Museum features Parks photographs

1/17/2012

LOGAN -- The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum is featuring "Gordon Parks: Crossroads," organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. There are 45 photographs, courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation and the Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Parks is a Fort Scott native and became the first black staff photographer for Life magazine and eventually one of the most influential photographers of the mid-20th century.

The January Artist of the Month is Janice Kenney of Elm Creek, Neb. Kenney has recycled old stuff, wreathes, tables and birdhouses.

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

There is no admission fee.

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