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Spotlight on Gordon Parks and his film “Martin”

Posted on by jharlan

 

Magazine cover with photo of Martin Luther King, Jr.

To remember the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. perhaps you would like to view the #ballet Martin, written, produced and scored by Gordon Parks to honor King, Jr. The prologue linked here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayQu5kkSPc, includes photographs by Gordon Parks and features Parks introducing the ballet. There are 27 #photographs within the prologue that are in our #collection, 18 of them are currently on view and two images were taken in the Manhattan, Kansas area. We invite you to visit the Beach Museum of Art and see if you recognize any of the photographs from the #prologue on display in the current exhibition “Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come.” in the gallery through May 28 and offered virtually at beach.k-state.edu/explore.

Join museum curator Aileen June Wang for a virtual discussion of the dance film Martin during the upcoming Let’s Talk Art livestream conversation with Theresa Ruth Howard, ballet dancer and founder-curator of MoBBallet.org (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet). Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada). Closed captioning available.

Register for the free program at https://ksu.zoom.us/…/register/WN_JF9HYpGYQri6_x3KGWwdrA

Kim Richards
Education Assistant
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Image: “Life Magazine (Week of Shock, Martin Luther King 1929-1968) April 12, 1968,” Life Magazine (United States), photomechanical lithograph on paper, CM235.201

 

When the Well Runs Dry screening October 22, 5:30 pm

Posted on by Kelsey Longpine

Join us in the UMB Theater of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on Thursday, October 22 at 5:30 pm for a film screening of When the Well Runs Dry with commentary by the filmmaker and K- State faculty members and audience discussion.

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When the Well Runs Dry is a 31 minute film directed by Lawrence filmmaker Steve Lerner, and award winning Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Reuben Aaronson. Other members of the production team are Jim Jewell, and Greg Allen.

This short documentary tenderly portrays the vital connection that rural Kansans have with water, our most precious resource. Ranchers, farmers, and residents of small Kansas towns tell us their heartfelt, personal stories about water, including the ongoing threats they face to the availability of the water on which they depend.

Director Steve Lerner, Jesse Nippert (Biology), Matthew Sanderson (Sociology), and Steve Wolgast (Journalism) will offer commentary and respond to audience questions and comments. A live stream connection with Seward County Community College/Area Technical School in Liberal, KS will allow audiences at the two sites to interact.

This program is presented by: Prairie Studies Initiative, Global Campus, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, and Chapman Center for Rural Studies