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March News and Events

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March is a busy month at the Nerman Museum!

Earlier this week, we hosted Olathe Leadership Lowrider Bike Club students  for a mini-pop up and awards to support them in the next steps of their educational and artistic careers.

High school students and JCCC leadership standing next to a lowrider bike

Photo: Susan McSpadden, JCCC Photographer

Students holding scholarship certificates, alongside two teachers

Photo: Susan McSpadden, JCCC Photographer

Here is what else is coming up this month. We hope to see you at one or more of these events and special installations!

Angeline Rivas, Charm and Strange (detail), 2024, acrylic, gouache, and graphite on panel, 60 x 48 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, Acquired with funds provided by the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Art Acquisition Endowment at the JCCC Foundation. Photo: Chris Sharp Gallery

Angeline Rivas Artist Talk and Reception
Wednesday, March 11 • 6-8 PM
Hudson Auditorium • Livestream option available
FREE – RSVP Requested

Artist Michael Brantley

Michael Brantley Artist Talk and Reception
Sunday, March 22 • 3-5 PM
Hudson Auditorium • Livestream option available
FREE – RSVP Requested

Band weaving loom and bandBand Weaving Workshop with Rebecca Vaughan at The Salon 
Wednesday, March 25 • 5:30-6:30 PM
FREE – Space is limited • RSVP required

Small cabin in an outdoor setting

Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors, 2025 installation view. Photo: Deanna Johnson

Special Installation: Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors
On view March 24 through May 22, 2026
Regnier Center South Lawn

Co-directed by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and Monumenta, in collaboration with lead artists Omakyehstih Collective, Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors is a mobile monument that illuminates the story of the Wyandot Conley sisters who occupied their family’s cemetery to save it from urban development. The monument reimagines Fort Conley, the small dwelling the sisters built inside the Wyandot National Burying Ground and inhabited for years to defend their family’s graves. Their decades-long activism and legal arguments protected this sacred land, impacting preservation and tribal sovereignty movements.

This multimedia installation is based on a replica of the historic fort and incorporates video, music, writing, interpretation, oral histories, an original performance, and more to share the story.

Trespassers Beware! is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts/ArtsHERE, in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Kansas, Kansas Studies Institute, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, the Kansas Arts Commission and individual donors.

Wendy Red Star Announced as 2024 MacArthur Fellow

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Wendy Red Star was recently announced as one of the 2024 MacArthur Fellows, sometimes also referred to as the “genius grant.” The Nerman Museum owns several of her works:

Red Star has also been featured in a some of our exhibitions!

Wendy Red Star also gave an artist talk at the Museum:

Learn more about her MacArthur Fellow award:

Joel Daniel Phillips’s work in Kansas Focus Gallery

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We were so pleased to have Joel Daniel Phillips come speak at the museum on Aug 9th, and video of his talk is now available:

 

In his talk he mentions the book that is associated with his Killing the Negative series, a book he worked on in collaboration with another artist, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana. I have a copy of this book available in our Education Library now, volunteers may check it out!

Artist Website: JOEL DANIEL PHILLIPS

“Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse” – this is the book in our library

Dyani White Hawk video online

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When Dyani White Hawk visited fall 2023 (just before she won the MacArther Genius grant!) we were able to sit down and chat about her work in the museum’s collection. A video of her speaking specifically about Untitled (All the Colors), and the transcript, are now available online:

All the Colors Dyani White Hawk video transcript (PDF)

Video of dialogue between artist Ruben Castillo and curator Stuart Hinds now available!

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If you missed the dialogue between artist Ruben Castillo (exhibiting in the Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition) and Stuart Hinds (curator of special collections at UMKC, including GLAMA) on March 7th, it’s now available!

the Charlotte Street Fellows exhibition closes April 14 so make sure to see the exhibition one more time before it closes!

Video from Kahlil Irving talk with curator Jordan Carter now available!

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If you missed the in-person/livestreaming talk between artist Kahlil Irving and curator Jordan Carter on March 21st, you can check out the video online now.

 

If you are interested in reading the transcript (with timestamps for each section) click on the description below the video and click “show transcript”.

Enjoy!