Join us for gallery activities and art projects featuring our spring exhibitions! This is a chance to explore Charles Lindsay’s Field Station 4 andInspirations. Make a journal to record your own stories.

Join us for a free afternoon of gallery activities and art projects for the whole family. This year’s special theme is “Make Believe” and additional inspiration will come from the National Endowment for the Humanities Picturing America print set. Co-sponsored by USD 383 Early Learning Centers, Kansas Association for the Education of Young Children, and […]

A reading by the current U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.  Sponsored by the Department of English, the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance, the Dow Center for Multicultural and Community Studies at K-State Libraries, and the Beach Museum of Art.

Talk by Jim Hoy, professor of English, Emporia State University. The Chisholm Trail wasn't the first, the last, the longest, nor the most heavily used of the Old West cattle trails, but it was the most famous and the most widely known because of the song the cowboys made up about it.  The lyrics of […]

Panel discussion: Join us for a closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the Voices of the West exhibition. Hear from guest speakers University of Kansas art professor Norman Akers (Osage), K-State anthropology professor Lauren Ritterbush, and Oklahoma-based artist Minita Crumbo Halsey, daughter of late artist Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi). Free and open to the […]