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“It’s crucial that the right information, dialogue and the right paths are being made to create journeys for everyone to walk into. It’s never-ending, but I think we are on the right path.” Yatika Starr Fields Anita: A suppression of our history has always been here, so I think it’s really important that people …
Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond Exhibition Adds Never-Before-Seen Items from Blood on the Tracks Era
The Tulsa exhibition focuses on Dylan’s visual art, featuring his Face Value portrait series, along with historic lyric manuscripts and ephemera from The Bob Dylan Archive® collection. The Bob Dylan Center℠ has updated its exhibition, Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond with never-before-seen items from Dylan’s mid-1970s period that produced the renowned album Blood on the Tracks and the Rolling Thunder …
Gilcrease Museum announces free admission for Oklahoma teachers
Gilcrease Museum is pleased to announce free admission for Oklahoma teachers (and one guest) beginning October 5, 2019. The museum is honored to work with teachers across the state on a daily basis to foster a love of arts and culture in students and is committed to supporting teachers inside and outside the classroom. “Providing …
Christopher Mott: Helmerich Center for American Research Fellow
Think apocalyptic culture is a new phenomenon and isolated from history? Think again. Meet Christopher Mott, Ph.D., freelance author/researcher, one of our Helmerich Center for American Research travel grant recipients who was here conducting research for his book on Native American geopolitics and how apocalyptic events such as disease and land theft created unique, indigenous …
Fall Break Events at Gilcrease Museum
Celebrate fall break at Gilcrease Museum. Throughout the week of October 15, we will have several activities for families to enjoy together. Activities include: Drop-In Art: Drop in and create art inspired by fall in Helmerich Hall from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15 and Thursday, Oct. 17. Join teaching artists and discover …
Mexican Modernism exhibit now on display at Gilcrease
La Semana TULSA, OK — Mexican Modernism: Revolution & Reckoning is now on view at Gilcrease Museum. This exhibition features a rotation of works representing a pivotal time in Mexico’s history, from the end of the Mexican Revolution to the middle of the 20th century. Over the course of one year, this exhibition will display …
Tour de Quartz at Gilcrease Museum
Oklahoma high school students are displaying artwork at Gilcrease Museum September – October in conjunction with the Oklahoma Arts Institute’s Tour de Quartz exhibition. Artwork featured in the Tour de Quartz exhibit was created during the 2019 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain (OSAI), a prestigious arts academy held every June at Quartz Mountain …
“Dorothea Lange’s America” at Gilcrease
StudioTulsa Rich Fisher Learn about a new photography show at Gilcrease dedicated to the work of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and her peers. (The exhibit is on view through January 5, 2020.) Lange’s empathetic images documented the toll that the Depression took on the nation. The evidence was seen in the long lines of desperate, jobless …
Matthew Dougherty: Helmerich Center for American Research Fellow
Meet Matthew Dougherty, Ph.D., one of our Helmerich Center for American Research short-term fellows, who was here conducting research over the summer for his work dealing with religion in American expansion. With a recommendation from a Cherokee history professor, hear what he learned and how resources like the John Ross Papers at the Helmerich Center …
Cristina Gonzalez: Helmerich Center for American Research Fellow
Meet Cristina Gonzalez, Ph.D., an associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University. As a Helmerich Center for American Research travel-grant recipient, she spent time here this summer conducting research for her first book concerning Francisican images and their use in converting Indigenous populations in the 16th century through the 19th century. A frequent …