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Searching for the Seventies? They're at the library.
Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project opens Sat. May 23 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery
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"Young woman watches as her car goes through testing at an auto emission inspection station in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio" - Photographer's words. Lyntha Scott Eiler, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1975
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(Topeka, Kan.) -- Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project is a powerful exhibit of images of everyday life in 1970s America: disco dancing and inflation, projects and bell-bottoms, gas shortages and suburban sprawl. At a time when the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal wore on the national psyche, a burgeoning movement to protect our natural environment was gaining force.
Documentary photographers from the newly-formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) captured the style, blights and culture of a decade on the brink of the future. They toured the U.S. – from its inner city projects to its threatened grasslands and further.
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"Two Latin girls pose in front of a wall of graffiti in Lynch Park in Brooklyn, New York City. Today's inner city is a contradiction to main stream America's gas station expressways shopping centers and tract homes. Blacks, latins and poor whites live there" - Photographer's words. Danny Lyon, Brooklyn, N.Y., June 1974
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Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project is on display at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery May 23 - Aug. 2. It’s a full color, close-up look at a decade with unique trends, fashions, problems and achievements.
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"Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable water that comes from her well, and she has filed a damage suit against the Hanna Coal Company. She has to transport water from a well many miles away. Although the coal company owns all the land around her, and many roads are closed, she refuses to sell." - Photographer's words. Eric Calonius, near Steubenville, Ohio, October 1973
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#HumansOfTopeka, 70s Saturdays & First Fridays
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#HumansOfTopeka
Become a documentary photographer with the gallery’s #HumansOfTopeka project, kicking off with the DOCUMERICA exhibit. Help to create an archive of our city in its current moment. #HumansOfTopeka is a documentary project in partnership with Topeka Metro.
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70s Saturdays | Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Gallery
Craft-making was all the rage in the seventies. Take a trip back in time with quirky crafts that explore the decade and its culture.
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  June 6: 70s-Inspired Night - Search your closet for your best 70s-inspired outfit and disco down to the gallery. Show off your 70s best, take some selfies and join fellow Topekans for viewing the show.
July 3: Bomb Pop Party on the Lawn - Get an early start on your 4th of July celebrations. Spend time listening to sounds of the 70s, play backyard games and enjoy a refreshing bomb pop with friends and family.
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