Gallery | Season One

Gallery #204

Kristin Chenoweth – Sooner Sensation

Described by so many, so accurately as a “powerhouse”, “joyfully intense”, “possessing a steel melting smile”, “beautiful dynamite”. Oklahoma’s own Tony Award winning singer/actress, Kristin Chenoweth, has hit the big time in a big way. She performs on Broadway, appears in the NBC comedy series “Frazier”, will be singing side by side with Mathew Broderick in the upcoming Disney film “The Music Man”, performed in an ABC special at the White House, as well as being seen by millions in the PBS series “Great Performances”. But, she says she’s never left Oklahoma, always carrying the spirit of the State and the love of her family and friends in her heart.

Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum – Child’s Play

Of all things, of all places, a vacation trip to Michigan sparked an idea that grew into something almost as popular with the children of Oklahoma, as the holidays of December, the Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum. The effort to get this educationally entertaining project off of the ground was monumental, driven by Melvin and Jasmine Moran. They give all of the credit for the wonderful success of this children’s play land of education to the volunteers, donors, staff, and inquisitive children and adults of Oklahoma and America. Want to have some fun and learn a few things? Here’s your chance.

Smart Business – Art Isn’t Easy

Art isn’t easy. No it isn’t, but art brings life to our souls, passion to our hearts, and character to our communities. Whether it’s a child finger-painting, a young child nervously delivering a line from Shakespeare on a high school stage, or a parent trying to get the right angle as he snaps a photograph of a new baby, art matters but it isn’t easy. Participating in the arts improves quality of life and fosters economic development. Art stands as an industry itself and offers a promising future to businesses interested in opening their doors in our cities and towns. The challenge of ensuring artful enrichment has been taken up by Smart Business and their message is simple. Get involved in the arts.

Airdate: May 9th, 2002

Gallery #203

New Genre

Prepare yourself for an experience in art that has actually left critics speechless. Hard to believe but New Genre, “the art of the millennium”, is so different, so riveting, so breathtaking, that viewers are left many times asking…What is that? What is it? Is that art? Answers to these questions lay ahead as Gallery explores this impressive, entertaining, and sometimes controversial artform.

2+2= Art

Kids love to learn, not study math. Kids love to paint, not crack open a history book. And, of course kids love to create wonderful sculptures with messy clay, not learn Mozart. But that’s not the case at Sadler Arts Academy in Muskogee. Kids there love to learn and their teachers accomplish this by infusing art with classroom curriculum. These youngsters love to hit the books, paintbrush, sketch pad, and creative thought.

Writing With Light

Tom Lee brings focus to life by capturing thought provoking images replete with questions and emotion. These 8x10 matted photographs elicit moments to ponder, but the way these moments are captured may cause even deeper thought. Tom Lee the talented, well-known, well-respected photographer is a quadriplegic. His photographs are impressive enough, but wait until you visit his soul.

Guyman Gumbo

It was the first of it’s kind in the United States. Guyman took a festival that celebrated the diverse and exciting culture of Oklahoma, to eager friends in Southern Alabama. Our cameras were there as the world’s of Forrest Gump and Fannie Flagg pulled into the Panhandle, complete with net-makers, boat builders, fishermen, fresh seafood, and even a shrimp boat came along for the ride. Join us for some Southern hospitality as Foley Alabama and Oklahoma’s pride in the Panhandle, Guymon, exchange bowls of flavorful “cultural” gumbo.

Airdate: February 13th, 2002

Gallery #202

Dancing with the Red Wolf

The beautiful flashes of color, intensity of emotion, and the mesmerizing beat of a drum keeping time with songs telling stories sacred to a people. These are but a few small pieces of a tradition carried on by the Kiowa Tribe for three hundred years. Dave Tamez presents us with an exclusive behind the scenes look at the sacred and spiritual ceremony known as the gourd dance.

Prairie Sparks

What is it? How did he do that? How much does it weigh? What does it mean? These questions will fill your mind when you see what Jim Powers does with something that most recently visited a scrap yard. Once called junk,  Jim takes the twisted, rusted torrents of metal and combines the message in his heart, the love in his hands, and lessons learned around the globe to produce works of art that Ripley’s Believe It or Not, calls unbelievable.

