May 25 Wednesday
The Norick Art Center at Oklahoma City University hosts an exhibit from a collaborative visual art group called Creaturealm Oklahoma. Each member of the group brings diverse disciplines making for an immersive art exhibit. The exhibit runs from April 8-May 27 with an opening event from 5 to 7 p.m. on April 14. The exhibit can be found in the art center’s Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery, 1608 NW 26th Street.
Do you want to display your art? Why not show off your skill by entering it into our art show?
SOKC will be hosting an art show for the community with the theme of oceans of possibilities. You can enter your own artwork, be it paint, drawing, or sculpture! The winners of a popular vote will have their artwork displayed on the library’s social medias.
Artwork should not be larger than 20” x 20”. Images should not include indecent exposure.
Please drop off your artwork at the front desk of the SOKC library with your name, age, contact information, and title of your piece to include in the show. Do not submit anything that is not completely dry. Bring a way to display your art if possible, such as an easel or other display mechanism. This is to ensure that your artwork will look how you want it to when displayed.
Artwork will be accepted from May 15-22nd. Voting will take place from May 23rd-May 30th. Winners will be announced on May 31st at the SOKC SLC Kickoff event.
Art can then be picked up between June 1st and June 15th.
Toddlers and preschoolers explore science through hands-on, come-and-go activities that can be easily replicated with everyday items found at home. Early Explorers is perfect for young scientists with short attention spans.
With knowledgeable local tour guides equipped with a fleet of comfortable and easy to ride bikes, Ride OKC helps people connect with the city on a deeper level. This experience begins by covering OKC's history and it's epic founding. It travels through downtown to see skyscrapers, modern houses, historic buildings, a haunted hotel, luxurious mansions, and beautiful boathouses to learn about the architects and their design. We will visit sculptures, street art murals, bronze monuments and learn about the artists and their work. This leisurely 7.5 mile ride consists of mostly flat terrain and stops frequently for photo opportunities. We'll see key attractions but also discover off the beaten path and hidden gems not found on maps or travel books. Be prepared to be active, have fun, and leave feeling more connected to Oklahoma City on a deeper level.
Schedule: 2.5 hours
Transportation: A Ride OKC bicycle is provided
Key attractions such as the Oklahoma National Memorial, Overholser Mansion, Olympic Training Site, Land Run Monument.
Features: A fun and knowledgeable local tour guide. Insight into OKC’s downtown architecture, notable sites, and history. Comfortable, easy to ride bike, and helmet (optional). Leisurely ride set at a relaxed pace. Bottled water.
Price: $45 per person, all inclusive adventure. Save 20% off by bringing your own bike or scooter with promo code BYOB2018 at checkout.
Explore a new art form in Studio School this summer! With a variety of in-person, four- and eight-week classes or one-off workshops — including traditional favorites and a variety of new subjects — options abound to hone existing artistic skills, create new ones or just have fun in the studio. Topics include 2-D and 3-D media, ceramics, fiber arts, performance and more. No experience required! Classes fill quickly: Check out the full lineup and register at okcontemp.org/StudioSchool.
Traveling from Aspen Art Museum, the exhibition Nature, Sweet Nature, by renowned artist Maren Hassinger, has been reconfigured to respond to the grounds of Oklahoma Contemporary. Nature, Sweet Nature is comprised of two installations constructed with galvanized wire rope. Garden and Paradise Regained will each stand in rows at relative human scale; one near the entrance to the art center and the other within the Sculpture Garden. Garden's uncoiled ends fan out like tall ornamental grass while Paradise Regained is comprised of lengths of industrial rope leaning in a single direction. The movement evoked by the slightly curving lines creates a kinetic effect. Rendering the metal malleable, Hassinger references the movement of reeds, grass and the wind itself. In particular, the dance of shadows cast on the ground by the curved lines of Paradise Regained will track the movement of time through the course of the day and over the year that it will be installed at Oklahoma Contemporary. The accessibility of the Sculpture Garden to visitors entering the building provides a space for what Hassinger underscores as “our tenuous relationship to nature,” connecting each viewer to what might be fragile or responsive in the interdependent nature of our ecosystem. Image: Maren Hassinger, Garden, 2020. Wire rope and concrete (144 units), 61.5 inches tall. © Maren Hassinger. Photo by Simon Klein, courtesy Aspen Art Museum.
Commissioned specifically for Campbell Art Park, Shaved Portions is among the most recent additions to Booker’s body of work marked by her distinct ability to radically transform her signature material — salvaged rubber tires — into an incredible array of biomorphic sculptures. Booker slices, twists, weaves and rivets her medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments. For the artist, the varied tones of the rubber parallels human diversity, while the tire treads suggest images as varied as African scarification and textile designs. Repurposed from cast-off industrial scraps that would otherwise have remained symbols of urban blight or measures of wanton waste, Shaved Portions is a monumental work standing sentinel atop Automobile Alley, which was originally lined with car dealerships. Image: Chakaia Booker, Manipulating Fractions, 2004.
Off the Wall features three Oklahoma-based artists — Sarah Ahmad, romy owens and Marium Rana — who create large-scale works that come in stunning and unexpected forms. These artists work in fiber, textiles and mixed media, using techniques that range from sewing and quilting to the intricate application of paint and the exploration of cutting-edge technology.
Ahmad, owens and Rana have transformed the Mary Leflore Clements Oklahoma Gallery with immersive and interactive installations. Rather than being confined to the walls, their artworks extend into the air and explore the physical, vertical volume of the gallery.
Image: Marium Rana, Awaiting Arrival, 2022. Photo by Ann Sherman.
Focusing on the artist’s body of work over the last 20 years, John Newsom: Nature's Course presents large-scale, richly textured, oil on canvas paintings of flora and fauna. The exhibition will include the brand-new, 9 x 18 foot Nature’s Course and Homecoming, another new painting referencing Oklahoma. Newsom’s work layers and combines elements of Abstract Expressionism, minimalist geometric shapes and hyperrealistic representations of animals to create complex allegories of the natural world. The mid-career retrospective of the Oklahoma-raised and New York-based artist runs March 24 to Aug. 15. Image: John Newsom, Love Flies In, 2005. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Tickets Include: - All Day Museum Admission - 60 Minute Education Program - Scavenger Hunts
Did you know owls swallow their food whole, bones and all? After digesting what they can, owls regurgitate a little lump of fur and bones. These are called owl pellets. Dissecting an owl pellet and identifying the bones inside allows your student scientists to study the diet of owls. Each student will receive their own owl pellet dissection kit and a small bag to take home all of the bones they find and identify.
