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Exhibition continues at The Commons

"Niche: Nature Morte and the Simulated Garden" continues through November at The Commons in historic Spooner Hall. 

The exhibition is a mixed media art installation by Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting, in collaboration with Betsy Knabe Roe.  According to the exhibition brochure, niche "can refer to the place an organism occupies in an ecosystem, or the place a product holds in what marketing professionals sometimes call the consumer ecosystem.  The exhibition Niche encompasses both associations.  The work on display is a hybrid of consumer culture and the natural world."

The Commons is a partnership between the Biodiversity Institute, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art.  The Niche installation is made possible by a generous gift from Elizabeth Schultz, an emeritus professor of English at KU.  Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.  For more information, contact Jordan Yochim, acting director, at (785) 864-2343 or thecommons@ku.edu.