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LCC New Exhibit Explores History of College Art Collection

A new exhibit in Hendershot Gallery at Labette Community College explores the history of the college’s art collection by focusing on the material that first formed the nucleus of the collection.

“A History of the Carnegie Art Teaching Set” explains how Labette Community College (then Parsons Junior College) received an art teaching set from the Carnegie Corporation in New York and how that set grew to become the college’s permanent art collection.

Examples of the four major components of the 1939 teaching set—reproductions of famous works of art, mounted photographs, art books, and original works of art—are on display in the gallery.

Included in the exhibit are materials related to the college’s efforts to restore the collection in the 1980s and1990s and information about recent acquisitions to the college’s art collection.

“The college’s art teaching set is one of only a few that remain mostly intact, and this retrospective is a good way to call attention to that fact. It’s amazing that hundreds of sets were distributed across the county, but only a handful has survived,” notes gallery committee member Mike Brotherton, who is serving as curator of this exhibit. “In 2010, an article in the Carnegie Corporation’s online magazine pointed out that our set at Labette and one in Memorial College in Newfoundland, Canada are among known sets to have been preserved and are displayed. We’re proud of that fact,” Brotherton added.

The exhibit is open to the public from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Friday through February 9^th. For information about the gallery schedule, the LCC Art Collection, or donating to the Gallery art acquisition fund, call Greg Brewer at 820. 1023.