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Women in Art: Then and Now

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Gallery Conversation
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 12-1 PM
Beach Museum of Art (701 Beach Lane, Manhattan , Kansas 66506)
Free and open to the public 
Light refreshments available

Visiting artist Susie J. Lee, Curator Aileen June Wang, and Museum Specialist Nate McClendon facilitate a discussion about paintings of women on display and the realities of being a woman artist today. Organized by the Beach Museum of Art and the Kansas State University Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging with generous support from Art Bridges.

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Current Gallery and Virtual Exhibitions

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

Gallery photo of the exhibition "45 Paleolithic Handaxes from Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past | David Lebrun"

Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Click here to view the virtual exhibition.

Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice
Gallery exhibition: September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022
Click here to view the virtual exhibition.

Gallery photo at the Beach Museum of Art

Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry
Virtual exhibition launch: June 29, 2021
Gallery exhibition: August 24, 2021 – February 28, 2022
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Gallery photo of the exhibition "Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry"

2021 K-State Common Work of Art

Print entitled "From Upstream I Caught Fish" by artist Neal Ambrose-Smith in the Beach Museum of Art's collection. Showing a fox jumping in air looking down.

 

Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish-Kootenai, Métis-Cree, Sho-Ban), From Upstream I Caught Fish, 2008, etching and transfer on paper, gift of Joe and Barb Zanatta, Zanatta Editions, 2009.136

Considering Techniques: Jim Richardson on Gordon Parks

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Jim RichardsonThursday, February 24, 2022, 5:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)
Livestream gallery conversation with National Geographic photojournalist Jim Richardson.

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

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I come,” open through May 28, 2022 at the Beach Museum of Art. View the virtual exhibition here.

Gordon Parks, Mrs. Jefferson, 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, gift of Gordon Parks and Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.373

Gallery conversation with artist Doug Barrett

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Thursday, September 16, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Join the free program in-person at the museum or via Zoom. Click here to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program.

Doug BarrettDoug 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.

Offered in conjunction with the artist’s first museum solo exhibition Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice, September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022 at the Beach Museum of Art.

This event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series. Limited occupancy in the galleries to allow social distancing. Limited seating will be provided in the UMB theatre to view the event livestreamed. 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.

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