2018 COMMON WORK OF ART
Each year, the K-State Book Network selects a common reading for first year students, providing an intellectual experience they can share with members of the K-State community. The 2018 K-State Common Book is The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. Beach Museum of Art staff members have selected a series of lithographs by New Mexico artist Karsten Creightney to complement this year’s Common Book.
Thomas’s best-selling and award-winning novel tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Starr Carter. Starr has grown up in an urban, poverty-stricken neighborhood and now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shooting her unarmed friend, she must find a way to share the truth of her experience not only for herself but also for her family, friends, and community.
Creightney’s Burial Series Portfolio, a set of nine prints, is a response to the death of his uncle from a drug overdose. Burial visually conveys a search for truth that parallels Starr’s. Burial was made as a collaboration between the artist and Zanatta Editions. Sets of three prints from the series will be shown each semester.
Image: Karsten Creightney, Burial, 2009, lithograph on paper, 10 1/8 x 10 in.,Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, 2010.53