Biojewelry made from donated bone cells. Body modification for love. Free-hand sketches drawn in the air, captured by video and instantly materialized. Fabric built 3-dimensionally, layer by layer on a computer. Victimless leather. Health labs on a card in your pocket. Housing and city planning based on six-sided nanoparticle growth patterns. Furniture design that mimics the human body's ability to generate bone to support different areas of pressure. Mapping neighborhoods that yeild higher levels of social injustice and incarceration. Internet dating site data made into individual portraits that can be perfected and changed by the viewer.

Prepare to be amazed!

What do Nicolas Lampert, Dr. Dre, the Beastie Boys, Pablo Picasso, mules, Dekalb corn, the Prius, George Braque, Girl Talk and the Chicago Police Department have in common? Find out in the Sabatini Gallery when Hybrid Visions opens June 6. Can't be here? View our online exhibit of Hybrid Visions.

Our volunteers and docents are a diverse group.

Spending time in and around the Sabatini Gallery attracts everyone from students interested in a career in the Arts or Museum field to retirees with a passion for people, enriching conversation and opportunites for personal growth. We welcome a range of interests from greeting and secretarial work to assisting us with filing, data entry, exhibition installation, photographing events and light research.

If you think this might be the place for you, give us a call and we'll go from there. Sign up to work events or a simple daytime desk shift. Hours are relatively flexible.

PBS's Antiques Roadshow will be in Wichita KS on July 12, 2008.

Maybe you're the lucky owner of a million-dollar Civil War relic or outstanding example of furniture. Or maybe your flea market find is a fake. The April 20 deadline for online ticket applications has passed, however a random selection for free tickets will be conducted in early May. Emails notifying applicants if they were chosen go out beginning May 9. So, if you applied, watch your inbox. If you missed it, watch the show. You'll get a good sense what sorts of things Kansans collect and inherit.

It is the mission of the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery to enrich the lives of library customers and to be a cultural center for Topeka and Shawnee County. The mission of the Gallery supports the mission of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, especially in supporting life-long learning.

The Alice C. Sabatini Gallery will fulfill that mission through the presentation of exhibitions, and the collection, preservation, and maintenance of records for the permanent art collection, to make the collection available to the community of Topeka and Shawnee County through exhibitions and display through the library, and to assist with reference on objects in the collection and the artists who made them.

Approved 09/2006