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Eleanor(she/her) is a New York-based artist, educator, and arts administrator. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the experience of the Black Diasporic female body in the united states of amerikkka through the examination and deconstruction of historical and contemporary narratives.
She is interested in the public, private, and civic negotiations of race, gender, and class in addition to the effect and practice of violence, and surveillance on the body. This hybrid work exists as performance, video, and photography, poetry/spoken word, collaborative education, educational collaboration, installation, & writing but often draws on other methods such as social practice, and design.
Eleanor is originally from Maine and has a BS in Video Production from the New England School of Communications (2007), an MFA from the University of Maine (2018), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018.
eleanorkipping.com / @elfelicia
Jeff sits down with Warren Ross, President & Chairman of Ross Group at their downtown Tulsa headquarters to hear his reflections about the importance of their connection to downtown and to the city as a whole and about what the company's mission and vision mean to him at a deeper level.
He also shares about his life journey and career and how he got started in the construction business and about some very formative lessons that he has learned along the way.
In the Spring of 2019, I sat down with real estate investor and developer Gary Brooks at his office in Bricktown to have a deeper conversation about his experiences with historic The First National Center project in downtown OKC and what it has meant to him.
He reflects about the very positive and supportive responses that he has received from current and former residents of Oklahoma City and some of their family members since this project was announced to the public and since the renovation work has begun.
At that time, it was the largest historic renovation project to date in the State Of Oklahoma.
About Gabriela
I am a Tulsa based photographer originally from East Los Angeles, CA.I enjoy capturing lifes moments candidly. I enjoy photographing the world around me as I see it. Black and white prints are my favorite. To me it captures the essence and beauty of life.
To learn more about Gabriela, visit
https://artsierthanwe.picfair.com
Instagram-@artsierthanwe
About Irie Blues:
Photography is the portal to how my brain communicates life visually. Ever since mental health became an important element in my life, I have asked myself "How can I live a better life and remain at peace with the blues?" Presenting color psychology, light and harmony through the world of photography are my creative practices. By blending a multitude of elements to produce many forms of harmony are my experiments for socially conscious connections. I have been able to not only conduct these perspectives through photography, but through community events, where I am bridging artistic gaps and empowering others. Being a part of my local community drives my innovative spirit and empowers my artistic abilities, all while evolving individual artistry.
To learn more about her and her work, visit
https://www.irieblues.co
Jeff sits down with Nicole Poole as she shares very deeply about her life journey, about her work in the community that is making love cool again in Oklahoma City through SPARK! and her pandemic street art, about her evolution as a human being, an artist, and as a creative changemaker.
To learn more about Nicole and her projects, visit
https://www.nicolepoole.com
To learn about SPARK!
visit
https://www.sparklahoma.com
ABOUT NICOLE
I am a broker of delightful disruption hell-bent on making love cool again.
After a couple of decades in NYC and a few years in Paris, I have returned to Oklahoma, where I seek opportunities to connect with other curious humans, create art, and initiate projects for the common good.
My background is multidisciplinary collaboration, where generosity and authentic response transcend discipline, language and culture. Spending decades in creative spaces governed by “I don’t know - let’s be lost together” has taught me that curiosity in the face of uncertainty fosters deep connection, full expression and collective transformation. Process is the product, and the medium is, as always, the message. My personal journey of healing from Complex Trauma/C-PTSD is rooted in compassion, and I am uniquely able to create brave, safe spaces that nurture vulnerability, the surest path to risk, growth and innovation.
My primary tool in performance is Soundpainting, a universal sign language for live composition, powered by the offerings of the performers, sculpted in real time to highlight the immediacy of live performance and the power of improvisation.
Maverick Arts, LLC is the arm of my work that incorporates my artistic expertise with my desire to advocate for cultural dialogue and experience. I partner with individuals, non-profits, governmental organizations, educational institutions and industry to provide dynamic initiatives powered by global creative experience, expansive social perspective and contemporary collaborative expertise.
ABOUT SPARK!
SPARK! is a daring and diverse new ensemble of acclaimed artists joining forces to bring cutting-edge, immersive performance to the heart of OKC. SPARK! harnesses collective creativity to ignite community healing and cohesion, rethinking how the arts engage with each other, and with the public.
"We need spaces to heal from the trauma of isolation, division, inequity and loss brought or revealed by the past year.
