O. Gail Poole’s Sideshow Jan. 24-May 10 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art University of Oklahoma 555 Elm Ave., Norman ou.edu/fjjma 405-325-3272 Free Nicole Poole doesn’t remember her father ever taking her to the circus, but she said he “didn’t need to.” “Every time I walked into the studio was another bearded lady or another […]
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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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Modern history
If you’d rather look at the pictures than read this article about an art exhibition, some of the educators at University of Oklahoma might understand. “Language itself can be kind of limiting when you’re talking about visual representations,” said Melissa Ski, director of Learning + Engagement Gallery at OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, […]
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The doors
Artist statements can be a tricky business, especially when the creators aren’t trying to portray a story or a message, but to capture a specific feeling, an abstraction. The work is created entirely through intuition; as Michelangelo famously said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the […]
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Riding West
Ticket to Ride: Artists, Designers, and Western Railways through Dec. 31 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 555 Elm St., Norman ou.edu/fjjma 405-325-3272 Free Get your ticket to ride across the pastoral landscapes of the American West in an exhibit that welcomes its viewers to climb aboard for a scenic voyage through time and history. […]
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Modern modes
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays and Fridays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Thursdays, 1-5 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 9 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 555 Elm Ave. chickasawartists.com 580-889-0587 Free Five years ago, the last monolingual Chickasaw language speaker died in Ada at the age of 93. The loss was monumental […]
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Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art showcases works of Tonita Peña and Joe Hilario Herrera in a new exhibit
Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting runs through April 8.
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Oklahoma artist Robert Taylor puts his art career on display in a special exhibit at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Taylor’s works often draw parallels between Native and Christian imagery.
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An art exhibition and book give glimpses into the lives that once filled a now abandoned Oklahoma town
Pincher, Okalhoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma runs through Sept. 10 at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman.
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Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art shows off its print holdings in The Cultivated Connoisseur
The bequest came from former director Eric Lee, who requested the prints from Creighton Gilbert, his former teacher.