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vehicle to build community and create dialogue around is-
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median income in Tulsa County and Osage. Creek. Rogers, and Wagoner Counties. The
change will impact senior citizens' ability to quality for a Property Valuation Limitation
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Gallery in Tulsa. Other ex-
hibition venues include
high school in Tulsa. She Gallery North in Stony
moved to New York where Brook, NY; Open Space
she earned a bachelor's de- Gallery in Allentown, Pa.;
grec from Sarah Lawrence DeVorzon Gallery in Los
College while also studying Angeles, Cali; and galleries
Atwood considers herself at Parson's School of De-
to be a contemporary artist sign. Atwood has had solo
Pau I Manafort Seffteirced Ta 47 Months In Prison
Mana fort, who briefly served as President Trump's campaign chairman, faces
a sentencing hearing in second federal case next week.
By Alan Neuhauser ing in federal court in the District of Co-
www.usnews.com lumbia, related to guilty pleas he entered
on charges of conspiracy and witness tam-
Paul Manafort, President Donald pering. Prosecutors in both cases have
Trump's former campaign chairman, on maintained that Manafort repeatedly lied
Thursday was sentenced by a federal judge under oath in violation of plea deals he'd
in Virginia to 47 months in prison for bank entered with authorities.
and tax fraud. "The defendant blames everyone from
The crimes and sentence were unrelated the special counsel's office to his Ukrainian
to Justice Department special counsel clients for his own criminal choices," pros-
Robert Mueller'sinvestigation into Russian ecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of
interference in the 2016 presidential elec-
tion and potential collusion between the
Monday will tell you that i
she has a deep emotional
connection to each piece she i
Artists Stacie Monday creates and that she truly
and Marjorie Atwood are puts a piece of her heart into
the two feature painters each and every painting,
whose work will be pre- She works mainly with
miering during the month of acrylics, and her works in-
March at the Black Wall- elude the celebration of
street Art Gallery on Green- African American women,
wood. I had the opportunity activism, abstract art, and
to speak with both ladies murals.
Friday night at the March Stacie Monday's current A
Manafort's sentencing hearing in Virginia.
Since Manafort's federal indictment in
Kremlin and members of Trump's cam- 2017, legal observers and political pundits
paign team However, Manafort's offenses, have widely speculated whether Trump
tied to lucrative work he'd done as a polit- will pardon Manafort - and whether Man-
ical consultant in Ukraine, arose in the afort has hoped to put himself in the pres-
course of the Mueller probe. idents goou graces by deliberately
’ He is not before the court for anything working to obfuscate Muellers investiga-
having to do with colluding with the Russ- tion.
ian government," said Judge T.S. Ellis of
the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Virginia. nal charges against Paul Manafort, which
Manafort. 69. who has been in jail since would be beyond the scope of the presi-
June. reportedly sat in a wheelchair and dent's pardon power if Manafort were con-
wore a green prison uniform during the victed.
hearing. He faces another sentencing hear-
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who has been painting and shows at the Holliman
known for her passion for eral. She states, "Beauty in show, I take a theme or an exhibiting her work for the Gallery and the MA Doran
bold, vibrant colors. Though art is what attracts us. Ten- experience and explore its past 20 years. Atwood is
sion is what hooks and unfolding on canvas I fol- graduate from Holland Hall
homa, she is currently based holds us. I find tension low the patterns, color, and
in Dallas, Tex. She draws when I juxtapose smooth, texture that beckon to me,
polished elements with cor- obeying and sharing thcii
roded, distressed ones, the call for an emotional re-
sponse."
from her personal experi-
ences to tell her story, and
the story of many African rusting iron beside the
American women on can- gleaming silver leaf." At-
vas. wood states, "1 create my
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Gate) On Black Wall Street Is Bringing Artists Together To Address Tulsa's Racist Past
In the "Conciliation Series,"black and white creatives are fostering
dialogue around social justice issues.
By Melissa Noel tures in the gallery are mainly the works of two local artists
www.nbcnews.com for “The Conciliation Series.” Each month, the gallery
pairs a black artist with a white artist and features their art.
“People are power!’’ That greeting is repeated as groups The goal of the yearlong series is to be a platform for
of people enter the Black Wall Street Gallery in Green- local artists, especially black artists, to showcase their tal-
wood, Oklahoma. Those words serve not only as a mes- ents. Beyond that, the purpose of the exhibition is to cre-
sage upon entering the space, but also a recognition of the ate more positive relationships between the black and the
communal unity that created the success of the historic white communities in Tulsa who have long been marred
Greenwood District, which was also known as Black Wall by the city’s racist past.
Street. “1 decided on the ‘Conciliation Series’ because 1 have a
The neighborhood of Greenwood was once the center problem with the word reconciliation,” Dr. Ricco Wright,
of black wealth in the United States. It was also the site of the gallery’s founder and artistic director, said. “Reconcil-
one of the worst instances of racial violence in U .S. history, iation in my mind is restoring friendly relations, which pre-
In May 1921, the city's Black Wall Street was decimated, supposes that we created these friendly relations in Tulsa.
The thriving community, which was made up of black- But I don't know a time in our history when we’ve ever
owned businesses, churches and homes, was bombed and created them.”
burned to the ground by white mobs after a black man was As the centennial of the massacre approaches, the city
accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. Thirty-five has made efforts at reconciliation by renaming streets,
city blocks of the community were completely destroyed some redevelopment and most recently in 2018, calls by
and it’s estimated that up to 300 people were killed. No Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum to reopen the investigation into
one was ever prosecuted for the violence. whether mass graves from the violence do exist.
Today, the Black Wall Street Gallery is part of Black However, Tulsa native Wright says that while there is -
BECAUSE I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE WORD Wall Street Arts, a nonprofit endeavor that includes the more acknowledgment, important factors are still missing
RECONCILIATION," said Dr Ricco Wright, Black new art gallery and a theater company. The idea behind the from the conversation. It’s why he feels the focus needs to*
Wall Street art gallery's founder and artistic director. gallery, which opened last September, was to use art as a be on "conciliation" - where there is an opportunity for;
(Photo by Melissa Noel) vehiclc,t0 bu*,d commu^ty and_.T BIECK WAI I STREET CONTIMUEB HigE3 j
i Stacie Monday's current
Installment opening of The artist statement is, "I paint in
Conciliation Series, now exchange for freedom." Art ■
being featured at the gallery, is a way to express herself
Stacie Monday is no and to call to attentl0n the MRaMl
stranger to Black Wallstreet painful parts of our society
or Oklahoma. Monday is that many would rather ig- p ~
originally from Tulsa, and is nore.
a painter and activist in- With canvas and ideals ■.;
spired by and focused on the Monday, with her art, ex-
celebration of African presses her views thru con-
American women in her temporary work that has
community. Her work in- proven to be widely popular
eludes her individual strug- during this series at the
gles. experiences, and gallery thus far.
lessons learned as a woman Marjorie Atwood to is a
in America. Monday fo- native Tulsan that has used
cuses on promoting positive her work through this series
narratives of Black women to voice the truths of the in-
and paints to change the justices of the past, while
negative views and stereo- providing the viewer with
types that they face through keys needed to move for-
storytelling and advocating ward and beyond our
equitable representation in painful past. Atwood’s ex-
visual culture. presses her general view of
Monday is an artist that is both her art and life in gen- work in series. For each
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