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Ensemble Dal Niente

New chamber music, including works by Alican Çamci, Assistant Professor of Music and Film Studies at The University of Tulsa.

TU Jazz Ensemble

The Tulsa community is invited to join the School of Music for a performance by the TU Jazz Ensemble. This event is free and open to the public.

Poet and Critic Ange Mlinko Reflects on “How Poets Change Form”

Ange Mlinko, whose work appears in the new issue of TU’s Nimrod Literary Journal, will give a talk on “How Poets Change Form.” She is the author of several books of poetry, including Venice, Distant Mandate, and Marvelous Things Overheard, has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism, and served as Poetry Editor for The Nation. Her essays and reviews appear regularly in The Nation, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, and Parnassus. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Florida and lives in Gainesville.

This is a wonderful opportunity for faculty and students to hear one of the best poet-critics in the country reflect on her art. Food will be provided.

UTulsa Faculty Recital

UTulsa Faculty Recital featuring Maureen O’Boyle, violin, and Stuart Deaver, piano. Free and open to the public.

The Music and Legacy of Bela Rozsa

Stephen Truelove will present a talk with piano performances about the music and chess career of Bela Rozsa (1905-1977). Truelove is a pianist, composer, and chess player who graduated from Rozsa’s music program in 1970 at UTulsa. He will play one of Rozsa’s piano pieces, two fugues he wrote for Rozsa’s counterpoint classes, and premiere to recent compositions he wrote especially for this occasion in honor of Rozsa.

Artist Talk & Reception: Margaret Curtis

Please join us for an artist’s talk and gallery reception with Margaret Curtis, the 2025 Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist.

Artist Talk: Margaret Curtis
5-6 p.m.
Jerri Jones Lecture Hall, Room 211, Phillips Hall

Opening Reception
6-7 p.m.
Alexandre Hogue Gallery
Phillips Hall
Light hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Margaret Curtis is a feminist artist whose exuberantly painted, multi-layered narrative paintings address power dynamics on both the individual and societal level. Her paintings respond to climate change and ecosystem loss, using saturated color and compressed space to highlight the fictional realm in which her narratives unfold—a stage-set terrain of false fronts and facades, awash in anxiety.

The Alexander Hogue Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. The exhibition will be on view through March 6, 2025, and is free and open to the public.

Margaret Curtis is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and recent finalist for the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Curtis graduated Magna cum Laude from Duke University, received her BFA from The Atlanta College of Art, and attended the Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art. Her work first gained recognition in Marcia Tucker’s groundbreaking Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, in 1994. Since then, Curtis has shown at P.P.O.W., The Brooklyn Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Wexner Center, and The Mint Museum, among others. Recent solo exhibits include: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah (2024), Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC (2023, 2020), and The Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC (2022).

Reviews and features of Curtis’ work have appeared in Art Forum, The New York Times, Harper’s, Oxford American, Art in America, Art News, Modern Painters, Interview, New Art Examiner, and other national publications. Her work is in permanent collections throughout the United States. Curtis splits her time between North Carolina and New Mexico, and is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.

Image: Margaret Curtis, Portrait of My Anxiety, 2021. Oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches.

Alexandre Hogue Gallery | Margaret Curtis: “And, then”

On view through March 6, 2025.

The Alexandre Hogue Gallery presents the exhibition “And, then” by Margaret Curtis, the 2025 Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist.

Margaret Curtis is a feminist artist whose exuberantly painted, multi-layered narrative paintings address power dynamics on both the individual and societal level. Her paintings respond to climate change and ecosystem loss, using saturated color and compressed space to highlight the fictional realm in which her narratives unfold—a stage-set terrain of false fronts and facades, awash in anxiety.

The Alexander Hogue Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays This show is free and open to the public.

Margaret Curtis is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and recent finalist for the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Curtis graduated Magna cum Laude from Duke University, received her BFA from The Atlanta College of Art, and attended the Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art. Her work first gained recognition in Marcia Tucker’s groundbreaking Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, in 1994. Since then, Curtis has shown at P.P.O.W., The Brooklyn Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Wexner Center, and The Mint Museum, among others. Recent solo exhibits include: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah (2024), Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC (2023, 2020), and The Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC (2022).

Reviews and features of Curtis’ work have appeared in Art Forum, The New York Times, Harper’s, Oxford American, Art in America, Art News, Modern Painters, Interview, New Art Examiner, and other national publications. Her work is in permanent collections throughout the United States. Curtis splits her time between North Carolina and New Mexico, and is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.

Image: Margaret Curtis, Portrait of My Anxiety, 2021. Oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches.

TU Jazz Fall Concert

The University of Tulsa Jazz Band and Combo will perform a concert that is free and open to the public. The Big Band will perform a tribute to the great Count Basie, featuring the world premiere of “Tulsa Tippin,” composed by Nick Mancini and arranged by Aaron Spiers. Don’t miss this evening of Jazz directed by UTulsa faculty!

Single Reed Studio Recital

TU clarinet and saxophone students will perform a variety of solo and ensemble works showcasing their repertoire studies from the fall semester. The program will culminate with a performance by the newly formed TU Clarinet Choir under the direction of Dr. David Carter.

Visiting designer lecture: Alice J Lee 이정연

The designer Alice J Lee will give a public lecture for the opening of her exhibition in the Alexandre Hogue Gallery, entitled “We’ve got so much history.”

Please join us in Phillips Hall room 211 for the lecture from 5-6 p.m.,
followed by an opening reception in the Alexandre Hogue Gallery from 6-7 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

Alice J Lee 이정연 is a second-generation Korean American designer, researcher, and educator. Her exhibition at the Hogue Gallery visualizes personal and collective stories — histories — of in-between experiences that emerge when navigating different cultures simultaneously. “We’ve got so much history” is a line from “Juke Jam” by Chance the Rapper and describes the connection between the projects in this exhibition, which span a variety of media including photography, typography, posters, artist’s books, and large-scale prints.