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S7.E1 ∙ Sarah Ahmad: American Dream

Wed, Jun 30, 2021

Tulsa-based artist Sarah Ahmad has created "American Dream," an outdoor art installation for the Greenwood Art Project to promote racial healing in the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. It combines historic images from 1921 with new marigold garlands created in Pakistan, where Sarah grew up. To see it, visitors must walk through the forest -- a place, Sarah says, that everyone belongs.

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S7.E2 ∙ James Coplin: Body of Art

Wed, Sep 01, 2021

Edmond-based artist/teacher James Coplin has created all his life -- and then he became a bodybuilder champ. On Gallery America, James explains how he viewed bodybuilding as an art, how he transitioned into being a lifelong teacher at Edmond's Santa Fe High School, and where he walks us through the process of painting Oklahoma's Deep Fork River -- from tinted canvas to finished piece.

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S7.E3 ∙ Matt Goad: Positively Oklahoma

Wed, Oct 06, 2021

Over the past two decades, Oklahoma City artist Matt Goad has helped create the look of the modern cityscape, with street signs, logos and beer cans. Now he's tackling his biggest project, a 40,000-square-foot terrazzo flooring at the Will Rogers World Airport expansion. The goal is to tell city history and inspire visitors to see the city as a great modern metropolis bounding with possibility.

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S7.E4 ∙ Lil' Mike & Funny Bone: Dream Bigger

Wed, Nov 03, 2021

Oklahoma City rappers Lil' Mike and Funny Bone woo audiences with their high-energy and high-positive music. Now they've appeared on America's Got Talent and become star actors on Hulu's "Reservation Dogs," a Native American coming-of-age series that's drawn international acclaim. Gallery America revisits its 2013 profile of the brothers' "crunk" music and now reconnect to talk TV and the future.

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S7.E5 ∙ Irmgard Geul: My Hometowns

Wed, Dec 29, 2021

Oklahoma embroidery artist Irmgard Geul grew up in a Dutch artist colony, then relocated to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to run a horse farm. She balances her "hometowns" with her work, using threads to capture small-town scenes from her rural studio -- as seen in an exhibit of her works that plays off iconic images of both Oklahoma and the Netherlands. Gallery America drops in to see how she does it.

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S7.E6 ∙ Who is Mark Sisson?

Wed, Feb 02, 2022

Stillwater-based Mark Sisson is a printmaking legend, creating storytelling lithographs and woodcuts through layers of painstaking color. He's also an Oklahoma State legend, having taught printmaking there for 32 years. This year, Mark's retiring. Gallery America sits in on one of his final classes, while Mark shares the secrets behind some of his life's artworks at a recent exhibit at OSU.

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S7.E7 ∙ Is This Real? Starring Joe Daniel Phillips

Wed, Apr 06, 2022

Tulsa-based artist Joel Daniel Phillips believes a return to realism could help people believe each other again in this era of misinformation. Armed with a pencil, he creates life-size drawings of censored WPA-era photograph negatives documenting the Great Depression. His series "Killing the Negative" recently won him honors from the Smithsonian. OETA's Gallery America goes inside Joel's studio.

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S7.E8 ∙ The Age of Opportunity with Brad Brauser

Wed, May 04, 2022

Oklahoma City artist Brad Brauser quit painting at 17, then picked it up again... at 82. A former science teacher, he uses his road-tested knowledge of geology to paint landscapes. Driven by daily goals, he thinks about painting three days a week, then paints two. "I don't believe in the word old,' he says. "I prefer age of opportunity." Meet Brad and his wife, Annis, on Gallery America.

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S7.E9 ∙ Tulsa's Bob Dylan Center

Tue, May 31, 2022

The Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa in May 2022, transforming the Oklahoma city into the global headquarters of "Dylanology." It's half archives for scholars, half gallery space for visitors keen on learning about the legendary singer/songwriter/artist/film-maker, still going in his ninth decade. Gallery America meets with writers, scholars and collectors at the opening of the new site.

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