Regina J. Banks admitted she “didn’t think that through.” Banks, a business owner and mother of three teenage girls, founded The Vanguart theater company earlier this year — something the 2002 University of Oklahoma musical theater graduate said she had been planning for years — but she did not originally intend to also star in […]
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Standing tall
Standing Their Ground: Warrior Artists through Oct. 31 Exhibit C 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 exhibitcgallery.com 405-767-8900 Free Charles Guerrier took his nephew to a bar in 1962 to show off the freshly minted Marine to the local cadre of combat veterans. Harvey Pratt had always looked up to his war hero uncle, a […]
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Ink celebration
In 2006, Oklahoma became the last state in the country to legalize tattoo parlors, joining South Carolina and the city of Milwaukee in the same year. As tattoos in Oklahoma went from underground and backwoods parlors to mainstream, their increased popularity mirrors a national explosion of acceptance of the ancient art form that as recently […]
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Smart jokes
Stand Up Science 8 p.m. Sunday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $15-$22 Your high school teacher, probably wearing a wacky bowtie, might have told you all the good chemistry jokes “argon,” but comic and podcast host Shane Mauss thinks science can be funny. Mauss tackles heady topics with a sense of humor […]
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Art work
Art is work. “Everybody says it’s so easy, but it’s not,” said impressionist painter Jody Ellison, recalling her time as an art student at the University of Oklahoma. “I took the life drawing; I took perspective; I took art history, art structure. It was really hard.” Ellison’s work is included in the exhibit Between the […]
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Art party
Edmond-based artist and business owner Erica Nkechi has hosted paint parties at Heart Studios, 1605 E. Second St., in Edmond to fund scholarship programs to provide art classes to children from low-income families. Now Nkechi partners with another series of adult-themed paint parties to expand the reach of her mission to help kids while also […]
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Cover: First Impressionists
Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 22-Sept. 22 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 $15-$25 Vincent van Gogh, in a letter dated Nov. 19, 1873, gave his brother Theo some advice. “You must in any case go to the […]
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Between lines
Evita Thursday-Saturday and June 20-22 Mitch Park Amphitheatre 2733 Marilyn Williams Drive, Edmond upstagetheatreok.com 405-285-5803 Free-$18 A musical of disputed historical accuracy about an Argentinian actress who became a powerful leader in the 1940s might teach us something about America now. Politically, Patrick Towne — director of Upstage Theatre’s production of Evita, running Thursday-Saturday and […]
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Wicked humor
2019 Native American New Play Festival June 20-22 and 27-29 University of Central Oklahoma 100 N. University Drive, Edmond okindigenoustheatre.com Free-$25 Celebrating its 10th annual festival and first as an independent theater company, Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company’s 2019 Native American New Play Festival presents a female-driven buddy comedy full of pop-culture references. Director Tiffany Tuggle […]
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Artist impact
One of the residual effects of bringing nearly 100 of the country’s best Western artists into Oklahoma City for the annual Prix de West art sale and exhibition is the ripple effect and inspiration it creates in the artistic community. The 47th edition kicks off with an opening weekend of seminars, demonstrations and awards June […]