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Visitors gather at the reopening of the Spencer Museum of Art. The museum will host its grand reopening the weekend of Oct. 15
Spencer Museum of Art reopens to large crowd
▶ SAMANTHA SEXTON
@Sambiscuit
After a year of reconstruction, the Spencer Museum of Art finally opened its doors last night to a few hundred excited students.
"We're so excited to have this great turnout tonight," said Kassandra Valles, a senior on the museum's advisory board.
Throughout the night, Valles was busy making the night as welcoming as possible with a photo
booth and crafts table for the students to enjoy. The museum was dotted with such activities from origami to adult face painting, all of which had long lines.
It used to be really dull in here ... It feels so fresh and clean and welcoming."
Kassandra Valles
Advisory board member
With free food and a blaring DJ, the students who were exploring the museums" "40,000 works of art from 4,000 years of global history," as a pamphlet called them, felt more like they were shimmying across a lively dance hall than contemplating Renaissance perspective.
"We're having so much fun here," said Emma Davison, a senior also on the museum's student advisory board. "We've been working really hard to
get the museum to a place where students actually want to be here rather than being forced to by their professors."
Valles said her favorite part of the renovation was seeing the large windows filter natural light in from the lobby.
"It used to be really dull in here," Valles said. "Now you can see everything. It feels so fresh and clean and welcoming."
Davison agreed, complementing the landscaping and expressing
her excitement that, in her final year, the museum became something on campus to be proud of.
"It used to get called a lot of appealing names and was really just unattractive," Davison said. "The museum is something to be proud of now and somewhere students can actually come and feel at home."
Despite the severe weather and heavy downpour, students were braving the weather to attend the event, crowding around the eclectic
collection of modern and ancient art that was combined in a unique and engaging way not typically seen the fine art museums.
The Spencer Museum of Art will be hosting its grand public reopening weekend starting on Saturday, Oct. 15. Admission to the museum is always free, but donations are welcome and anyone can become a member to support the arts on campus. For more information, please visit www.spencerartku.edu.
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