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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Theatre North Brings The Heat, The Light & All The Right Questions
Every win comes with a hidden loss in Suzan Lori-Parks' "Topdog/Underdog"
Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes
Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?
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?
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
‘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.
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.
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.









