Go behind-the-scenes to meet our African and Asian elephants, Cora and Tembo. Choose your colors and watch as Tembo creates a one-of-a-kind painting just for you, which will be a memory to last a lifetime! Enjoy visiting with the elephant care team and learn about elephants, their care, or zookeeping!

This package includes up to four guests, and it is best to schedule between late April through the end of October. Participants must be ages six and older, and an adult must accompany those under the age of 18.

The perfect behind-the-scenes experience for reptile lovers! Spend time with one of our reptile specialists, with visits and photo opportunities with 5 of our amazing reptiles, which could include American Alligators, African Ball Python, Columbian Red-tailed Boa, Argentine Black and White Tegu, and many more. Plus, chose one reptile from a list during your visit and our keeper will create an original work of art painted by our animals! During your encounter, ask our reptile specialist any questions about our animals, their care, or zookeeping.

Package includes up to four guests. Participants must be ages 4 and older, and those under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

This is a beautiful well polished parrot rosewood carving from Panama. These wood carvings are done by the artists of the Wounaan or Embera tribes who live in the rain forests of Panama.

Commissioned by local artist. 12" tall, 9" deep, 12" wide.

This painted and carved African safari picture frame is absolutely stunning. A great detail lies within this frame, which will make any print even more beautiful.

Overall size of exterior is 16" x 19" and 1.25" thick. Fits 11 x 14 print

This one of-a-kind piece is beautiful. This African Crane Bowl (Hanks Bowl) by Leanne Kilmer was rake fired, with crane feathers, sugar and shedded snake skin. It is 4"x 6 1/2"

This photo was taken in the Kay McFarland Japanese garden by Kathleen Otto. The print is an 8x10 and it is in an 11x14 photo frame

The colors, creativity, beauty, it truly is a one-of-a-kind piece. This art compilation of all 3 of Topeka Zoo's female giraffes, Abi, Hope, and Liz, was created by a talented local artist, Kim Scott. Kim got involved with the zoo earlier this year when she collaborated on a piece with our orangutans that helped raise money for our Roar & Pour Wine Fest virtual event. She is so creative with the various art styles and the mix of objects and fibers she includes to make each one so unique.

This giraffe art is a mixed media piece using acrylic paint and fibers. The size of this print is approximately 18" x 24"

This print is already framed and ready for your wall, it is by Janet Campbell features Sherman Hall it is a limited edition framed print #307/1000. The frame is 19.5 X15.5 inches.

Wow. It's hard to put into words the fantastic work from Kathleen Otto, and the fierce look in Avus's face. You know those friends who always take the perfect photo, well for us, that's Avus, our male African Lion. He works that camera and is one of our favorite models. This canvas print is 12 x 12.

We love this picture it truly shows the bond between the two. This canvas print is of Cora & Tembo and is 11 x 17.

Cora is 62 years old, our Asian Elephant, but when she was much younger she starred alongside legendary actors Burt Reynolds and Sally Field. Cora played "Charlotte" in "Smokey and the Bandit II" in 1980.

Our African elephant, Tembo was born in Africa on January 1, 1971, and arrived at the Topeka Zoo in 1976. Tembo is loved by many in our community and she certainly enjoys being pampered by staff.

4 piece tiger canvas art work

This print is already framed and ready for your wall, by Janet Campbell features Memorial Chapel it is a limited edition framed print #285/1000. The frame is 19.5 X15.5 inches.

This print is already framed and ready for your wall by Janet Campbell features Bull Hall it is a limited edition framed print #260/1000. The frame is 19.5 X15.5 inches.

This print is already framed and ready for your wall by Janet Campbell features the Main Entrance it is a limited edition framed print #269/1000. The frame is 19.5 X15.5 inches.

Travel by stagecoach in the Old West was fraught with danger and discomfort. Way stations were vital links, providing water and a change of horses for the next leg of the perilous journey. The men at the way stations would sometimes help fight off Indians who might be attacking the stage as it was coming in.

