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Your Connection to the Arts

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The Alice C. Sabatini Gallery is your connection to the arts and curates four main exhibits each year including the Summer Art Exhibit for Children. In addition to the large exhibits, gallery staff curate several exhibits throughout the library each year giving visitors opportunities to explore a wide variety of art and artists.

 

Exhibits

Current Exhibit

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Dr. Drab's Lab
Dr. Drab, an evil scientist turned artist, has stolen all the paint colors in the library's Alice C. Sabatini Gallery! You can help rescue the paint colors from Dr. Drab's Lab May 31 - Aug 24, 2025. Each week we will work together with arts and craft projects to get the paint colors back. In this fun art exhibit, you can play in our interactive cityscape and watch throughout the summer as the gallery goes from Drab to fab.
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Upcoming Exhibits

Inked
Sept 12 - Nov 30, 2025
Explore the artistry and techniques of tattooing. If you are a Topeka area tattoo artist who would like to share your stories and insights, please complete a quick form.

Gardens
Dec 12, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

 

Past Exhibits

Topeka Competition

2025 Topeka Competition

Innovative 3D Art

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Immersed

2024/2025 Immersed

A Walk Inside Art

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graphic camera lens that looks like an eye

2024 Through The Lens

Photographic art exhibit

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The Floor is Lava!

2024 The Floor is Lava

Annual Art Exhibit for Children

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Our Stories

2024 Our Stories & Sorting Out Race

his exhibit celebrates and honors generations of African Americans in Topeka.

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Light and Shadow

2024 Light and Shadow

Discover how light ad the human eye work together.

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DoPiKa

2023 DoPiKa A Land Acknowledgment

Explore art and culture of the Indigenous people and artists.

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Unexpected Friends

2023 Unexpected Friends

Art exhibit for kids

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Shades of Greatness

2023 Shades of Greatness

Art Inspired by Negro Leagues Baseball

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glass

2022 Melting Point

Explore the work of Studio Glass artists who create colorful and intricate work.

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forming fiber

2022 Forming Fiber

Sculptural fiber art is one of the most innovative forms of contemporary art.

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Oceans of Possibilities

2022 Oceans

Discover how we all impact the world’s oceans.

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resilience

2022 Resilience

Learn about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II and its effect on following generations.

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Blue

2021-2022 BLUE

Explore the depths of the color Blue with the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery! From a light robin's egg blue to the rich “new blue,” you will discover how blue is made and how it's seen. We’ll even try renaming a few shades of blue!

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La Comunidad

2021 La Comunidad

Community is bigger than geography or family, it’s about a shared experience – the shared experience of La Comunidad (The Community).

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Rainforest

2021 Rainforest Adventure

Summer Kids Exhibit

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Forest Bathing

2020 Forest Bathing: A Walk in the Trees

Feel your stress and worries ease, relax as you wander through a variety of forest and tree artworks and see how artists are inspired by nature.

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