Tour de Quartz is an annual showcase of student artwork from the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain (OSAI), which features artworks that consider the concept of utopia. Each student artist is represented by one piece of artwork in the Tour de Quartz, which exhibits at museums, libraries, and art galleries across the state. […]
On view through Jan. 25, 2025 Explore the rugged spirit of the West through the lens of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in M. Walker Nelson’s captivating new exhibition. West (of Eden) delves into themes of self-acceptance, time, and the clash between past and present. Each painting tells a story of resilience, capturing the tension […]
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities welcomes New Yorker writer Merve Emre for a free event at 101 Archer. This talk argues that American miniaturism, as represented by contemporary forms like "flash fiction" or "the short-short story," emerges as the primary aesthetic strategy for foregrounding the disciplined study of grammar over figuration. In the fiction […]
On view through Jan. 25, 2025 Explore the rugged spirit of the West through the lens of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in M. Walker Nelson’s captivating new exhibition. West (of Eden) delves into themes of self-acceptance, time, and the clash between past and present. Each painting tells a story of resilience, capturing the tension […]
Human ancestors entered the underground world millions of years ago. Yet only recently have scientists realized the extent that our early relatives stretched their activities into the dark spaces beneath us. Starting from his own work in the Rising Star cave system of South Africa, John Hawks, Ph.D., follows a track connecting extinct human relatives […]
Join us at 101 Archer for the First Friday Art Crawl in December! We're thrilled to announce that Nashville Recording Artist HONOR will provide musical entertainment throughout the evening. If you're a fan of country, you will not want to miss her performance. This will be the last First Friday that you can catch INTO […]
This talk is advances the idea that the humanities as a set of disciplines are often generated or inspired by remarkable altered states of consciousness and embodiment, which can sometimes be re-experienced by a deep engagement with the texts and artworks themselves. Hence many a teaching or pedagogical moment. Hence some of the furthest reaches […]
Norman Holmes Pearson might have looked like the tweedy Yale professor he was, but he was one of the most consequential figures in twentieth-century American literature; an architect of the Cold War collaboration between academia and cultural diplomacy; and a high-ranking spy in the OSS and one of the shapers of the CIA. In this […]
