40F AUGUST 1996
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
Museum puts emphasis on 'doing things'
Hands-on activities highlight the Museum of Anthropology's exhibit schedule.
This decorative clay pot is representative of the artworks to be displayed at the Eighth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show and Indian Art Market, Sept. 7-Oct.20.
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Scheduled exhibits and events at the Museum of Anthropology include:
MUSEUM DATES
BY BUNNY SMITH
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
- Nov. 30-Jan. 5: The
- Sept. 7-Oct. 20: Eighth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show.
- Oct. 26-Nov. 17: Los Dias de Los Muertos.
Hazelle Rollins Puppets.
• Feb. 15-April 6: The Virgin of Guadalupe.
• March 15-Aug. 3: Hopi Kachinas.
- May 3-July 27: Plains Indian Beadwork.
From fall's Eighth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show to April's 17th Annual Museum Day, the Kansas University Museum of Anthropology's 1996-'97 exhibit lineup covers some pretty familiar territory — with one major difference.
- June 7-Aug.17:
Apache Photos.
"We're adding a lot more activities in conjunction with the exhibits."
- Maria Martin, exhibits coordinator
exhibits."
For example, the Hazelle Rollins Puppets exhibit, slated for Nov. 30-Jan. 5, will include a children's puppetmaking workshop.
"For a fee, children can come in and make their own hand puppet or marionette," Martin explained.
Hands-on activities also are being planned in conjunction with several other exhibits, including Los Dias de Los Muertos (The Days of the Dead), Oct. 26-Nov. 17; Hopi Kachinas, March 15-Aug. 3;
"This year we're putting an emphasis on doing things," said Maria Martin, the museum's exhibits coordinator. "We're adding a lot more activities in conjunction with the
The museum makes a winter holiday event of exhibiting hand, rod and stick, shadow and stringed puppets from its Hazelle Rollins collection.
and Plains Indian Beadwork May 3-July 27.
Because the puppets are representative of peoples from different cultures
Even the widely attended Indian arts show has added a juried youth competition for artists aged 16 and younger, Martin said.
The Indian arts show, from Sept. 7 to Oct.20, kicks off the museum's exhibit schedule, closely followed by Los Dias de Los Muertos. Scheduled at Halloween time, the latter exhibit and its workshops will illustrate and explain a traditional Hispanic festival that honors departed ancestors, friends and family members.
around the world, Martin said, they serve to emphasize the museum's multicultural orientation.
"We want to help our visitors understand the importance of these dolls within the Hopi culture and traditions," Martin said.
In a brand new springthrough-summer exhibit, the museum will feature more than 100 Hopi kachina dolls from its collection, which includes contemporary carvings as well as some carved around the turn of the century.
Overlapping that exhibit will be the Virgin of Guadalupe, Feb. 15-April 6. The museum has gathered images of the patroness of Mexico and other artifacts from the homes and churches of the Hispanic communities of Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence for this display,
which explores Mexican heritage. Afternoons of Mexican music and dance will accompany this exhibit.
The museum celebrates Kansas Archaeology Week, April 6-12, with a number of special events that will uncover portions of the vast storehouse of history within the museum's walls. The 17th Annual Museum Day closely follows, April 16 or 23, when the Museum of Anthropology will join the other campus museums in presenting free special activities, displays, crafts and games.
Beginning late in the school year and running through mid-summer, visitors will have the opportunity to view highly decorated samples of the Plains Indian beadwork from the museum collections and learn how different styles and beading techniques represent different tribes.
A summer photographic exhibit, June 7-Aug.17, will feature 50 color and blackand-white works take by Helga Teiwe of a White
Mountain Apache puberty ceremony.
"I've attended a puberty ceremony," Martin recalled, "and these photographs capture it in astonishing detail. I think people will be fascinated."
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Indian Arts Show welcomes new generation
BY BUNNY SMITH
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
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The Lawrence Indian Arts Show and Haskell Indian Art Market may be eight years old this fall, but the accent this year's on youth, not longevity.
As in past years, market entertainment
Last year, 155 American Indian artists from across the country displayed and sold paintings, graphics, basketry, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, textiles and clothing at the two-day market, Martin said.
The event, which is co-sponsored by the Kansas University Museum of Anthropology, Haskell Indian Nations University and the Lawrence Arts Center, this year will welcome a new generation of American Indian artists with a juried youth competition for artists aged 16 and younger.
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"Over the years, people have wondered why we haven't included young artists," said Maria Martin, who heads up exhibitions for the anthropology museum. "I've seen some pretty wonderful things by young people and I'm excited about this show."
Works selected by judges for the youth competition will be shown concurrently
with the winners of the juried competition for American Indian artists from Sept. 7 to Oct. 20 at the anthropology museum, located in Spooner Hall.
American Indian artists also are invited to take part in the Eighth Annual Haskell Indian Art Market on Sept.7 and 8 at Haskell.The two-day market gives American Indian artists an opportunity to display and sell their recent productions in outdoor booths.
A total of $7,200 in prizes will be awarded at the benefit opening, art preview and sale from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Sept.6 at the museum.Two best-of-show prizes of $1,500 and up to 14 merit awards of $300 each will be awarded in two- and three-dimensional art categories.
will include performances by Haskell-affiliated groups, such as the Apache Club. Haskell Singers and Dancers, the Thunderbird Theater and the Kiowa Club.
The schedule for the eighth annual show will be similar to those for previous shows, but each event will be new Martin said. This year's show will include:
- An exhibit of recent works by Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne Sept. 6-Oct. 2 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth.
- A book discussion series on American Indian writers of the Plains Sept. 11 and 26 and Oct. 9 and 23 at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Books to be discussed include "Medicine River," by Thomas King; "Fools Crow," by James Welch; "The Bingo Palace," by Louise Edrich; and "Mean Spirit," by Linda Hogan. All discussions begin at 7:30 p.m. To register for this series, call the library at 843-1178.
- A Hopi-Tewa pottery workshop taught by Hopi-Tewa potter Mark Tahbo Oct. 14-19 at the anthropology museum. A fee will be charged.
- An exhibit of Hopi Indian pottery Sept. 7-Oct.
20 at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.