Event Description
Tuesday, April 6, 7:00 PM writing workshop for educators and local poets with Nikky Finney (space limited)
Wednesday, April 7, 7:00 PM open mic (via Zoom)
Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 PM, Poet Nikky Finney in conversation with Clemonce Heard
Nikky Finney is a National Book Award winner and a newly elected member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is best known for her depictions of African American experience, the graciousness of Black family perseverance, the truth of history, the grace and necessity of memory, as well as the titanic loss of habitat for all things precious and wild.
Finney has taught as artist-in-residence at University of Kentucky, Berea College, and Smith College, and currently hold the endowed John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at University of South Carolina. Her work is also represented in the National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington D.C.
On the Town: Organizations merit thanks, grant funding By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record March 9, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
Let’s take a moment to celebrate all the organizations doing great work in the community as well as others supporting them. Allied Arts, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition all have recently announced grants to deserving nonprofits working to enhance arts and public health in Oklahoma.
• Allied Arts awarded more than $130,000 to 25 local arts and cultural nonprofit groups recently through its grant programs focusing on two areas – educational outreach and capacity-building, a news release noted. This amount brings the total distributed by Allied Arts this fiscal year to more than $2.8 million. Recent recipients for Capacity Building Grants include the Edmond Historical Society & Museum, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma Shakesp
Clark Ward passed away 2021-2-17 in McAlester, Oklahoma. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Chaney-Harkins Funeral Home.
Two Tulsa-based organizations - Chamber Music Tulsa and the Philbrook Museum of Art - are receiving NEA grants to fund projects marking the upcoming centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.