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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.

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.”

April 14, 2024

Bradford Lovett Collages A Queer Future Full Of Rowdy Joy

The fags are in ecstasy in the solo show "Myths & Hymns"

March 31, 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

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

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?

December 5, 2023