Gallery - Season Two

Gallery #401

A-Plus Program  “Artful Education”

It started in North Carolina a few years ago, an effort to bring increased arts education and awareness to public schools.  Last year it spread to Oklahoma and next school year it will be introduced in Arkansas.  We’ll tell you what it means to be an “A-Plus School” and we’ll see what kind of results the new program is generating for Oklahoma’s students.  

Inez Black  “Where Dreams Came True”

A Tulsa teaching legend, she has been a music teacher for the better part of 50 years.  She taught most of the time in the Tulsa School District.  She retired from public schools, but she still takes students and gives them a music education like few others can.

Art at the Mansion   “The People’s House”

The Governor’s Mansion has undergone a renaissance in recent years.  An infusion of art has almost turned the mansion into a museum.  We’ll take you inside “The People’s House” for a look at what’s been done.   We’ll also give you a history lesson about the construction of the place they call, “The People’s House”. 

Guthrie Jazz Banjo Festival  “Four Strings Only”

It has been voted one of the top 100 events in the United States.  We’ll hit the streets and the stages in Guthrie for a look at this unique event. More than one hundred performances are featured during a full weekend of activities.

Airdate: July 8th, 2003

Gallery #305

Untitled Gallery

Laura Warriner and her husband bought the old broken down building just across the tracks from downtown Oklahoma City several years ago.  It wasn’t much to look at then, but the Warriners had big ideas.   Today that old building is one of Oklahoma City’s most distinctive art galleries.  The bottom floor is display space for exhibitions and the top floor is a place where artists can gather for talks, demonstrations and even overnight stays.

Enid Symphony Hall

It has really been a dream come true for Enid Symphony director Doug Newell.  Years ago he kept having these recurring dreams about walking up a long staircase and finding a stunning symphony hall at the top.  Turns out that hall was right in his backyard.  The top floors of the old Knox Building in downtown Enid have been transformed into a world class performance palace.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

It is a place where you can get lost in the past.  The heritage of Native Americans, Cowboys and Pioneers is celebrated inside the 220-thousand square feet of this truly American museum.  From the works of world renown artists like Remington, Russell and Leigh to the trappings of the west the museum tells the story of the great American exploration.

Airdate: May 20th,  2003

Gallery #304

 Lee Shaw

 She’s been playing the piano for parts of eight decades and is considered one of the most influential female jazz pianists of all time. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. Lee Shaw grew up in Ada and has performed around the world with her Lee Shaw Trio. She has shared the stage with jazz greats like Sara Vaughan and Billie Holiday. These days, she spends most of her time teaching at her home near Albany, New York and is on the staff at Albany’s College of St. Rose. But once in a while she takes her trio on the road to perform at venues around the Country. Lee recently took the stage at UCO Jazz Lab in Edmond and that’s where our Gallery crew caught up with her for an in-depth interview and a look at her wonderful career.

Double Star Studio

 Put two artists under one roof for 40 years and what do you get? Well, in the case of Nancy and Sheldon Russell, many phenomenal examples of their work, but there’s much more here.

Sheldon is an award-winning author, whose interest in Oklahoma and it’s history, has led to four colorfully exciting books. Nancy, a renowned sculptor,didn’t discover her true creative heart until twenty years into her marriage until one day, Sheldon, hot into a writing surge, worked into a coffee break and encouraged her to some whittling while she waited for his frenzy to cool. When Sheldon emerged for that cup of java, he and Nancy discovered a whole new aspect of their lives.

Join the Gallery staff as we visit the Russell’s Double Star Studio, where you learn about the wonders of art and life.

Airdate: February, 4th, 2003

Gallery #303

The Oklahoman Shakespearean Festival – Magnolias and Shakespeare

"“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” (act 3, scene 2). “As good luck would have it” (act 3, scene 5). “All the world’s a stage and all men and women merely players” (act 2, scene 7) especially in the Red River Valley town of Durant, where every summer hundreds gather to perform and enjoy, “A dish fit for the God’s” (act 2, scene 1) the timeless works of William Shakespeare. So, “This is the long and short of it.” (act 2, scene 2) “Goodnight, goodnight, parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight til it be morrow” (act 2, scene 2).

