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
TAHLEQUAH â Ask anyone anywhere in the U.S. if they can name a Cherokee woman and Wilma Mankiller would probably get the most mentions.
During her 1985-95 tenure as the Cherokee Nationâs first and only â to date â woman principal chief, she became a nationally recognized public figure. She was also an activist for Native rights and an author.
âIâve run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian,â Mankiller once said.
Throughout her life, Mankiller chipped away at some of that undeserved stigma â toward women and Natives.
She also said: âA lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said theyâd like to be chief. Thereâs been a change in the limits people see.â
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On the Town: Check out Moving Vision, art of ’60s, ’70s By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record February 22, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
In spite of the recent snowstorm and record-cold temperatures in Oklahoma last week, it is an exciting time to visit one of Oklahoma City’s museums. Three of them launched interesting and major exhibits in the last week that you won’t want to miss.
I have already written about Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s “Ed Ruscha: OKLA” exhibit and will be writing more about the fascinating “Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World” at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
OU’s Native American student population has unofficially named the American Indian Student Association s new lounge in Copeland Hall the “Five Moons Lounge” in honor of a group of Native American