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Kansas Weather in Life, Literature & Photography

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snowy banks of a winding creek bed

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art invites you to attend an in-person Humanities Kansas lecture by Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. in the UMB Theater.

This timely presentation features 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 current exhibition, Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry, will be an added inspiration for the conversation.

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: Herschel C. Logan, Creek in Winter, 1928, woodcut on paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in., gift of Peggy L. Sondergard & Samuel H. Logan. 2018.361

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

 

Beach Museum of Art receives award funding to enhance, broaden access to the arts!

Posted on by jmhatre

Art Bridges Foundation logoWe are pleased to announce that the museum has received a Bridge Ahead Initiative award from the Art Bridges Foundation to support the addition of a part-time teaching artist to assist with two new photography exhibitions at the museum.

Nate McClendon, a respected Manhattan teacher and musician, will lend his talents to the Beach Museum of Art’s “Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come” and “Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice” exhibitions. Both exhibitions are now open to the public through May 28, 2022. Online versions will be available soon.

The museum recently launched “Hear What I’m Seeing?” first Saturdays video series led by Nate McClendon. Enjoy the inaugural video of the series here. The videos are posted on the museum’s YouTube channel. Please don’t forget to subscribe to our channel!

Read more about the Bridge Ahead award here.

Publicity image for the exhibition "Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come"

Publicity image of the exhibition "Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice"