2024 Light and Shadow
Discover how light ad the human eye work together.
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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.
Our Stories
African American Topeka Before and After Brown.
This exhibit celebrates and honors generations of African Americans in Topeka, the tight-knit neighborhoods they built, and how their legacies continue to shape the city today. Our Stories is an exhibition made in collaboration between the Black American Blueprint Collective and the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery.
Sorting Out Race
Sorting Out Race is a traveling exhibit that uses commonly found thrift store items such as salt-and-pepper shakers, children’s books, and antique advertising cards to guide a community conversation about stereotyping and history cultural perceptions of race.
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Summer Adventure Art Exhibit for Children
May 25 – Aug 18, 2024
This interactive summer exhibit for children explores the spirit of adventure. This exhibit is made possible in part by The Library Foundation through contributions from the Sabatini Family Foundation.
Through the Lens
Sept 6 – Dec 1, 2024
Travel back in time to learn about photographic processes before the digital age.
Immersed: A Walk Inside Art
Dec 13, 2024 – March 2, 2025
Using innovative technology, explore the world inside pieces from the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery’s collection in this immersive art projection exhibit.
View the work of K-12 student artists from all over Kansas at the library and vote for your favorite.
2023 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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