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9 Episodes 2023 - 2024
Episode 1
Wed, Jul 5, 2023
Norman, Oklahoma painter Mary James Ketch begins planning her portrait and landscape paintings with a walk in the woods with her dog. The results are dreamy, abstract, filled with negative space -- and they've become hits at regional art fairs. Some don't make it. Some she sets on fire. OETA's Gallery America finds out why she burns some paintings during a visit to Mary's "Cloud House" studio.
Episode 2
Wed, Sep 6, 2023
Gallery America goes behind the scenes with Autism Oklahoma's annual Duets program, which pairs a local artist with an artist on the spectrum - then shares the exciting results at an art gallery in the Paseo in Oklahoma City. We meet several artists, who collaborate in design and color on works depicting butterflies, ocean waves, AM radios, tornadoes and one certain PBS host from OETA.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 3, 2023
Gallery America goes behind-the-scenes of the Deonna Marie Experience one-woman show at Oklahoma City's Factory Obscura. The world-known opera singer tells the tale of growing up in a house of neglect, abuse and addiction -- and how she overcame it earn multiple music degrees and tour the world. Deonna bravely shares every step with the hopes of making the world a better place.
Episode 4
Thu, Nov 2, 2023
To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Gallery America returns to some its past stories on Native American artists and institutions in Oklahoma (including Allan Houser, Ben Harjo, Jr and Russell Bates' Emmy-winning Star Trek episode). The episode also drops by the historic Tall Chief Theater, built help the Osage recover from the Reign of Terror, as depicted in "The Killers of the Flower Moon.
Episode 5
Thu, Jan 4, 2024
Oklahoma-based puppeteer Joan McMillan has made puppets for several decades. On this episode of Gallery America on OETA, she shows off her Eufaula playhouse filled with hundreds of her creations, as well as discuss how she uses historic marionettes from Chandler's Museum of Pioneer History to teach Oklahoma history to students. The tradition began as a WPA project in the 1930s.
Episode 6
Thu, Feb 1, 2024
OETA's Gallery America heads on an Oklahoma Antiques Roadtrip to discover the art of collecting and decorating your home. On the way, they go to estate sales and antiques stores, then meet Daniel Mathis, aka Not a Minimalist, whose house-filled collection looks like a museum, and furniture-flipper Clinton Avery Tharp, who creates hilarious how-to videos from his vintage shop in Purcell.
Episode 7
Thu, Apr 4, 2024
Tulsa-based artist Megan Wimberley noticed that fewer women Western artists were featured in Western art museums. So she created the Cowgirl Artists of America. She talks about her organization's mission and shows how she creates her own art, from photo shoots at horse ranches to mixing realism and bold colors for her paintings that have made her one of the leading contemporary Western artists.
Episode 8
Wed, May 1, 2024
Locust Grove, Oklahoma's Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry, or ROMP, is one of only two US museums dedicated to poetry. Gallery America goes behind the scenes to find out how one local woman, Shaun Perkins, followed her passion for poetry to create a one-of-a-kind attraction dedicated to helping visitors "become the poem," with hand-made prompts, readings and contests.
Episode 9
Mon, Jun 3, 2024
Artist Mike Larsen didn't grow up knowing about his heritage, until research when he was a teen unveiled his Chickasaw roots. It led to a life's work celebrating his tribe. Now, over 60 years later, he reflects of his storied career in art, his invaluable partnership with his wife, and how's he still feels that his best work is ahead of him.