Filmmaker and University of Kansas doctoral student Juli Pitzer is taking her film, “Preserving the Past: Topeka’s Jayhawk Theatre” to a live Topeka audience 6:30 p.m. Thurs. April 28 at Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library’s Marvin Auditiorium.

New Deal arts projects were guided by two novel assumptions: artists were workers and art was cultural labor worthy of government support. If we knew these to be true in the 1930s, why has our governor proposed cutting the Kansas Arts Commission?

Once-empty walls now brightened by work of community artists

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 [...]

The arts and humanities benefit everyone. Our government must continue to support the arts, but we organizers must continue to connect our patrons with our producers.

This event is NOT to be missed! A celebration of Topeka and what it can be.