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.
The event is free and open to the public.
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 Marilyn T. and Byron C. Shutz Lecture Series, 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 separate registration is required.