Enjoy the first first First Friday Art Walk of 2011. And if you’re the twittering kind, use hashtag #ffaw. Let your friends and seveneightfive know where you are, and how much you love it! Alice C Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Library, Continues with “The Printed Image 3″ With 61 artists, 21 states and [...]

Premiering at Top City Thursdays tonight, in the vacant storefront at 8th and Kansas Avenues, the Chords & Oil arts collective will be debuting their newest art installation, POP UP TOP. POP UP TOP seeks to breathe new life into vacant storefronts of Downtown Topeka. Vacant storefronts that have long sat empty are transformed into [...]

Alice C. Sabatini at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library | A continuation of the show “Convergence,” with sculpture by Jim Brothers, paintings and collage by Louis Copt and photography and installation by Daniel W. Coburn. It runs through September 3. Art Guild Gallery, The Topeka Art Guild & Gallery (5331 SW 22nd Place– Fairlawn [...]

Back in March of this year, Topeka was riding high on the “Google, Kansas” wave.   Internet powerhouse Google was looking for a city to test their new broadband initiative and the organization Think Big Topeka asked the city’s residents to petition the internet giant.   Thousands of Topekans took the up challenge and helped to gain [...]

What is Topeka missing?  An international airport, a walking labyrinth, 24-hour sushi delivery… But first things first: a yarn store! A local sewing shop! A Greek restaurant? The storefronts at 5th and Washburn have been targeted by Karen Hiller of Central Topeka Turnaround Team, plus a few dozen interested Topekans who want to see the [...]

The Blue Planet Cafe is issuing a call to Kansas artists for environmental or nature-themed two-dimensional artworks.  The “soft opening” of the cafe is slated for late August.  Art director (and cookie connoisseur) Sarah Carson is planning an initial collection that reflects the global responsibility of the cafe. “We plan to recycle, compost, use compostable [...]

Alice C Sabatini Gallery “Convergence: Artists Capture the People, Land and Strength of Kansas” Convergence explores the recent efforts of three distinct Kansas artists—Louis Copt, Daniel Coburn and Jim Brothers—whose work embodies much of what we love about our home state: the great expanse of native landscape, our rich history and ongoing narrative. But it [...]

“Lantern Light” is a steel sculpture that is aesthetically provocative at its most basic, with an encapsulating form that suggests, in its very title, an unseen beacon. The sculpture is now an integral part of the landscape at Washburn University, one of the myriad pieces of artwork that provide moments of reflection amidst a bustling [...]

The 2010 Aaron Douglas Art Fair Committee has announced this year’s featured artist, Shanon Fouquet. Inheriting her father’s artistic ability and her mother’s eye for design, Shanon’s desire to create was not only inevitable, but also strongly encouraged from a very young age. After establishing herself as a promising creative student in high school, Shanon [...]