Kansas State University

Inspirations: Art for Storytelling
March 3–July 3, 2020

Each summer the museum collaborates with the Manhattan Public Library to host an exhibition complementing the American Library Association’s Summer Reading theme. These exhibitions shape the museum’s weekly summer art programs, tours, and gallery activities. The 2020 theme, Imagine Your Story, celebrates myths, fairy tales, and fantasy. Whimsical art from the museum’s permanent collection will inspire visitors to create their own stories.

Image: China Marks, Monkey Boy and the Magic Beans, 2007, machine embroidery and appliqué on various fabrics, lace, thread, fusible adhesive, and Beva, 2007 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art annual acquisition, 2007.50

Thursday, February 27, 5:30 p.m.
Native American Perspectives
Panel discussion

Join us for a closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the Voices of the West exhibition. Hear from guest speakers University of Kansas Art Professor Norman Akers (Osage), K-State Anthropology Professor Lauren Ritterbush, and Oklahoma-based artist Minita Crumbo Halsey, daughter of late artist Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi).

Image: Johann Hürlimann after Karl Bodmer, Sih-Chidä & Mahchsi-Karehde, Mandan Indians, 1841, from Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834 (London: Ackermann & Co., 1841), engraving, etching, aquatint, and mezzotint with hand coloring on paper, 19 ¾ x 16 ½ in., gift of Patricia O’Brien, 2019.206

In conjunction with Charles Lindsay: FIELD STATION 4 exhibition. 

Grab a snack and enjoy a Saturday afternoon movie!
Free and open to the public.

Saturday, February 29, 1 p.m.,
Idiocracy

How do you imagine the future of our society? In this 2006 comedy, Luke Wilson plays a man who wakes up after 500 years of dormancy in a cryogenic preservation experiment.
Photo credit: Van Redin TM and © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox

Saturday, March 21, 1 p.m.,
Moon
In this 2009 film Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut who works alongside his robot computer GERTY (voice by Kevin Spacey) and is about to end his three-year period on the Moon mining precious resource to send back to Earth. He experiences a personal crisis that changes his life.
Image: Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell. Photo taken by Mark Tille, © Lunar Industries Ltd., Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Saturday, April 4, 1 p.m.,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Unidentified Flying Object? Military operation? Extraterrestrials? One man’s quest for the truth leads to an unimaginable reality in this 1977 classic.
Image © Columbia Pictures

Thursday, March 5, 5:30 p.m.
“The Old Chisholm Trail”
Talk by Jim Hoy, professor of English, Emporia State University.

The Chisholm Trail wasn’t the first, the last, the longest, nor the most heavily used of the Old West cattle trails, but it was the most famous and the most widely known because of the song the cowboys made up about it.  The lyrics of “The Old Chisholm Trail” contain a composite history of trail driving, covering every aspect of a drive. Professor Hoy will give his presentation around the song and sing a few verses as illustrations. 

Free and open to the public.

In conjunction with the exhibition John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within. On view through March 21, 2020.

Bottom image: John Steuart Curry (1897-1946), The Code of the West (detail), 1923, oil on canvas, 20 x 40 in., Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, gift of Mrs. Ben Hibbs in memory of her husband, 1976.0020. Illustration for Zane Grey’s serialized story “The Code of the West,” The Country Gentleman, July 7, 1923

Tuesday, March 24, 5:30-7 p.m.
Joy Harjo: U.S. Poet Laureate A Reading and Musical Performance
Ballroom, K-State Alumni Center
1720 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506

Joy Harjo is the first Native American to be named Poet Laureate of the United States. Her career has been dedicated to poetry and music as healing forces – for individuals and for our society.

In partnership with Kansas State University’s Student Governing
Association, the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE)
and the English Department, the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance,
K-State Libraries, and the DOW Center for Multicultural and Community
Studies at K-State Libraries.

Photo © Paul Abdoo

Thursday, March 26, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Arrival: Film Screening and Post-film Conversation

This celebrated 2016 film is based on the narrative “Story of Your Life” by science fiction author Ted Chiang.

Post-film discussion will be led by K-State Linguistic Anthropologist Amber Neely and K-State Associate Professor of English Carol Franko. Free and open to the public.

Image © Paramount Pictures

In conjunction with the exhibition
Charles Lindsay: FIELD STATION 4.
On view through October 17, 2020.

Voices of the West
February 4 – July 25, 2020

Charles Lindsay: FIELD STATION 4
November 5, 2019 – October 3, 2020

John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within
September 24, 2019 – March 21, 2020

Image: Norman Akers, New Company (detail), 2011, monotype, 9 13/16 x 13 3/4 in., Friends Kansas Art Fund, 2012.149

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

ARTSmart Classes – Move and play with 3D art in the museum’s collection galleries and special exhibitions. The focus is on creativity and problem solving. Next class: March 4 – 7: Clay Play

Homeschool Tuesdays – Classes meet on the first Tuesday of the month, allowing Homeschool families to participate in the museum’s school field trip program. They are appropriate for those in Kindergarten on up.
Next class: March 3, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Voices of the West (Social Studies and Language Arts)

Cost for each class is $3 per child, $1.50 for military families (cash or check). Reservations required, call 785-532-7718 or email klwalk@k-state.edu. Children must be accompanied by an adult. If you need to cancel your reservation let us know so we can call those on the waiting list.

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!

Click here for all 2020 Winter/Spring programs for children and families

The museum is open Tues, Wed, Fri, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thurs 10 a.m.-8p.m., Sat, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission. Free parking.

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Image: Elizabeth Layton, Untitled (business business business, you gotta have art), 1991, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, 1998.222