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Alicia Chesser

Alicia Chesser, a nearly lifelong Tulsan, is the co-founder and culture editor of The Pickup. Her writing about art and life has appeared in the Village Voice, The Dance Insider, The Tulsa Voice, Urban Tulsa Weekly, LUXIERE, Menagerie, Okie Modern, Pokeweed, and other publications. When she’s not out seeing someone else’s show, she makes, performs, and teaches contemporary dance and enjoys the fact that her three grown children think Tulsa is interesting enough to stick around in. 

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

Zombies, Bugs, Defenestration & Good Times At Heller’s Haunted Play Fest

The theatre troupe's annual horror show turned 101 Archer into a mini Hex House

November 23, 2023

Relentless Absurdity On The Trail To Oregon

In a production that could easily have been just a goofy time, everyone involved here delivered their A‑game.

November 9, 2023

Something Wicked (And Welcome) This Way Comes

Pembroke Players reimagine Shakespeare for a 21st-century Tulsa

November 8, 2023