Each year the Paseo Arts Association honors artists and art supporters who have made a strong contribution to the arts in our state at the Paseo Arts Awards Dinner & Silent Auction. The PAA’s Annual Arts Awards were created to recognize and honor those individuals who have contributed to the artistic creativity and well-being of our state. By recognizing artists through these awards we hope to strengthen the Oklahoma art community. We wish to thank all the artists, patrons, supporters, teachers, authors, collectors, and overall appreciators of the arts.

Thursday, November 21, 6-9pm

City and State Venue & Events - 19 NE 6th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Doors open at 6pm! Please enter the main entrance off of NE 6th Street

Sign up to learn beading basics with Su Casa!

This class will provide information about the basics of beading including bead sizes, beading thread, beading needles, starting and stopping beading thread as well as beading techniques such as Continental Beading, Tent Stitch Beading, Brick Beading and securely stitching beads.

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Sign up to learn some interesting background stitches with Su Casa!

You will be provided with a practice canvas, needle, fibers and a guide with stitch charts. They will demonstrate various background stitches and allow you time to try them out. Some will be full coverage stitches and some provide some open canvas. Some will also be appropriate for more than one fiber.

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Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

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Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

Sign up on their website!

Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

Sign up on their website!

In this workshop, participants will engage in the process of exploring spaces (buildings, homes, towns, or places of the past) and relate them to the experience of queer existence. What do places say about us, especially those that have been left behind? What fears come up when exploring a location that has become “unknown”? How does horror arise in places when the location is a character, communicator, or symbol? This is an opportunity to expand one's writing, world building, and expression into undefined realms.

Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.

Join us for our next concert: Trilogy and Bella Burns! We’ll see you there!

Each First Friday of the month, the community is invited to stroll the historic Paseo Arts District. All galleries, boutiques and businesses will hold extended hours through 9pm! Come explore! Skyy Webster will be playing LIVE at the red Flamenco sculpture!

We at Art & Souls Boutique are thrilled to announce our vibrant and heartfelt Day of the Dead celebration, taking place at the charming Paseo Plunge with Holey Rollers! This special event promises to be a delightful blend of culture, art, and community spirit, and we can't wait to share it with you!

Sign up for Su Casa’s holiday needlepoint class!

You will receive a 13 count 8" x 8" blank practice canvas and 2 skeins of thread to try out different stitches and techniques for fur, beards and hats. We will teach turkey work (cut and looped), padding, knots and various other stitches appropriate for Santas. You will also receive a printed guide with stitch charts. We will also show samples and talk about various fibers available to use for beards, fur etc. Stretcher bars suggested and can be purchased at the shop if you do not have them.

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Mark your calendar for a networking happy hour with Ace Appraisal Group! Grab your friends and meet us at Barseo.

Have you ever wished to infuse your poetry with the warmth of the sunshine from the best day of your life? Or to weave the dusty trails of childhood dirt roads into your verses? Join us for a unique writing workshop where we’ll explore the art of replacing primary colors with vivid memories. Through guided exercises and creative exploration, you’ll learn to transform your poetry by painting with the palette of your past.

Durell Carter is a writer and teacher who lives in Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a graduate degree in English. He recently released a poetry collection, Mr. Monday Morning's Broken Songs and Testimonies. His work has been published in Posit, Midway Journal, Closed Eye Open, petrichor, and others.

Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. A former stockbroker, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" reporting on Wall Street. Previously at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, she and coauthor Joshua Rosner wrote the New York Times bestseller Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon about the mortgage crisis.

“Moonlit Massacre is a powerful, deeply-imagined meditation on violence, grief, race, and home. James Cooper has written a novel as engaging as it is thoughtful.” – Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November Road.”

In the summer of 1978, six employees of a Sirloin Stockade buffet restaurant found themselves forced into a walk-in freezer during a robbery, then executed, leaving no witnesses. The shocking events and resulting nine-month, nationwide manhunt left a deep scar in the psyche of Oklahoma City residents and served as inspiration for a new novel coming this October by English Professor and OKC City Councilor James Cooper.

