Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition - OVAC

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition - OVAC OVAC Links: https://linktr.ee/ovac_ok
Growing and developing Oklahoma's visual arts community through education, promotion, connection, and funding.

Since 1988, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC) has been growing and developing Oklahoma's visual arts community through education, promotion, connection, and funding. OVAC enriches communities by encouraging individual artists’ gifts and abilities, believing that artists contribute to vibrant community lives with positive changes in neighborhoods, public spaces, economies and education. Eac

h year, OVAC serves more than 1,700 artists directly through professional development and business training, opportunities to exhibit their work and connect with new audiences, and targeted funding to encourage professional excellence and public ventures. OVAC helps enrich Oklahoma communities because of and through artists.

🌟 OVAC MEMBER NEWS - Summer Events at Factory ObscuraA Summer Solstice Celebration A community celebration of the Summer...
06/17/2026

🌟 OVAC MEMBER NEWS - Summer Events at Factory Obscura

A Summer Solstice Celebration
A community celebration of the Summer Solstice, featuring a Solstice Ceremony, a neighborhood frolic, and a community dance party with Ecstatic Dance. Mark the changing of the seasons by gathering sunlight to carry us through the rest of the year.
📆 June 20, 2026 | 7:30–10pm

RECORD+PLAY
The Emoshies and The Feels have left behind fragments of songs, stories, and emotions, but something is missing. Together, participants will travel through the immersive world of MIX-TAPE, uncovering hidden clues, contributing creative choices, and helping shape a one-of-a-kind mix-tape built from shared experiences. Part performance, part interactive adventure, RECORD + PLAY invites guests to become collaborators in a living story where every choice adds a new layer to the music. No two journeys are exactly alike.
📆 June 18, June 25, July 11, July 18 and July 26 | Various Times

📍 Factory Obscura, Oklahoma City, Ok
🔗 Get tickets at the link in our bio or visit FactoryObscura.Com
Thanks to Kelsey Karper for submitting!

OVAC Member and Committee Member, Whitney Batres, featured in 405 Magazine!
06/17/2026

OVAC Member and Committee Member, Whitney Batres, featured in 405 Magazine!

✨ Meet artist, Moussa Isamotu ✨Moussa Isamotu is a West African artist born in Côte d’Ivoire, of Burkinabè and Nigeria...
06/16/2026

✨ Meet artist, Moussa Isamotu ✨
Moussa Isamotu is a West African artist born in Côte d’Ivoire, of Burkinabè and Nigerian nationality. He works in pyrography and painting on natural wood surfaces. Creating figures, animals, and fictional characters, he allows the wood grain to guide each composition, embracing expressive and open forms rather than strict realism. For Isamotu, art is a form of therapy — a space for balance, focus, and release. Through the act of burning and painting, he transforms raw wood into visual narratives that explore identity, heritage, and emotional resilience.

📍 Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum
🗓 Exhibition Dates: June 2–August 1, 2026

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/OVACMembersShow

💛 Join us in the morning on July 11, 2026 at Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gaylord-Pickens Museum in OKC for "Curators in Conv...
06/15/2026

💛 Join us in the morning on July 11, 2026 at Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gaylord-Pickens Museum in OKC for "Curators in Conversation", a panel featuring Jason Cytacki, Lexi Rodriguez, and Marcus Leonard. Moderated by Mattie Barlow.

Go behind the scenes of exhibition-making as we reveal how a gallery transforms from an empty space into a finished show. Learn what curators are really looking for when selecting artists and artwork, get practical tips for pitching your work and building professional relationships, and discover the artists, exhibitions, and creative projects shaping Oklahoma’s visual arts community today.

📍 Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum
🗓 Panel & OVAC Awards: July 11, 2026 | 10am–11:30am
🗓 Exhibition Dates: June 2–August 1, 2026

This event is free and open to the public with RSVP
🔗 RSVP at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/OVACMembersShow

✨ Meet artist, Angela Browning ✨Angela Browning is an Oklahoma native living in Tulsa. She is a graduate of The Univer...
06/14/2026

✨ Meet artist, Angela Browning ✨
Angela Browning is an Oklahoma native living in Tulsa. She is a graduate of The University of Tulsa with her bachelor’s degree and The University of Oklahoma with her master’s degree. She currently divides her creative time between writing, ceramic sculpting, fiber arts, and metalsmithing. Her current efforts attempt to meld all these interests into a cohesive body of work.

📍 Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum
🗓 Exhibition Dates: June 2–August 1, 2026

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/OVACMembersShow

✨ Meet artist, Joshua Cook ✨Born and raised in Oklahoma, Joshua started sculpting with recycled metal, wood, and whate...
06/10/2026

✨ Meet artist, Joshua Cook ✨
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Joshua started sculpting with recycled metal, wood, and whatever else he could get his hands on in 2013, while studying art at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Since then, he has exhibited at shows and festivals locally and in other states. The subject matter of his sculptures is primarily animals (particularly insects), but plants and even mythical creatures make an appearance. Joshua creates his sculptures without welding, instead using glues, epoxies, tension, and bolts. They are then hand painted to mimic the subject’s natural coloring, but with a metallic twist.

📍 Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum
🗓 Exhibition Dates: June 2–August 1, 2026

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/OVACMembersShow

📢 Applications are now OPEN for our next , on August 12th at ARTSPACE At Untitled in Oklahoma City, OK.Why participate ...
06/08/2026

📢 Applications are now OPEN for our next , on August 12th at ARTSPACE At Untitled in Oklahoma City, OK.

Why participate in Art Crit Night?
💸 $100 stipend
🌟 Share your creative practice with the community
💬 Engage in enriching creative discussions
🤝 Network with fellow artists and advocates

📅 Application Deadline: July 10, 2026
🔗 Apply at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/ArtCritNight
This application is FREE and open to the public!

What is Art Crit Night?
Art Crit Night is a free-to-attend critique event featuring two local artists who present their work during a curator-led discussion. Artists, arts professionals, collectors, and community members can enjoy a relaxed evening of conversation, connection, and art exploration.

📰 Read: SIGNS OF THE TIMES: PAINTING THE MOTHER ROADThrough bold, colorful paintings of Route 66 communities, , Clint...
06/07/2026

📰 Read: SIGNS OF THE TIMES: PAINTING THE MOTHER ROAD
Through bold, colorful paintings of Route 66 communities, , Clint Stone documents Oklahoma’s Mother Road as it exists today, capturing the people, places, and stories that continue to shape its identity.
✒️ Written by Karen Paul

This article is featured in the Spring 2026 issue of Art Focus magazine.
🔗 Read online now at the link in our bio or visit Ovac-Ok.Org/ArtFocus
📖 Check out our Art Focus Distribution map to find locations across the region to snag a free copy at Ovac-Ok.Org/GetACopy.

🌟 OVAC MEMBER NEWS - FIBERWORKS 2026108|Contemporary is excited to present FIBERWORKS 2026, the juried member exhibition...
06/05/2026

🌟 OVAC MEMBER NEWS - FIBERWORKS 2026
108|Contemporary is excited to present FIBERWORKS 2026, the juried member exhibition of Fiber Artists of Oklahoma. Juried by Astrid Bennett, this exhibition honors quality workmanship and original design while educating the public on the many facets of fiber art by presenting a wide range of media, techniques, and traditions.
📆 Exhibition Dates: June 5–July 25, 2026

📍 108|Contemporary, Tulsa, Ok
Thanks to Elizabeth Richards for submitting!

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