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Discover what it’s like to live on the Kansas prairie — as an animal. See life as a mammal, reptile, bird and more with “Tallgrass TV: Sam Easterson’s Tribute to the Konza Prairie” at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The exhibition celebrates 40 years of research and teaching at the university’s Konza Prairie Biological Station.

In this art, we ride shotgun to all kinds of beasts.

- THE WASHINGTON POST

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Gallery hours

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art Kansas State University 14th and Anderson Manhattan, KS

Mon: Closed Tues-Sat: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sun: Noon-5 p.m.

Admission Free

785-532-7718 beachart@k-state.edu beach.k-state.edu

Parking Free, next to building

ARTSmart Classes for Children Monthly art classes with prairie themes for ages 1 to 12. Details at: beach.k-state.edu/calendar/109/artsmart-classes

School teachers Free tour and art project program for grades K-2 available January 17 – May 30, 2012. Tours focus on prairie animals and the tallgrass biome. Bus grants available on request.

The artist Noted video naturalist Sam Easterson captures photos and videos of wildlife to understand how animals view the world. Easterson’s work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel and Animal Planet.

Viewers used to the sort of nature films you might see on the Discovery Channel might be a little surprised by Easterson’s offerings, which are not action-packed recordings of survival of the fittest, but somewhat more pastoral, presenting what might be a typical moment in an animal’s life.

- THE ROANOKE (VA.) TIMES

The exhibition “Tallgrass TV” features video and photos that detail life as an animal of the Konza Prairie. The exhibition also includes taxidermy displays of a quail, fungi and Luna moth.

Connect Displays will be paired with QR codes. Scan the codes using a smartphone to learn more.

I came up with the concept of using cameras to give an animal’s perspective when I was in graduate school at the University of Minnesota.

In my landscape architecture studies, I learned how sheep were sometimes used to mow Central Park and wondered what it would be like to see from their pastoral perspective.

- SAM EASTERSON

Sam Easterson has refined the art of the critter cam.

- NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

I started collecting other people’s work because I thought it was important to identify that there are a lot of people doing this type of work: capturing remotely-sensed wildlife imagery. All the work collected by me is catalogued digitally on hard drives. I hope to make this work available for display to the public via my new museum.

- SAM EASTERSON