Wooden Wonders

Nature has a way of creating beauty that doesn’t seem to be able to be improved upon, but in Cashion Oklahoma, a wonderfully skilled artist is giving Mother Nature a run for her money.  Cary Sappenfield’s skilled carver’s touch and vision of the potential magnificence to be released from time-worn wood grain will amaze you.

Encore

Join us for a tour of the most heralded theater in the country. The Oklahoma City Civic Center, right here in Oklahoma City. The newly renovated Civic Center is set to re-open September 6th, and we go back stage to learn why this theater is the buzz of the performing arts community and what the 58 million dollar facelift means to you.

Airdate:Oct 2ND, 2001

Gallery #201

   The Art of Contemporary Glass Blowing-All That Glitters

Glass, you drink with it, you gaze through it, drive with it, even talk through miles of line made from it. But how do you transform this glittering mass into any shape at all? Take a wondrous journey with Ron Blankenship, an artist who paints with cauldrons of glowing, 2000 degree molten glass.

Quartz Mountain Summer Arts Institute – After the Ashes

 Young artists yearn to transfer the longing in their hearts to the strings of a violin, the soles of ballet slippers, the lens of a camera, or the watercolor of a painting. At the Summer Arts Institute, these youthful performers are brought to a higher level of imagination and skill by world-renowned artists dedicated to the next generation of arts leadership. Celebrate a return to the beauty of Quartz Mountain and the ongoing joy of arts education through the creativity and desire of young Oklahomans.

Native American Theater – The Trail

 A people’s history has many worn paths. The footsteps shaping the past of the Cherokee people carry a load fraught with unimaginable actions and emotions, typified by villainous betrayal. Take a seat in the Cherokee Heritage Center’s open-air amphitheater and have a front row perspective on the all new Trail of Tears drama. The spirits of the past will surround your senses with stories of Cherokee origins and theology.

The Wit and Wisdom of Cowboy Poetry – "It Ain’t Shakespeare"

Kent Rollins loves the cowboy way of life. He is a cowboy, works as a cowboy, and as a weather toughened, dust eating, horse riding cowboy, and he writes poetry. Through words caressed by those beautiful Oklahoma sunrises and sunsets, he wants you to experience the heritage and humor he takes with him every time he saddles up to meet the fresh air of Oklahoma’s Great Plains Country.

Airdate: July 10th, 2001 

Gallery #101

The Long Way Home

Everyone has been touched by someone or some place while walking down the path to our futures. Artist and native Oklahoman, Melvin Smith, wants you to meet people and places that shaped his life. It's an interesting journey through sculpture and collage, color and emotion, the artist uses known in the art world as found object. Gallery goes beyond Melvin Smiths wonderful African masks that hang so bodly on the wall of his studio and museum to capture the inner workings of this sculptor and reveal the passion thats goes into each piece he creates.

The Crucible

Molten, bubbling metal, fire and sledgehammers, artistic grace and a gentle touch are unlikely partners in the pursuit of creating bronze sculptures. Our journalist ask, "Can you stand the heat?" as we take you on a behind the scenes look at Oklahoma's premier foundry, The Crucible. You won't want to miss this award winning episode of Gallery as we look at the art of metal casting.

A Way of Life

Western Art has grit, courage, and character. Through the eyes and hands of “cowboy” artist, Harold Holden, of Enid, we ask why the spirited men and women of the West fill hearts worldwide with an array of emotions and dreams.

Dance Diversity

Young dancers cross the hot streets of inner city asphalt to form a bond through the tight strings of ballet shoes. Join us as two cultures clash on floors scattered with beauty and grace.

Swingin’  Cats

Smoke filled bars with cracked windows oozing smooth tunes of jazz, are passing on the torch of music’s heart. The old guard of jazz is making sure “swingin cats” fresh out of musically noted diapers, carry on the traditions of men like Louis Armstrong who said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know”.

Airdate: April 10th, 2001