Moonlit Massacre, Cooper’s debut novel, draws inspiration from one of Oklahoma’s most notorious crimes as well as other unsolved murders in the same time frame to knit together a story of a community gripped with fear. Rather than focus on the assailants, Cooper explores a young city rocked by tragedy.
Moonlit Massacre presents a diverse Oklahoma landscape overlooked by national news, utilizing elements of true crime, literary horror, and historical fiction to focus on the inner lives of Oklahomans from marginalized backgrounds. To bring this story to life, Cooper dedicated years to researching Oklahoma history and the Stockade murders before completing a Creative Writing MFA at Oklahoma City University. Similar books include Berney’s November Road, Killers of the Flower Moon, Devil in the White City, the works of Stephen Graham Jones, and Jane Harper’s The Dry.

While pursuing an MA in English at Oklahoma State University, Cooper received an award from The Society of Professional Journalists for his column in OSU’s O’Collegian concerning the need for federal hate crimes legislation. Cooper’s essay on the 2013 tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, “An Oklahoma Perspective on Tornado Alley,” appeared in the Huffington Post. The Oklahoma Gazette published Cooper’s 2011 two-part cover story on the history of OKC’s LGBTQ community, “From Closet to Community.” Advocate Magazine named Cooper one of its June 2020 “Champions of Pride.” The New York Times profiled his 2019 campaign.

Cooper won re-election on Valentine’s Day February 2023 to a second term with more votes during a traditional election than any OKC council candidate in, at least, 14 years. Currently, Cooper teaches English and Film Studies as the Artist in Residence at Oklahoma City University, where he’s taught courses on writing and horror, focusing particularly the slasher and occult subgenres.
Moonlit Massacre arrives in bookstores from Literati Press this October 17. Pre-orders available through Instagram and Baker & Taylor

Paseo FEAST (Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics) is an annual micro-grantprogram managed by the Paseo Arts Association, that allows five hopeful artists to garner the financial support of the community to fund their vision. The event will be held on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at City + State Venue & Events.

How it works: A selection committee of arts professionals reviews creative proposals and selects up to five finalists. Each attendee purchases a ticket, which includes their dinner and a token. During the dinner, finalists give a five-minute presentation about their proposal to the FEAST audience, and diners will cast their votes with a FEAST token. The artist with the most votes wins a grant of the evening’s proceeds to fund their creative vision.

We hope that you will join us! Learn more about the event at thepaaok.org/feast

EVENT INFORMATION
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
-Doors open at 6:00pm
-Event begins at 6:30pm
-Program concludes by 8pm

SPONSORSHIP
We would love your consideration in sponsoring the PAA as we host Paseo FEAST. As previously mentioned, this event gives straight to hopeful artist so they may fund their vision.

If you would like to be a sponsor and pay by check, please call (405) 525-2688 or email the Community Engagement Manager (emily@thepaseo.org), Emily Ahearn. Checks can be addressed to the Paseo Arts Association and mailed to 3024 Paseo, Oklahoma City, OK 73103

TICKETS & GUEST INFO
$40 each, a delicious pasta and salad dinner will be served at each table with cash bar available!
Half of your ticket goes towards your meal and half goes towards funding the winning artist. Gratuity is not included in this cost, please tip your servers!

Free Event!

Even the Least of These is a collaboration between two talented friends—award-winning poet Anita Skeen and renown printmaker Laura B. DeLind. Seeking to navigate the isolation and uncertainty of the covid-19 pandemic, they challenged each other’s ability to see the small things often neglected and unnoticed. The result is a thoughtful and often joyful collection of poetry and prints that celebrate an awareness of the world around us and reflect on past experiences, lessons learned (or not). This collaboration includes a collection of prints that evoke the feeling of the poems, ranging from humorous to heart-rendering.