Here, however, a band of Indians have surrounded a way station and are burning it down. It is a sod hut, partly under the ground, built out from a slope. The Indians have raided the adjoining horse corral and are taking away the horses for their own use. The next stagecoach to pass this way may well face a critical problem of survival.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 581 of 1000

This Greenwich limitededition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist.

Wolfe's 12,000 square foot photographic store in downtown Topeka, Kansas has been in business for 90+ years. Enjoy this certificate which is redeemable for a 12 x 18 Print Enlargement, and an 18 X 24 Precut Mat.

Wolfe's 12,000 square foot photographic store in downtown Topeka, Kansas has been in business for 90+ years. Enjoy this certificate which is redeemable for a 12 x 18 Print Enlargement, and an 18 X 24 Precut Mat.

In this cavalry scene of the mid-1880s, United States troops have been caught in the open by a very large Indian force and are heading for higher ground to defend themselves. They can hear the chilling war cries of more pursuers, as yet unseen, coming over the hill in the distance. The rider in the foreground is a scout for the troops.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 123 of 1000 This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 29"w x 20"h. Published: June 1979

As the column draws up for the charge, the Indian scout is briefing the officer on the lay of the land and the danger that lies ahead. The morning stillness will soon explode into a thunder of horses' hooves, a clatter of sabers and the blast of a trumpet sounding the charge.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 581 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 28"w x 18 1/2"h.
Published: February 1980

Our tiger cubs are almost two! They all have so much personality, and are getting so big. This print features one of the brothers, Badar. This beautiful picture was taken by our talented docent, Kim Busey. This canvas print is 12 x 12.

We love our Patas babies, they are so adorable. This print features our newest Patas baby, Pili, daughter to Winnie and Harry. This beautiful picture was taken by our talented docent, Kim Busey. This canvas print is 12 x 12.

Our tiger cubs are almost two! They all have so much personality, and are getting so big. This print features one of the brothers, Raja. This beautiful picture was taken by our talented docent, Kim Busey. This canvas print is 11 x 14.

This print features our youngest Orangutan, Bumi! You can always find Bumi playing in the yard on a nice day. This beautiful picture was taken by our talented docent, Kim Busey. This canvas print is 11 x 14.

Our beloved orangutan Lena passed away earlier this year. She was so special to many people. Friends would visit the zoo frequently because that connection was one like no other, and Lena could turn anyone's day around or put a smile on your face with her sweet kisses that she blew.

Widge Yager worked on this piece before Lena passed and reached out to donate it in her honor. It's so beautiful, and is made with fine art pencils, which is so cool! This framed piece is 36.5 L x 24.5 W in size.

A trader with his string of mules listens . . . the mules perk up their ears. Has the sound of a twig snapping alerted them to some hidden danger? Caution in the early West was not only advisable - it was essential for survival. The trader has his flintlock plains rifle ready to draw at the first sign of a threat. Is the threat real?.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 20 1/2"w x 7 1/2"h.
Published: March 1982

Indians became known for their wily tactics, uncanny instincts and knowledge of local terrain. Choosing an easy prey, however, is perhaps the most ancient of military strategies - and one which the Indians could exercise as well as any. A wagonload of supplies returning from town to the ranch offered just such a target. Having no guard for protection, this driver was particularly vulnerable. Now, his only hope is to reach the ranch - and safety - before the hostiles close in.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 23 3/4"w x 11 1/2"h.
Published: August 1981

First it was a total gray void. Only a few feet around you was familiar, the grass and a rock, all the rest a pale, warm gray. Slowly a rock emerged from the mist, then a point of land appeared beyond the rock. It grew lighter and as in creation, new images appeared as the sun pulled the moisture up in wispy swirls. Then there was movement . . . a hunting party of Indians left the trees and moved into the water before them.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is #583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 28"w x 16 7/8"h.
Published: December 1982

