From the staff of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.
We look forward to seeing you often during the coming year.
Season’s greetings
Author: Abby Howard
December ARTSmart
ARTSmart classes for children and families return in December with
“Art for the Earth.” Each class includes story time, a gallery visit to “Songs for the Earth” and a mixed-media art project.
Tues. Dec. 15, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Homeschool *
Wed. Dec. 16, 10:30-11 a.m. Toddlers and twos
Wed. Dec 16, 4:00-5:00 p.m. All ages
Thurs. Dec. 17, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Ages 2-3
Thurs. Dec. 17, 4-5 p.m. Kindergarten and up
Fri. Dec. 18, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Ages 4-5
Cost is $3 per child; $1.50 for Friends of the Beach Museum of Art members. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations.
The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout the year for all ages. View our Programs and Workshops.
Current Exhibitions
Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists
Sept 15, 2015 – January 31, 2016
2015 Common Works of Art
August 24, 2015 – July 2016
Jacqueline Bishop: Songs for the Earth
August 4 – December 20, 2015
Stan Herd: Cairns on the Beach
Fall 2014 – May 2017
Image: Jacqueline Bishop, Sonatina, 2010, inkjet and lithograph on paper, KSU, Beach Museum of Art, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Kansas Art Fund, 2010.63
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creativity of a great university, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art serves Kansas State University, as well as area schools, regional residents, and visitors from around the nation and world. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the museum displays a growing permanent collection of regional art as well as traveling exhibitions with wide-ranging themes.
There are many ways you can support our thriving cultural center.
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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.
Please note, the Beach Museum of Art will be closed December 21 – January 4. The museum will resume normal operating hours on January 5.
Visit us online at beach.k-state.edu
Check out The Beach Blog for behind-the-scenes information, event info, and guest posts.
Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood
Art for Every Home speaker series presentation on Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m.
Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame professor of American studies will discuss the relationship between Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood. Light snacks will be provided for this free talk in the Beach Museum of Art UMB Theater.
Image: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton (Limited Editions Club, 1940), Kansas State University, Hale Library, The Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections
Artist Talk: Climate Strange
A talk by Jacqueline Bishop
Thursday, December 3, 5:30p.m.
Jacqueline Bishop’s work is currently on view in the exhibition “Songs for the Earth”. Bishop explores psychological connections between humans and nonhumans through paintings, drawings and printmaking. Influenced by more than two decades of traveling the forests in the Amazon, experiencing Hurricane Katrina, and documenting the BP Oil Spill, her work addresses the politics behind species extinction, and eco-political injustice. The result is surreal landscapes impacted by technology, industrialization, and overpopulation. In these environments birds, symbols for Bishop of the human soul, call out for careful consideration of the delicate balance between organisms and the earth. Light snacks will be provided after this free talk in the Beach Museum of Art UMB Theater.
Image: Jacqueline Bishop, Terra #276: Varied Thrush, 1999, oil on wood with acrylic on paper and metal nails
Thomas Hart Benton: The Perils of War
Art for Every Home Speaker Series presentation on Oct 29 at 5:30pm
Joan Stack, State Historical Society of Missouri curator, will present “Thomas Hart Benton: The Perils of War” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 in the second installment of the Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists speaker series. AAA artist Thomas Hart Benton began a series of eight paintings known collectively as “The Year of Peril” immediately after the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, compelled to express on canvas this heightened threat to American democracy.
Current Exhibitions
Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists
Sept 15, 2015 – January 31, 2016
2015 Common Works of Art
August 24, 2015 – July 2016
Jacqueline Bishop: Songs for the Earth
August 4 – December 20, 2015
Stan Herd: Cairns on the Beach
Fall 2014 – May 2017
Image: Jacqueline Groag, (Great Britain, born Czechoslovakia, 1903–1986), Puppet Ballet, 1953, cotton, printed, Associated American Artists for Signature Fabrics by M. Lowenstein & Sons, Museum purchase, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1999.35.1
Classes and Workshops
The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout the year for all ages!
November 12, 5:30p.m., Adult Printmaking Workshop
December 6, 1:30-3p.m., Family Holiday Workshop
ARTSmart returns in December. Full Schedule.
Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations.
Stay Connected
Visit us online at beach.k-state.edu
The Beach Blog has new content every Monday and Wednesday! Check it out for behind-the-scenes information, event info, and guest posts.
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.
Please note, the Beach Museum of Art will be closed Nov. 26-27 and December 21 – January 4.