Kansas State University

The Beach Museum of Art’s limited edition 2023 Gift Print is available for sale. It invites interaction and makes a unique holiday gift for family and friends. Purchase your gift print today!

The Friends of the Beach Museum of Art commissions a limited-edition print by a recognized Kansas artist for sale to Friends and the public each year. Kansas State University’s Friends of Art started the gift print program in 1934.

The 2023 Gift Print is a box containing several different prints created by artists Katie Baldwin, Mariko Jesse and Yoonmi Nam of the artist collective wood+paper+box. It is also the focus of the Beach Museum of Art’s current exhibition wood+paper+box in your hands, open through April 6, 2024.

The gift print box leans into the concept of interaction with an invitation to participate in the creative process. Its title, Mise-en-Scène, is a phrase used to refer to stage design and the arrangement of actors in a theatre or film production. A person interacting with the box can compose a “scene” using several prints, take a picture, and upload it to Instagram with the hashtag #woodpaperbox. This exhibition offers the public that experience of interacting with the Gift Print and engaging in a dialogue on social media with the collective and other viewers.

Gift prints are available to the public for purchase. Friends of the Beach Museum of Art at any level receive a 25% discount on the price. For more information about becoming a Friend or purchasing the gift print, please call 785-532-7718 or email beachart@ksu.edu.

Click here for more information about the museum’s Gift Prints.

Top image: wood+paper+box, Mise-en-Scène (2023 Beach Museum of Art Gift Print), 2020–2022, clamshell box, mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock), oil-based woodblock, letterpress, lithograph, and inkjet, dimensions variable, photo: Alec Smith