SHE MAKES ART

Opening: Second Friday, March 13, 5-8pm

Closing: March 26, 5-8pm

Gallery hours after opening: Thursdays 5-8pm, Saturdays 1-5pm

Liggett Studio is a located at 314 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120

It is important that you read everything below before submitting.

Liggett Studio is pleased to recognize and celebrate the great work by Tulsa Women Artists in our seventh annual SHE MAKES ART and second annual year of a musical component, SHE MAKES MUSIC.  We are seeking creative entries by:

• Those who self-identify as women, who make art of any discipline and are 18 and older.

• Artists must currently live in the general Tulsa area (50 mile radius).

• Open to all forms of expression that are original including: performance, music, poetry, video, visual artworks and combinations of these.  

• All visual works must be for sale (with the exception of installation works) and must not have been shown within a 100 mile radius before the exhibit opens.  Visual works can be no larger than 36” x 48” due to space limitations.

SHE MAKES MUSIC

To submit an original musical creation to be considered for the inaugural “She Makes Music” event, please send a link to your recorded work to  shemakesmusic4peace@gmail.com  along with this simple application form. Entries for SHE MAKES MUSIC are due March 1st.

Due to time constraints, each musician will be allotted 3:00-4:00 minutes for their performance. This should be a new work, and may be vocal, instrumental, singer-songwriter, a cappella, in any style, that allows your creative spirit an expression of your life or observation of this experience through music. Let your Muse flow! – Co-Juried by Marilyn McCulloch and Steve Liggett.

March 20, 7:00-9:00pm SHE MAKES MUSIC CONCERT. Admission: $10.  Limited Seating and make reservations at: https://www.liggettstudio.com/events/she-makes-music-concert-2026

SHE MAKES ART

• Visual entries will this year be juried via online virtual entry method by the juror, although if the works are different upon arrival, the Director has the right to not accept them.

• Installation works must have a good description as was well as a detailed drawing of the artist’s concept and an example of previous work should be submitted and indicated as such. Artists may enter up to 3 artworks per entry form with an entry fee of $10 each to defray costs. 2 artworks will be $20, 3 artworks will be $30.

• Photo files must be 1-4 MB and jpg format with the file name the same as last name of the artist and the title of the work. Ex: “Liggett – Plumbob 1.jpg”

  
  

This year Visual Art Awards will be given in the following categories:

- 2 Dimensional,

- 3 Dimensional,

- Most Innovative and

- Best Conceptual Realization

Juror: Our visual arts juror this year is JORDAN VINYARD

Calendar:

• February 1, 2025, 5pm - SHE MAKES ART Entry Deadline.

• February 16, 9pm - Juror makes Digital Jurying.

• February 19, 5pm - Artistic Director Notifies All Artists/Musicians via email of their Acceptance or Rejection of the Digital Jurying Results.

• March 1, 2025, 4pm- SHE MAKES MUSICT - Entry Deadline

• March 3, 2025, 1-3pm - Delivery of Artwork Chosen from Digital Jurying. Visual artworks must be framed and ready to hang.

• March 4-5 - Installation

• March 6, 5-8pm, First Friday - SHE MAKES ART 2026 Opens.

Award Winners are announced at 6:00pm.

• Gallery will be open on Thursdays and Fridays 5-8pm and Saturdays from 1-5.

•March 20, 7:00-9:00pm SHE MAKES MUSIC CONCERT. Admission: $10.  Limited Seating and make reservations at: https://www.liggettstudio.com/events/she-makes-music-concert-2026

• March 26, - SHE MAKES ART – 2026 Closing from 5-8pm.

• March 27, 1-3pm, - Unsold and sold work is picked up and checks are given out unsold work. If you cannot be there to pick your work up, please make arrangements to have someone else pick it up and notify Steve of who has that authority.

Many Thanks to our Sponsors: Sharon King Davis and Kim & Rob Norman. 

Visual artists: To have your visual entries considered for the exhibit, please visit this page and pay your entry fees at:

Juror Bio

Jordan Vinyard is the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, a Professor of Art and Director of Art Wrecker, an experimental space predicated on socially engaged and dialogical forms of art. She has been a member of the USAO faculty since 2013.

By challenging society’s prolific button pushing tendencies, Jordan Vinyard’s kinetic sculptures, installations, and performances satirize the human body’s exchange with  technology. Since receiving her MFA from Florida State University, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Dubai; The Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona; Art Basel, Miami; The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; Collarworks, New York, with upcoming exhibitions in Estonia and Tulsa.

She has been the recipient of awards including the Oklahoma Artist Fellowship Award, the United Arts of Florida Grant, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Creative Projects Grant, and been nominated twice for the Joan Mitchell Award.