On the Town: Edmond the place to be Thursday evening By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record May 4, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
If you want to make the central Oklahoma art rounds in one night, add Thursday evening to your calendar, starting in Edmond. Even if you can’t fit everything in one night, you’ll have other opportunities to enjoy our arts community.
Downtown Edmond is hosting VIBES each Thursday from now through October, featuring artists, performers and businesses celebrating the community from 5 to 9 p.m. This month’s special attraction will be Sidewalk Chalk Art Night by Matin Alavi, Chandler Domingos, Elisha Gallegos, Annie Lovett, Nicole Poole and Sara presented by Oklahoma ER & Hospital. However, there will be visual artists almost on every street corner along with live music. For a full list, go to edmondvibes.org. Sponsors include Mercy, T-Mobile, Chickasaw Community Bank, Edmond Electric, The Duncan Group Engel & Volkers, Grant Group, Sma
TAHLEQUAH â Self-taught potter. Cherokee National Treasure. Teacher. While there are many ways to describe her, Anna Belle Sixkiller Mitchell is widely known as the revivalist of traditional Southeastern-style pottery with her legacy impacting other Cherokee arts.
âThere may have been other people that tried this, but sheâs the first person to take it to the levelâ¦after removal in Oklahoma to revive the art of Southeastern traditional pottery,â Victoria Vazquez, Mitchellâs daughter, said. âShe wanted to make it as much as like our ancestors would have before the Trail of Tears as possible.â
When working to revive the style, Vazquez said her mother had no one to go to on the subject, so she took to research.
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January 6, 1927 â January 8, 2021
On January 8th, following the celebration of her 94th birthday two days prior, Mary Glover Bastin passed peacefully into the Lordâs hands while surrounded by her family. The eldest child of Thomas Maxwell Shircliff and Martha Bayard Somes, Mary was born in Vincennes, Indiana, on January 6, 1927. She graduated from the Ladywood School in Indianapolis, attended the Sorbonne in Paris as one of the first students immediately after World War II, and graduated from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York. Mary had the rare ability to grace every room she entered; she seldom expressed an unkind word and made each person she met feel as if they were the only person in the room. Though schooled in the social graces of that era, she was a woman ahead of her time and strived to experience the world.