Part Four: Paintings and drawings surprise the audience with unpredicted compositions and artists’ perspectives Editor’s Note: The review of the TCC (Tulsa Community College) Student Art Exhibition 2023 is a four-part series. Several program entries were profiled. This is the fourth review of the series. TCC Student Art Exhibition 2023 reflects the world and culture […]
Reporter’s Notebook: TCC students participate and showcase work in the annual art exhibition
Part Three: Ceramic and jewelry art students display good craftsmanship Editor’s Note: The TCC (Tulsa Community College) Student Art Exhibition 2023 review will be a four-part series. Several program entries will be profiled. This is the third review of the series. TCC Student Art Exhibition 2023 is a journey into the world of art, such […]
Reporter’s Notebook: TCC students participate and showcase work in the annual art exhibition
Part Two: The art contest winners present unexpected concepts. Editor’s Note: The review of the TCC (Tulsa Community College) Student Art Exhibition 2023 will be a four-part series. Several program entries will be profiled. This is the second review of the series. The TCC Student Art Exhibition 2023 was a great success. Three TCC art […]
Reporter’s Notebook: TCC students participate and showcase work in the annual art exhibition
Part One: New rules of submission and judges-outsiders proposed Editor’s Note: The review of the TCC Student Art Exhibition 2023 will be a four-part series. Several program entries will be profiled. This is the first review of the series. A selected number of artistic works were on display at the TCC Student Art Exhibition 2023 […]
TCC Bursar clerk, Pamela Alec, is on a mission to preserve Native American art
Pamela Alec has worked as an accounting clerk at the Tulsa Community College (TCC) West Campus Bursar office for five years. Besides that, she has a hobby inherited from her ancestors. Alec loves Native American beading and sewing ribbon skirts. “I was born in Oklahoma, and I am a full-blood Native American,” Alec says. “My […]
Metro Campus renovation brings comfort and improves security
Within the last few years, large renovation projects have been conducted at the Tulsa Community College (TCC) Metro Campus, located at 909 S. Boston Ave. The first floor of the campus was completely redesigned and received a new look. Tatyana Nyborg, editor for the TCC Connection Metro Campus, gives a virtual tour around the renovated […]
Oklahomans explore Native American beading with an artist from Seattle
On March 25, Cynthia Masterson, a self-taught beadworker from Seattle, Wash., conducted a seminar at the Tulsa Community College (TCC) Center for Creativity. She presented an off-loom three-drop gourd beading technique that Native Americans have practiced for centuries. The technique is used to wrap ceremonial, personal, and household objects with beads. The TCC Center for […]
The public learns wet-on-wet painting technique at the Center for Creativity
On March 6, “I Can’t Paint a Landscape” workshop attracted lovers of art to the Tulsa Community College (TCC) Center for Creativity. Maddy Witt, an instructor at Gilcrease Museum, gave a step-by-step lesson on how to paint a landscape with watercolors. First, the workshop participants drew a tree, defined the background, and foreground. Then the […]
TCC’s historian, Marina Metevelis, dies at the age of 100
Marina Metevelis was Tulsa Community College’s (TCC) historian. She turned 100 years old in spring 2022. During winter 2023, TCC and the Tulsa community received the sad news that Metevelis had passed away. Many TCC employees and students remember Metevelis as a nice, generous person, and an incredible companion. Here are some facts from Metevelis’s […]
Reporter’s Notebook: The impossible is possible: Snow days at 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
January’s weather brought surprises. One of them was snowfall at the beginning of January, which was part of a nationwide blizzard. The irony is that the temperature was above freezing in many areas of Green Country, Oklahoma, but that did not stop nature from producing snow.