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Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

Thurs., April 24, 2025 | 5:30 PM | Livestream | Free and open to all 

Click here to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program via Zoom.

Join this livestream conversation about tree planting campaigns on the prairie and their impacts. Guest speakers are Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art at University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Jesse Nippert, K-State University Distinguished Professor in the division of biology; and Carson Vaughan, author and freelance environmental reporter. Beach Museum of Art Curator Elizabeth Seaton serves as moderator.

The program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape: Dana Fritz, open through Aug. 2, 2025 at the Beach Museum of Art. Admission to the museum and parking are free.

 

Double Take: Gallery Tour of Select Artworks

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, 5:30-6 PM | Beach Museum of Art | Free and open to all

Gallery conversation at the Beach Museum of Art

What is the artist trying to say? Is there a story behind that?
Hosted by Beach Museum Specialist Nate McClendon, this program will answer these questions as it offers insight and perspective into selected artworks on display at the museum. Joined by curators, artists, and museum staff, we will explore the intentions, motivations, and related stories behind the artwork and exhibition presentations. Specifically, we will explore how the art relates to and reflects themes and experiences of modern society. This 30-minute program will also provide a platform for participants to anonymously share and observe reactions to the art in real time.

Join us throughout the year as we take a closer look into selected works on exhibit at YOUR art museum.

Artist Talk by Dana Fritz

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

Artist Talk
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape: Nebraska’s Hand-Planted Forest
Thurs., Feb. 20, 2025, 5:30-6:30 PM
Beach Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Artist Dana Fritz photo
Dana Fritz

Photography professor Dana Fritz of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln speaks about her project to make visible the forces that have shaped a hand-planted forest in the Sandhills of central Nebraska. Her ethereal black and white photographs in the Beach Museum’s exhibition, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, (Feb. 4 – Aug. 2, 2025) emphasize patterns in the land and help visualize how the more than 100-year-old site has become a metaphor for our current environmental predicaments. Fritz is the 2025 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist.

Dana Fritz, Fire Tower View, 2021, inkjet print, 16 x 40 in., courtesy of the artist
Dana Fritz, Fire Tower View, 2021, inkjet print, 16 x 40 in., courtesy of the artist

Double Take: Gallery Tour of Select Artworks

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, 5:30-6 PM
Beach Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

What is the artist trying to say? Is there a story behind that?
Hosted by Beach Museum Specialist Nate McClendon, this program will answer these questions as it offers insight and perspective into selected artworks on display at the museum. Joined by curators, artists, and museum staff, we will explore the intentions, motivations, and related stories behind the artwork and exhibition presentations. Specifically, we will explore how the art relates to and reflects themes and experiences of modern society. This 30-minute program will also provide a platform for participants to anonymously share and observe reactions to the art in real time.

Join us throughout the year as we take a closer look into selected works on exhibit at YOUR art museum.

Gallery conversation at the Beach Museum of Art