May 20, 2018
2 pm
Aileen June Wang
Curator, The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
Aileen June Wang with Enrico Isamu Oyama mural
AILEEN JUNE WANG is a curator at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art and organized the exhibition “Water Stories by Lynn Benson,” currently on display until May 26. The exhibit is intended to be in dialogue with The Volland Store’s “River Compositions by Lynn Benson”
Aileen worked with Benson on the Beach Museum’s 2018 Gift Print project, an annual print commission established in 1934 to honor a recognized Kansas artist. The exhibition, programming, and gift print program at the Beach Museum this spring, along with the partner exhibitions and programs at The Volland Store, highlight issues surrounding water use and ethics, a topic dear to Lynn Benson’s heart.
Aileen received her MA and PhD in art history from Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. She focuses on contemporary art, especially when it intersects with graffiti and street art, East Asian cultures and traditions, and digital media and Web technology. She has worked in both the art business and academic fields, including at Christie’s New York, Pennsylvania State University, and Long Island University Post.
Benson’s large-scale work “River Compositions” opens May 5 and continues through July 15, 2018.
www.lynnbenson.com / Instagram: @mlynnbenson, @thewaterplacesproject
Related events
(past events are in gray)
At the Beach Museum of Art
Thursday, March 8, 5:30 pm
“Telling Water’s Story: Art, Science, and Narrative,”
Cynthia Barnett, author of Rain, Peter Dorhout, Vice President for Research at K-State, and Lynn Benson, artist
At the Volland Store Gallery
Saturday, March 10, 2018, 1 pm
“Telling Water’s Story: Art, Science, and Narrative”
Cynthia Barnett, author of Rain, and Jeff Davidson, Watershed Specialist, K-State
Saturday, March 10, 2018, 1 pm
May 19, 2018, 2 pm
“Rattlesnake Creek, the Mississippi River, and Kansas”
Heidi Mehl, David T. Beals III Healthy Streams for Kansas Initiative, The Nature Conservancy
May 20, 2018, 2 pm
Curator’s talk by Aileen June Wang on “The Art of Lynn Benson”
June 2, 2018 – Details to be announced
Mary Pinard, Visiting Poet
June 24, 2018, 2 pm
“Water in Kansas Past and Present”
Rex Buchanan, Director Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey, presented by the Kansas Humanities Council
The exhibit and associated programming are made possible with the support of
Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
National Endowment for the Arts
Volland Store Fund, a 501c3 nonprofit administered by
the Kansas Rural Communities Foundation