November 16, 2019
2 pm
Jeremiah Ariaz, Jeanerette Trail Ride (Jeanerette, LA (detail), 2015, inkjet print, 30×45 in., courtesy of the artist
Artist Jeremiah Ariaz
will give a talk on his exhibit
Louisiana Trail Riders,
now on view through December 9, 2019, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, focusing on the African American trail riding clubs of southwest Louisiana
and
Elizabeth Seaton, Curator,
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University
will talk about the museum’s exhibition
“John Steuart Curry and the Cowboy Within,”
a survey of the Kansas artist’s depictions of the American West.
The Curry exhibition runs through March 21, 2020. Catalogues will be available.
Jeremiah Ariaz will sign copies of his 2018 book, Jeremiah Ariaz: Louisiana Trail Riders, following the program. Ariaz was raised in Great Bend, Kansas, graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, and is now a professor of photography at Louisiana State University. Jeremiah Ariaz exhibited Staging the West, at The Volland Store in the summer of 2016.
Elizabeth Seaton is curator of Jeremiah Ariaz: Louisiana Trail Riders and co-curator with independent scholar Frank Owings of John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within.
Join us for conversation and refreshments following the program.
Jeremiah Ariaz: Louisiana Trail Riders
Jeremiah Ariaz’s recent work focuses on the African American trail riding clubs of southwest Louisiana, a unique Creole culture that gathers weekly to ride horses to the syncopated rhythms of zydeco music.
The African-American trail riding clubs of southwest Louisiana are a part of a Creole culture that has its roots in the population of free people of color, French settlers, and American Indians who lived in the region during the 18th century. Today, trail rides are an opportunity for generations from rural parts of the state to gather and celebrate. Club members assemble on weekends and move through parish communities and prairie grasslands, listening to Zydeco music from a sound system or live bands in tow.
For Louisiana Trail Riders Ariaz was awarded an ATLAS grant, the South Arts finalist prize, and the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Louisiana Trail Riders has traveled nationally since its inaugural exhibition at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC.
The exhibit is now on view through December 9, 2019, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, curated by Elizabeth Seaton. louisianatrailriders.
One image will be chosen as the 2019 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print, a limited-edition photograph for sale to Friends and the public. For more information about supporting the museum as a Friend or purchasing a gift print, call 785-532-7718 or go to beach.k-state.edu.
Jeremiah Ariaz: Louisiana Trail Riders
at the Beach Museum of Art
August 6 – December 9, 2019
John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within
Elizabeth Seaton, Co- Curator with independent scholar Frank Owings
John Steuart Curry was raised on a farm in northeast Kansas and is best known for his depictions of the Midwest. Experiences on a family-owned ranch in Arizona nurtured Curry’s love of the Western landscape. During the 1920s, the artist illustrated serialized magazine stories that took readers on Wild West adventures. In later years, he created mural interpretations of Westward Expansion.
Through paintings, drawings, magazines and books the exhibition is the first to survey Curry’s vision of the American West. John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within is accompanied by an 80-page exhibition catalogue.