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Livestream Conversation

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The Moran Brothers and America’s Lands
Guest: Laura Fry
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 5:30-6 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public

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Livestream conversation with guest Laura Fry, senior curator, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa about artist-brothers Thomas and Edward Moran and their landscape paintings on view at the museum. The Thomas Moran painting is on loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Edward Moran, Western Landscape, 1866, oil on canvas, 29 ½ x 50 in., gift of Charles V. Kincaid, 1963.6

Laura FryLaura Fry began as senior curator and curator of American art at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2015. Fry is leading the development of an interpretive plan for the Gilcrease permanent collections in the museum’s new building (estimated to open in 2026). Fry earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She received a master’s degree in art history from the University of Denver. Before Gilcrease, Fry worked at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

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

Livestream Conversation

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Let’s Talk Art: Livestream Conversation with Artist David Lebrun and Composer Yuval Ron
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, 12 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)

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Artist David Lebrun photo

Join a virtual conversation with the artists of the video installation Transfigurations: Reanimating Ancient Art of India at the Beach Museum of Art. This multimedia exhibition created by David Lebrun features twelfth-century century sculptures from Southern India in a unique and powerful way through combination of high-resolution photography, animation and specially composed music by Yuval Ron. Moderated by Jui Mhatre, Beach Museum Communications and Marketing Specialist.

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Composer Yuval Ron photo

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

 

 

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"Transfigurations: Reanimating Ancient Art of India" exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art.

Livestream Conversation

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Let’s Talk Art: Livestream Conversation with Fidencio Fifield-Perez on Maps, Borders, and Migration
Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 5:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)

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Fidencio Fifield-Perez Photo by Ryan BachFidencio Fifield-Perez, born in Mexico and raised in the U.S., uses his art to tell stories about his experience as a child immigrant and the systems of border control that affect human lives. He and Curator Aileen June Wang will discuss his work Fishers of Men in the museum’s collection, which is currently on display to express the museum’s solidarity with Ukrainians displaced by the war between their country and Russia. 

Photo by Ryan Bach

Mixed media artwork "Fishers of Men" by Fidencio Fifield-Perez in the Beach Museum of Art collection
Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Fishers of Men, 2016, acrylic and ink on cut maps, 96 x 108 in., 2018.340

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

Let’s Talk Art: Indigenous Aesthetics

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Let’s Talk Art: Indigenous Aesthetics
Livestream Conversation
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 5:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)

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Beach Museum of Art Director Linda Duke moderates the livestream conversation as artists Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish-Kootenai, Métis-Cree, Sho-Ban) and Norman Akers (Osage Nation) reflect on use of space and representation in their work. Ambrose Smith is the creator of the 2021-2022 K-State Common Work of Art, From Upstream I Caught a Fish.

Let's Talk Art with guests Neal Ambrose Smith and Norman Akers

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

Let’s Talk Art: Considering the Dance Film ”Martin” by Gordon Parks

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Livestream conversation:
Considering the Dance Film Martin by Gordon Parks
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)

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Curator Aileen June Wang discusses Parks’ 1990 ballet film honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., with guest Theresa Ruth Howard, ballet dancer and founder-curator of MoBBallet.org (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet).

 

Theresa Ruth Howard. Photo by Eva Harris

A still from the dance film "Martin" by Gordon Parks.

Preview different acts of the ballet film through the link below: 

https://outandaboutnycmag.com/1-27-19-oa-nyc-dance-martin-a-ballet-by-gordon-parks-act-v-mourning-place/

Top image: A still from the dance film Martin by Gordon Parks.

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

 

Let’s Talk Art: Gordon Parks Museum and the Gordon Parks Celebration

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Kirk Sharp photoLivestream conversation
Thursday, September 30, 2021, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
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Let’s Talk Art features Kirk Sharp, Director, Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott Community College in conversation with Beach Museum of Art Curator Aileen June Wang.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I come,” 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. Support provided by Art Bridges.

