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December 16, 2024

On View in the Culture Lab: Elisa Harkins’s Teach Me a Song
Elisa Harkins’s Teach Me A Song will be on view at M-AAA’s Culture Lab beginning January 13 and continuing through April 7, 2025. Teach Me A Song is a single channel video with sound, playing from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00…
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July 15, 2024
Leaders of Color Fellows News Oklahoma

Q&A with Michelle Antonina Burdex: Tulsa’s Storyteller and Innovator
Meet Michelle Antonina Burdex, a 2024 National Leaders of Color Fellow. Michelle is a Tulsa, Oklahoma native, and has served a dynamic 28-year tenure as the program coordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center (GCC). Renowned for her stewardship, she pioneered…
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March 26, 2024
Interchange News Oklahoma

Oklahoma Artist Elisa Harkins Shares Her Indigenous Song Exchange Project
Mix tapes weren’t anything new. Sharing music goes back thousands of years. This simple concept inspired Oklahoma artist Elisa Harkins. Her ongoing project, Teach Me a Song, asks Indigenous artists to perform a tune on camera. “It’s a song exchange…
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October 25, 2023
News Oklahoma

Gems in the Heartland: Meet my Tulsa
You know Tulsa’s big names: Philbrook, Cain’s Ballroom, the Bob Dylan Center, the BOK Arena. But the energy doesn’t stop there. As a lifelong Tulsan, I’ve watched artists and arts workers build this city’s unique magic with every brushstroke, shutter…
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