The Goddard Center for the Visual and Performing Arts invites you to enjoy a rare glimpse at centuries worth of tribal antiquities from across Africa. Area art educators and their students are invited to gallery talks and receptions, which are always free and open to the public!

Opening to the public on the evening of Thursday, November 16, the 110th anniversary of Oklahoma statehood, The Art of Oklahoma celebrates the Museum’s outstanding and diverse collection of art created by or about Oklahomans—and the cities and landscapes they call home.

Festival season keeps getting better with the 20th Annual Plaza District Festival on Saturday, September 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. This fun-for-the-whole-family festival brings together visual artists, performing artists and all types of art together for one great day.

For more than 35 years, Carol Beesley Hennagin has collected works by many of the best-known photographers of the 20th century and, in 1988, Beesley and her late husband, Michael Hennagin, began donating portions of their collection to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. “Still Looking” offers an interesting survey of Beesley’s collecting practices.

“Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art” offers celebratory and mysterious, thought-provoking, and critical two-dimensional and three-dimensional works, including abstract and experimental contemporary Chickasaw art. This traveling exhibition offers an opportunity to view recent works by leading and emerging artists of the Chickasaw Nation.