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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”

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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

 

Happy New Year?

Posted on by jharlan

Albeit a bit belated, I would like to wish you a “Happy New Year” on behalf of the Beach Museum of Art. Some may find this latent sentiment tiresome now that we have reached mid-January. I believe that given current circumstances, it bears repeating over and over, like a mantra. These are trying times. If you have not yet thrown up your hands and exclaimed “uncle,” please consider the following. There are eleven and a half more unscripted, wide-open months in this year. Stretched out before us like a blank canvas, what is to come? The simple answer is “anything.” Rather than focusing on the obvious which, admittedly, appears dire, I invite you to imagine what could be. Is this the year you finally finish that novel? That song? That poem? That painting? Will you finally climb that mountain, literally or proverbially? I invite you to tune out the clamorous din of the present and listen to your inner voice. Allow it to shape your vision of the days to come. Pick up that pen, that brush…It has been said that adversity inspires. If so, surely we are all brimming with inspiration. Perhaps this could be a happy new year.

Jennifer Harlan
Beach Museum of Art
Events Assistant

Image: Charles Leroy Marshall Sr., Happy New Year, 1957, watercolor with graphite on paper, 13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in., gift of Charles L. Marshall, Sr., presented by Maybelle M. Scheetz, 2005.259