We're on the verge of spring, and this month's art openings and First Friday events feel as fresh as those daffodils that are poking their heads up out of the wintry ground. Here are a few highlights for your weekend inspiration.
Friday, March 7
K-Pop Video Bar
5pm at NYU Tulsa, 36 E. Cameron
Exhibit Opening: Women Who Inspire, Educate & Create
5pm at Royce Myers Gallery, 1706 S. Boston Ave.
This small SoBo gallery packs a punch, representing fine artists from Joe Andoe to Lisa Regan to an early 20th-century German engraver who specialized in dog portraits. Their March show features 20 women artists in honor of International Women's Day.
Exhibit Opening: She Makes Art
5pm at Liggett Studio, 314 S. Kenosha Ave.
Liggett Studio's annual "She Makes Art" show returns with an exhibit of 2D and 3D works by women artists, juried by Philbrook curator Susan Green.
Open Studios
6pm at Tulsa Artist Fellowship, 109 M.L.K. Jr. Blvd.
Stop by to see work from TAF artists and a multimedia exhibition by Artists Creative Fund grantee Jackson Adair called "Hard Sayin Not Knowin."
Exhibit Opening (For Members): SAMURAI
6pm at Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S. Rockford
SAMURAI opens to the public on March 12, but if you're a Philbrook member, you're getting in this weekend! The exhibition spans almost nine centuries of Samurai armor and includes nearly 80 objects—full suits, helmets, weaponry, and full horse armor.
Exhibit Opening: Black Gold In Oil Town
6pm at 101 Archer, 101 E. Archer St.
Poppa Foster's got the live music cooking for the opening of this exhibit about the history of Negro league baseball in Tulsa, curated by W. Jacob Cornwell, the creator of the Oklahoma Baseball Archive.
EFFS Tulsa: First Friday After Show ft. Fiawna Forte, David Reed James, Manta Rays & Zac Ophus
8pm at Vintage Barbie Museum, 216 N. Main St.
Saturday, March 8
Exhibit Opening: “WORK/WEAR” by David Bizzaro
10:30am at OKPOP, 422 N. Main St.
Clothing designer and Muppeteer David Bizzaro brings Tulsa's first seed-to-stitch denim into your hands. Try out a working loom and see his indigo-dyed creations up close.
Exhibit Opening: Geraldine Hart: A Retrospective by Jes McCutchen
5pm at Positive Space Tulsa, 1324 E. 3rd St.
McCutchen—a Tulsa sci-fi, fantasy and horror writer (and co-founder of Horns & Rattles Press)—has built a whole world around a fictional space explorer named Geraldine Hart, and this exhibit features multimedia artifacts from the life and work of this interstellar pioneer. Bring the family at 1pm for a free kids workshop before the opening reception.
Ongoing:
"Backstories" by Doug Cannell
108 Contemporary, 108 E. Reconciliation Way
“Drift///Hold”
ARCO Building, 116 E. 6th St.
