A sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief, a ballerina of Osage descent, was stolen from the Tulsa Historical Society and sold for parts to a recycling center.
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Kalup Linzy Bought a House and He’s Sharing It With Artists
Queen Rose Art House is newly alive in Tulsa’s historic Kendall Whittier neighborhood.
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Tulsa Artist Fellowship Provides Extraordinary Support
The award includes a $40,000 stipend, plus fully subsidized living and studio space for two years in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Tulsa Artist Fellowship Provides Stability With $40,000 Place-Based Award
The two-year fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma also includes fully subsidized living and studio spaces for artists and arts workers of any medium or discipline.
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The Fault Lines of Freedom, From Juneteenth to Independence Day
Solidarity gestures are trending but as we move from one “Independence Day” to another, will they be accompanied by structural change?
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99 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, an Artist Reflects
Dear Tulsa, today marks a grim anniversary. Will justice take another hundred years?
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Tulsa NoiseFest Goes Virtual With Local Artist-Musicians
Viewers are invited to tune in to the performance series Local Access, featuring experimental artist-musicians in Tulsa, OK every night at 7 pm (CST), May 4–8, 2020.
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Let’s All Paws to Write Letters to the Lonely Garden Cats of a Museum
The resident kitties at Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art, Perilla and Cleo, are all alone — you can write them a letter while the museum is closed, and get a reply.
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Applications Are Open for the 2020-2021 Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Awards include a $20,000 stipend, fully subsidized living, and studio space within Tulsa’s Arts and Greenwood Districts for one year. Apply by September 6.
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The Sculptor Who Merged Cherokee and Art Deco Styles
TULSA, Okla. — Willard Stone’s wood-carving style might be described as Art Deco Cherokee, with a distinct, streamlined movement and natural themes that reflect his indigenous heritage.
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The Brutality of Little Bighorn, as Seen by Someone Who Was There
TULSA, Okla. — Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: “I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that I couldn’t hear them.”
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19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs
In the 19th century, when photography was developing into a mass medium, a few intrepid early adopters pointed their glass plate cameras at one of the most intimidating natural forces on Earth: the tornado.