Join us for the "Painted Worlds Symposium on Mesoamerican Art," hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and co-organized with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Some notable events include “A Gleam in the Forest: Meaning and Material in Maya Color” from Stephen D. Houston, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Brown University; “Jazz Age Maya: Mysteries of a Modern Prehispanic Book in 1930s Kansas City” from Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Ph.D., the curatorial consultant on Painted Worlds exhibition; and a brand-new digital collection at Miller Nichols Library on campus.
Thanks go to the , the Bernardin Haskell Lecture Series and The William T. Kemper Foundation for their support of this symposium and its related lectures.
Before the event, there is also a Cockefair Chair lecture from representatives of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and New York Metropolitan Museum of Art for a coast-to-coast review of new projects that will challenge traditional art, historical and museum models. This event is also free, but a .