As a professional artist, you have to manage a lot of roles. How much time do you spend on building your own brand? Being a full-time designer and artist, my whole business is centered around, well, me and the type of energy I emit into my work. So I spend a lot of my time […]
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ARTIST FEATURE: GRPFLY
OKG sat down with Vernon Deas, founder of GRPFLY, OKC’s premier apparel company, to talk about what inspires his designs. What is the historical reference of GRPFLY? The word GRPFLY, aka Group Fly, is a group of people elevating to a higher destination. We started our brand in 2008. We used inspiration from the Tuskegee […]
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OKG Artist: Arsenios Corbishley
luthier noun lu·thi·er | \ `lü-tē-ər , -thē-ər \Definition of luthier: one who makes stringed musical instruments (such as violins or guitars) Oklahoma Gazette: How did you get into the world of violin making, also known as being a luthier? Arsenios Corbishley: I got into violinmaking kind of by accident. I was a cellist and […]
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OKG Artists: Greg Pogue Jr.
Oklahoma Gazette: How did you get into making art? Greg Pogue Jr.: I started drawing at an early age. I use to draw Marvel comic characters and cartoons. I took a break so I could focus on playing sports during high school and college, and I didn’t start back drawing until I had a terrible […]
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Artist of the Quarantine: Jake Durham
“One of my favorite quotes is from Albert Einstein, ‘I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.’ Yet this is the challenge for artists. How does one find inspiration in imagination?” Jake Durham said. “I spent the majority […]
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Artist of the Quarantine: Brooke Rowlands
Self-taught artist Brooke Rowlands is making waves in the art world. Her work has been featured nationally from Texas to Times Square in addition to features in national television series including The Vampire Diaries and Houzz project with Actress Olivia Munn. Rowlands is a native of Trenton, New Jersey who has resided in Oklahoma for […]
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Artist of the Quarantine: April Dawes
“Painting has always been a place of refuge for me. It’s how I center myself, quiet my mind and escape from the rest of the world,” April Dawes said. “I have never been more grateful for this escape than during the quarantine. Although I struggled to find motivation and lacked focus in the first few […]
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PRESS RELEASE Oklahoma History Center’s newest photo exhibit to present the “ordinary”
Beginning June 15, the Oklahoma History Center will offer a new photographic exhibit entitled In the Vernacular: Everyday Images of Oklahoma Life, which will celebrate everyday image-making. The exhibit is expected to run for approximately one year, and is composed of 36 black-and-white and color images curated from the Oklahoma Historical Society’s photographic collections. It […]
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Artist of the Quarantine: Avery Wilson
“Right now, I feel like my work is everywhere because I’m all over the place. My background is in illustration and design,” Avery Wilson said. “I’ve been trying a bunch of new things this year. It’s been hella uncomfortable, but that’s where all the fun shit happens. If I’m not at @alorichanel trying to figure […]
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Artist of the Quarantine: Mia Le
“I first began linocut last year, and since then, it has become my favorite medium to work in,” Mia Le said. “It can be hard when you just started learning, but it is very therapeutic when carving. I love how satisfying it is to print it for the first time and look at your hard […]