Kansas University’s Spencer Museum of Art will display an exhibition titled “Power, Place and People: African American Indigenous Stories” as part of a major national conference co-hosted by KU, the Hall Center for the Humanities and Haskell Indian Nations University.

The exhibit can be viewed Thursday through Saturday in the museum’s Central Court.

The exhibition provides visual reference for the conference, titled “The First and the Forced: Indigenous and African American Intersections.” The conference is the capstone event of the three-year “Shifting Borders of Race and Identity” grant project funded by the Ford Foundation. Faculty from KU, Haskell and Johnson County Community College, with organizational support from KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities, are exploring how borders have changed and continue to move within the U.S. and how those shifts have influenced conceptions of race, ethnicity, culture and identity.

Funded by the Ford Foundation and the Kansas Humanities Council, the exhibit features eight interviews with participants discussing their concepts of their own identity, while placing their stories within the larger context of historical, social and cultural themes. The exhibition includes photographs, documents and artwork illustrating each participant’s story and will be accompanied by a DVD featuring the interviews.