OVAC News

SPRING 2020

Krystle Brewer, Executive Director In this unprecedented time of uncertainty, while all of us are facing incredible challenges, OVAC and all of our colleagues in the arts sector are working diligently and swiftly to transform our programming to be digitally-based. As our friends at ahha Tulsa said—creativity isn’t cancelled. It’s just changing.

We care deeply about our artists and recognize the unforeseeable hardship they are now facing. In an effort to support our artists, we have created an Artist Relief page on our website where we are compiling resources and aid opportunities. On Facebook, we created a new OK Artist Community page to provide a platform for connection and community. We will continue to find ways to support our arts community and see us all through this devastating chapter. Our annual exhibition Momentum has become Slowmentum. Each day we are highlighting the work of three of the featured artists on social media and the work can be viewed (and purchased) through our website. We also created a virtual guided tour that allows the community to connect with the artwork and even provides details about each individual work of art. Links to these can be found at momentumoklahoma.org.

We hope you were able to see our exhibition Concept at ahha Tulsa before it closed last month. It was an inspiring display of the impressive work being made across the state. If you missed the catalog release party, you can view a digital version on our website at conceptok.org. There, you can also find exclusive video interviews with each of the Focus artists.

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Thank you to our new and renewing members from November 2019 through January 2020

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