Community Calendar

"Discovering Ansel Adams" features over 100 photographs that share Adams’s most celebrated works while revealing aspects of his development that are frequently overlooked. Together with original archival materials from the Center of Creative Photography’s Ansel Adams Archive, these photographs demonstrate how Adams transformed from a fourteen-year-old tourist with a camera into a renowned photographer between 1916 and the 1940s. Along the way, photographic prints from his early visits to the American Southwest, his mountaineering experiences as a young man, and his quest to photograph America’s national parks will enchant visitors.

We all have an inner artist, and some even act upon it. Join us in the beautiful, well-lit Conference Room to work on your project. Find support, ideas, and maybe make some friends as you all work on your projects.

Supplies are not provided, just bring what you are working on and everything you will need. [Registration Required.]

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Have you ever played Valve's Portal or Portal 2? Or perhaps you're a fan of Symmetra's teleportation portals from Overwatch? Or any other sci-fi media that involves portals that carry you from place to place? Then this is the program for you!

Join us for a two session program involving 3D prints, laser cut and engraved wood, character design, and resin pouring! **Photographs represent examples of completed session 1 projects.

During session 1, attendees will design and paint their portals and minis, then attach them so they appear to be entering and exiting from one or two portals. We will have a variety of halved 3D printed designs available! If you'd like to have a custom one printed, please make an appointment at the SOKC maker lab before September 23rd to arrange to have one printed!

During session 2, attendees will use epoxy resin to complete the final portal effects with glow in the dark resin, sparkles, alcohol ink swirls, and other cool additives to the resin! These one of a kind portals make for cool wall hanging, bookends, desk decorations and more! Keep one for you and gift another to a friend, as a way to "connect"! Or keep them both for yourself, we won't judge! ;)

All supplies will be provided. No experience necessary, but it is recommended that attendees come prepared to attend the entire program. Attendance at both sessions is necessary; please ensure you can attend both before registering.

Designed for teens and adults.

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Join us Friday, September 26 from 6 to 8pm for our monthly 4th Friday Film Screening at Uncanny Art House. Each month we showcase independent films, documentaries, and creative cinema that spark conversation and celebrate the art of filmmaking.

This screening is free and open to the public. Come enjoy a thoughtful night of film in the heart of downtown Norman.

ABOUT UNCANNY ART HOUSE

Uncanny Art House is an independent, artist-run gallery and creative space dedicated to fostering collaboration, supporting local artists, and promoting the visual arts. Located in the heart of Norman, Oklahoma, Uncanny Art House is a hub for creativity, community, and innovation.

For more information, follow us on Facebook or Instagram and stay updated on all our events and exhibitions.

Join us for a special screening of the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, a deep dive into the mind of the legendary Maus creator. This intimate film explores Spiegelman's lifelong obsession with trauma, memory, and the grotesque, tracing how disaster has fueled his most iconic and subversive work.

From underground comix to Pulitzer recognition, Spiegelman's career reflects a restless drive to confront the darkest corners of personal and collective history, always with biting wit and bold visual storytelling.

Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes

This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT 4TH FRIDAY FILMS
4th Friday Films is a film screening series in partnership with Pioneer Library System and Uncanny Art House to bring educational screenings and films to downtown Norman, Oklahoma. The films we screen are based on the current exhibition and are free and open to the public with a discussion following each each showing.

ABOUT UNCANNY ART HOUSE
Uncanny Art House is an independent, artist-run gallery and creative space dedicated to fostering collaboration, supporting local artists, and promoting the visual arts. Located in the heart of Norman, Oklahoma, Uncanny Art House is a hub for creativity, community, and innovation.

For more information, follow us on Facebook or Instagram and stay updated on all our events and exhibitions.

On Friday, September 26, at 6 p.m., the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library will host a book signing with travel writer Matt Kirouac. His most recent publication, Secret Oklahoma: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure focuses on Oklahoma’s lesser-known features.

Matt Kirouac is an Oklahoma City transplant after two and a half years of RV living. He is an award-winning travel, culture, and food writer, with bylines in Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic, AFAR, Thrillist, InsideHook, Midwest Living, and other publications. Kirouac also serves as the senior dining writer at 405 Magazine, and in 2023, was given a Hometown Hero award by Visit OKC. He is the author of Unique Eats & Eateries of Chicago and Secret Oklahoma, both published by Reedy Press, and currently serves as communications chair for Oklahoma’s largest, Oscar-qualifying film festival, deadCenter Film.

Books will be available for purchase at this free event.

Experience the sights, sounds, and creatures that emerge at water’s edge as day turns to night. We’ll meet at the museum to learn about creatures that come out each evening and then caravan in personal vehicles to a Norman park to see and hear them for ourselves! This program is suited for ages 5 and up..

Registration is required for each participant. Participants aged 17 and under must be accompanied by a registered adult.

Eslabon Armado is coming to The Criterion on Friday, September 26th!

Choreography by Rena Butler, Michael Bearden, Boyko Dossev, and Glenn Edgerton

Michael Bearden and Glenn Edgerton join forces to choreograph a reimagined ballet inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Magical spirits, nymphs and forest royalty bring light and life back to their woodland home. Boyko Dossev contributes s sparkling, elegant classical ballet to the program, and we are honored to present, Tsela, a premier by esteemed international choreographer, Rena Butler. This production is suitable for all audiences.

Single Tickets on sale beginning September 10, 2025

For tickets and more information, visit us at theatre.ou.edu

In 1905 New York City, Esther, a Black seamstress, is in great demand for the intimate apparel she creates for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Though leading a life that provides joy to so many, she remains lonely and longing for a husband and a future. Through a mutual acquaintance, she begins a correspondence with a lonesome Caribbean man named George and soon he persuades her that they should marry, sight unseen. When George arrives in the city, he is not the kind of man she longs for. Esther’s heart is drawn to the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth, and his heart is with her. Esther is hit with the reality of the situation and she is forced to face a future that she is truly unprepared for.

​Each show has 10 performances over 3 weekends.
Second & third weekends include Thursday & Sunday.
Showtimes: 8pm Friday & Saturday, 7:30pm Thursday, 2pm Sunday