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Source: Martha Scott, 785-532-7718, mscott@k-state.edu
http://www.k-state.edu/bma/
News release prepared by: Caitlin Muret, 785-532-7718, cmuret@k-state.edu

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHS COMING TO K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

MANHATTAN -- "First Person: National Geographic Society Photographs" will be on display Sept. 12-Dec. 7 at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

The exhibition, in the museum's Donna Lindsay Vanier Gallery, will display 20 pictures selected by a committee from the Beach Museum of Art and McCain Auditorium.

The National Geographic Society Image Collection brings images from around the world to the Beach Museum. They include a fishing boat in Chile, the pyramids of Giza and an Inuit Eskimo in Canada.

"The exhibition has wonderfully diverse subject matter that will appeal to everyone," said Lorne Render, director of the Beach Museum of Art. "We are looking forward to displaying these images captured by well-known photographers."

Also Sept. 12, McCain Auditorium will play host to "First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World" at 7:30 p.m. The show is a collaboration with the National Geographic Society; Neal Conan, the host of "Talk of the Nation" on National Public Radio; and Galilei, a group that plays Celtic and early music.

The show is not just biographies of explorers, but parts of actual journal entries, said Thom Jackson, McCain Auditorium marketing director. "It shows what explorers went through so we don't have to go to the arctic to see a polar bear."

More information about the Beach Museum exhibition is available by calling 785-532-7718 or dropping by the museum on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue. Free visitor parking is available next to the building. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays.