Dreamer Concepts Studio & Foundation (DCSF), a non-profit art gallery located at 324 East Main Street in downtown Norman, is hosting the opening reception for Dreamer 20: When Barbie met Siouxsie on Friday, July 10th from 6-10pm. The exhibit will open to the public that evening in conjunction with DCSF’s annual fashion show. The fashion show will begin at 7:30pm featuring designs by the Dreamer 20 featured artists, outfits from Campus Corner’s clothing boutique, Blush, and hair and make-up by Norman’s own Lollie’s Beauty Bar located in Redbud Plaza.

Jamie McCarty, guest curator for Dreamer 20: When Barbie met Siouxsie, will return to Norman from studying at Parsons, the New School for design, NYC to share her latest fashions along with a video installation, paintings, sketches, clothing, jewelry and handbags made by local artists. Featured artists for Dreamer 20 include Brent Logsdon of oddfab studio workshop, Jamie McCarty, Kelsey McMurray, Brittany Momyer, Trami Nguyen, Alison Polk and Lauren Singrey.

Dreamer 20: When Barbie met Siouxsie comes from the idea of taking two things that are completely opposite i.e. super-girlie fashion queen Barbie, and over the top, outrageous, often offensive, and powerful punk icon Siouxsie Sioux, of Siouxsie and the Banshees and combining them for an interesting result. How would Barbie dress to attend a sex pistols show? How would Siouxsie dress for a dream date with Ken?

Brent Logdson
Brent Logsdon graduated OU with a BA in interior design and has a varied portfolio spanning two decades. His recent work has shown a focus on stenciling and other graffiti – influenced spray paint techniques. This project was underway at oddfab studio/workshop when the call to artists went out concerning Dreamer 20, and Brent felt it was a good match for his motivation for the Big Pink Bandsaw.

Jamie McCarty
Jamie McCarty is a fashion designer and the guest curator for Dreamer 20: When Barbie met Siouxsie. The idea is an extension of her junior thesis collection at Parsons, the New School for design. She will be presenting a women’s wear collection that is based on the idea of picture perfect girly girl Barbie meeting and becoming influenced by punk icon Siouxsie Sioux.

Kelsey McMurray
Kelsey McMurray is the head designer of Conundrum Clothing, a unique teen/young adult line and just recently started Uccello Piccolo, her baby/children’s wear line. She will be presenting a women’s wear collection based on the When Barbie met Siouxsie theme.

Brittany Momyer
Brittany Momyer of Claude & Monique bags has been making stick bags for drummers and handbags since she was 18. She uses a variety of materials, whatever is lying around, in a creative way to add to the uniqueness of her designs. A broad age range of women like Claude & Monique bags, but the majority market are teens and young adult women.

Trami Nguyen
Trami Nguyen works with paint, lithography, and sculpture. Her compositions are discovered through breaking up and assimilating forms of the human figure and nature. Her pieces contain a repeating motif of the perpetual cycle of the self conquering and self defeat all humans face. Her work is meant to evoke a waking dream.

Alison Polk
Alison Polk is a local artist; her work includes fashion accessories and photography. All of Alison’s work for When Barbie met Siouxsie revolves around the punk rock Barbie theme. It will include headbands, brooches, and photography.

Lauren Singrey
Lauren Singrey is a Norman artist who began painting modern abstracts on canvas in 2002 after studying layering acrylics and color theory. Her influences include artists Robert Delaunay and Mark Rothko.Driven by her love of pop culture and fashion. Lauren launched Ploom Accessories in 2008 after a popular response from friends and local boutiques to create “classic accessories for the modern debutante”. She strives to evolve her fashion designs and artwork by maintaining a fresh look and always having a creative perspective on life.

This event was made possible by the wonderful support of DCSF members, Republic Bank & Trust, Fancy That, Othello’s, Native Roots Market, Blush, Lollie’s Beauty Bar and Coach’s Brewhouse.

DCSF’s mission is to encourage, promote and provide opportunities for growth for new artists in our community. For more information or questions concerning DCSF or this event, please contact DCSF at 405.701.0048/info@dreamerconcepts.org or visit our web site: www.dreamerconcepts.org.

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The new arts loop is a monthly Cleveland Area Rapid Transit route that connects the Downtown Arts District, outlying galleries, performance halls and Campus Corner to accompany an art walk every second Friday of each month. The family-friendly gallery visit doubles as an inexpensive family outing or an inexpensive date.

June’s event features members of the Norman Studio Artists Association displaying artwork in studios along Main Street, live street musicians such as local blues rocker Daddy Love and other street performers such as the Prairie Folk Circus throughout the evening.

For only 50 cents per ride or $2 for the whole evening, visitors can park and hop on a CART trolley at Republic Bank & Trust on the corner of Main Street and University Boulevard, or any other stop on the route, and visit participating art galleries and organizations from 6 to 10 p.m. CART riders can get on or off at any of the multiple stops throughout the evening. Local onboard singer/songwriters will provide live music throughout the night for trolley riders.

