The New OKCMOA Store: Chihuly, Adler & Ganache
The space formerly housing the café at Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) has transformed into something far more interesting. To step inside the new, extended dance version of the OKCMOA Store is to step into a world of pure imagination, dotted with beautiful objects created by the likes of Dale Chihuly and Jonathan Adler, served up alongside sparkling flutes of Champagne and fairytale-grade pastries crafted by Ganache Patisserie. (Pastry) case in point: the MOA Tart’s pistachio frangipane with dark cherries, milk chocolate ganache, raspberries and gold spark.
Carrie Slatton-Hodges: A New Era for Oklahoma’s Mental Health
All her life, Commissioner Carrie Slatton-Hodges has had a heart for helping people in need. Slatton-Hodges and her team recently launched the 988 Mental Health Lifeline in our state, offering services for mental health crisis calls via a 24/7 hotline. She spoke with us about her personal journey, and the important effects launching the 988 Mental Health Lifeline will have on Oklahoma.
Deus Ex Machina: The Vayanne
After two years on the shelf, the New York International Auto Show found itself back in the limelight in 2022. For 11 days in April, automakers from around the world were in New York City showcasing the next big thing coming out of their factories in the coming months and years. Despite all the major names in attendance, it was an unknown upstart from Austria that stood out from the rest. With its sleek curves, futuristic body and next-level technology, the DEUS-Vayanne didn’t come to New York to just take part. It came to take over.
Jo Lynne Jones and the OKC Ballet
When Oklahoma City Ballet’s John Kirkpatrick Executive Director Jo Jones takes visitors on a tour through the Susan E. Brackett Dance Center, it is with the delicious glee of a little kid showing you her super-cool secret hideout. No doubt she’s led hundreds of tours through the space, but you wouldn’t know it. “I just love it. I mean, it's literally a dream come true, getting to work here,” she says, in between pointing out various rehearsal spaces in the massive, hangar-shaped building on N. Classen.
Javier Leclerc: Cruising Memory Lane
Javier Leclerc remembers vividly the old 1971 Chevelle Wagon his family had when he was a kid. With closer similarities to a tank than a Corvette, it was not something most would have called a work of art. But there was one aspect of the green and brown station wagon that Leclerc remembers fondly.
Brand Builder Naoma Serna-Zahn: In With The Nuevo
Meet Naoma Serna-Zahn — world traveler, visionary, disrupter and owner of the thriving branding and design firm Nuevo Studio. She approaches branding and design with the end in mind and guides her clients through a holistic process that is both fun and energizing, for results that can been seen all over town and throughout the country.
Tunnell Vision: Building Culture’s Austin Tunnell
Something has to be across the street from the Louvre. You can’t have an entire town of nothing but Fallingwaters and Taliesin Houses or they’d lose their impact. And a building can be genuinely admirable as a work of craft without also having to be a work of capital-a Art. But while not every project can be, or should aspire to be, an unparalleled, inimitable icon of design, the opposite extreme — spaces with meager inspiration, with little care in construction, with paltry ambition (beyond, perhaps, size) — is disappointingly common, even at higher price points where bigger does not necessarily mean better construction.