Apr 23 Tuesday
Join KOSU on Tuesday, April 23rd at Toast & Coffee in Oklahoma City!
There, you can meet KOSU reporters, staff, and other listeners, while enjoying cocktails, coffee, and treats from Toast & Coffee. A portion of all sales from 4:30 to 6:30 that afternoon will be donated to KOSU.
So, come out and support KOSU on Tuesday, April 23rd from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Toast & Coffee, located at 2416 North Robinson in Oklahoma City.
Apr 18 Thursday
The multi-sensory experience combines glass, video, and audio to tell the story of Raven, a creator figure in Northwest Coast Native American culture, who was the giver of the stars, moon, and sun. Raven takes visitors on a transformative journey through darkness into light. In addition to Singletary’s striking glass pieces, the exhibition features storytelling paired with original music, coastal Pacific Northwest soundscapes, and video.
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.
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sierra Ferrell shares her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities with our stage - April 18.
Join Oklahoma Contemporary, the UCO English Department and poet Kimberly Blaeser in celebration of National Poetry Month. Blaeser will read from her latest book, Ancient Light, which uses lyric, narrative and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time. The collection invites readers to see with a new intimacy the worlds they inhabit. Blaeser brings readers to the brink, immerses them in the darkest regions of the Anthropocene and in the dangerous fallacies of capitalism and then offers hope. Ultimately, as the poems enact survivance, they reclaim Indigenous stories and lifeways.
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/AncientLight Tickets: https://my.oklahomacontemporary.org/ancient-light
Image: Photo courtesy of the artist.
Apr 19 Friday
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ARTSPACE at Untitled’s annual Spotlight exhibition features an all-indigenous show featuring woodblock prints, a form of carving in which the artist makes markings on the top surface of a woodblock, leaving a raised image. Ink is then applied to the carved woodblock and is then printed on paper or fabric. Mark your calendars now for the opening of Marking: Indigenous Narrative at ARTSPACE at Untitled on April 11th, 5-8 PM.
"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.
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.