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Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

“Kansas Weather in Life, Literature and Photography”

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 5:30 p.m.Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
In-person Humanities Kansas lecture by Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.
Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University,
701 Beach Lane, Manhattan, KS 66506

Our weather is some of the most dramatic in the world, and relationship to weather shapes how we see ourselves. This presentation features photographer Stephen Locke’s vibrant images of Kansas weather paired with poetry by contemporary Kansas writers inspired by the drama that unfolds in the Kansas sky. We’ll discuss our own weather-related stories and how weather shapes our lives, understanding of the natural world, and identity. The museum’s current exhibition, Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry, will be an added inspiration for the conversation.

Mixed media artwork entitled "Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas)," by John Steuart Curry (1897 – 1946) from the collection of the Beach Museum of Art. Showing a landscape and bright sunrise with clouds.

John Steuart Curry (1897 – 1946), Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas), 1935, mixed-media on canvas, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase, 1996.18

This event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series.

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