Current Exhibitions

Upon a Time: Create Your Own Adventure

May 28 – December 21, 2024
Find inspiration for creating your own adventure stories through works in the museum's collection. Organized in conjunction with the American Library Association’s 2024 summer reading theme, “Adventure Begins at Your Library,” this exhibition will set the theme for the museum’s summer art programs and tours. There will be new works on paper for continued inspiration, and the exhibition will be a featured fall school tour utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies, an art discussion facilitation method focused on evidence-based reasoning.

Where the Magic Happens: Artists in the Studio

February 13 – October 19, 2024
Explore the creative process through views of artists working in their studios, many of them self-portraits. The exhibition features works from the museum's collection and tools owned by Charles Marshall, Herschel Logan and Bernard Steffen.

Neil Welliver: Maine Seasons

June 27, 2023 – August 17, 2024
Enjoy an imaginary trek into Maine’s natural wonders in this exhibition of three large paintings by Neil Welliver (1929-2005). About his dramatic depictions of the state’s landscape, the artist said he hoped the viewer might “really actively enter … in a psychological sense.” The works are on loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art through the Art Bridges Foundation.

Prairie Views

Ongoing with new selections

This exhibition gives voice to the prairie and provides opportunities for all ages to discover its form and beauty. The exhibition complements the nearby outdoor Meadow as well as art displayed in other galleries, including Jim Richardson’s photographs of prairie root systems. Prairie Views includes photographs of prairie fires by Larry Schwarm and a collage-print related to the Ogallala aquifer by Lynn Benson, among other images.

2023-2024 K-State Common Works of Art

Each year, the K-State Book Network selects a common reading for first-year students, providing an intellectual experience they can share with other students and members of the university community. The 2023 K-State First Book is the multi-award-winning graphic novel They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, illustrated by Harmony Becker. Beach Museum of Art staff have selected work by Lawrence, Kansas, artist Roger Y. Shimomura in the collection to complement Takei’s book about life in a World War II Japanese American concentration camp.