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1xbet online sports betting SCULPTURE TO BE BUILT ON THE GROUNDS OF K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM OF ART BY DAN SNOW, AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

MANHATTAN -- Dan Snow, a master waller, 1xbet online sports betting share his skills and dry stone artistry in a brief residency at Kansas State University, Sept. 24 to Oct. 5.

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Snow's residency is sponsored in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that believes a great nation deserves great art. Other partners include Bayer Construction, Manhattan, and 1xbet online sports betting 's Center for Engagement and Community Development.

Snow also 1xbet online sports betting give a talk as a part of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design's Lee A. Bryant Memorial Lecture series. "LIMITS = POTENTIAL: Dry Stone as a Medium of Expression" 1xbet online sports betting be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Beach Museum of Art's UMB Theatre. Snow 1xbet online sports betting discuss the artistic potential of dry stack stone construction, using examples from his own body of work and the work of other contemporary artists, as well as historic dry stone walling from Europe and the United States.

The Lee A. Bryant Memorial Lectures on Art and 1xbet online sports betting honor Bryant, a 1970 1xbet online sports betting alumnus who died of a stroke in 1981. The lecture series is a tribute to Bryant's passion for art and way to share with future generations of students his concern for the vital interaction of art and 1xbet online sports betting .

For more information, contact the Beach Museum of Art at 785-532-7718 or drop by the museum on the southeast corner of the 1xbet online sports betting campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue. Free visitor parking is available next to the building. Normal museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays.