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Oklahoma City University to Host Annual Arts Festival

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City University’s Norick Art Center will host the Private and Parochial Arts Alliance Annual Arts Festival next month.

The free festival opens March 1 and continues through March 5 in the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery. A reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. March 5.

Works from primary and secondary-level students will be exhibited. The alliance is a non-profit organization that provides support in the performing and visual arts for students outside the public school systems.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1 to 4 and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. March 5. For more information, contact Burt Harbison at (405) 208-5230.

Faculty Exhibit

Stuart Asprey, assistant professor of ceramics, will have a reception for his exhibit at the Firehouse Art Center in Norman at 6 p.m. Feb. 12. Asprey’s works are on display at the gallery, located at 444 S. Flood, until March 5.

Exhibit Highlights Up-and-Coming Oklahoma Artists

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City University will host the annual High School Print and Drawing Competition with an exhibit Nov. 1-13, 2009. An opening reception will be held in the Norick Art Center at Blackwelder Avenue and N.W. 26th Street from 2-5 p.m. Nov. 1, including an awards presentation at 3 p.m. The event is free to the public.

The OCU Art Department has hosted the competition every fall since 1985. High school students from across the state are invited to submit their creations for the juried exhibit. Media categories include printmaking, drawing and photography.

“This is a great show to see what’s coming for the Oklahoma art scene,” said Burt Harbison, director of the Hulsey Gallery in Norick Art Center. “This could be the launching pad for some of the best artists in the state.”

Harbison said the Art Department faculty will select 150 works from a pool of 600. The judges will look for variety in media, styles and as much representation of the entire state as possible.

The public is welcome to view the art during the two-week exhibit. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

Summer 2009 – Spring 2010 Exhibition Schedule

Aug. 30 - Oct. 9, 2009
Jennifer Cocoma Hustis
Recent Work



Nov. 1 – 13, 2009
High School Print & Drawing Exhibition

Nov. 29 – Dec. 11, 2009
Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Jan. 8 – Feb. 19, 2010
OCU will host a photography exhibit called “Forgotten Time: Edward Curtis’ Visit to Oklahoma” with an opening reception. The exhibit will be on display until Feb. 19. OCU student Jacquelyn Sparks, the Curtis exhibit curator, will give a talk during the opening reception. The reception is free to the public. Curtis is best known for “The North American Indian,” a 20-volume portfolio of photographic records created between 1907 and 1930 of Native American culture. Sparks said OCU will present the entirety of Volume 19, which was photographed in Oklahoma during the mid-1920s and is probably the least studied of Curtis’ works. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

Feb. 28 – Mar. 5, 2010
Private and Parochial Arts

March 26 - April 16, 2010
Spring Student Exhibition

April 26 - May 14, 2010
Graduating Seniors Exhibition - InSun Hong, Kat Adams, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Jeremy Coon





*An Opening reception will be on the first Sunday of the exhibition, from 2 – 5 pm.

Schedule subject to change with out notice.

Gallery Exhibit Features Jennifer Cocoma Hustis

OKLAHOMA CITY — An opening reception for works by artist Jennifer Cocoma Hustis will be held from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University.

The exhibit will be on display from Aug. 30 to Oct. 9. The reception and entrance to the gallery are free.

Hustis received her formal art schooling at the Pratt Institute, the Royal College of Art and the University of Oklahoma. Much of her work is inspired by interactions with animals, particularly horses.

“I have been fortunate enough to pay tribute to most of my animal teachers in my life through my artwork by exhibiting in galleries and museums,” she stated on her Web site, http://sites.google.com/site/jenhustis/Home.

Her recognitions include the Artist’s Award of Excellence from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.

She will be exhibiting approximately 20 paintings and mixed-media works at OCU.

The Hulsey Gallery is located in the Norick Art Center at N.W. 26th Street and Blackwelder Avenue.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

OCU Art Student Featured on ‘Is This a Great State or What?’

Oklahoma City University art student Shannon Crider will appear on Galen Culver’s “Is This a Great State or What?” The segment will air during the 6 p.m. broadcast on KFOR Channel 4 on February 11, 2008.

Crider will talk about her upcoming art exhibition at Istvan Gallery. She is a studio art senior.

OCU Art Student Featured on ‘Is This a Great State or What?’