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.
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Slipstreaming Through Oklahoma’s Black And Indigenous Multiverse
"Let’s take off this jacket of the past and put on a new one. We’re growing. We can’t fit it anymore.”
Bradford Lovett Collages A Queer Future Full Of Rowdy Joy
The fags are in ecstasy in the solo show "Myths & Hymns"
Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes
Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?
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.
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.
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?
A Slower Kind Of Knowing
Ephemera and millennia coexist in Darren Dirksen's paintings
Art House Tulsa Dives In
Rogelio Esparza and Allison Ward are the dynamic team behind an underground hit. How did they meet, and what fuels their creativity?










