Arts

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the nation’s Federal Indian Policy centered around the concept of assimilation.  During this time, programs were set up to provide vocational training for Indians, said Steve Grafe, curator of American Indian Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Several Indian artists “? mostly Kiowa “? were […]

he Plaza, said events like Friday’s are part of an effort to “promote the local artists” and to make the public aware of the district’s new businesses. A diverse array of new businesses have opened in the district, Vails said, reflecting the owners’ common affection for community and creativity. Collected Thread sells handmade and vintage […]

Post-college, many artists enter a difficult transition where they can’t rely on scholarships, grants and awards, and must forge an audience for their work in the art world.   MIXED-MEDIA PIECESFREE REIGN Mainsite Contemporary Art’s “Emergent Artists” show focuses on four artists tramping out their own paths as they work to establish their careers.  “Being an […]

ke it known to his family that he loved them while he was alive. Only Carl (Michael Castile), the family’s younger son, and the audience can see Dad or his ghost or whatever it is, so Carl must channel his father’s messages to the family. FAMILY ACTSMom (Kris Schinske) acts as if she’s in the […]

Inspired by the urban fabric and colorful inhabitants of a fictional city, “Saltimbanco,” Cirque du Soleil’s newest spectacle, is a high-intensity acrobatic display of strength, agility and cultural diversity.   Saltimbanco “explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms: the people who live there, their idiosyncrasies and likenesses, families and groups, the hustle and bustle […]

Reduxion Theatre Company was founded by local actor and director Tyler Woods in 2000. After relocating to New York, he and his wife, Erin, decided to re-brand the company in a way that would stand out, even in the crowded New York scene. “Romeo and Juliet” is the first production mounted by Reduxion since the […]

More than 3,000 years ago, a privileged 19-year-old Egyptian, given to hunting from his chariot, took a spill that shattered his leg just above the knee. WORLD TOURDESIGN The injury had to have been excruciating, in a time when little could be done but rub ointment and pray. For pain, there might have been beer. […]

Acts of nature can be unpredictable, beautiful and sometimes miraculous. A lone heart-shaped leaf at Lions Park in Norman is all three.   Professional photographer Ken Davis recently lost his 2-year-old nephew, Weston Luke Guiltner, who died unexpectedly of unknown causes on Sept. 16. On Oct. 23, the family planted two trees at Lions Park in […]

Taking a creative leap across the Pacific, a local theater company has adapted William Shakespeare’s classic love story, staging star-crossed lovers who meet on an American naval base in post-World War II Japan. The Reduxion Theatre Company’s opening performance of “Romeo and Juliet” is 8 p.m. Friday at Stage Center, 400 W. Sheridan. “There’s a […]

The Sooner Theatre continues its “Sooner Stage Presents” series with a production of the beloved Broadway classic “Annie.” Among the most-known musicals of the last three decades, the Tony award-winning “Annie” tells the story of a spunky, Depression-era orphan determined to reconnect with parents who abandoned her years before on the doorstep of a New […]