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

Now Open

Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani

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.

Image of a woman sitting at a table painting overlaid on top of an image of rippling water

The River of Time

International artist-in-residence Ayomi Yoshida created this site-specific video work to accompany our spring exhibitions.

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.

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Events

June 18

Activity

Employee Wellness Move-N-Learn: Explore Street Nihonga

12:10–12:50PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Perkins Central Court

June 19

Activity

CLOSED Juneteenth Holiday

Spencer Museum of Art

June 25

Screening

Free State Festival: "The Return of the Sacred Red Rock" + "Healing Ribbons"

6:00–8:00PM

Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St

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Browse art highlights

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), A Chat by the Fireside

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904)

A Chat by the Fireside

1881

Terry Evans (born 1944), Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, June 1982

Terry Evans (born 1944)

Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, June 1982

1982

Cristoforo Monari (1667–1720), Still Life with Dog and Fruit

Cristoforo Monari (1667–1720)

Still Life with Dog and Fruit

late 1600s–early 1700s

Guiduccio Palmerucci (1280–circa 1349), Madonna and Child between Two Angels, with a Kneeling Donor, His Wife and Child

Guiduccio Palmerucci (1280–circa 1349)

Madonna and Child between Two Angels, with a Kneeling Donor, His Wife and Child

circa 1340s

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