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Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives

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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.

 

Livestream Conversation

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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.

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

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.

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.

ART BYTES on the museum’s social media

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Enjoy short videos about art in the Beach Museum of Art’s collection. Each video will feature information about an artwork in the collection, the artist who made it, and the techniques used. Art Bytes release on first Wednesdays on the museum’s social media channels:

Facebook: BeachMuseumofArt 
Instagram: beachmuseum
Twitter: @BeachMuseum

Enjoy past Art Bytes videos on the museum’s YouTube channel at beach.k-state.edu/videos.

Art Bytes video screenshot

Screen capture of Art Byte video on Haying by Bernard Joseph Steffen, presented in Spanish by Andrea Fernanda Ramírez Tello.

BEACH FILM CLUB: Virtual discussion of “Shaft” by Gordon Parks

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Watch films in advance and then join the free virtual discussions. In collaboration with K-State Student Union Program Council.

April 13, 2022, 7 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)
Virtual discussion of Shaft (1971 USA). Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Director: Gordon Parks
Streaming: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play. 

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

Catch the free screening of Shaft at K-State Student Union on April 12, 2022, 6 p.m.. Free streaming available April 10-12, 2022. Click here for more information.

Isaac Hayes, Shaft – Music from the Soundtrack, 1971, vinyl recording discs with lithograph on paperboard sleeve, 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 in., gift of Carole Chelz, CM1.2005

Beach Museum of Art's Art in Motion annual program series logoClick here to watch the trailer of Shaft

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I come.” All virtual discussions are free and open to the public. Email questions at beachart@k-state.edu. This virtual event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s annual program series, Art in Motion: a tribute to Marianna’s love for lifelong learning.

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)

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.

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.

Art Bytes: short encounters with the collection of the Beach Museum of Art

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Enjoy short videos about art in the Beach Museum of Art’s collection on the museum’s social media.
Learn more about the wide variety of art in the museum’s collection. Each video will feature information about an artwork, the artist who made it, and the techniques used. Check out the Beach museum’s social media channels for Art Bytes releases! Next Art Byte release February 2, 2022!

Facebook: BeachMuseumofArt 
Instagram: beachmuseum
Twitter: @BeachMuseum

Enjoy past Art Bytes videos at beach.k-state.edu/videos.

Beach Museum of Art's Art Bytes video screen capture

Screen capture of Art Bytes video on Lido by Lino Tagliapietra, presented by Miki Loschky.