Arts, Architecture and Humanities

A University of Kansas School of Music professor’s multigenerational band is back at it with a second album of original songs. Brandon Draper dusted off old material and wrote new works, as well, for for the Draper Family Band’s new album in a blues-rock vein.

Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas have announced the 10 recipients of the 2025-2026 Rocket Grants awards, a re-granting program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

In a new book, Jonathan Lamb, professor of English at the University of Kansas, reveals how the broad lexicon of book-related words in the newly print-savvy era of Shakespeare’s England taught cultures how to think, contemplate and describe the world.

University of Kansas lecturer Michelle Miller enlisted a KU astrophysicist colleague to fire up the cast of “Silent Sky,” to be staged Oct. 3-5 at University Theatre. The play about pioneering woman astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt and overcoming sexism in the scientific workplace is still relevant today, according to Miller.

KU's Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies has published video from a scholarly summer conference that gathered Indigenous and Afro-Central American leaders from all seven Central American countries. Those leaders presented on the current situation of their groups in historical perspective.