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Don’t miss the new Fall 2021 exhibitions! Enjoy the exhibitions in person at the Beach Museum of Art or virtually at beach.k-state.edu.

Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Virtual exhibition launch: September 30, 2021

This 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.

Related events:

Let’s Talk Art: Fort Scott’s Gordon Parks Museum and Gordon Parks Festival.
Livestream conversation with Kirk Sharp, director, Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott Community College
Thursday, September 30, 5:30 p.m.

“Home, What Does It Look Like?: Gordon Parks Responds”
Livestream talk and conversation with Deborah Willis, chair, Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging, New York University
Thursday, November 4, 5:30 p.m.

Let’s Talk Art: Considering the Dance Film Martin by Gordon Parks.
Livestream Conversation: Curator Aileen June Wang discusses Parks’ 1990 ballet film honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., with Theresa Ruth
Howard, ballet dancer and founder-curator of MoBBallet.org (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet).
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Beach Film Club: Virtual Discussion on African American Short Films.
February 2022, date TBD, 7:30 p.m.

Art for Social Good: A Conversation with Terence Blanchard, Andrew Scott, and Kevin Willmott.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7 p.m., McCain Auditorium

Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective in Concert, with staging by K-State students under direction of Andrew Scott and Mathew Gaynor.
Thursday, April 7, 2022, 7 p.m., McCain Auditorium

Beach Film Club: Virtual Discussion of Shaft by Gordon Parks.
April 2022, date TBD, 7:30 p.m.

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.


Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Virtual exhibition launch: September 30, 2021

Doug Barrett is a photographer and videographer based in Manhattan, Kansas. His work demonstrates how Gordon Parks continues to inspire contemporary artists. Barrett’s projects include interviewing, photographing, and telling the stories of homeless veterans, creating a collective portrait of the Yuma Street community of Manhattan, Kansas, and documenting the Black Lives Matter movement in Kansas.

Platinum Major Sponsors: Art Bridges, Beach-Edwards Family Foundation, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grants Program
Silver Sponsors: Terry and Tara Cupps
Bronze Sponsor: Dow Center for Multicultural and Community Studies at K-State Libraries
Image: Doug Barrett, A Beautiful Marriage, from the series Yuma Street, digital print, 2020.16


45 Paleolithic Handaxes
from 
Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past | David Lebrun
Gallery exhibition: September 21, 2021 – July 16, 2022

Publicity image for the exhibition "Paleolithic Points from The Forms: Four Worlds | David Lebrun" showing a young boy standing in front of a larger-than-life projected image of an ancient artifact made of stone.Organized by the museum in collaboration with K-State’s Information Technology Services and Cytek Media System Inc., this experimental multimedia installation is guaranteed to surprise and delight! It features the mysterious beauty of an ancient artifact through specially composed music and unique video animation. See the past differently!

Platinum Major Sponsors: Cytek Media Systems, Inc. and Weary Family
Foundation
Gold Sponsors: David and Mindy Weaver
Silver Sponsors: Jerry and Barbara Boettcher
Bronze Sponsors: Terry and Tara Cupps, Judy and David Regehr, Bill and
Sharon Snyder
Image: “45 Paleolithic Handaxes,” simulation. © 2019 Night Fire Films


Beach Museum of Art's Art in Motion annual program series logo

Click here for details and links to register for virtual events.

All events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the museum’s UMB Theater and/or virtually. Limited occupancy in the galleries to allow social distancing. Limited seating will be provided in the UMB theatre to view livestreamed events. The Beach Museum of Art follows Kansas State University guidelines for COVID-19 health and safety procedures. For more information visit k-state.edu/covid-19.

Current Exhibitions


45 Paleolithic Handaxes from
Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past | David Lebrun

Gallery exhibition: September 21, 2021 – July 16, 2022

Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Virtual exhibition launch: September 30, 2021

Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Virtual exhibition launch: September 30, 2021

Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry
Virtual exhibition launch: June 29, 2021
Gallery exhibition: August 24, 2021 – February 28, 2022
Click here to view the virtual exhibition.

Two by Two Animal Pairs
Virtual exhibition launch: March 30, 2021
Gallery exhibition: August 24 – December 18, 2021
Click here to view the virtual exhibition.

