Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition grows and develops Oklahoma's visual arts community through education, promotion, connection, and funding.
Education: Encouraging greater public appreciation and understanding of Oklahoma art and artists, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition produces Art Focus Oklahoma Magazine, an Art Studio Tour, The Oklahoma Art Writing & Curatorial Fellowship, and hosts the Virtual Gallery, a searchable database of Oklahoma artists. This year, Art Focus Oklahoma highlighted the work of 130 artists in 4 quarterly issues reaching a national readership of more than 10,000 readers per issue. Due to the pandemic, we did not do our annual Tulsa Art Studio Tour. In its place, we did a new statewide drive-by art crawl through the OK Art Crawl. 242 artists put their artwork in windows, driveways, and in tents in 33 communities and saw 2,595 visitors. 24 of those artists were showing their work for the very first time.
Exhibitions: Helping the public connect with artists and highlighting exemplary artwork, OVAC organizes the competitive, curated exhibitions Art 365, Concept, 24 Works on Paper, and Momentum. OVAC presents each exhibition in partnership with host galleries in multiple cities. Due to the pandemic, Momentum did not open to the public, but instead became a virtual exhibition. The virtual guided tour video saw 646 total views and the virtual gallery had 2,536 total views. The show included 64 artists under 30 from across the state. This year we had our triennial exhibition Concept, which featured 27 artists in the Survey Exhibition, and 8 artists in the Focus Exhibition. The Focus artists included 4 from Oklahoma and 4 from our partner region of the greater Wichita, Kansas area. After the opening at ahha Tulsa, the Focus Exhibition traveled to Harvester Arts in Wichita, KS for a second viewing. 24 Works on Paper included 24 artworks from living Oklahoma artists and traveled to 10 locations around the state, with one stop in each of our two largest cities and 8 stops in rural communities.
Artist business skills and awards: Through our business skills and awards programs, we equip artists to sustain themselves financially, set and reach goals, prepare their work for presentation, and communicate better to reach collectors, curators, gallerists, and audiences. To train artists in the business side of their practice, our program Artist Survival Kit (ASK) presents material in three formats: Workshops, Office hours, and Artist Forums. We produce online resources for our artist members that are available on the members section of our website and shared in our monthly newsletter. Last year, we held 6 ASK events, reaching 179 artists. Through our online resources and newsletter of resources and opportunities, we reached 612 additional artists. To support artists and their new creative projects, we awarded 19 grants and 4 fellowships.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Krystle D Kaye | Executive Director | 40 | $60,116 |
| Jake Yunker | Parlimentarian | 2 | $0 |
| Dean Wyatt | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Chris Winland | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Douglas Sorocco | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Diane Salamon | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Laura Massenat | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kirsten Olds | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Travis Mason | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Marshall | President | 3 | $0 |
| Kyle Larson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Drew Knox | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Green | Past President | 1 | $0 |
| Saiyada Garezi | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Barbara Gabel | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jon Fisher | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Gina Ellis | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Bob Curtis | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Marjorie Atwood | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Agee | Director | 1 | $0 |
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