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Alicia Chesser

Alicia Chesser is the managing editor of The Pickup. She's been writing about the arts in Tulsa for two decades. When she's not at someone else's show, she makes and teaches contemporary dance and messes around with creative nonfiction.

Theatre North Brings The Heat, The Light & All The Right Questions

Every win comes with a hidden loss in Suzan Lori-Parks' "Topdog/Underdog"

February 29, 2024

Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes

Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?

February 18, 2024

Tulsa Opera’s Valentine’s Musical Theatre Adventure Hits The Big Notes

Did we just witness the first artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?

February 16, 2024

Amy Sanders de Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

Her new exhibition at Positive Space invites contributions from Tulsans living on the margins of society.

January 14, 2024

Amy Sanders De Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

An artist with vision and hearing loss sculpts the spectrum of belonging felt by those whose experience is so often untranslatable in an ableist society. 

January 14, 2024

A Master Class In The Art Of Craft 

The State of Craft took me from paper, clay and thread to questions like: How does the world hold together?

January 7, 2024

A Slower Kind Of Knowing

Ephemera and millennia coexist in Darren Dirksen's paintings

December 6, 2023

‘What If We Did Invest In Public Space?’ Introducing The Tulsa Global District

A new federal designation is opening East Tulsa and its outsize population of Hispanic, Latinx and Asian businesses to fresh opportunities.

December 5, 2023

Trueson Daugherty Is Going For It

Breaking down an ambitious performance art piece that will galvanize Tulsa's creatives for years and years to come.

December 5, 2023

How To Quit Your Day Job With Anne Pollard James

Some become professional artists with a bulletproof business plan. Others go the nonprofit route. Anne Pollard did it the trust-fall way.

December 5, 2023