Can you imagine begin charged headlong by a thundering herd of buffalo? If you were a settler in the early West, such a terrifying event might be more real than imaginary. The Indians used these powerful beasts to harass the white man by stampeding them into his wagon trains. Their lands being invaded, the Indians were forced to wage warfare however they could and the buffalo stampede enabled just a few Indians to cause a great deal of damage. The buffalo would ram the wagons and the ensuing chaos would enable the Indians to steal the livestock.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 28 3/4"w x 19 3/16"h.
Published: April 1982

This Apache is tracking in rocky country. He has dismounted to look intensely for a turned stone, a scratch, any meager sign that might tell him which way his enemy has gone. Apaches were used in later years by the Cavalry to track those among their own people who had fled the reservation. The Apache's cunning made this a difficult task . . . even though it was an Apache who was doing the trailing.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 26 1/2"w x 16 1/4"h.
Published: June 1982

As the buffalo were killed off of the great open grasslands and the Indians were driven to reservations, cattlemen were never long in filling the vacuum. The cattle industry, as it flourished in the West, could trace its roots to Spanish stock brought over for beef by the conquistadores.

As the Spanish padres founded missions in Mexican Texas, they brought cattle to feed their Indian converts. Through neglect, abandonment and occasionally Indian destruction of the missions, many cattle strayed. Wild herds spread in the brushlands and across the Rio Grande plain. These evolved into the Texas longhorns which were the foundation for the early cattle kingdoms.

After the Civil War, plentiful beef was worth next to nothing in Texas although demand was strong in the East and the North. Daring cattle-poor stockmen drove a quarter of a million head to Missouri in the spring and summer of 1866, searching for a market. These cattle are being brought to the mining towns of Montana for sale and consumption.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is # 583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 29 1/2"w x 16"h.
Published: June 1981

This is a scenic painting of the Northwest with the three trappers and their pack horses as part of the landscape. They are pausing at the edge of a river, deciding where to cross.

The logs in the foreground were deposited by spring runoff when the water was high and grass has grown up around them. Visually, they lead the eye to the trappers who are spotlighted by the early morning sun streaking across the meadow. The dark pine trees and cloud shadows on the mountains lend drama to the scene.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is #583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 29"w x 19"h.
Published: August 1980

Gustave Caillebotte delighted in unusual vantage points and compositions. This close-up view of fruit stacked on a market stand creates a bold pattern of repeated forms and colors, while the sensuous brushstrokes suggest the lusciousness of the fruit.

This print by Gustave Caillebotte, 1848-1894is 22X28 inches and been stored rolled.

he Western American Indian is usually pictured on horseback, especially the warriors. But long before the horse, the Indians were superb runners and even with the horse, learned to run as well as ride.

This small band of Indian warriors has left their horses in a safe place and are approaching the enemy on foot so as not to alert them.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is #583 of 1000

This Greenwich limited edition print has been personally approved and signed by the artist. Image Size: 29"w x 14 1/2"h.
Published: January 1982

This is a framed 17 X 22 poem by C.T. Lanham Captain Infantry featuring artwork by Dickson.

This print depicts a surreal composition of maids walking past seated patrons at tables dining with one another, the background of which swirls around its subjects in a blurry fashion. To the lower right corner of the composition is an in-plate artist signature, date (87) and title, which is complemented to the margins by a handwritten artist signature.

This is a limited edition print is # 94 of 500, this print is 33x25.5 inches.

Under attack, two horses already riderless, the cavalry attempts to delay which may give them time to reach a larger force or at least a defensible position. Under fire, cavalry horses often became excited and could be as much a problem as the Indians. They sometimes pitched, sometimes "cold-jawed" and ran away. Occasionally in helpless fear, they carried their riders headlong into the enemy and sudden death. Many a nameless frontier trooper lies buried in an unmarked grave, its location long forgotten, as a result of similar skirmishes.

This Frank McCarthy limited edition print is already matted and framed and ready to hang on your wall.

This is a limited edition print #17 our of 30 that were made of Danny May's Lady Reading a Book. The frame is 22 x 27 inches.

This is a painting by Kathy Serry an artist who used to live in Topeka Kansas, this painting is signed and dated in 1983. On the back of the painting it is dated 1-20-1983. This canvas is approximately 9X12 inches.