K-State's Beach Museum of Art to be closed for Holidays and to prepare for next exhibition

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News release prepared by: Brandi Eilert, 785-532-7718, bmb9999@k-state.edu

Thursday, December 7, 2006

K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM OF ART TO BE CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS AND TO PREPARE FOR NEXT EXHIBITION

MANHATTAN -- The galleries at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art will be closed Thursday, Dec. 21, through Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, for the holidays and to set up the museum's next exhibition.

The museum will resume its regular hours Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, with the opening of "A Decade and a Year: Annual Acquisitions by the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art." The exhibition recognizes the significant contribution the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art has made to the development of the museum's permanent collection in the last 11 years. The organization selects the acquisitions at its annual spring reception.

"For more than a decade, the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art has been responsible for the acquisition of many of the most significant works in the collection," said Bill North, the museum's senior curator. "Since the museum's opening, more than 70 percent of the works purchased for the museum's permanent collection have been acquired with Friends of the Beach Museum of Art funds."

Featured in the exhibition are works by John Steuart Curry, Nicholas Kripal, Herschel Logan, Doug Martin, Frank Olin Marvin, Gordon Moore, Larry Schwarm, Alan Shields, Robert Stackhouse, Judith Streeter and Robert Sudlow.

The exhibition will be in the museum's Helm Gallery and will be on display until Monday, May 21, 2007.

The museum, on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is free, and complimentary visitor parking is available adjacent to the facility. For more information, call 785-532-7718.