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Current Gallery and Virtual Exhibitions

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Gallery Exhibitions (on view from May 9, 2023 museum reopening)

Do You See What I See?

"Do You See What I See?" exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art


Transfigurations: Reanimating Ancient Art of India by David Lebrun

September 27, 2022 – May 27, 2023

"Transfigurations: Reanimating Ancient Art of India" exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art.

Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism

August 9, 2022 – December 16, 2023

"Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism" exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art

Prairie Views

Ongoing with new selections

"Prairie Views" exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art.

 

2022-2023 K-State Common Works of Art

color etching and aquatint on paper entitled "Monument to a Standing New Yorker" by Tony Fitzpatrick "Untitled" color lithograph by Yoonmi Nam

Left image: Tony Fitzpatrick, Monument to a Standing New Yorker, 2001, color etching and aquatint on paper, gift of the artist, 2003.12
Right image: Yoonmi Nam, Untitled, 2010, from the series Transient Landscapes, color lithograph on paper, 2010 Friends Gift Print, 2010.42

Click here to view current Virtual Exhibitions

Classes and Workshops

Posted on by Jui Mhatre
The Museum hosts a variety of classes and workshops throughout
the year for all ages!

ARTSmart Classes – Move and play with 3-D art in the museum’s collection galleries and special exhibitions. The focus is on creativity and problem solving.
Next class:
January 8-11: 3-D Paper

 

 

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: January 7, 1-2:30 p.m. Picturing Kansas (environmental science and social studies)

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

Now Open! Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

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Andrew McCallum, Siege of PetersburgThe Becker Archive in Boston, Massachusetts, contains approximately 650 previously undocumented drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. They observed, drew, and sent back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the Chicago fire, and other important events of nineteenth-century American history. There has been no major exhibition or scholarly survey featuring Civil War drawings since the 1961 centennial, and at that time the Becker Collection had not yet come to light.

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