March First Friday Marks Seventh Black Wall Street Gallery Art Installment

The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire

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Dr. Ricco Wright Photo Credit Michael Bulmer

The March installment at the Black Wall Street Gallery, a subsidiary of Black Wall Street Arts, which opens Friday, March 1, features Stacie Monday and Marjorie Atwood.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for the seventh installment in the Conciliation Series at the Black Wall Street Gallery, 101 N. Greenwood Ave.

The Black Wall Street Arts mission is to create platforms, grant access, and bridge the racial gap in Tulsa.

Originally from Tulsa, Monday is a painter and activist inspired by and focused on the celebration of African American women in her community. Her work includes her individual struggles, experiences and lessons learned as a woman in America. Monday focuses on promoting positive narratives of black women and paints to change the negative views and stereotypes that they face through storytelling and advocating equitable representation in visual culture. Monday has exhibited her work in art shows across the country. In 2018, she won 3rd place in acrylic art in the Lenora Rolla Black History Month show. She is currently the artist in residence at Sunset Art Studios in Dallas.

Atwood is a contemporary artist who has been painting and exhibiting her work for the past 20 years. After graduating from Holland Hall High School in Tulsa, she moved to New York to earn a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College while also studying at Parson’s School of Design. She hosted solo shows at the Holliman Gallery and the MA Doran Gallery in Tulsa and her work has been shown in exhibits in New York and Pennsylvania as well as in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Santa Fe, NM.

Artistic director Dr. Ricco Wright said “conciliation” suggests mediating between parties at odds with one another. It also allows space for acknowledgment, apology, and reparation.

“The Conciliation Series seeks to generate positive relations between, primarily, Tulsa’s black and white communities. Our shared history evidences the imperative of working collaboratively toward amicable, productive, and sustainable engagement,” he said.

This twelve-month series will pair black and white artists of various media to build personal and group relationships that cultivate meaningful, lasting bonds.

THE CONCILIATION SERIES UPCOMING EXHIBITS

March: Stacie Monday and Marjorie Atwood

April: nosamyrag and Austin Gober

May: MOLLYWATTA and Matt Phipps

June: Tailynn Tindall and Taylor Painter-Wolfe

July: Boomintree and Cheyenne Butcher