Digital Dialogue

Wed Sep 2, 2 – 4 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

Culture in the Digital Age: An Interactive Process of Building Community

Joseph Erb (Cherokee), Artist

This dialogue will provide an exciting, interactive opportunity to learn about how Cherokee people are utilizing Apple technology to create a sense of community and help children learn their native language.

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Gallery Talk

Tue Sep 8, 3 pm; Sandy Bell Gallery

Speaking Spirit Red

W. Jackson Rushing, Eugene B. Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art

Join Professor Rushing for a walking tour of the exhibition Spirit Red: Visions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland Collection.

Panel Discussion

Fri Sep 11, 10 am – 3 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

Art as Identity: The Operative Principles of Affirmation, Accommodation and
Appropriation in the Native American Artistic Pursuit of Self

Moderated by Dr. Edwin L. Wade, Art Critic, with Contemporary Native Artists

Over the course of the past four centuries, Native Americans have employed the survival strategies of affirmation (who they are), accommodation (who the non–Native American world wants them to be) and appropriation (who they become through borrowing from others). Nowhere is this better seen than in the evolving image and diversity of Native arts. Drawing upon the talent and insight of Native Oklahoman artists represented within the Rennard Strickland Collection, two discussion panels will be formed to address these and other critical aesthetic issues confronting contemporary Native American artists.

    Morning session: Joseph Erb, Joan Hill, Ruthe Blalock Jones and Shawna Morton Cain
    Afternoon session: Bill Glass, Bill Rabbit, Martha Berry and Lisa Rutherford

Coffee will be served during registration at 9:30 am. Lunch with the artists is $25 per person. Reservations for lunch must be made by Sept 4. Call 405.325.5990 for reservations or more information. The sessions are free, but seating is limited.

Lecture

Fri Oct 9, 6 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

Sooners in the Land of Enchantment: Curatorial Perspective

Dr. Mark White, Eugene B. Adkins Curator, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Exhibition curator Mark White will examine the important role Oklahoma artists such as Oscar Jacobson, Nan Sheets and the Kiowa Five played in the development of the artists’ colonies in New Mexico, followed by the 7 pm opening reception for the exhibition Sooners in the Land of Enchantment: Oklahomans and New Mexico.

Film

Fri Oct 16, 6 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

Finding Lee Mullican

Finding Lee Mullican is the 2005 biopic of the 20th century painter, written and directed by his son John Mullican. Lee Mullican was a native of Chickasha, Oklahoma, and spent much of his career in California. In the 1970s, he began visiting Taos, New Mexico and spent part of each year there during the last decades of his career. The film reveals the unknown but inspiring life of Lee Mullican in this beautiful story of a son’s quest to understand life through his father’s journey as an artist.

Gallery Talk

Tue Oct 20, 3 pm; Sandy Bell Gallery

Sooners in the Land of Enchantmen

Dr. Mark White, Eugene B. Adkins Curator

Dr. Mark White, Eugene will lead a discussion and tour of the exhibition Sooners in the Land of Enchantment: Oklahoma Artists and New Mexico.

Staged Readings

Fri Oct 23, 6 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

From Russet Mantle by Lynn Riggs

Featuring students from the OU Drama Department

Playwright Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) grew up near Claremore, Oklahoma.  He entered the University of Oklahoma in 1920 and taught freshmen English at OU from 1922-23.  Riggs traveled to Santa Fe in 1923 and later wrote the satirical comedy Russet Mantle, which opened in New York in 1936, about contemporary life in Santa Fe. Five years earlier, Riggs wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, on which the musical Oklahoma was based.

Lecture

Fri Nov 6, 6 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

The Creative Eye

Andrew Strout, OU Photography Professor, and John Burris, Untitled Art Space

Andrew Strout and Jon Burris will present an overview of American photography and a discussion about collecting American photography prior to the opening reception for The Creative Eye: Selections from the Carol Beesley Collection of Photographs, in Honor of Michael Hennagin.

Gallery Talk 

Mon Nov 9, 10 am; Elaine and Gene Edwards Gallery

The Story Behind My Photography Collection

Carol Beesley

Retired OU School of Art professor Carol Beesley will discuss how her interests and experiences shaped her personal photography collection.

Lecture

Fri Dec 4, 6 pm; Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium

The Creative Eye:  Curatorial Perspective

Dr. Alan Atkinson, Exhibition Curator

Dr. Alan Atkinson will discuss the significance of Carol Beesley’s collection and its relevance to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s photography collection.