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Oklahoma City Museum of Art

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) is a museum located in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The museum features traveling special exhibitions, original selections from its own collection, a theater showing a variety of foreign, independent, and classic films each week, and a restaurant. OKCMOA also houses a collection of Chihuly glass among the most comprehensive in the world, including the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum's atrium.[1]

The front of the museum in May 2016

History and development

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art traces its origins to early projects of the Oklahoma Art League and Art Renaissance Club—groups that promoted art education in early Oklahoma City. Later, more formal programs emerged, with a Experimental Gallery by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), open to the public. When the museum incorporated, May 18, 1945, the federally funded gallery became a private institution.[2][3][4]

Today's Oklahoma City Museum of Art was synthesized from two predecessor institutions: the Oklahoma Art Center (an outgrowth of the WPA Experimental Gallery), and the Oklahoma Museum of Art. Both institutions had been committed to art-collecting, exhibitions and public programs — but the 1980s downturn in the oil industry created a depressed local economy, undermining the city’s ability to support two art institutions. That led to a 1989 merger of the two museums.[2][3][4]

Museum leaders acted to create a new Oklahoma City Museum of Art as a single, financially secure institution. The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation provided a $14.5 million capital grant, and further support was acquired from over 500 corporations, foundations, and individual donors, yielding $40 million, in entirely private funds, to build and endow the new museum. In March, 2002, the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center, of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, opened. The Museum now receives over 125,000 visitors annually, with a permanent collection, a cycle of temporary exhibitions, various education opportunities, an international film program, and a Museum Store.[2][3][4]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ Dale Chihuly Glass 2014-11-06 at the Wayback Machine, Oklahoma City Museum Of Art. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c "History," Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA), retrieved December 3, 2022
  3. ^ a b c McDonnell, Brandy: "Images, video & interviews: Celebrating 'Our City' - Oklahoma City Museum of Art's new exhibit documents legacy of its collection, community," March 8, 2016, The Oklahoman, retrieved December 3, 2022
  4. ^ a b c McDonnell, Brandy: "Oklahoma City Museum of Art celebrates 75 years with new gifts, exhibits," November 8, 2020, The Oklahoman, retrieved December 3, 2022
  5. ^ Cocoves, Athena. "KEHINDE WILEY'S TWIN DESIRES: CLEARING SPACE AND BUILDING A NEW REPUBLIC AT THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART". Toledo City Paper. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

External links

  • Official website
  • Oklahoma City Museum of Art on AdventureRoad.com Destination Information & Travel Planning
  • Oklahoma City Museum of Art at Google Cultural Institute

Coordinates: 35°28′11″N 97°31′14″W / 35.46972°N 97.52056°W / 35.46972; -97.52056

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