Mike Wimmer – Art Puddles

 
As a young boy growing up in Muskogee, Mike Wimmer played hard, read comic books, and dreamed of wonderful adventures. He never stopped doing all of those things, in fact, those influences have made him one of the most sought after artists in the Country. Mike has been compared to great artists like Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth, both heroes of his. Mike says he paints in what he calls his “art puddles”, always having several projects working at the same time, whether it’s a portrait of Will Rogers, advertisement for Coca Cola, commissioned work for Disney, illustrating children’s books, or teaching his craft to young school children. His work has been called amazing, and it is.

Airdate: November 13th, 2002

Gallery #302

 OK Mozart Festival – Osage Composers

 The music caressing the rolling hills of the Osage encompasses everything from Garth Brooks to Alicia Keys. But in June, the senses are regaled by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Handel, and many other classical artists, as the people of Bartlesville celebrate the world’s most cherished composers. The OK Mozart Festival is the largest music festival in the State and artists from across the globe eagerly travel to this oil boom town to give the performance of their careers.

Woody Guthrie – Bound for Glory

 Woody Guthrie is an Oklahoma legend who left his home in Okemah, not with a guitar slung across his back, but with paintbrushes in his hand. Along the rough roads that Woody traveled, he influenced generations with his music, songs, poetry, journalism, novels, and political activism. Labeled a Communist by those who didn’t understand him and a genius by those who did, Woody Guthrie, 62 years after he wrote “This Land Is Your Land”, is considered an American hero, an American hero that called Oklahoma home.

Omniplex Behind The Scenes – The Mission

 Before the lights are turned on, doors opened, and kids young and old venture into a play land of hands-on spectacle and displays cradling priceless objects of American history, something magical happens. Well, not exactly mystical conjuring, just a sleight of hand by a group of skilled, dedicated people, making sure a museum puts a gleam in your eye and few thoughts in your head. The Gallery camera’s go where none have gone before, the inner workings of the State’s largest art and science museum, the Omniplex.

International Photography Hall of Fame – Photography’s Greatest

 While exploring the Omniplex, focus your attention on the highly developed International Photography Hall of Fame. This world-class gallery and education center houses images depicting the beauty, wonder, and mystery of the world. The landscapes, still life, portraiture, photojournalism, and other genres, are composed to take your shutter speed to new levels.

Airdate:  September 18th, 2002

Gallery #301

Jan Martin McGuire – The Nature of Art

Jan Martin McGuire is recognized as one of the Country’s most distinguished wildlife artists, but her brush strokes represent so much more. Jan’s paintings are formed with such tremendous research, skill, and love that the animals and scenes she forms on her canvas become a doorway to be passed through on the way to a better understanding of Mother Nature’s beautiful and exciting world.

Oklahoma!

Sixty years after it’s original premiere, “Oklahoma!” is back on Broadway. The first collaboration between the legendary team of Rodgers & Hammerstein, “Oklahoma!” was adapted from the play “Green Grow the Lilacs”, by Oklahoman Lynn Riggs. This newest production comes from England, where it has been performed on the London stage for the last four years.

“Oklahoma!” is one of the most performed musicals of the 20th Century. “Gallery” takes you behind the scenes in New York to meet the stars. And we’ll take you Off-Broadway in Edmond, where the next generation of actors takes the stage in a command performance for the Governor.

Muscle Car Ranch

Oklahoma is well known for it’s cattle ranches, but one ranch in particular has a growing reputation for it’s highly respected “horsepower”. The Muscle Car Ranch in Chickasha is a tribute to chrome, cubic inches, big engines, and two decades of art dedicated to muscle cars. Curtis Hart has created the world he loves, where the colorfully powerful automobiles, known as muscle cars, continue to influence generations.

Airdate: July 11th, 2002