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"Gus Foster's Views of this Broad Land" at the Gilcrease Museum

Aired on Tuesday, May 22nd.
Aired on Tuesday, May 22nd.

Our guest on this edition of StudioTulsa is the New Mexico-based photographer Gus Foster, who's been capturing images with various panoramic cameras since the early 1970s. There's a new exhibit at Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum --- on view through October 7th of this year --- called "Panoramic Landscapes of the American West: Gus Foster's Views of this Broad Land." It's a collection a 20+ works that are as spectacular and sweeping as they are carefully executed and richly diverse: a series of color photographs of our western States that are 8, 10, or 12 feet in length. Foster renders a great many extraordinary places and spaces --- aspen trees in autumn, snowy mountain ridges, ancient petroglyphs, the rivers of the Rocky Mountains, volcanic lava fields, and so on --- that truly transport the viewer. His large-format photos remind us of not just the transcendent beauty but also the awesome majesty of the American West. You can learn more about Gus Foster's photos here, and more about his current show at Gilcrease at this link.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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