By SHIRLEY HENRICKSON

Special to The Hays Daily News

LOGAN -- The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum announces the exhibit "Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty."

The exhibit of 25 black-and-white richly detailed framed photographs was organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C. The tour was developed and managed by Smith Kramer Fine Arts Services, Kansas City, Mo.

Ansel Adams, who lived from 1902 to 1984, was born in San Francisco and took his first photograph with a Kodak Brownie box camera in Yosemite Valley when he was 14. Although trained as a concert pianist from 1914 through 1927, he also studied photography with the photo-finisher Frank Dittman. By 1930, photography became his career choice and the American western landscape his focus.

The David Vollbracht oil painting workshop will be July 22 to 25. The class will be from 9 a.m. to noone and 1 to 4 p.m. Vollbracht is a representational landscape painter of the west. His work reflects the quality of light, nature and spirit drawn from the land. For many years, he has made trips to various parts of the West to gather reference material for realistic impressions created primarily in oil. Vollbracht emphasizes the beauty and importance of the natural landscape in his compositions. He is intrigued by the patterns and shapes in nature and concentrates on the effects of light on these elements.

This class will be on the use of photography as a reference material. Special emphasis will be placed on the limitations of photography and how to use it as a point of reference instead of a crutch.

Design, color, values and composition will be explored as well as the more elusive but just as important elements of mood, passion and attitude that can make a good painting better and a better painting great. Call (785) 688-4846 to enroll.

Five souls braved the first water aerobics class this week. The weather has not been conducive to water aerobics in the evenings. Call (785) 689-4846 for more information.

The June artist of the month is Anna Ferguson from Kensington. Ferguson has towels, blankets and pot-holders on display and for sale.

Museum hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays and holidays.

For more information, contact Shirley Henrickson at (785) 689-4846 or visit www.hansenmuseum.org.

Shirley Henrickson is director of the Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum in Logan.