Heart of Los Angeles Youth, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning to design three temporary exhibitions with public programs examining the history of Lafayette Park in Los Angeles.
Bears Ears: Living Land
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a temporary and traveling exhibition on the history and culture of tribes of the Bears Ears region in southeaster Utah.
Updating the Amache Interpretation Plan: Reframing Interpretation at a WWII Japanese Incarceration Site
Sonoma State University
Award: Outright; $40,000
Development of a master interpretive plan for exhibitions, site interpretation, and public programs for the Granada Relocation Center National Historic Landmark, known as Amache, and the Amache Museum.
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas is pictured on April 21, 2021.
Cassandra Mesick Braun could not have predicted in 2017 that the health-centric art exhibit she was curating would come to fruition during a pandemic.
But four years later and one year into the COVID-19 crisis, her exhibit on display now at the Spencer Museum of Art, “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body,” exemplifies that art is always relevant to the human experience.
In a time when bodies are “under constant threat” due to the pandemic, Mesick Braun and the team at the University of Kansas museum are inviting visitors to engage with art that contributes to the understanding of the human body.
Mon, 04/19/2021
LAWRENCE A virtual event hosted by the Spencer Museum of Art at 4 p.m. April 26 will present internationally acclaimed artist Janine Antoni in conversation with other researchers about how to better understand and connect to our bodies through multiple perspectives. A free livestream of this event is available through the Spencer Museum’s website.
The event features MacArthur fellows Antoni, who has explored the body through sculpture, movement and photography for decades; and John Rich, whose work in public health focuses on healing and the Black body. They will be joined in conversation by artists Ingrid Bachmann and Dario Robleto, whose work is featured in the Spencer Museum’s exhibition “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.”
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Thu, 04/15/2021
LAWRENCE A double-bill performance featuring students from the University of Kansas School of Music voice and orchestra programs will explore themes of identity, trauma and resilience through two contemporary operas. The virtual event is free to livestream from the Lied Center’s website at 7:30 p.m. April 27.
“Snow Angel,” composed by KU graduate Bonnie McLarty with words by Wyatt Townley, explores the reclamation of personal identity and agency following a sexual assault of the female protagonist. The opera was written as McLarty’s dissertation project, and this performance marks its premiere with a chamber ensemble. “As One,” composed by Laura Kaminsky with words by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed and film also by Reed, traces the life experiences of a transgender protagonist named Hannah.