2021 K-State Common Work of Art



 

New exhibitions in September 2021

The Beach Museum of Art is kicking off its 25th anniversary in style with two partner exhibitions by Kansas photographers: one featuring works of the iconic Gordon Parks and a companion exhibition with works by Manhattan-based rising star Doug Barrett. 

Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”
Virtual exhibition launch: September 7, 2021
Marion Pelton Gallery: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022

Black and white photograph entitled "Pool Hall (Fort Scott, Kansas)," by Gordon Parks from the collection of the Beach Museum of Art. Showing a group of African American men standing at the door and by the window of a building. Two older men with a dog chatting by the window and three men standing in the doorway.This 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.

Related events:

KSU Family Day/Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Book Giveaway
Saturday, September 18, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Let’s Talk Art: Fort Scott’s Gordon Parks Museum and Gordon Parks Festival.
Livestream conversation with Kirk Sharp, director, Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott Community College
Thursday, September 30, 5:30 p.m.

“Home, What Does It Look Like?: Gordon Parks Responds”
Livestream talk and conversation with Deborah Willis, chair, Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging, New York University
Thursday, November 4, 5:30 p.m.

Let’s Talk Art: Considering the Dance Film Martin by Gordon Parks.
Livestream Conversation: Curator Aileen June Wang discusses Parks’ 1990 ballet film honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., with Theresa Ruth
Howard, ballet dancer and founder-curator of MoBBallet.org (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet).
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Beach Film Club: Virtual Discussion on African American Short Films.
February 2022, date TBD, 7:30 p.m.

Art for Social Good: A Conversation with Terence Blanchard, Andrew Scott, and Kevin Willmott.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7 p.m., McCain Auditorium

Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective in Concert, with staging by K-State students under direction of Andrew Scott and Mathew Gaynor.
Thursday, April 7, 2022, 7 p.m., McCain Auditorium

Beach Film Club: Virtual Discussion of Shaft by Gordon Parks.
April 2022, date TBD, 7:30 p.m.

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, Pool Hall (Fort Scott, Kansas), 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.445.

Gordon Parks images courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.


Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice
Virtual exhibition launch: September 7, 2021
Archie & Dorothy Hyle Family Gallery: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022

Black and white photograph entitled “Will the hate end?” by Doug Barrett from the collection of the Beach Museum of Art.Doug Barrett is a photographer and videographer based in Manhattan, Kansas. His work demonstrates how Gordon Parks continues to inspire contemporary artists. Barrett’s projects include interviewing, photographing, and telling the stories of homeless veterans, creating a collective portrait of the Yuma Street community of Manhattan, Kansas, and documenting the Black Lives Matter movement in Kansas.

Related event:

Gallery conversation with Doug Barrett
In-person and livestream
Thursday, September 16, 5:30 p.m.

Platinum Major Sponsors: Art Bridges, Beach-Edwards Family Foundation, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grants Program
Silver Sponsors: Terry and Tara Cupps
Bronze Sponsor: Dow Center for Multicultural and Community Studies at K-State Libraries

Image: Will the hate end? from the series George Floyd Protest, 2020, digital print, 32 x 22 in., 2020.20


More in September: 

45 Paleolithic Handaxes
from 
Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past
Ruth Ann Wefald Gallery: September 21, 2021 – July 16, 2022

Publicity image for the exhibition "Paleolithic Points from The Forms: Four Worlds | David Lebrun" showing a young boy standing in front of a larger-than-life projected image of an ancient artifact made of stone.Organized by the museum in collaboration with K-State’s Information Technology Services, this experimental multimedia installation is guaranteed to surprise and delight! It features the mysterious beauty of an ancient artifact through specially composed music and unique video animation. See the past differently!

Platinum Major Sponsors: Cytek Media Systems, Inc. and Weary Family
Foundation
Gold Sponsors: David and Mindy Weaver
Silver Sponsors: Jerry and Barbara Boettcher
Bronze Sponsors: Terry and Tara Cupps, Judy and David Regehr, Bill and
Sharon Snyder
Image: The Forms: Four Worlds. Simulation. © 2019 Night Fire Films


Beach Museum of Art's Art in Motion annual program series logo

Click here for details and links to register for virtual events.

All events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the museum’s UMB Theater and/or virtually. Limited occupancy in the galleries to allow social distancing. Limited seating will be provided in the UMB theatre to view livestreamed events. The Beach Museum of Art follows Kansas State University guidelines for COVID-19 health and safety procedures. For more information visit k-state.edu/covid-19.