Spencer Museum of Art

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We are a museum at the University of Kansas with two floors of galleries and a collection that represents different types of art from around the world. Admission is free for everyone!

Drawing on cardboard of a black-and-orange cat holding a fish while a smaller orange-and-black cat peeks out from behind it

Opening Feb 19

Street Nihonga

This exhibition features 145 artworks by Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani alongside photographs, documentary videos, and works from the Spencer's collection.

Print with a spiral form in the center that goes from blue to purple, pink, red, and orange, overlaid with a repeating pattern of red circles on a purple-and-white background

Brush, Block, and Blood

This exhibition traces over a century of innovation through the work of three generations of women from the celebrated Yoshida family: Fujio, Chizuko, and Ayomi.

Sliced forms of clay stacked and curling upward on one side, forming an undulating edge

Form & Flux

This new installation in our Lee Study Center features contemporary Asian ceramics that blend centuries-old traditions with innovative artistic expression.

A woman gestures to a work of art while two other people look on

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Events

February 19

Social

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Spring Opening Reception

5:30–7:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art

February 20

Activity

10:00AM–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Goddard Study Center

February 20

Screening

"The Cats of Mirikitani" and "Memories of Mirikitani"

7:00–9:30PM

Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St

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Browse art highlights

William Sharp (1803–1875); John Fisk Allen (1785–1865), untitled (intermediate stages of bloom)

William Sharp (1803–1875); John Fisk Allen (1785–1865)

untitled (intermediate stages of bloom)

1854

unrecorded Maasai artist, necklace

unrecorded Maasai artist

necklace

late 1800s–1975

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Landscape with a Cottage and a Large Tree

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)

Landscape with a Cottage and a Large Tree

1641

unrecorded Chokwe artist, ngunja (carved chair)

unrecorded Chokwe artist

ngunja (carved chair)

1908–1914

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