Catalogues

2025 “Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms,” Catalogue, Essay by Dr. Valerie Mendoza, Independent Public Historian

Reviews and Citations

2025

Scott, Chadd. “Remembering The Topeka Bottoms”, Essential West Magazine, April 23, 2025: web article (photo).

Hrenchir, Tim, “The Bottoms Remembered”, The Topeka Capital-Journal, April 4, 2025

Hrenchir, Tim, “What ‘The Bottoms’ Meant to Topeka and How a Film and Art Exhibit Are Featuring It”, The Topeka Capital-Journal, April 3: Local (CJonline)

Hellman, Rick. “Multimedia Art Project Pays Tribute to Vanished Topeka Neighborhood”, KU News: April 1, 2025, web article (photo), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Wang, Yidong. “Understanding the Community Impact of Digital Storytelling,” Stories For All. A Digital Storytelling Project for the Twenty-First Century, February 2025: pp.10-11 (photo)

2024

Karash, Julius. “As Controversies Rage Across the Nation, DEI Invigorates our Local and Regional Arts Scene”, KC Studio Magazine, November 12, 2024: On Business and the Arts, online and on print (photo)

“Stories For All Festival in Lawrence Aims to Amplify Voices of Marginalized People,” The Lawrence Times, April 13, 2024: Arts & Events, web article

Media Coverage

2025

Historian Refuses to Let Memory of Lost Topeka Neighborhood Disappear, KSNT News27, Aug 4, 2025

I-70 Construction Scratches Old Wounds in Topeka, KSNT News27, Aug 4, 2025

Mikayla Kelly, Documentary Component to, “Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms,” Premieres In Front Of A Full House, 3 WIBW, April 5, 2025   

Topeka Bottoms Exhibit Debuts in NOTO, KSNT News27, April 4, 2025

Melissa Brunner, Creators of Exhibit on Topeka’s Bottoms Neighborhood Share Story, 13 WIBW, April 4 , 2025

Tori Whalen, Preview: Art Exhibit & Documentary on Forgotten Topeka Neighborhood Coming Soon, 13 WIBW, April 2, 2025

2024

Vince Munoz, I Am Striving: María Velasco, University of Kansas Office of Research, March 28, 2024

Film Screenings

2026

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Brown v Board of Education, National Historical Park, Topeka, KS (Sept)

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Art Emergency, Lawrence, KS (April)

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Off-Site Artspace, Lawrence, KS (March)

2025

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Brown v Board of Education, National Historical Park, Topeka, KS (April)

Exhibitions

2026

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Off-Site Art Space, Lawrence, KS (March)

2025

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Great Overland Station, Topeka, KS (June~August)

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, Marlo Cuevas-Balandran Activity Center, Topeka, KS

Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms, ArtsConnect, Topeka, KS (April~May)