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Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum | Ina Navazelskis from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bethel College 300 E 27th, North Newton, KS, United States

At 4:00 in Krehbiel Auditorium in the Luyken Fine Arts Center on the Bethel College campus, Ina Navazelskis, an oral historian from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, will speak about the value of oral history in helping preserve family stories and in helping us understand the complexities of people's experiences during […]

“East of Liberal: Notes on the Land—Exploring the Myths, Contradictions and Resilience” – Raylene Hinz-Penner, author

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

Discussing the recently published memoir she describes as a personal land acknowledgement, Raylene Hinz-Penner will talk about the central tension of the book, reconciling her idyllic childhood on Dust Bowl land in southwest Kansas with the thorny issues of settler accountability, the knowledge that the land on which her family thrived in the 1950's and […]

“Images of Art and Design in Central Asia” – Phil Epp

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

Nationally recognized local artist Phil Epp will present an illustrated talk titled "Images of Art and Design in Central Asia" describing his observations on art and design while traveling in Kazakhstan for Kauffman Museum's Sunday-Afternoon-At-the-Museum series on Sunday, March 12 at 3 p.m. Epp visited Kazakhstan in 2009 as a part of the State Department's […]

“Of Wool & Silk: Textile Explorations in Central Asia,” Dr. Mary M. Dusenbury, Affiliate Research Curator, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

In 2009 Dr. Dusenbury travelled through the deserts of Xinjiang in Northwest China to the vibrant trading city of Kashgar, before driving over the Torugart Pass in the Tien Shan mountains to the high summer pastures of Kyrgystan to stay in a herder’s yurt for several days. Then through Kyrgystan - looking at felt making- […]

Sunday-Evening-at-the-Museum: “Making the World a Better Place for Birds: Women’s Authorship and Activism in Ornithology,” Dr. Kim Perez

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

April 21, 2024 | Dr. Kim Perez will explore the role and impact of pioneering women in birdwatching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on figures like Mabel Osgood Wright and Florence Merian Bailey and their relationship to the burgeoning field of ornithology, their activism, and their role as authors. Dr. Kim […]

Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Birds and Birders Connect Kansas to the World” – Stan Senner, Vice President for Bird Conservation (retired), National Audubon Society

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

May 5, 2024 | Stan Senner will draw on 50 years’ experience in ornithology and natural-resource conservation to describe the amazing feats of migratory birds, how they connect Kansas to distant lands and peoples, and what their migrations mean for bird conservation at home and abroad. Funding for this program is provided by Humanities Kansas, a […]

Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Planting Prairie: Restoring Land and History,” Lorna Harder, former Curator of Natural History, Kauffman Museum

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

Lorna Harder, professor emeritus of biology at Hesston College and former Curator of Natural History at Kauffman Museum, will celebrate and explore the 40th anniversary of the Kauffman Museum tallgrass prairie reconstruction, which she and Dwight Platt began work on over four decades ago. Join us! (Photo by Fernando Salazar)