Kansas State University

Voices: Art Linking Asia and the West
December 4, 2018–December 21, 2019
This exhibition is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s yearlong program Silk Road through Kansas. A section of the permanent collection galleries will highlight the exchange of aesthetics and ideas between East and West through objects made by artists who traveled between the two regions. This project is a collaboration between curator Aileen June Wang and University of Kansas art history professors Sherry Fowler and Maki Kaneko. Area museums are participating in “Silk Road through Kansas” with similarly themed exhibitions! Check the websites of the following museums for dates and details: Spencer Museum of Art, Mulvane Art Museum, Ulrich Museum of Art.

Top image: Imari Charger (Dutch Merchants and Ship), 19th century,
porcelain, 2 x 16 in., bequest of John H. Kohn, 1989.38
Bottom image: Roger Y. Shimomura, Martin Cheng: Painter and Fisherman, from Return of the Yellow Peril, 1991, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase, 2002.480

Pete Souza: Two Presidents, One Photographer
February 5-April 27, 2019
Souza served as official photographer to both President Reagan and President Obama and developed an abiding respect for both men. It is the artist’s intention to have these images contribute to civility and respect across party lines during the lead-up to the 2020 election season. The museum is proud to be the first venue for this historic exhibition.

Tuesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Talk by Pete Souza
Kansas State University, McCain Auditorium
Free tickets available at McCain box office beginning February 26, 2019. https://www.k-state.edu/mccain/

Top image: President Reagan working in Oval Office (October 26, 1988)  Bottom image: President Barack Obama works at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office (October 14, 2016). White House photographs by Pete Souza.

Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection
March 5-June 15, 2019
The 1930s and 1940s were a golden age for murals in America when the everyday worker rose to the status of hero. Murals celebrating the work of miners, farmers, and other laborers covered walls in public buildings across the country. Preliminary ideas played out in sketches, and nearly fifty of these are displayed in this exhibition. On loan from Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

Philo B. Ruggles (United States, 1906-1988) and John Ruggles (United States, 1907-1991), Steel Workers, 1939, competition sketch for Section of Fine Arts mural, post office, Bridgeport, Ohio (unrealized), gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cardboard, 16 1/4 x 37 3/8 in., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971, 2015.23.4.2

Beyond Gravity: Selections from the Permanent Collection
April 2-October 19, 2019
Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969. This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing and compliments the Manhattan Public Library’s summer reading theme A Universe of Stories.

Raymond Loewy (United States, 1893 – 1986), Moonlanding, detail, 1979, color screenprint with embossing on paper, 19 1/16 x 24 in., gift of Gilbert E. Johnson, 2017.100

Silk Road through Kansas: 2018-19 Program Series

The History and Art of Tea
talk and demonstration by tea master Shozo Sato,

Special film screenings,

East Meets West Game Night,

and more exciting programs!

Picturing Kansas
October 5, 2018 – June 1, 2019

Voices: Art Linking Asia and the West
December 4, 2018–December 21, 2019

Image: Shirley Smith, Burning Field, (detail), 1994, oil on canvas, 56 x 56 in., gift of Shirley Smith Estate, 2014.42

The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout the year for all ages.

View the Spring 2019 ARTSmart programs for families

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Special price for Military Families:  In conjunction with the Blue Star Museum program, the Beach Museum of Art offers military families half price on all workshops and classes!

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Image: Elizabeth Layton, Untitled (business business business, you gotta have art), 1991, KSU, Beach Museum of Art