Apply to join the Oklahoma Contemporary Teen Arts Council! OCTAC members spend an academic year engaging in gallery experiences, exploring a variety of artistic methods and genres, discovering the professional art world, learning about a variety of art-related career options, advising Oklahoma Contemporary staff, planning programs and gaining a deep understanding of art organizations by...
Join us for the ArtNow 2023 Focus Awards! This year's Focus Awards honoree is ArtNow's exhibiting artist, Sterlin Harjo. Though best known for his groundbreaking Indigenous TV series Reservation Dogs (premiered in 2021), Harjo has also produced and directed other Oklahoma-centered works, including Four Sheets to the Wind (2007), Cepanvkuce Tutcenen (Three Little Boys) (2009),...
The four powerful Black women that form the beating heart of Jessica L. Hagan's knowingly sharp and riotously funny choreopoem Queens of Sheba demand respect and, with every story told, they earn it. A spiritual successor to Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Queens incisively calls...
The four powerful Black women that form the beating heart of Jessica L. Hagan's knowingly sharp and riotously funny choreopoem Queens of Sheba demand respect and, with every story told, they earn it. A spiritual successor to Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Queens incisively calls...
The four powerful Black women that form the beating heart of Jessica L. Hagan's knowingly sharp and riotously funny choreopoem Queens of Sheba demand respect and, with every story told, they earn it. A spiritual successor to Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Queens incisively calls...
The four powerful Black women that form the beating heart of Jessica L. Hagan's knowingly sharp and riotously funny choreopoem Queens of Sheba demand respect and, with every story told, they earn it. A spiritual successor to Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Queens incisively calls...
Picture yourself in the past, present, and future at Second Saturday XL: Picturing Possibilities – Black History Month. We’ll commemorate our current exhibition, Descendants of the Black 1000, and Black History Month with interactive experiences, multimedia art projects, gallery tours, and much more. Create a self-portrait, join SPARK! Creative Lab for joyful, interactive group movement...
Celebrate Black History Month with We Are the Roots: Film Screening & Discussion! This program brings together film and oral histories to explore the past and present lives of Black peoples in the United State and Canada., featuring short films by Solomon Sir Jones, Melinda James and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, We Are the Roots: Black Settlers...
Reserve a spot for your artistic 5- to 12-year-old in Oklahoma Contemporary's weeklong, spring break camps! Whether it's sewing their own stuffies, designing a superhero, creating a puppet, exploring with color or building a ceramic birdhouse, your camper will have fun, learn and make more art than you can imagine in Camp Contemporary: Spring Break....
Join us for the opening of 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 — recreating the long-lost sights, sounds and...
