KU Art History | Roger Shimomura Presentations

Join us for a special event with Sherry Fowler, PhD, Professor of Japanese Art at KU, and her art history students!

Each student has selected one work from Roger Shimomura’s current exhibition, Select Prints, to study. In the LAC gallery, students will give a one-to-two-minute presentation in front of their chosen print that addresses aspects of art history: from content, historical or art historical references, potential meanings, potential controversy, technique, to their own impressions. The prints featured in this exhibition are from Roger’s personal collection of his Prints of Pop (& War) Series.

This is a free event that supports KU Students and their art history studies, while also paying homage to one of Lawrence’s most treasured artists.

Professor Biography 

Sherry Fowler specializes in Japanese Buddhist art. Her interests include pre-modern sculpture, Edo and Meiji period Japanese temple prints (keidaizu), pilgrimage prints (ofuda), foreign interactions with Japanese art, issues of collecting, and ritual. She has written on the development of the imagery of the cult of the Six Kannon in Japan and Buddhist prints in the pilgrimage process. Her recent research project is on the relationship between dragons, water, and Buddhist temple bells in Japan.