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"Memories & Inspiration" at Gilcrease, an Exhibition of Art by American Black Artists

Samella Lewis "Field"
Gregory Staley
Aired Friday, January 24, 2020.

The Gilcrease Museum opened a new exhibition of African-American art collected by two ordinary people who created an extraordinary collection of artwork. Kerry Davis was a postman, and his wife, Betty, was a local television producer, but the two collected close to 300 works by black artists ranging from local artists in their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, to internationally known artists, like Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, and Norman Lewis. Sixty-two selected works are on display at the Gilcrease that encompass representational and abstract painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, folk art, and mixed media. Senior curator of art Laura Fry and local guest curator Quraysh Ali Lansana discuss the artwork and themes in the exhibition, "Memories and Inspiration: The Kerry & C. Betty Davis Collection of African-American Art," on display through July 26th.

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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