Live performance is uniquely poised to foster belonging, meaning and unity. But to do so effectively, I believe we've gotta rethink and transcend both the idea of shared space and the transactional, passive entertainment we've become accustomed to.
Throughout my career as a collaborative performing artist, I have seen, time and again, that creating a performance together, in a public space, has the power to activate vibrant, light-hearted and radically inclusive engagement. In fact, studies have proven this - the evolutionary psychology concept of positivity resonance explains why our heartbeats synchronize when we gather: collaborative, shared co-experience of positive emotion is the most elemental building block of love.
I feel called at this moment in our lives to share the expertise I've honed in NYC and Europe with my hometown of OKC. Intentionally applied radical collaboration can help us come together with curiosity, compassion, joy and play. That's what SPARK! is all about."
Nicole Poole, Producing Artistic Director
SPARK! joyfully merges dance, visual art, music, poetry and theatre into wildly unpredictable, one-of-a-kind happenings created with the public in pop-up locations accessible to the broader OKC community. Our events are free of charge and intended to reconnect us through active creativity, radical collaboration and shared humanity.<
Jeff sits down with artist Daniel Sutliff as he shares deeply about his process, his perspective, and about his evolution as an artist and as a human being.
To learn more about Daniel and his work, visit
www.danielsutliff.com
www.instagram.com/daniel_sutliff
www.facebook.com/daniel.sutliff.9
Music:
danielsutliff.bandcamp.com
To learn about Daniel's current exhibit at Liggett Studio that is up through October 30th,
Byte Sized Mind,
visit
https://www.liggettstudio.com/current-exhibits
GALLERY HOURS AFTER OPENING: THURS 5-8pm, FRI 5-8pm, SAT 1-5pm
Liggett Studio is a located at 314 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120 in heart of the "Off-Brady" East End Village District.
ABOUT BYTE SIZED MIND
The genesis of this series stems from my interest in analogue technologies and the different levels of sophistication at which visual information is communicated. The word “byte” represents 8 bits, the amount of processing power and memory space used in certain analogue machines. With these works I wanted to re-formalize the dominant visual languages from my youth: video games and minimalist computer graphics. Ultimately, it’s about constraint. I’m attempting to elevate limitation as a strength in itself.
Jeff sits down with Josh Stout as he shares deeply about what his art, his process, and the consciousness and presence that he channels through this work means to him at a deeper level.
He also reflects on his journey both as an artist and as a human being.
To learn more about Josh and his work, visit
https://joshstoutart.com
ABOUT JOSH
Take away the sun, so I may rove the ocean despite light.
Let go the hand, so sightless fog drifts in between reflections of ourselves.
Give me a lifetime to forget the language of my birth,
so only wind screams out my lungs when I'm aflame.
We were born to create.
I will not betray my instinct.
I will dig my voice out from beneath the stone.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Husband, Son, Brother, Uncle, Father of Five talented children.
Questioning everything in a relentless quest for harmony.
Finding the path.
Living life everyday, following my natural instincts.
Growing wise.
Experimenting at the boundaries of what the mind can create.
The first time in my life a brush from my hand hits a canvas was an explosion of emotions that I’m still trying to figure out in my own mind as it creates images of a people and a planet.
Art, my outlet has become my voice. The filtration between the brain and the hand. A direct influence of every experience in my life combined towards a single subject.
Born an artist. My entire life has lead to being an artist. Creating, exploring and experiencing life and how it affects one’s outlook on the world. Ultimately how all these views are transferred through a medium.
Compositions arranged straight from the most powerful tool on Earth, the mind. Paintings are sculpted at a journeyman's pace by the use of oil and pallet knife. Bronze sculptures crafted exclusively by hand, where a thought can become completely encompassed.
Jeff sits down with Carlos Moreno, the author of The Victory of Greenwood, to hear about his life journey since he moved to Tulsa years ago and about his work in the Greenwood community.
He speaks very compellingly about what the process of researching, connecting with all of the people in Greenwood, and writing this book means to him at a deeper level.
Carlos reflects deeply about the impact of this work and the book has had in the Tulsa area and beyond.
Jeff sits down with Ame Hernandez as she shares about her artistic perspective, her process, her influences and evolution, and about what it all means to her at a deeper level.
To learn more about Ame and her work, visit
https://www.amegalerie.com
Instagram @artbyameh
The podcast currently has 267 episodes available.