2024 Gift Print on view at The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University.

The 2024 Rural Scholar gift print, a collaboration of Ian Huebert and Matthew Regier, is currently on view at The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University as part of its "Rural America" exhibition. Included in the exhibition are historic works by Thomas Hart Benton and John Stuart Curry as well as contemporary photography by former Tallgrass Artist in Residence, Jeremiah Ariaz.

The artworks in this exhibition, which runs through September 2026, “highlight the challenges rural communities have faced and the unique qualities that have sustained them. The works offer a lens through which to consider the struggles and assets of today’s rural communities. Through prints, drawings, and paintings, artists explore themes such as the decline of small farms, school consolidation, grocery store closures, and the fading of local journalism. These are balanced by depictions of rural vitality such as tourism, community events, local cooperatives, faith institutions, and efforts in historic preservation.”