees have served as a metaphor for real and imagined branching systems (ramifications).
The Commons, Spooner Hall
Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture. March 5 – May 24, 2009
The last month of Trees & other Ramifications will coincide with the arrival of world-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty. Hosted by the Spencer Museum in cooperation with The Commons, Dougherty will be an artist-in-residence during May, when he will create a tree-branch sculpture outside The Commons @ Spooner Hall. Dougherty has gained an international reputation for his structures and has created hundreds of monumental, site-specific sculptures around the world. His work is constructed from saplings gathered from local sources and shaped into massive, swirling forms as high as 40 feet.
CReSIS, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Nichols Building
Climate Change Book Group. Spring, 2009
A four-part book discussion group, co-sponsored by the Lawrence Public Library and the Spencer Museum of Art.
Natural History Museum
Explore Evolution. Spring, 2009
Explore Evolution is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education Program and developed by a consortium of six museums working together with six statewide 4-H programs to make evolution research accessible to young people and the general public.
biodiversity is… January-March, 2009
biodiversity is… organized by the Natural History Museum Student Board is located in the Stairwell Gallery. The art in this exhibit speaks of the human affect on biodiversity and celebrates the beauty and importance of the world’s diverse organisms.
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