It’s a bird. It’s a train. It’s LEGOMAN getting married? LEGOMAN playing Foosball? LEGOMAN battling the Smurfs for control of smurf village? Ever since first encountering LEGOMAN on the Shawnee County lake grounds hundreds of snapshots ago, XYZ photographer, EJ Drake, knew he was onto something special. “I wanted to take a picture of it … Continue Reading
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Artist Michele Stitzlein, Baltimore, Ohio, and 76 students from Eisenhower Middle School recently created a bottle cap mural for the Mulvane Art Museum. Now, the public has the opportunity to name the bottle cap mural. Stop by to see the mural, located on the well outside the Mulvane’s ArtLab and submit your name suggestions. Name suggestions for the … Continue Reading
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The cobblestone sidewalks of downtown Topeka will once again be adorned with chalk murals and makeshift maps with the third annual ReThink Topeka Exhibition and Artwalk Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 12 – 7:30 p.m. Featuring a wide variety of local art, music, poetry and food, this event offers an activity for every member of … Continue Reading
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Visiting artist to create recycled bottle cap mural and participate in Family Day event at the Mulvane Art Museum’s ArtLab. Sculptor Michelle Stitzlein from Baltimore, Ohio, will visit Topeka March 7 to 10 and will work with children in several of the Museum’s Art in School and Art after School classes to design and build … Continue Reading
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The Upstage Gallery Developing Artist Program is an opportunity designed to promote a real life art world experience. Young talent are given the opportunity to participate in actual gallery procedures through artist interaction, mentoring, and gallery exhibition. Selected artist for February, Shaylene Rees, is a young photographer who attends Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kan. … Continue Reading
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The NOTO Community Arts Center, a collaboration of NOTO, the Mulvane Art Museum and Topeka Public Schools, is bringing art classes for all ages, with some awesome offerings for kids beginning this weekend. Art contributor to XYZ Bailey Marable is the very cool and friendly instructor for Saturday’s classes, and we promise, your kids will … Continue Reading
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by Bailey Marable | photos by Bailey Marable Bailey is teaching this art project this weekend in NOTO. Read about how to get your child signed up and about other classes in NOTO for kids here. O.K., to start with this project is completely stolen. But then, aren’t most art projects? This one is stolen … Continue Reading
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The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is hoping to spark interest in filmmaking, especially among local teens, with its upcoming program “Off Screen: A Conversation with Director Kevin Willmott” Oct. 23 from 3-5pm, Marvin Auditorium. Kevin will weave film clips and other media together to tell the story of his journey from small-town Kansas … Continue Reading
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by Leah Sewell | photo courtesy Mulvane Art Museum The Blue Planet Cafe, or rather the “Boo Planet Cafe,” is offering up a special Halloween dining and art event for kids that they won’t soon forget. As part of the Mulvane Art Museum’s Artful Dining series, the proceeds from the ticket sales will help the … Continue Reading
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by Cale Herreman | photo by Gary Krohe The pictures, in their tidy black frames, are not large. They show some amazing scenes of birds and beasts, and humans doing ordinary things in ways alien to us. Each one is a window upon a deeper world. Each one a story. The current exhibit at the … Continue Reading
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Tesa, age 12
Tesa would like to have a forever home with a huge yard and other children to play with. Tesa enjoys gardening with flowers, fruits and vegetables. Her hobbies include playing the guitar and piano; she likes making up her own songs. When Tesa grows up she would like to become a nurse. She will need encouragement & a family who will be patient and show her that she is valued.
To learn more about adoption visit adoptkskids.org or call 877-457-5430. Tesa’s case number is CH-5510.
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