Digital photo collage using vintage photos, watercolor and ink pen.

Look What Happened!

Interpretive piece showing the dilemma of being a mixed blood Native American and walking in two worlds.

Matter of Interpretation

 “The Mayor’s Art Initiative” kicked off in Summer of 2022, and consists of themed art shows hanging in the Mayor of Topeka’s office for 3 months. Art is then brought to 785 Arts for an artists reception, mayoral recognition, and public sale. Curated by Lisa LaRue-Baker, 785 Arts

Mayor’s Art Initiative

Join us at NOTO Arts Center Morris Gallery for August and September 2023 as part of a NOTO Land Acknowledgement project. For this special exhibition artists were asked to submit art illustrating the Three Sisters story from many Native American tribal cultures, as well as depictions of the origins of North Topeka limited to the Gonville-Pappan sisters and the Kaw Reserves. Curated by Lisa LaRue-Baker, 785 Arts.

Three Sisters of NOTO

Explore art and culture of the Indigenous people and artists who made and continue to make Topeka and Shawnee County their home. See the _DoPiKa: A Land Acknowledgment_exhibit in the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery Sept 8 – Nov 26, 2023\. This exhibit is a collaboration with Lisa LaRue-Baker, Cherokee tribal citizen and Gallerist of 785 Arts.

  
Featured artists

You will find art in a variety of mediums and styles in _DoPiKa_. Explore abstract paintings, mixed-media fiber art, photography, contemporary paintings, jewelry, sound art, digital art, beadwork and textiles from the following artists:

* Joe Don Brave (Osage) painting
* Lydia Cheshewalla (Osage) digital art
* Michael Daugherty (Eastern Shawnee) painting
* Gayle Dowell (Osage) jewelry
* Benjamin Harjo Jr. (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole) painting
* Robert Hicks (Pyramid Lake Paiute) digital photography
* Joan Hill (Creek-Cherokee) painting
* Lisa LaRue-Baker (Cherokee Nation) mixed media
* America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) painting
* Wendy Ponca (Osage) textile and painting
* Konrad Pumpkin Seed (Oglala Lakota Sioux) mixed media
* Emily Westfall (Citizen Potawatomi) painting

  

DoPiKa: A Land Acknowledgement

Vintage photo in a digital collage to make a point.

Residential School 

Vintage photo collage, hand tinted with watercolor, word with black ink pen. In tribute to Aaron Douglas.

We Should Give a Damn

Pop Goes the NDN

Vintage photo of Nez Pearce man painting medicine symbols on his lodge are merged with a modern mural on metal doors.

His Medicine Lives On

Merciless Indian Savages

Venice Totem

Vintage photo, hand tinted with watercolors, embellished with basket made by artist.

Guiding Spirit

Mannequin Party

Blue

Dinner on Sunset Blvd.

Street Artist

On Silver Pond

Bet He Has a Story

Train Depot

Cornhusk doll, handmade clothing, handmade Cherokee Baskets.

The Basket Maker

Taking a Break

Cherokee Doublewall Basket with colorful silicon zip ties.

Colorplay

Contemporary Cherokee Doublewall Basket implementing reclaimed copper from the Kansas Capitol Dome. Commissioned by the State of Kansas.

Capitol Offense

Contemporary Doublewall Basket made with black dyed commercial Reed and stainless steel zip ties.

Industrial Basket

Gv Ge Yu I

Using commercial Reed, dye and stainless steel

Stainless Band Doublewall Basket

Contemporary Cherokee Doublewall Basket using commercial Reed, plastic phone cord holders, and puff acrylic paint.

Meltdown

Upcycled antique doll head to show the mixed-blood dilemma of living in two worlds. Mounted on vintage hat stand.

Contemporary Cherokee Doublewall Basket using commercial Reed, stainless steel zip ties and plastic phone cord holders, depicting people of color behind bars.

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