The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce its new virtual exhibition, featuring a 3-D touring option. The virtual exhibition aims to complement the installation in the museum’s gallery: Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come.
Don’t miss the special features as created by museum technology lead Luke Dempsey. These include an interactive opening screen with significant images from the exhibition. Viewers may hover over an image to bring up related images from each thematic section. Small icons alongside the images allow access to the object’s label with additional details about the artwork. One may also access the special sections of text and poetry included throughout the exhibition.
The virtual version also allows online visitors to “roam” the galleries at will, stopping, turning, or “stepping” near for a closer look. The 3-D tour is made possible by The Alms Group, a Manhattan-based realty firm with a philanthropic mission to support education. An Alms Group cameraman used Matterport technology to video capture the actual gallery spaces.
Click here to view the virtual exhibition Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come.”
Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come” exhibition features photographs donated by Parks to Kansas State University (K-State) in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1973. It was the first time that the artist personally curated a set of photographs to donate to a public institution, a kind of self-portrait directed towards the home crowd. The exhibition title includes the first line of a poem written by Parks in 1984, commissioned by and published in the Manhattan Mercury. K-State’s New Prairie Press will publish an accompanying open-access digital catalogue with new research on Parks and Kansas. The gallery exhibition is open through May 28, 2022.
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Platinum Major Sponsors: Art Bridges, The Alms Group, Beach-Edwards Family Foundation, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grants Program, Weary Family Foundation
Gold Sponsors: Dan and Beth Bird and Steve and Debbie Saroff
Silver Sponsors: Annette and Steve Huff
Bronze Sponsors: Mary Cottom and Ann and Mark Knackendoffel
Image: Gordon Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, gift of Gordon Parks and Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.373
Gordon Parks images courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
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