“Get a white box and put your art into it.” This is not the only advice Tulsan artist and gallery owner, Chris Mantle, gives to aspiring artists when it comes to showing their work, but it is exactly how his career started.
All across the country, Americans are making memories each year on this date with barbecues, fireworks, and star-spangled banners.
Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early twentieth century. Ruled by nature, and ideally—no rules at all—the Fauve painters helped break away from the controlled concept of Impressionism.
On Thursday, June 30th, a community of next-generation artists joined together through the efforts of Gaining Ground for the Project Change Arts Showcase at Guthrie Green in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gaining Ground, a non-profit literacy organization, represents a mission “to develop readers, thinkers, and leaders by
“It wasn’t supposed to be anything, but it turned out to be something”, says Danny Boy O’Connor speaking about his recent art show at the LTO Gallery at the Mother Road Market.
When I asked the multi-disciplinarian artist, Michelle Firment Reid, to describe her work, it made sense when she answered, “Art for me is all the time.” Having a 30-year career as a full-time artist, Michelle’s so-called input-time comes in the form of her everyday living.
Having started his career as a full-time artist in 2015, Jay Exon seems to have found his sweet spot many artists struggle with- focusing on his art full time while someone else markets and sells it. "I think as an artist; you're painting for you. You're not
During an exploration of open art datasets/databases during my time at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I became interested in the possibility of predicting whether an artwork would be cataloged or not. Cataloging, as Merriam-Webster defines it, is the action of “classify[ing] (something, such
When it comes to art in Tulsa, Steve Liggett is a household name. But similar to the aesthetic of contemporary art, his path into the art world was non-linear and somewhat out of the norm.
As technology has evolved, art advisory has gradually moved to the Internet. What used to take place in a face-to-face meeting and required a long research process can now be done with just a few clicks.