PROGRAMMING SAMPLER

Originated, organized, and/or co-created public programs in a wide range of formats with and for diverse participants. Select examples below.

Resonant Vessels, a commissioned seven-site progressive performance. Forrest Pierce, composer. Spencer Museum of Art, 2016

  • Resonant Vessels

  • I. Grand Staircase

  • I. Grand Staircase

  • I. Grand Staircase

  • Procession

  • II. Spiral

  • II. Spiral

  • Procession

  • III. Cavern

  • III. Cavern

  • III. Cavern

  • IIII. Cavern

  • III. Cavern

  • III. Cavern

  • Procession

  • Procession

  • IV. Corridor

  • IV. Corridor

  • IV. Corridor

  • V. Minaret

  • V. Minaret

  • V. Minaret

  • VI. Colonnade

  • VI. Colonnade

  • VI. Colonnade

  • VII. Gallery

  • VII. Gallery

  • VII. Gallery

  • VII. Gallery

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Land(un)locked, an interrogation of place with artist Steve Rowell, Spencer Museum of Art, 2016

  • Participant meet-up in the MoCOLAB Mini-cinema to preview the artist's films

  • Artist and Guide Steve Rowell

  • Decommissioned missile silo, DeSoto, Kansas

  • Decommissioned missile silo, DeSoto, Kansas

  • The Caves, Meritex Executive Park, Lenexa, Kansas

  • Atop the Caves, Meritex Executive Park, Lenexa, Kansas

  • Mini-Cinema featuring short films by Steve Rowell

Amorphous Collective, a monthly gathering of and open invitation to improvisors across disciplines, Spencer Museum of Art, 2022

Pass Me the Mic: A Black History / Black Futures Storytelling Experience. Naomi Madu, MC. Spencer Museum of Art, 2022

Video excerpt featuring Barry Barnes

Sew & Tell Visible Mending Workshops. Co-organized with Anne Rogers. Spencer Museum of Art, 2022

  • Writing, drawing, and reflection prompts, and visible mending resources

  • Demo by instructor Anne Rogers

  • Breath- and body-mending

  • Visible mending examples in the collection from across time, place, and cultural traditions, and in contemporary practice

Backyard Bash, Spencer Museum of Art, 2015-2019

  • Event Guide with Passport to a Prize

  • Get Inked! walnut ink and vegetable printmaking with walnut ink harvested from the grove's historic walnut trees, in collaboration with KU Field Ecology and Visual Art faculty and students

  • Inuksuit, composition for 9 to 99 percussionists by John Luther Adams, performed by KU Percussion Studio, director: Michael Compitello

  • Putt-Putt Pop-up of repurposed materials by artist Charlie Mylie

  • WaterWorks game with Douglas County Resource and Conservation Services

  • Backyard Smash: pinatas by artist Juniper Tangpuz

  • A surprise landing of NuPenny's Last Stand at Backyard Bash? "It’s unclear how many NuPenny Toy Stores were in existence, or if there were ever more than one. Whatever the facts, one remains. Conceived in actuality more as a stand than a store, this model of portable toy display and sales endeavor is nomadic, while owing its appearance to the more “permanent” brick and mortar stores or perhaps to the mid-century Automats to whose aesthetic it appears to have aspired. Throughout history there have been documented sightings of a NuPenny Toy Store in Maine, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas." - artist Randy Regier

  • Gyotaku, Japanese fish prints with KU Natural History Museum

  • Gyotaku, Japanese fish prints with KU Natural History Museum

  • A la Poupee and the Chine Colles sing the printmaking blues

  • Tree Stories with Dr. Robert Hagen and KU Field Ecology Students

  • Henna: Nature's Jewelry

  • Four Freedoms sign-making activity

  • Karen Lisondra and Amado Espinoza

  • Event Guide with Passport to a Prize

  • Giant Mancala created in collaboration with KU sculpture students, carved from a fallen tree

  • Block Party! with KU Print Club

  • ADEKU African Drum Ensemble of KU

Zine Club & Zine Release and Reflection: Disability Justice is a Feminist Issue, in collaboration with the KU Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity, 2023

  • Disability Justice is a Feminist Issue collaborative zine

  • Collaborative zine contributors discuss their work and stories

  • Gallery teaching with art on view that intersects with disability justice

  • Zine Club meet-up at the museum

  • Disability Justice is a Feminist Issue collaborative zine

  • Zine Club meet-up at the museum

  • 2023 KU Common Work of Art: Harry Bertoia, Sounding Sculpture

  • Zine Club meet-up at the museum

  • 2023 KU Common Book: Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong

  • Zine Club meet-up at the museum

Soundwall, featuring the premiere of Little Structures in dialogue with Wall Drawing 519 by Sol LeWitt. Bryan “Kip” Haaheim, composer. KU Percussion Studio, directed by Ji Hye Jung. Spencer Museum of Art, 2014

  • Kip Haaheim research visit

  • Kip Haaheim composing Little Structures in the gallery

  • KU Percussion Studio performs Little Structures

Read my essay "Little Structures" about this composition and performance
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