May 18 Saturday
Explore the galleries with the Museum mascots and the Kids Guide! Select which cowpoke and trail you would like to follow and learn more about all the fun and fascinating things at The Cowboy. Join Chester the Scissortail Flycatcher, Hopalong the Jackrabbit, Ma’ii the Coyote and Cisco the Mustang and solve the Cowboy Code.
Free for members or with Museum admission.
"Magnificent Beauty: Georgia O’Keeffe and the Art of the Flower" examines explorations of flowers in painting and photography by O’Keeffe and Imogen Cunningham, highlighting their unique interpretations of the traditional subject matter.
Multiple Voices is the first public artwork in the United States by Eva Schlegel, the Austria-based artist known for engineering steel and mirrors into spectacular, architectonic sculptures. Working with materials similar to the arts center’s new building, Schlegel created a series of polished and translucent surfaces that catch and reflect light and parts of the surrounding environment, encouraging visitors to gather, play and learn. Poems by Steve Bellin-Oka, Kimberly Blaeser and Joy Harjo appear in blurred form on glass panels, registering each poem as part of the sculpture, but rendered cryptic to the viewer.
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/EvaSchlegel
Image: Rendering of Eva Schlegel's Multiple Voices at Oklahoma Contemporary. Rendering: Damjan Minovski, Architectural team: Valerie Messini.
This exhibition features old photographs taken in Old Beijing, then known as Peking, and San Francisco’s Chinatown. These cities have changed dramatically in the last 100+ years due to human actions and natural disasters. German American Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) and U.S. Marine Howard C. Goodrich (1902-1984) were early camera enthusiasts. Genthe moved to San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fire devastated Chinatown and much of the city. Goodrich was stationed in Beijing in the 1920s, during a period of political unrest in China. Although their images are largely positive, both Genthe and Goodrich made photos of the Chinese and their communities to satisfy Western curiosity about “exotic” places and people. Genthe’s photographs were intended to reach a large audience through publication, but Goodrich’s photographs were shared only with family and friends. Rather than focusing on the photographers, this exhibition directs attention to the people and places depicted in these images. The photographs show everyday life and special events in both Beijing and Chinatown, highlighting how people adapted and interacted at troubled moments in American and Chinese history. The individuals in these images often look back at the photographers, and in turn, at us, with curiosity, confidence, and resilience.
STUDENT CURATORS | Kate Battershell, Daniel Bonilla, Molly Johnson, Amanda Weaver
Learn more at https://museum.okstate.edu/art/picturing-resilient-communities.html
THE FUTURE IS COLLABORATIVE, AND THE FUTURE IS NOW.
The Future of Sound Sessions encourages local musicians to collaborate with artists of other disciplines to create a show like no other.
FEATURED ARTISTSCherry Laurel8:30 - 9:10DREAMY/PSYCHEDELIC INDIE ROCK BY CHERRY LAUREL IN COLLABORATION WITH CROCHET ARTIST, SARAH FARRELLWet Muscles9:20 -10:00SUMMERTIME INDIE GARAGE MUSIC BY WET MUSCLES IN COLLABORATION WITH ALTERNATIVE HAIR ART BY STIZZY GIIFuture of Sound Sessions Tickets are SEPARATE from Mix-Tape tickets.
$15
This performance is ALL AGES.
Mix-Tape Members get in FREE!
FUTURE OF SOUND SESSIONS TICKETS
Save $5 when you bundle with Mix-Tape!
The Mix-Tape experience will be open until 8pm! Get your tickets below!
$22 - Adults
$15 - Children 12 and under
Children 3 and under are FREE
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Future of Sound Sessions will be held in the East Bay garage space.
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May 19 Sunday
Experience HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy! This immersive exhibition explores the lives and stories of the millions displaced in 1947 during the creation of two new independent nation-states, India and Pakistan. Through a series of short films, virtual reality, photographs, sound installations and more, HOME1947 recreates the long-lost sights, sounds and smells of what millions once called home. Visit okcontemp.org for gallery hours.
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/HOME1947
Image: Video still, Beila, 2017. © Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. Photo courtesy of SOC Films.
May 20 Monday