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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
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will host a virtual closing event on Friday for its exhibit “OK/LA” with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt and Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello, courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
3. “Artist Spotlight: Adriana Varejão” at Gagosian, New York
Gagosian continues its weekly Spotlight series, highlighting one work from one artist, with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, ahead of her May show at the gallery’s 522 West 21st Street location. On Wednesday, the gallery is releasing a new time-lapse video of the artist creating one of her tile paintings, inspired by the Portuguese art of
azulejo, traditional glazed terracotta tiles brought to Brazil in colonial times. The new work will be unveiled on Friday, available for sale for only 48 hours.