Anita Skeen is currently Professor Emerita in the Residential College in the Arts andHumanities at Michigan State University where she was the Founding Director ofThe RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU and is the Series Editor for WheelbarrowBooks. She taught students in kindergarten through high school whileworking with the Kansas Arts Commission’s Artist in the Schools Program; intraditional venues such as college classrooms as a Visiting Writer and Writerin Residence; and in senior citizens’ centers, libraries, and at Ghost Ranch inNew Mexico for over 40 years. Shecurrently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Friends of Theodore RoethkeFoundation in Saginaw, MI

She is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand AMap (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); TheResurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We SayShelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon(2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocutsof anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind.. With Taylor, she co-editedthe literary anthology Once Upon A Place: Writings from Ghost Ranch (2008). Herpoetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazinesand anthologies. Collaboration is an important aspect of her work and shecurrently involved in writing and visual art projects with poets Jane Taylorand Cindy Hunter Morgan.

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Each First Friday of the month, the community is invited to stroll the historic Paseo Arts District. All galleries, boutiques and businesses will hold extended hours through 9pm! Come explore!

Chase Kerby will be playing live music at the Flamenco sculpture!

Skull Tree by Kristen Grace - Launch Party

October 3rd, 2024. 7pm

Centuries ago, terrified villagers spread rumors of a monster living in the woods. Once a year, they offer up a young woman to appease the mysterious creature. But what if the villagers are inadvertently creating the very thing they fear the most? In The Skull Tree, poet Kristen Grace creates a new work of mythology and a welcome for anyone made to feel monstrous for becoming what they had to in order to survive.

Kristen Grace is a journalist for 405 Magazine and Art Focus and a graduate from Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth MFA Program. She volunteers as a Creative Writing Leader at Palomar: Oklahoma’s Family Justice Center. She has authored a picture book, The Stepmother Who Dreamed of Feathers, as well as Wings, a collection of feminist fairy tales, through Literati Press. Her first collection of poetry, Love Letters for Women, was self-published.

The Skull Tree is co-published between Literati Press and The Leaves Poetry Press. Literati Press will be staging the reading at their expanded bookshop stage, created as part of the launch of a new creative writing center to advance Literati’s mission to advocate and mentor for the Oklahoma City storytelling community through open mics, readings, music, plays, and workshops focusing on a wide range of literary disciplines.

Join us for a one-day real estate boot camp to help you boost your business & reach your full potential!
**MUST BE LICENSED REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL TO ATTEND**

You'll have the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, gain insights from industry experts, and walk away with actionable strategies to elevate your business. Don't miss out on this chance to invest in your future and take your entrepreneurial journey to the next level. Register by September 30th to save your seat!

Here’s our schedule:
8:15-8:45 Doors Open
Coffee & Pastries will be served

9:00-9:45 Communicating your Value as a Buyer’s Agent
with Jarred Smith

10:00-10:45 Know Your Numbers: Creating Your Personal Business Plan
with Dustin Ames

11:00-11:45 Lunch

12:00-12:45 Fostering a Growth & Learning Mindset
with Athena Captain

1:00-1:45 Your Fortune is in Your Follow Up
with Athena Captain

2:00-2:45 Conquer Your Calendar: Time Blocking for Success
with Athena Captain

3:00-5:00 Pop-by Happy Hour
with The Gift League (Andrea Keim & Michelle Henderson)

Thank you to our sponsors: Redbud Home Inspections, Legacy Title, and Valor Bank.

Save the Date for "Pearls of Art," Studio Six's 30th anniversary celebration, taking place Friday, Sept. 27, at 6pm at 3021 Paseo!

First opened in 1994 by six talented artists, Studio Six is one of the longest-running galleries in the Paseo. Please join us in celebrating a special exhibition reception showcasing all Studio Six artists, past and present. Refreshments will be provided by Picasso Cafe!

Each First Friday of the month, the community is invited to stroll the historic Paseo Arts District. All galleries, boutiques and businesses will hold extended hours through 9pm! Come explore and enjoy live music by Skyy Webster at the red Flamenco sculpture!

Visit Barseo for their first menu takeover! Come try some amazing plant based Mexican food with our drink pairings by Karmic Bites!