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Let’s Talk Art: Indigenous Aesthetics

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sketch of red fox in profileJoin the Beach Museum of Art’s director Linda Duke for a livestream conversation with Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish-Kootenai, Métis-Cree, Sho-Ban) and Norman Akers (Osage Nation) as each artist reflects on the use of space and representation in their work. Ambrose-Smith is the creator of the 2021-2022 K-State Common Work of Art, From Upstream I Caught a Fish.

Register for the free program via Zoom.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details about how to join the program.

This event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s annual program series, Art in Motion: a tribute to Marianna’s love for lifelong learning! Marianna Kistler Beach believed in the value of art and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. The museum offers the Art in Motion programs in celebration of her work and leadership.

Image (top): Neal Ambrose-Smith, From Upstream I Caught a Fish, 2008, etching and transfer on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 in., gift of Joe and Barb Zanatta, Zanatta Editions. 2009.136

collage of figures including spaceships, a gull and indigenous people

Image: Norman Akers, Dark Reign, 2021.

Considering Techniques: Jim Richardson on Gordon Parks

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Mark your calendar for the Beach Museum of Art’s upcoming livestream gallery conversation Considering Techniques: Jim Richardson on Gordon Parks, Thursday, February 24, 2022, at 5:30p.m. Join National Geographic Magazine photographer Jim Richardson as he explores the exhibition Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come. Hear his thoughts on photography techniques of the time as they relate to specific images on view. Register for the free program via Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email that includes information about how to join the program.

Shadows reflected on building

This event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s annual program series, Art in Motion: a tribute to Marianna’s love for lifelong learning! Marianna Kistler Beach believed in the value of art and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. The museum offers the Art in Motion programs in celebration of her work and leadership.

Image: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Durland Shadows (Kansas State University campus), 1985, gelatin silver print, 14 1/8 x 19 7/8 in., acquisition made possible through partnerships with the Manhattan Mercury, the Manhattan Arts Center and members of the Manhattan community. 2017.532

Program Update: Kansas Weather in Life, Literature & Photography

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Painting of sunrise on the horizonDue to potentially inclement weather expected in our area, the Humanities Kansas lecture, Kansas Weather in Life, Literature and Photography, by Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, will now be offered online. Livestream the program via Zoom, Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. To register in advance, please visit https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uERbeCxjSlqjR6Jy0NbPwA . 

This timely presentation will feature photographer Stephen Locke’s vibrant images of Kansas weather paired with poetry by contemporary Kansas writers inspired by the drama that unfolds in the Kansas sky. We’ll discuss our own weather-related stories and how weather shapes our lives, understanding of the natural world, and identity. The museum’s exhibition, Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry, currently on view in the Mary Holton Seaton Gallery East will be an added inspiration for the conversation. To view the Virtual Exhibition, please visit beach.k-state.edu/explore.

This event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s annual program series, Art in Motion: a tribute to Marianna’s love for lifelong learning! Marianna Kistler Beach believed in the value of art and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. The museum offers the Art in Motion programs in celebration of her work and leadership.

Image: John Steuart Curry, Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas), 1935, mixed-media on canvas, 38 x 59 ½ in., Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase. 1996.18