NORTH TULSA OKLAHOMA
GILCREASE NEARS COMPLETION Get the First Peek
Growing up in NORTH TULSA, the world's greatest collection of art of the Americas was in my backyard...and I visited often. Designed by the SmithGroup, with IVAN O'GARRO (pictured above) as lead architect, next year one of the world's greatest museums will re-open inside what even in its shell phase months ago was destined to become the city's most iconic building. Take a tour this Friday. Info>
Marlon Hall's Doorways to Hope
KEVIN WATKINS' Photo Gallery
architecture
SMALL
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BLACK WALL STREET HISTORY LIVES
Dunbar Elementary School is gone. 3 versions of Tulsa's oldest remaining HS, BTW HS, along with block after block after block of Historic Greenwood rebuilt after The 1921 Tulsa Massacre...but, on North Peoria, just across the street from NORTH PEORIA CHURCH OF CHRIST sits what is by far North Tulsa's most historic remaining building.
The home of the owners of the legendary SMALL HOTEL still remains.
Young Louis Armstrong, young Nat King Cole, the youthful and jubilant Count Basie and beautiful, incomparable Ella Fitzgerald made the SMALL their Tulsa home. And sometimes, it's rumored, they were also callers to the home on North Peoria.
Now, a dedicated community is working to save the house, scheduled for demolition.
ART
ARTIST
"His art is on fire"
paine the poet
Thomas E. Lockhart III is gaining momentum.
Lockhart's art is owned by a Who’s Who of Collectors, having an international appeal through local consciousness.
Ebony Magazine recently caught a glimpse of this rising Fine Arts Illustrator who paints up a storm for crowds while explaining his pieces in detail, at first sight, amazing reporters and onlookers.
American Skin actor - Paine the Poet - performed at The Greenwood Gallery under the works of this amazing artist on exhibit for the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial.
Paine commented “his art is on fire.”
A film crew staffer for Flannel House Media said, “We’re very excited to interview someone who has become one of America’s best painters.
This multi-talented painter’s work can be viewed on his website http://thomaselockhart.com or http://www.lockhartgallery.com
Thomas E. Lockhart, III
