Kansas Museum Displays Friends, Neighbors

The conversations that took place within the pairings of community and Museum curators identified issues and objects that had meaning for each guest curator. Our goal was to focus on just one or two works in each collaborating pair.

Friends & Neighbors will run from July 1 to August 2, 2009 at North Balcony and from July 1 to August 16, 2009 at South Balcony.

The neighborhood curator took the lead and set the tone for object selection. In response to this, each Museum curator chose an object that connects in some way to the work of art and theme suggested by the community curator.

The topics that emerged from these dialogues are listed below, along with the names of the guest and staff curators. One of the many interesting results of these exchanges is that the themes that developed are surprisingly interrelated, even though none of the community curators consulted with each other directly. We hope you will enjoy these connections and the selection of objects.

The picture shows "Political Activism & Racial Discrimination" Lynne Green, Executive Director, Van Go Mobile Arts, Inc. Susan Earle, Curator of European & American Ar. -- www.spencerart.ku.edu