Let’s Talk Art: Gordon Parks Museum and the Gordon Parks Festival

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Kirk SharpLivestream conversation
Thursday, September 30, 2021, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
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Let’s Talk Art features Kirk Sharp, Director, Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott Community College in conversation with Beach Museum of Art Curator Aileen June Wang. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I come,” September 7, 2021 – May 28, 2022. This virtual event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series.

 

Let’s Talk Art: livestream conversation on murals in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Logo of "Let's Talk Art," Beach museum's series of monthly discussions with artists and creative thinkers about work in the museum's collection.Photo of artist Nick Fisher, a.k.a. Sick Fisher, at the mural he painted in downtown Manhattan, KS. Thursday, June 3, 2021, 5:30 p.m. 
Let’s Talk Art: livestream conversation on murals in Manhattan, Kansas.
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Join a livestream conversation with Beach Museum of Art Curator Aileen June Wang, Incite MHK’s Jessica Tegethoff, and artist Nick Fisher, a.k.a. Sick Fisher, who painted a mural in downtown Manhattan, KS. Incite MHK aims to make communities more vibrant and welcoming by deploying the well-demonstrated power of public art.

Photo of artist Nick Fisher, a.k.a. Sick Fisher, at the mural he painted in downtown Manhattan, KS.

 

Let’s Talk Art: livestream conversation with artist Caroline Thorington

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Thursday, March 25, 2021, 5:30-6 p.m.
Join the free program via ZOOM. To register in advance, go to: https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EUv71zUeTyGoet00W40YbQ 

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Join printmaker Caroline Thorington for an informal discussion of her Natural History Series, featured in the museum’s upcoming exhibition Two by Two: Animal Pairs  and to learn more about her printmaking process.

Part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series.

 

 

Livestream conversation: ‘Let’s Talk Art’ with artist Randy Regier and film screening with director Gail Lerner.

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Thursday, February 4, 5:30-6 p.m.
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Let’s Talk Art with artist Randy Regier
Livestream conversation with the artist his ToyGantic sculpture in the museum’s Inside Out exhibition
Join artist Randy Regier for an informal discussion of his work, ToyGantic, in the museum’s current exhibition of lighted window displays, Inside Out. Regier’s highly crafted, 3-D works offer lively conceptual narratives about childhood, social issues, and the past as future. Regier is a graduate of Kansas State University. He lives and works in Kansas City, Kansas.

"ToyGantic" by artist Randy Regier in the Beach Museum of Art's collection.

Randy Regier, ToyGantic, 2005-2006, found materials, acquisition made possible with funds provided by Commerce Bank and the William T. Kemper Foundation, 2007.74

Special Post-Program Film Screening, 6-7 p.m.
Raise the ToyGantic with writer and director Gail Lerner (2015, 27 min.)
Watch the film inspired by Randy Regier’s ToyGantic with creator Gail Lerner. Lerner has been a writer and director for such TV hits as black-ish, Ugly Betty and Will & Grace.

Gail Lerner, writer and director of the film "Raise the ToyGantic"
Gail Lerner
This virtual event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series. For information on more museum events click here.

Beach Museum of Art’s YouTube Channel

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Enjoy the Beach Museum of Art’s videos of art, artists and programs including “Let’s Talk Art,” new series of monthly conversations, “Art Bytes,” featuring art in the museum’s collection, educational programs, Art in Motion Expo, talks, behind the scenes of exhibitions and more! While you are at it, please don’t forget to subscribe to our channel!

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Let’s Talk Art

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Livestream conversation with artist China Marks
Thursday, November 19, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
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Join artist China Marks for an informal discussion of her work, Monkey Boy and the Magic Beans, in the museum’s current Inspirations: Art of Storytelling exhibition. Marks is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. She lives and works in Long Island City, New York.

This program is part of the Art in Motion Program series.

China Marks, Monkey Boy and the Magic Beans, 2007, machine embroidery and appliqué on various fabrics, lace, thread, fusible adhesive, and Beva, 2007 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art annual acquisition, 2007.50