Join Kim Richards from Beach Museum of Art for “Alan Shields: Re-Imagining Two-Dimensional Art” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, in the Bison Room.

Alan Shields grew up on a farm in Herington, Kan. The sensibility, adaptability, and necessity to re-use materials from that rural childhood had major influence on his art. He was a painter and a printmaker whose work often defied two dimensions.