The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) is a public liberal arts college in Chickasha,Oklahoma. It is the only public college in Oklahoma with a strictly liberal arts–focused curriculum and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. USAO is an undergraduate-only institution and grants bachelor's degrees in a variety of subject areas. The school was founded in 1908 as a school for women and from 1912 to 1965 was known as Oklahoma College for Women. It became coeducational in 1965 and today educates approximately 800 students. In 2001,the entire Oklahoma College for Women campus was listed as a national historic district.
Olive Rush was a painter,illustrator,muralist,and an important pioneer in Native American art education. Her paintings are held in a number of private collections and museums,including:the Brooklyn Museum of New York City,the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art,the Indianapolis Museum of Art,Indiana and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Alison Saar is a Los Angeles-based sculptor,mixed-media,and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African,Caribbean,and Latin American folk art and spirituality. Saar is well known for "transforming found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity,history,and religion." Saar credits her parents,collagist and assemblage artist Betye Saar and painter and art conservator Richard Saar,for her early exposure to are and to these metaphysical and spiritual practices. Saar followed in her parents footsteps along with her sisters,Lezley Saar and Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh who are also artists. Saar has been a practicing artist for many years,exhibiting in galleries around the world as well as installing public art works in New York City. She has received achievement awards from institutions including the New York City Art Commission as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Pamela Munro is an American linguist who specializes in Native American languages. She is a distinguished research professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California,Los Angeles,where she has held a position since 1974.
Marilyn Jane Stokstad was an American art historian,educator,and curator. A scholar of medieval and Spanish art,Stokstad was Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Kansas,and also served as director of the Spencer Museum of Art.
Central High School is the oldest high school in Tulsa,Oklahoma. It was founded in 1906 as Tulsa High School,and located in downtown Tulsa until 1976. The school now has a 47-acre (19 ha) campus in northwest Tulsa. Tulsa Central is part of the Tulsa Public Schools,Oklahoma's largest school district,and is a public school for students from grades 9 through 12. Since 1997 it has served as a fine and performing arts magnet school.
Jeffrey Lee Meikle is an American cultural historian and educator. Meikle is currently the Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He has generally been credited as one of the founders of the discipline of design history since his book Twentieth Century Limited:Industrial Design in America,1925-1939 was published in 1979. The text lays out some of the central issues confronting the field.
Mary Frances Thompson Fisher,best known as Te Ata,was an actress and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation known for telling Native American stories. She performed as a representative of Native Americans at state dinners before President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957 and was named Oklahoma's first State Treasure in 1987.
Charles H. Holbrow was an American physicist.
H. Richard Milner IV is an American teacher educator and scholar of urban teacher education on the tenured faculty at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University,where he is Professor of Education and Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning. Formerly,he was the Director of the Center for Urban Education,Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education,Professor of Education,Professor of Social Work,Professor of Sociology and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2012,Milner has served as the editor of the journal Urban Education. In 2012,The Ohio State University Education and Human Ecology Alumni Society Board of Governors recognized him with the Alumni Award of Distinction,"presented to alumni who have achieved success in their field of endeavor and have made a difference in the lives of others through outstanding professional,personal or community contributions". Milner is a policy fellow of the National Education Policy Center,and was appointed by Governor-elect Tom Wolf to the Education Transition Review Team in 2015.
Mary Lou Guerinot is an American molecular geneticist who works as Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences at Dartmouth College. Her research concerns the cellular uptake and regulation of metal ions.
Bette Lou Talvacchia is an American art historian and educator. Talvacchia is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut.
Margaret Roach Wheeler is a Chickasaw/Choctaw weaver and Native American fashion designer. Her work has been widely recognized for her scholarship in researching designs and techniques which existed prior to conquest and incorporating design elements into her woven garments. Her work has been featured in numerous collections including the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian,where she has also served as a visiting artist and received a research fellowship. She was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2010 and was honored by the State of Oklahoma with the Governor's Arts Award in 2018 for her unique contributions to art. She is the founder of Mahota Textiles.
TahneeAhtoneharjo-Growingthunder,is a Kiowa beadwork artist,regalia maker,curator,and museum professional of Muscogee and Seminole descent,from Mountain View,Oklahoma.
Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart is a Muscogee (Creek) art educator,fashion designer,and artist. After graduating from the Chilocco Indian School and taking courses at the University of Arizona,she earned a degree from Oklahoma State University and began working as a teacher. After a six-year stint working for Fine Arts Diversified,she returned to teaching in 1979 in Washington,Oklahoma. Primarily known as a painter,using watercolor or acrylic media,Fife-Stewart has also been involved in fashion design. Her works have been shown mostly in the southwestern United States and have toured South America. Having won numerous awards for her artworks,she was designated as a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1997.
heather ahtone,PhD (Chickasaw),is director of Curatorial Affairs at the First Americans Museum.
Mary "Ataloa" Stone McLendon (1896–1967) was a Native American musician,storyteller,humanitarian,and educator,who was a member of the Chickasaw Nation. McLendon was an important figure in Native American arts education. She was a concert vocalist,known for her contralto voice. She was influential in the creation of the art department at Bacone College,serving as the first director.
Adele Collins was a 20th-century Native American painter. She was born in Blanchard,Oklahoma and was an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation with Choctaw and Irish descent. Collins moved fluidly between representational and abstraction in her paintings,depicting an array of events and themes combining her Chickasaw and Choctaw heritage with contemporary European modernist approaches. Rennard Strickland,law professor and curator,placed Adele Collins in the first wave of post-World War II Native American painters.
Margaret A. Dillard is a Native American artist,painter,and member of the Chickasaw Nation.
