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The Work of North Tulsa Photographer Don Thompson at the Black Wall Street Archive

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published April 30, 2018 at 6:16 PM CDT
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Photo by Don Thompson

On this installment of StudioTulsa, we chat with the noted photographer Don Thompson, who's been documenting the people and places of north Tulsa for more than 40 years now. His photos have been shown at local galleries, are on permanent display at OSU-Tulsa, and were recently added to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Now comes a special new exhibit of his work -- "Here & Now: Coming Back to Greenwood: The Photographic Art of Don Thompson" -- which will be on display through April 26th at the Black Wall Street Archive here in Tulsa (located at 116 N. Greenwood Avenue).

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Rich Fisher
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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