Now That’s Art.

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center celebrated the biennial exhibition ArtNow 2023: The Soul Is a Wanderer by throwing a “party with a purpose” to mark the June 22, 2023, opening. The fundraiser featured a one-night performance of Dust to Dirge: An Earth Elegy by artist Ashanti Chaplin and collaborator Gabriel Royal—plus the debut of an Oklahoma Contemporary-inspired beer from local Vanessa House Beer Company. In the Eleanor Kirkpatrick Main Gallery through January 15, 2024, the ongoing ArtNow exhibition led by guest curator Lindsay Aveilhé features thirteen artists working in sculpture, installation, photography, ceramics, painting, performance, and video to “navigate the landscape of Oklahoma as a site for questioning, dreaming, and action.”