The galleries are about to be stacked this month, folks. September brings some really strong work to the Tulsa Arts District on First Friday, and much more across the city in the weeks ahead. Here's your guide to the good stuff. —Alicia Chesser
First Friday
"Scut Work" by Jordan Vinyard
Living Arts of Tulsa, 307 E. Reconciliation Way
September 4-October 10
Our reviewer Z.B. Reeves once begged local galleries to give Jordan Vinyard's uncanny, strong, sensitive work the space it deserved. Justice has been served! Taking place across the entirety of Living Arts with installation, video, kinetic sculpture, and performance, her new exhibit Scut Work stages an absurd choreography of labor, burden, humanity, and worth.
"Still Sovereign: Land, Law, Memory" curated by Carly Treece
101 Archer, 101 E. Archer
September 4-November 21
Still Sovereign: Land, Law, Memory examines Tribal sovereignty as a living and ongoing reality. Through contemporary and traditional Indigenous art, historical materials and community knowledge, the exhibition demonstrates that sovereignty is not an abstract but an innate concept practiced every day through stewardship, governance, storytelling and responsibility to future generations.