University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 12. 1991
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Museum Day looks at home Exhibits will highlight objects from daily life
By Sarah Davis Kansan staff writer
"All the Comforts of Home" will be the theme of KU's 11th annual Museum Day on Sunday.
"Each museum has different things to show in relation to that theme," said Cathy Dwigans, associate director for membership and public relations at the Museum of Natural History.
Four museums — the Spencer Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History, Museum of Anthropology and the Wilcox Classical Museum — will be sites for activities as well as tours. The museums will have exhibits emphasizing objects of everyday life.
Three other KU museums — the Snow Entomological Museum, the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, and the McGregor Herbarium— will have displays at the Museums of Lawrence — will have displays in the Museum of Natural History.
"We have this celebration here at KU because it's a way of highlighting the museums and their contributions to the community." Dwigans said.
"It gives a better sense of the variety of museums and objects that are available on campus."
Several activities, all free, are planned for Sunday between 1 and 3:30 p.m.
Visitors can view special displays, such as bird nests, live turtles, fossils, insect homes or an exhibit on pre-Columbian village life in Mexico.
They also can try grinding corn or watching a video on the ruins of a Roman city. A telescope to view sun spots and a pretendyou're a child playing with toy animals is available, and a local artist will demonstrate the craft of steniling.
"It's a nice thing for parents and kids to come to," said Betty Banks, curator of the Wilcox Classical Museum in Lippincott Hall. "This is a little more personal. They can participate more."
Banks said she was always prepared to answer a popular question asked by children who came to her museum.
statues are nude," she said, explaining that she told the children that it was an ancient Greek athletic tradition to exercise nude in the hot climate. She also told the curious women that there were not allowed in the gymnasiums.
"They want to know why the
"The kids are fun," she said. "It's nice to see how interested they are."
Banks said she was looking forward to encouraging people to become familiar with what the classics museums had to offer, especially because people tend to be intimidated by larger museums.
"It lets them see another aspect of our department," she said. "We think you can learn something about ancient practices from a visit."
Dwigans said the celebration could benefit the smaller museums.
"This is an opportunity for the other museums to be involved in exhibit open to the public," she said. "This is just a suggestion of the selection of the activities that the museums offer."
Committee readying for art awards
A group of art students is anxiously awaiting this weekend, when a faculty committee will decide which students will receive Lockwood scholarships and awards.
By Benjamin W. Allen
It is no small matter. Some of the scholarships, or their equivalent, can be as high as $5,000.
Kansas staff writer
Students considered for the scholarships and awards were nominated by faculty members
The Lockwood scholarships are named after a former visiting faculty member at the University of Kansas. Ward Lockwood, whose wife gave an endowment to the University.
One of the endowment's stipulations is that only male students can receive the money.
This is where the phrase "or their equivalent" comes in.
Because the Lockwood endowment stipulates that only male students can receive money, the school uses money from other endowments, which do not specify gender, for female students.
Robert Brawley, chairperson of the department of art, said, "It's a shame the Lockwood endowment stipulates men only because the money is never totally spent. It just goes back into the endowment."
Brawley said some of the money from the Lockwood endowment was not used because not as much money was available for female students. The school gives the same amount to both sexes.
Other endowments provided $34,600 for women this
"An award is for exceptional work and development," Brawley said. "It's a recognition by the department of excellence."
year. The Lockwood endowment supplied $48.400.
Recipients of the awards are chosen by a committee comprised by five department faculty members.
Rik Dishinger, a member of the committee preparing the studios where the art will be displayed, said the
He said the best aspect of the show was the quality of the students' work.
"A lot of time, you don't see a lot of what the students have been doing until it suddenly pops out of their studios and you say, 'Wow! Who's this? I didn't know they were this good.'"
"It's worth seeing," he said. "It's probably the only chance anybody gets to see what they're really going on up here."
Students will hang their art tomorrow night in the painting studios on the fourth floor of the Art and Design Building.
The fourth floor then will be locked, and no one but the faculty committee, which will judge the show tomorrow and Sunday, will be allowed in.
The floor will be locked to provide the faculty committee privacy.
At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, the public, including the artists, will be allowed to view the 54 nominees' work. Scholarships and awards will be posted next to each show will continue from 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m. Monday.
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