Amanda Summers, Ph.D., Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow, Helmerich Center for American Research Paper Title: "Death, Mysticism, and Mass Incarceration: Mexico's Gran Comlicidad, 1642-1649" Amanda Summers will be circulating and […]
Gilcrease Family Festival and Art Show 322 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120 Celebrate Black history and culture and photography as an art form in conjunction with the final cycle of Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood. Family-focused activities will include a student photography show in partnership with Crossover Preparatory Academy, performances, hands-on art and photography experiences, […]
The Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum invites you to the fourth installment of our "Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series" book discussion. 📚 On Nov. 21, Dr. Leslie Hannah will lead a discussion on The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich. This event is free and open to the […]
The Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum invites you to our final discussion in the Let’s Talk About It series, titled "Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series." 📚 On Monday, December 9, from 5-7 p.m., Dr. Nyla Ali Khan will lead a thought-provoking discussion on Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, […]
Join us in the Jackson Seminar Room at the Helmerich Center for American Research (HCAR) for our first WIP Seminar of the semester, featuring Dr. Kirsten Olds. Paper Title: "Harold Stevenson: Realism Re-Figured" Emerging on the national art scene in the early 1960s, Oklahoma-born Harold Stevenson’s art in form and subject stymied critics, who didn’t […]
Join us for a presentation by short-term fellow Russell Cobb, as he shares insights from his time in residence at the Helmerich Center for American Research. Drawing from research conducted in both the HCAR and McFarlin Special Collections, this talk, rooted in a forthcoming book project, explores Tulsa’s transformation into a global oil capital through […]
About the Presenter: Join us for a brief presentation and roundtable conversation with Professor McLaughlin on his new research project. McLaughlin is an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at […]
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Lisa Barnett about her new book Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025). Check back soon for more details to come!
Project: "Transformative Cultural Materiality: Archaeologies of Displacement, Persistent Lifeways, & Identity" Presenters: Dr. Zachary Qualls (Gilcrease Museum) & Dr. Nkem Ike (University of Toronto) Join us for a roundtable conversation […]
Join Gilcrease Museum for the Annual Eddie Faye Gates Program featuring nationally renowned artist Stephen Towns, the museum’s inaugural Gillies Artist-in-Residence. Towns will reflect on his time in Tulsa exploring the Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection and visiting sites throughout the historic Greenwood District. His lecture will consider how these stories of resilience […]
