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New Virtual Exhibition! “Do You See What I See?”

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The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce the new virtual exhibition created by museum Exhibition Designer and Technology Lead Luke Dempsey. It complements the museum’s gallery installation: Do You See What I See?

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Screen capture of the virtual exhibition "Do You See What I See?" by the Beach Museum of Art. beach.k-state.edu/explore

About the exhibition:
When a person thinks an iconic image or object means one thing and others interpret it differently disagreements can arise. This exhibition presents artworks that challenge viewers to engage in dialogue with those who have different thoughts about what something means. Featured works include loans from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, made available through the Art Bridges Foundation. The Friends of the Beach Museum of Art encourage you to join them in sponsoring this exhibition.

Platinum Major Sponsors: Art Bridges, The Alms Group, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art and Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grants Program
Gold Sponsors: Beach-Edwards Family Foundation
Bronze Sponsors: Steve and Janet Cooper, Russell Clay Harvey and Patty McGivern

New Virtual Exhibition!

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce its new virtual exhibition created by museum exhibition designer and technology lead Luke Dempsey. The virtual exhibition complements the installation in the museum’s gallery: Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism
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"Voices: Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism" virtual exhibition at beach.k-state.edu/explore

About the exhibition:
The fight for suffrage propelled the first wave feminism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the 1960s and 1970s a new generation of women took up the cause of equality. Their demands centered on reproductive rights and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Works by women artists in the museum’s collection give insights into voices from this second wave of feminism. Among the artists are Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Jenny Holzer, and Shirley Smith.

Platinum Sponsors: The Alms Group, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grants Program
Gold Sponsors: Dan and Beth Bird
Silver Sponsors: Mary Cottom and Judy and David Regehr
Bronze Sponsors: Bill and Sharon Snyder

 

New virtual exhibition!

Posted on by Jui Mhatre

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce its new virtual exhibition, featuring a 3-D touring option. The virtual exhibition aims to complement the installation in the museum’s gallery: Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come.

Don’t miss the special features as created by museum technology lead Luke Dempsey. These include an interactive opening screen with significant images from the exhibition. Viewers may hover over an image to bring up related images from each thematic section. Small icons alongside the images allow access to the object’s label with additional details about the artwork. One may also access the special sections of text and poetry included throughout the exhibition.

The virtual version also allows online visitors to “roam” the galleries at will, stopping, turning, or “stepping” near for a closer look. The 3-D tour is made possible by The Alms Group, a Manhattan-based realty firm with a philanthropic mission to support education. An Alms Group cameraman used Matterport technology to video capture the actual gallery spaces.

Click here to view the virtual exhibition Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come.”

Gordon Parks: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come” 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. The gallery exhibition is open through May 28, 2022.

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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.

Open Virtually Now!

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The sun is rising over the new exhibition 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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Mixed media artwork entitled "Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas)," by John Steuart Curry (1897 – 1946) from the collection of the Beach Museum of Art. Showing a landscape and bright sunrise with clouds.

Dramatic weather plays a significant role in Regionalist John Steuart Curry’s art, especially as a symbol of menace. Less recognized is the importance of another event in nature—the sunrise—in Curry’s oeuvre. The celestial motif is explored in this exhibition of the artist’s paintings, prints and drawings. The exhibition pays tribute to the museum’s 1935 painting, Sunrise over Kansas, which suffered discoloration of its sun as a result of the artist’s experiments with materials and now has been conserved.
Image: John Steuart Curry (1897 – 1946), Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas), 1935, mixed-media on canvas, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase, 1996.18

New Virtual Exhibition Just Launched!

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Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse

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Waylande Gregory (1905-1971), a native of Baxter Springs, Kansas, was one of the most innovative and prolific Art Deco ceramic sculptors of the early 20th century. His groundbreaking techniques enabled him to create monumental ceramic sculptures that had not previously been possible, including his Fountain of the Atom for the 1939 New York World’s Fair—a tribute to atomic energy that earned the attention of Albert Einstein. Gregory also developed revolutionary glazing and processing methods and was an important figure in the studio glass movement.

Related upcoming virtual events
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“Waylande Gregory and the New York World’s Fair”
Livestream lecture by Robert W. Rydell, professor of American Studies, Montana State University
Thursday, November 12, 5:30 p.m.

“Waylande Gregory and Cowan Pottery Studio”
Livestream lecture by Greg Hatch, curator/historian, Cowan Pottery Museum
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 5:30 p.m.

Livestream lecture by Robert W. Rydell

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“Waylande Gregory and the New York World’s Fair” 
Livestream lecture by Robert W. Rydell, professor of American Studies, Montana State University.

Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
Join the free program via ZOOM. To register in advance, go to: https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1HZYkH5qQRip_7lTcv_CTA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program. 

Art Deco sculptor Waylande Gregory created numerous monumental ceramic works, including his “Fountain of the Atom” for the 1939 New York World’s Fair—a tribute to atomic energy that earned the attention of Albert Einstein. In this talk, Rydell, an expert on 1930s world’s fairs, will situate Gregory’s projects for the event in the broader vision of the New York fair’s overall theme, “The World of Tomorrow.”

This program is part of the Art in Motion program series, and in conjunction with the virtual exhibition Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse.

Click here to view the Waylande Gregory online exhibition.