When planning our current Books Outside the Binding exhibit in the Sabatini Gallery, curators Brea Black and Zan Popp suggested filming a demonstration at the University of Kansas. This is our very first video!

Books Outside the Binding
12/5/2008 — 2/13/2009
We expect to find books at a library, but chances are you've never seen books quite like these.

It's exciting to curate an exhibit of the newest, best, most innovative art in the country. It's even more exciting when that exhibit gets recognized by people in the art profession.

The Printed Image 2 is a national juried art competition for printmakers, and was hosted simultaneously at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery and the Mulvane Art Museum. In the October 2008 Review, Carla Tilghman wrote a thorough, honest and compelling review of the exhibit.

Review is a Kansas City...

Kansas Impressions
October 3 - November 14, 2008

Kansas Impressions

This exhibit honors Beth Skoog, and celebrates some of the first artists in Topeka who worked in European traditions. As we were planning the exhibit, Beth's husband, Ralph Skoog, asked "Wouldn't it be great for people to know that we've had really good artists in Topeka for a hundred years, that the artists who are working now aren't a new thing?" The Alice C. Sabatini Gallery is proud to...

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Sabatini Gallery volunteer and Topeka sculptor, Bob Heintzelman, displays his metalwork through September 22.

... Today was fun. I got to hang out with cool people and talk about art and build eye muscles.

When we discuss what we see, what an artist might be trying to say and consider the techniques they're using, we become better tour guides, docents and art professionals for YOU. Below are pictures from our travel log.

Ingredients: (1) pine cone, (1) rock, (1) sea shell, a miniature Bible open to Acts 9:1-28 and a man cupping something in his hands circles
around and around a small track while a wooden wheel rotates clockwise near the electrical cord.

Manhattan (Kansas) artist Marc Berghaus' kinetic sculpture entitled Pilgrim, has people asking, "what's it about?"

August 1– September 28
Alice C Sabatini Gallery (closes 9/19)
Mulvane Art Museum (closes 9/28)

View the exhibit online:
Printed Image 2

Read visitor comments here.

The Printed Image 2 is our national, biennial, juried graphics exhibit. It was established in 2006 and features emerging and veteran printmakers from across the United States using both traditional and breakthrough techniques. This year's show is diverse and visually stunning.

Our murals remind us of something we experienced together (either in the past or as a group of painters) and give us a guidepost for what we're working toward.