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Beach Ball: incognito

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Step up, step out and cut loose at the first annual Beach Ball!
Come “incognito” to the event of the season. Mingle with mimes. Dance with a bear. Eat, drink and be Mary… or John, or whomever you’d like. Come for the art, stay for the music, or the food, the auction or the performers… Any way you cut it, the Beach Ball has it all. Don a mask and cut a rug, Friday, October 13th only at the Beach Museum of Art.

Wanna wear a lampshade, that’s okay. There is no wrong ‘cause it’s all right. Celebrate at the Beach tonight.
~ Costumes encouraged! ~

"Beach Ball: Incognito," Beach Museum of Art's first annual fundraiser

Friday, October 13, 2023, 6:30 – 10:30 PM
BEACH BALL: incognito
Beach Museum of Art
701 Beach Lane, Manhattan, Kansas 66506,
Kansas State University

General Admission Ticket: $125 per guest
Increased Impact Ticket: $250 per guest
Increase the price of your ticket to further your support of this important community institution. Every extra dollar helps to broaden the Museum’s outreach and impact on all ages, through art, in our region.

Help us put the FUN back in fundraising!
Space is limited. Click here to purchase your tickets now.
**Please note this celebration is for adults only, ages 21 and older.**
Call 785.532.7718 or email beachart@ksu.edu with questions

We hope you can join us at the inaugural Beach Ball. If you are unable to attend, you can still donate to support the Beach Museum of Art. Please click here. Thank you.

Ticket purchase does not constitute Friends of the Beach Museum of Art membership and benefits.

Image: Patricia DuBose Duncan, Self Portrait with Devil Mask, 1984, gelatin silver print, 8 3/4 x 6 7/8 in., 1998.144

Season’s Greetings!

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From all of us at the Beach Museum of Art, we wish you a joyous and healthy winter season!

Museum 2021 Holiday Hours:
Dec. 23: 10 AM – 5 PM | Closed Dec. 24 – Jan. 2, 2022 | Re-opening Jan. 4, 2022

"Winter Fans" color lithograph on paper by artist Caroline Thorington. In the collection of the Beach Museum of Art.

We look forward to seeing you often (in-person or virtually) in the new year! Be sure to check out the spring 2022 exhibitions and events.

Image: Caroline Thorington, “Winter Fans,” 2011, color lithograph on paper, 20 1/8 x 27 in., gift of Caroline Thorington, 2017.299.

Prairie Studies Initiative

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During the 2021-2022 season, the Prairie Studies Initiative at the Beach Museum of Art continues to inspire the museum’s work. In the Mary Holton Seaton West Gallery, artworks from the collection represent the prairie in varied ways, from Jim Richardson’s remarkable photographs of the roots of native grasses and wildflowers to Joe DiGiorgio’s pointillist evocation of a wheat field. Visit the museum to enjoy these artworks.

Photographs of prairie grassroots by artist Jim Richardson, in the Beach Museum of Art's collection.

Left: James (Jim) C. Richardson, Prairie Cordgrass (spartina pectinada), 2014, printed 2016, from the series Prairie Roots, inkjet print, U12.2016
Middle: James (Jim) C. Richardson, Missouri Goldenrod (solidago missouriensis), 2014, printed 2016, from the series Prairie Roots, inkjet print, U9.2016
Right: James (Jim) C. Richardson, Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), 2014, printed 2016, from the series Prairie Roots, inkjet print, U8.2016

"Kansas Wheatfield" oil painting by Joe DiGiorgio in the Beach Museum of Art's collection.

Joe DiGiorgio, Kansas Wheatfield, 1971, oil on canvas, 72 1/2 x 293 3/4 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Helen DiLello and John DiLello, Jr., 2003.229

The Meadow, a native plant mini-park north of the museum, still serves as an outdoor learning lab for university and K-12 students.

Enjoy the small prairie landscape right on K-State campus!

View through The Meadow toward the Beach Museum of Art. Image courtesy of K-State Communications and Marketing.