Do You See What I See?
When a person thinks an iconic image or object means one thing and others interpret it differently disagreements can arise. This exhibition presents artworks that challenge viewers to engage in dialogue with those who have different thoughts about what something means. Featured works include loans from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, made available through the Art Bridges Foundation. The Friends of the Beach Museum of Art encourage you to join them in sponsoring this exhibition.
Platinum Major Sponsors: Art Bridges, The Alms Group, Friends of the Beach
Museum of Art, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy
Diehl Community Grants Program and Weary Family Foundation
Gold Sponsors: Beach-Edwards Family Foundation
Bronze Sponsors: Steve and Janet Cooper and Russell Clay Harvey
and Patty McGivern
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Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism
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 cause of equality. Their demands centered on reproductive rights and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Works by women artists in the museum’s collection give insights into voices from this second wave of feminism. Among the artists are Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Jenny Holzer, and Shirley Smith.
Platinum Major Sponsors: The Alms Group, Greater Manhattan Community
Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy Diehl Community Grants Program
Gold Sponsors: Dan and Beth Bird
Silver Sponsors: Mary Cottom and Judy and David Regehr
Bronze Sponsors: Bill and Sharon Snyder
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Enjoy short videos about art in the Beach Museum of Art’s collection. Each video will feature information about an 
In 1911 the school superintendent in McPherson, Kansas, organized an exhibition to acquire artwork for a new high school. This became an annual ticketed event, allowing the McPherson schools to establish a rich collection of works by regionally and nationally recognized artists, among them James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Birger Sandzén and Fern Coppedge.
Katie Baldwin, Mariko Jesse, and Yoonmi Nam make up the artist collective wood+paper+box. They met in Japan in 2004 at an artist residency, where together they lived and studied mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking technique. Artworks by wood+paper+box carry the spark born of shared experience and are created through collaboration, interaction, and friendship. They offer the idea of appreciating art not just by looking but also by touching and participating.
Art in Motion Program Series
Special price for Military Families: In conjunction with the Blue Star Museum program, the Beach Museum of Art offers Military Family half price on all workshops and classes!