oddities and curiosities expo 2021 tulsa

After the group show, she offered me my first solo show. I submitted a few pieces, and she was SO encouraging. I had a friend who owned a gallery in Tulsa, who had an open call for a group art show. So, I started messing with spray paint, acrylic and stencils in my tiny 450 ish square foot garage apartment. I was able to take a lot of drawing courses in college, but sadly, the painting and a lot of the screen printing classes I was interested in taking, didn't work with courses I needed for my design degree. While I was in college, I got turned on to the work of Shepard Fairey and Banksy - I loved the DIY feel with the use of stencils, and just the rawness of the art itself. I spent thousands of dollars (that I'm still trying to pay back, almost 15 years don't make that much money, kids) to get my BFA with an emphasis in Graphic Design.

So after high school, I took a year off to party, then ended up at a private college in Tulsa, where I lived at the time. I started out my art career believing the only way to make money creating art was to be a graphic designer.

Oddities and curiosities expo 2021 tulsa