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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.

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

An Original Play About Race In Tulsa Doesn’t Look Away From Reality

Local playwrights invite Tulsa to reflect on the Tulsa Race Massacre and its echoes in the present

November 5, 2023