2025 Topeka Competition
Innovative 3D Art
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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.
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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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
2024 Our Stories & Sorting Out Race
his exhibit celebrates and honors generations of African Americans in Topeka.
More2023 DoPiKa A Land Acknowledgment
Explore art and culture of the Indigenous people and artists.
More2022 Melting Point
Explore the work of Studio Glass artists who create colorful and intricate work.
More2022 Forming Fiber
Sculptural fiber art is one of the most innovative forms of contemporary art.
More2022 Resilience
Learn about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II and its effect on following generations.
More2021-2022 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!
More2021 La Comunidad
Community is bigger than geography or family, it’s about a shared experience – the shared experience of La Comunidad (The Community).
More2020 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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