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“Do You See What I See?” opens Tuesday

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The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is excited to announce the opening of Do You See What I See? The exhibition premieres Tuesday, Sept. 6, and runs through Tuesday, May 27, 2023, in the Marion Pelton Gallery.

12 stamp cells with images of 4 young girls

This special exhibition draws attention to the differing ideas people have about popular images, which often lead to misunderstandings and disagreement. Artworks on display challenge viewers to think twice about what a familiar object or person represents to them. Visitors can look forward to seeing the museum’s recent acquisitions by artists Paul Rucker and Archie Scott Gobber as well as important works on loan from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. These include a portrait by Grant Wood and a large sculpture of an ear by John Baldessari. Don’t miss this opportunity to see and discover just how varied individual interpretations of a common symbol can be. For more information on this exhibition and related programs, please visit beach.k-state.edu.

Image: Paul Rucker, Four Little Girls (stamps), 2019, from the series Commemorative Stamp Set, inkjet print on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 in., 2020.55b

Timely exhibition to debut at the Beach

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Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism

August 9, 2022 – December 16, 2023

The fight for suffrage propelled the first wave feminism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of women took up the fight for equality. Their demands centered on reproductive rights and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Works by women artists in the museum’s permanent collection offer insights into the voices from this second wave of feminism. Among the artists featured in the exhibition are Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Jenny Holzer, and Shirley Smith.

Abstract watercolor painting in pink and yellow

Image: Alice Baber, The Golden River, 1974, watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 1/4 in., 2017.562

New publication on Gordon Parks announced

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black and white photograph of doorway

The Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce the launch of the exhibition catalog/ebook “Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come.” The New Prairie Press, Kansas State University’s open access digital press, recently published the exhibition catalog/ebook. It was edited by museum curator Aileen June Wang and features new scholarship about Gordon Parks and his activities in Kansas in the late part of his career. Compiled by members of the K-State Gordon Parks Project, the volume was a collaboration between the university’s department of English and the Beach Museum of Art. The project highlights a past gallery exhibition at the Beach and a current virtual exhibition of photographs gifted by Gordon Parks to K-State. The collection was organized by the Beach Museum of Art, and a digital archive was created by K-State English department with materials and oral histories related to Parks’s film “The Learning Tree.” The collaboration was made possible with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and additional support from the Gordon Parks Foundation. The exhibition catalog/ebook increases awareness and understanding of Gordon Parks’ artistic practice through photography, poetry, literature, and film. Renowned African American photography scholar and artist Deborah Willis writes that the book “adds wonderfully to [knowledge about] Gordon Parks’ life as it introduces new questions, specifically about sexual abuse in the Learning Tree and the ‘underdiscussed’ activities of Parks’ life.” She adds: “I believe it will have an impact on the genres of memoir, migration, biography, and film studies.”

View or download the e-book