How does Sovereignty impact tribal enrollment?
Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities in welcoming Norbert Hill Jr., Lance Kelley, Jim Gray, and Nathan Wilson for a discussion about tribal enrollment and how it could change in the future. They will discuss the new book, “Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear” which serves as a guide for conversation in-community and a songline of voices grappling with contemporary Native identity and the sovereignty inherent in defining citizenship with analysis softened by appreciation for kin, land, and promises to future generations from the descendants of generations who continue to resist, who refuse to disappear.
This event is free and open to all.
Designed and hand screenprinted by William B. Livingston III, most of this remarkable exhibit was created in the most unlikely circumstances – in a prison cell. Livingston turned to art while incarcerated at Joseph Harp Correctional Facility in Lexington, OK. Printing and sending these posters out to loved ones to distribute for free at concerts, Livingston used them as a vehicle for connection with the world outside and a way to share his plea: “please don’t drink and drive.”
This exhibit runs June 6-July 25, 2025 at 101 Archer. Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays from noon until 5 p.m.
On view through July 26, 2025.
This exhibition highlights the collaborative spirit and creative legacy of Flash Flood Print Studios through a showcase of prints from their Artist Print Series, selected works by participating artists, and ephemera from the studio. Founded as an artist-led, community-driven print shop, Flash Flood supported clients of all sizes while nurturing bold, high-quality projects. The Artist Print Series was created in 2019 with the aim to make screen printing accessible – offering artists a no-cost way to produce editions, celebrating the versatility of the medium, and providing affordable entry points for new collectors. With the studio’s recent closure in March, this exhibition serves both as a tribute to the APS and a retrospective of the collaborations that shaped Flash Flood over its 13 year run.
Curator bio:
May Yang is a Tulsa-based artist, designer, and printer whose practice blends typographic and calligraphic elements into vibrant abstract compositions. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she deepened her interest in collaborative printmaking through training at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque. Yang was the founder and owner of Flash Flood Print Studios, which she led for its full 13-year run. In 2019, she created the Artist Print Series as a passion project – a way to return to her roots in collaborative printmaking while supporting fellow artists and celebrating the creative potential of screen printing. The series became a central part of the studio’s mission, driven by the belief in accessible, community-based art.
This exhibit runs June 6-July 26, 2025, at UTulsa’s 101 Archer. Our galleries are open Wednesdays through Saturdays from noon until 5 p.m. Special closures for private events will be announced on our social media pages. As always, admission is free, and open to students, faculty, staff, and public.
Leonid Furmansky explores the work of Minoru Yamasaki and his skyscrapers across America, beginning with his discovery of Rainier Tower in Seattle, Washington, a moment that sparked a deeper photographic journey into Yamasaki’s architecture. From there, his work has taken him to landmarks such as the quarter-scale replica of the World Trade Center Towers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Through architectural photography commissions, Leonid continues to find himself in front of another of Yamasaki’s iconic buildings. Over time, he has carefully documented these structures, building a body of work that preserves the architect’s legacy.
This ongoing photographic essay is a long-term effort to capture all of Yamasaki’s towering projects, with the ultimate goal of creating a book. As part of this project, an artist talk will feature Shane Hood and Leonid Furmansky, discussing Yamasaki’s work and legacy, offering insight into his lasting impact on architecture and the built environment.
Leonid Furmansky is an architectural photographer based in Austin, Texas, specializing in capturing the built environment. His work explores the relationship between architecture and society, documenting spaces with a keen eye for design, history, and cultural impact.
Leonid has held two solo exhibitions—one in Houston and another in College Station—focusing on the city’s response to the pandemic and the enduring presence of Brutalism. His photography has been featured in prominent publications, including The New York Times, Divisare, ArchDaily, The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect Magazine, Houston Cite, and Glasstire.
Join us to celebrate Zachary Leader’s new book, “Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of the Masterpiece and its Maker.” Reception with beer and wine to follow. Leader is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Frank Kermode thought the book would “fix Joyce’s image for a generation,” a prediction that was if anything too cautious. The biography won the National Book Award and durably secured Joyce’s standing as a preeminent modernist.
Ellmann’s Joyce provides the biography of the biography, exploring how Ellmann came to his subject, gained the cooperation of Joyce’s family and estate, shrewdly, doggedly collected vital papers and interviews, placated publishers, thwarted competitors, and carefully balanced narrative with literary analysis. Ellmann’s Joyce also removes the veil from the biographer—richly rewarded in public, admirable in private life, but also possessed of a startling secret life. An eminent biographer himself, Zachary Leader constructs a powerful argument not only in support of Ellmann’s intellectual and artistic claims but also on behalf of literary biography generally. In the process, he takes readers on a rare tour through midcentury publishing houses in New York and London, as well as the corridors and classrooms of elite universities, from Yale to Oxford. The influence of Ellmann’s book, recognized instantly, persists to this day, among literary scholars and Joyce fans alike.
Filled with surprising details, tales of intrigue from the heyday of literary publishing, and intimate portraits of the Joyce and Ellmann families, Ellmann’s Joyce is as immersive as a walk around town with Leopold Bloom and as moving as the thickly drifted snow on Michael Furey’s grave.
Join us for a conversation with W. Jacob Cornwell, the curator of the Oklahoma Baseball Archive, which is current on view at 101 Archer. Cornwell will discuss the history of Negro league baseball in Tulsa and the work he has done to preserve this story. This event is great for any history or sports fan. It is free and open to the public.
Join us for the opening of a new exhibit “Black Gold in Oil Town” which details the history of Negro league baseball right here in Tulsa. This exhibit was curated by W. Jacob Cornwell, the creator of the Oklahoma Baseball Archive.
Doors open March 7 at 6 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through April 26. Admission, as always, is free and open to all.
Presented by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities: In the nineteenth-century as today, exotic plants made an intimate part of human lives and literature. In this talk, Dr. Elizabeth Chang will explore both the cultivation of plants by humans and the cultivation of humans by plants and will investigate the boundaries of plant and human sentience. Open and free to the public!
Presented in collaboration with the Honors College. Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg join us at 101 Archer to discuss their book, “What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice.” The book analyses the increasing ambivalence about having children and explores the philosophical resources available to overcome it. Peeling back the layers of resistance, “What Are Children For?” argues that when we make the individual decision whether or not to have children we confront a profound philosophical question, that of the goodness of our form life itself. How can we justify perpetuating human life given the catastrophic harm and suffering of which we are always at once both victims and perpetrators? To meet this challenge we must, we argue, uncover a capacity to grasp the fundamental goodness of human life—not only theoretically but practically in the actual lives we lead today.
Wiseman and Berg both work for The Point magazine as managing editor and senior editor, respectively. This conversation is free and open to the Tulsa community.
Jay Smith, the president of Yellowstone Theological Institute (YTI), will discuss Christian ministry and opportunities for graduate education in ministry at YTI. The talk will take place in Sharp Chapel. It is free and pizza will be served to all who attend.
