Announcement
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.
Tulsa
In Brief
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.
Announcement
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.
Art
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.
Art
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
Art
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.
Art
The Decisive Vernacular Photograph
TULSA, Oklahoma — In the exhibition Unexpected at the Philbrook Museum Downtown, we see a series of 40 anonymous vernacular photographs from the collection of writer and photography collector Marc Boone Fitzerman, curated by the museum's director Rand Suffolk, that offer slices of America's forgotte