More than a dozen galleries will be open throughout the evening, with most featuring free admission, live entertainment and other activities.

As part of its new Art “à la CART” series, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus will offer hands-on pottery activities, live music and short films by the deadCENTER Film Festival from 6 to 9 p.m. This month’s live music features a world music theme. Arabic and Celtic string and flute duet Arabesque, African drummer and storyteller Jahruba and Colombian pianist and singer José Luis Tono will perform in the museum’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

The Firehouse Art Center, located at 444 S. Flood Ave., will feature “The Green Wave” through June 26. On-site artists will create ceramic fish that “swim” through the air inside the gallery. Local children will paint the fish this summer during the Children’s Summer Art Program at the center.

Sonder Music, Dance & Art at 225 E. Gray St. will premiere the new exhibition Eye of Photography: Photos by David Parker with an opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. with music by DJ Levi.

Ring of Fire Studio and Gallery in downtown Norman will display a new exhibition with ceramics by Joni Beamish, paintings by Vicki Maenza and live glass-blowing demonstrations at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Ring of Fire is located at 318 E. Main St.

MAINSITE Contemporary Art at 122 E. Main St. will continue its new exhibition of works by Jeff Dodd and Derek Erdman from 7 to 9 p.m. Dodd’s works display landscapes featuring the northern Oklahoma flatlands as his subjects. Three of the larger works will be permanently displayed in the new Norman Regional Health Center facility, to be finished this fall. Erdman’s work is an array of brightly colored popular culture iconography using a super flat style of painting that looks almost like a print. His subjects range from a dolphin in a bed to a young Michael Jackson with a squirrel in his hair.

MAINSITE also will present works by artists Holly Wilson and Deborah Brackenbury. Wilson’s sculptural wall pieces depict a world of their own, incorporating wood with highly detailed bronze and color-fused figures. Brackenbury uses found china patterned plates to provide the background for her invented creatures and ephemeral imagery. Local musicians Mark Williams and Wess McMichael will perform on the sidewalk in front of MAINSITE throughout the night.

Dozens of other free activities and openings are scheduled by members of the Norman Gallery Association and its supporting organizations throughout the night.

A complete list of each participating gallery and member of the Norman Gallery Association, as well as a CART map for the evening and instructions for riding, is available online at www.normangalleryassociation.com.

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Rennard Strickland is a native Oklahoman of Osage and Cherokee heritage.  In 2007 he decided to donate his collection of more than 200 pieces including paintings, baskets, pottery, textiles and sculptures in memory of his mother Adell Tucker Strickland.  Ghislain d’Humières, director of the FJJMA, where Strickland was the curator of Native American in the early 1990s, commented on the collection:  “I would like to express my gratitude to Rennard Strickland for his amazing gift  to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the University of Oklahoma,” said d’Humières. “The addition of major contemporary Native American pieces to our permanent collection, as well as the Eugene B. Adkins Collection, will escalate our institution to the level of leading museums in this field and also will give our students a unique opportunity to better understand and appreciate Native American art.”

Spirit Red: Visions of Native American Artists runs from June 4th through September 13th.  Spirit Red will open with a special reception at 6 p.m on Wednesday, June 3, in conjunction with the annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival.

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is located in the OU Arts District on the corner of Elm Avenue and Boyd Street, at 555 Elm Ave., on the OU Norman campus.

Admission to the museum is free to all OU students with a current student ID and all museum association members, $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for children 6 to 17 years of age, $2 for OU faculty/staff, and free for children 5 and under. Admission is free on Tuesdays.

[ed note: We originally incorrectly named Rennard Strickland as Richard Strickland. Our apologies!]

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From OKCMOA’s press release:

Explore the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance with a one-of-a-kind exhibition held only at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, February 5 through April 19, 2009. Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Harlem Renaissance will include more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley Jr., James VanDerZee, and others. From the “vogue” of Harlem in the twenties to the Great Depression in the thirties, artists created innovative works that expressed the uniqueness of their experiences as African American artists, while participating in larger developments in American art.

Harlem Renaissance marks the first exhibition of African American art at the Museum in more than 20 years. Organized thematically, Harlem Renaissance will explore a number of subjects, including Harlem as a literary center, portraiture and the “New Negro,” life in Paris and abroad, the influence of European modernism and African art, as well as images related to daily life, African American history, and the South. The exhibition also will examine the idea of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance as a later artistic subject, through works by Romare Bearden and Faith Ringgold.  Highlights include Aaron Douglas’s The Creation (1927), Palmer Hayden’s Nous Quatre à Paris (We Four in Paris) (ca. 1930), Archibald J. Motley Jr.’s Jockey Club (1929), and Faith Ringgold’s Jo Baker’s Bananas (1997).

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