The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout
the year for all ages!
March 31, 10 a.m.. – Tell Me a Story: Making Connections and Finding Support through Literature. Sponsored by Parent to Parent – Fort Riley.
April 5-8, ARTSmart classes focusing on the spring exhibition “Behind the Glass Eye: Photographs by Toyo Miyatake” and photography.
Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations.
Opening in April!
Minidoka on My Mind: Paintings and Prints by Roger Shimomura
April 5 – July 17, 2016
Behind the Glass Eye: Photographs by Toyo Miyatake
April 5 – July 31, 2016
Image: Jim Richardson, Sandhills Storm Coming, Nebraska (detail), 2003, pigment ink on fiber rag paper
The museum is open Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10a.m.-5p.m., Thurs 10a.m.-8p.m., Sun, 12p.m.-5p.m. Free admission. Free parking.
Visit us online at beach.k-state.edu
Check out The Beach Blog for behind-the-scenes information, event info, and guest posts.
Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare would probably have been lost to us without the First Folio. Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, and only 233 copies are known today.
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending a First Folio to every state in the United States; the Beach Museum of Art was selected as the venue for the Folio’s display in Kansas. Join us through Feb. 28 in celebrating all things Shakespeare!
Shakespeare in the Little Apple
The First Folio’s visit is accompanied by a series of campus and community events celebrating the First Folio and Shakespeare.
Visit k-state.edu/shakespeare400 for a full list of spring events. Upcoming Shakespeare events at the Beach Museum of Art: Continue reading “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare on view until Feb. 28”
The next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, LASER, a
national program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience, will be held from 5:30-8 p.m. February 18th at the Beach Museum of Art in the UMB Theater and will feature the following distinguished speakers:
• Brent Chamberlin, Department of Landscape Architecture, K-State
• Don Hedrick, Department of English, K-State
• Natasha Rozhkovskaya, Department of Mathematics, K-State
• Nelson Smith, Department of Art Continue reading “LASER Art-Science talk Feb. 18”
March 10, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery Walk with Jim Richardson and Opening Reception
In his photographic projects for National Geographic over the last three decades, Jim Richardson has explored natural landscapes and human cultures and environmental issues around the world. But those worldwide photographic coverages were rooted in his Kansas upbringing and the subjects he found close to home. “Beneath the Prairie Sky” will explore life and meaning on the Great Plains. He has returned often to the subject of the prairie and the livelihoods of the people who make their homes in that ecosystem, at once rich and austere, beautiful and punishing. Filled with both exhilarating wonder and gnawing doubt, the artist says these photographs reflect 50 years of soul searching. Continue reading “Jim Richardson exhibition explores life and meaning on the Great Plains”
Join us in celebrating the work of the district’s students and their
teachers, during the 8th annual Early Expressions student art show. 
In collaboration with the USD 383 art teachers, the Beach Museum of Art, Strecker-Nelson Art Gallery, and the Manhattan Morning Optimist Club, the Manhattan-Ogden Public Schools Foundation sponsored a district-wide art contest for elementary and secondary school students. Over 2040 students in USD 383 submitted original artwork which was juried, and the winning 110 pieces of artwork will be showcased inthe UMB Theatre at the Beach Museum February 10-14, 2016.
The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout
the year for all ages!
February 24, 2-3:30 p.m. – Early Release Workshop – Costume Design
– Parent to Parent School Day-Off Workshop (Junction City)
March 8-11, ARTSmart classes focusing on the spring exhibition “Beneath the Prairie Sky: Photography by Jim Richardson” and landscapes
Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations.
Opening this Spring!
Beneath the Prairie Sky: Photography by Jim Richardson
March 8 – June 26, 2016 Continue reading “Exhibitions”
The museum is open Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10a.m.-5p.m., Thurs 10a.m.-8p.m., Sun, 12p.m.-5p.m. Free admission. Free parking.
Visit us online at beach.k-state.edu
Check out The Beach Blog for behind-the-scenes information, event info, and guest posts.
Watch video of a unique 15 minute keynote address by civil and human rights leader Julian Bond, delivered at the 2011 Indianapolis Museum of Art symposium “Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference,” a gathering held in conjunction with the exhibition “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial.” Learn a bit about Mr. Dial’s highly original artwork, and hear an update on K-State’s Gordon Parks Digital Humanities Project, carried out in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Museum in Ft. Scott, KS. Leaders from KSU’s Black Student Union will comment and lead the audience discussion.
Image: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Harlem Rally, New York, 1963 (printed 1973), gelatin silver print, KSU, Beach Museum of Art, gift of the artist
Celebrate the opening of “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare,” on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art with an evening of Shakespeare-related activities, refreshments and hors d’oeuvres. View the folio and ask questions of gallery interpreters, learn about Shakespeare and his time during scholarly speed talks, and listen to performances in the galleries. Members of the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art are invited to a preview reception from 5-5:30 p.m.
What is the First Folio? Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare would probably have been lost to us without the First Folio. Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, and only 233 copies are known today. Continue reading “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare”
Opening this Spring!
First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare
February 4 – 28, 2016 Continue reading “Exhibitions”
The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout the year for all ages!
February 7, 1:30p.m., Family Valentines Workshop
February 2-5, ARTSmart classes focusing on the spring exhibition First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare and the art of bookmaking.
February 11, 10a.m.-noon – School Day-Off Theatre Workshop
February 24, 2-3:30 p.m. – Early Release Workshop – Costume Design
Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations.
The museum is open Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10a.m.-5p.m., Thurs 10a.m.-8p.m., Sun, 12p.m.-5p.m. Free admission. Free parking.
Visit us online at beach.k-state.edu
Check out The Beach Blog for behind-the-scenes information, event info, and guest posts.