Rock in your new year with an ear-blistering lineup of local metal masters. OKC’s Bison will be joined by fellow Oklahomans Thross and Deity for a remarkably loud evening of music and fun.
$10 cover at the door | All ages welcome | BYOB if you like
Join our Papier-mâché Clay sculpture workshop! Led by Laura Nelsen, students will build an armature using everyday items like aluminum foil, cardboard, and plastic bags, then apply Jonni Good's papier-mâché clay recipe. Create any sculpture you like! Materials, including pre-made clay to take home, will be provided.
The workshop will take place over two sessions on Thursday evening, January 23rd (6:30) and Saturday afternoon, January 25 (1:00). The first session will focus on building and sculpting, the second on decorating and finishing.
Come with an idea in mind, or just show up ready to have fun and see where it takes you.
$50 course fee
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Join your host Christophe Murdock for Norman’s premiere punk rock x-mas extravaganza.
Featuring live performances by Skadi Jötunn, Ami Rhetto, Keché Paige, Jenny Cyde, Sedona Crystal Bitch, Glam City Bri Bri, The Love Donations, and Psychotic Reaction.
Plus : Ugly Sweater contest, a visit from Punk Rock Santa, X-mas Raffle, Christophe’s legendary White Elephant Gift Exchange, and more!!!
Come out, get down, and make your Holiday Season merry and bright!
Join your host Maura McAndrew for a free screening of the 1979 cult classic All That Jazz (Bob Fosse).
All That Jazz stars Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon, a drug-and-sex addicted Broadway director burning the candle at both ends. The film explores themes of death and regret with unforgettable, hallucinatory style. From the New York Times: “an uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego…. It’s as if Mr. Fosse had invited us to attend his funeral.”
Screening starts at 7:00 | 100% Free | BYOB and snacks if you like
Join us this Art Walk for an exhibition of OU student printmakers.
Dirty Spoons and Crystal Mesh features dynamic work by eight emerging artists: Roddean Bahrami, Jordan Betts, Briana Harris, Tabytha Roa, Destiny Rodriguez, Charlie Street, Aly Vettese, and Mia Vinson.
These gifted students will be showing off work they completed as part of their Fall semester coursework. The primary medium will be screen printing, but what they are doing with it is far from expected.
Come out, support local art, and get a glimpse of Oklahoma’s artistic future.
Resonator proudly offers Art Therapy classes every Monday evening. These classes are taught by Soni Parsons, a licensed Art Therapist with decades of experience in both private practice and academic settings. There is no sign up, and classes are free with all materials provided. If you’ve been feeling anxious, depressed, or isolated and would like a creative release for your emotions in a nurturing and healing environment, these classes are for you. Soni has worked many years teaching at OU, and college students are especially encouraged to attend.
Resonator programming is made possible in part by the generous assistance of the Norman Arts Council
Join your host Middle Man for a special screening Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC (1980 - 1990)
“Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” is a documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.
Following the screening, stick around for live perfomances by Jaw/line (OKC), BOBO (Denton, TX), and One (OKC).
Movie starts at 6:00, bands at 8:00 | $15 cover w/movie ($10 for bands only) | BYO food and drink if you like
Join your host Maura McAndrew for a free screening of the 1983 cult classic My Brother’s Wedding (Charles Burnett, 1983)
My Brother’s Wedding is the 1983 lost classic from trailblazing Black filmmaker Charles Burnett. Set in South Central LA, the film follows Pierce, a young man adrift in his twenties. When his best friend is released from prison and his brother gets engaged to a snooty upper-class woman, he finds himself at a crossroads. From Criterion: “Charles Burnett’s second feature is an eye-opening revelation— wise, funny, heartbreaking and timeless.”
Maura will provide production notes, back story, and cultural context before the screening.
Starts at 7:00 | 100% Feree | BYO food and beverage if you like
Start your Thanksgiving week by punk rocking the night away with this kick ass line up.
Blanket of M (Tyler, TX), Briegade (OKC), and Suspicious Concussions (OKC)
Doors open at 7:00, music at 8:00.
$10 cover at the door | All ages welcome| BYOB if you like
Join us for a Threads Unveiled, a fashion show featuring work by six local designers—- Acid Lime, Kylee Vera, Avfcrafts, LolatheCreative, Elusive Stitches, and Etta DeFaillant.
Come check out the future of fashion!
Doors at 7:00- Show starts at 8:00
$10 cover | All ages welcome
Come brush up on your drawing skills as you help out a good cause.
Cost to participate is entirely up to you. All proceeds from the session will go to Norman Care-A-Vans.
Learn to make your very own "Weird Sound Generator" in this fun and approachable workshop taught by OU Professor William Davis. All component will be provided and participants will learn the basics of soldering as they follow easy instructions to create their very own electronic musical instrument.
Join us for an exciting art workshop where you'll explore the fundamentals of stained glass making! This hands-on experience offers you the chance to draw, cut, polish, and solder your very own stained glass art piece. Learn to use essential hand cutting tools and table sanders, and discover techniques for cutting challenging curve shapes with a circle saw. Unleash your creativity and bring vibrant colors to life in your unique stained glass masterpiece!
To register, sign up here
Processing: Learning While Creating is an exhibition by two former OU art history graduate students who have also been practicing artists for several years. Singer/songwriter and ceramicist Elizabeth Wise and painter/photographer Mark Esquivel bring their works together as examples of how the process of creating played an important role in their graduate work as well as other parts of life – closely following the research and evidence of brain function while creating, and how art can play a significant role in things like rehabilitation and therapy.
From Elizabeth Wise
When Mark and I met as OU art history grad students in 2018, we realized how important our respective art practices were to how we processed everything we were learning in our research projects. But it’s a cyclical process where everything – however unrelated – becomes part of the decision making and problem solving that feeds into the objects, and in turn, our research. Since grad school and further into our art, it’s become even more apparent that the mental space of creating is where information and experience are internalized, grappled with, and personalized in the effort to better understand the world, ourselves, and our place in the world. Even more profound is how directly in line this is with the evidence from medical research in brain function during the making of art, and why it helps in things like rehabilitation and therapy.
Born and raised in Virginia, Wise has lived in many places including Memphis, TN; Oxford, MS; Norman, OK; Germany, and New Zealand. A mostly self-taught ceramicist for over a decade, as well as a mostly self-taught professional original and recording musician for over two decades, Wise holds a BA in Art History from Sweet Briar College and an MA in Art History from the University of Oklahoma (OU). She also worked as an Andrew W. Mellon curatorial intern at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at OU.
In music and ceramics, Wise is all about the unexpected and imperfect moments in life where those profound connections with self and others happen. She strives for constant improvisation by never writing the same song twice, never playing a song the exact same way twice, and never making the exact same form twice. She approaches music as storytelling using a wide range of styles from rough slide playing to lyrical fingerpicking, and from gravelly and belting to airy and soft vocals depending on the story and moment. In ceramics, she works organically with each step of the process beginning with a perfect form, and then altering it because the unique is personal, not perfection.
From Mark Esquivel
Lensatic Objects
When Elizabeth and I met as art history grad student at OU and conversed about our preexisting art practices we realized how much they informed our art historical research projects, and later our formal academic training expanded our understanding of the how we make, why we make, and context cognizant of our art. A seemly tautological turn to both academic and artistic practices were both processes for each of us blurred into one. Our academic thinking became more expressive and art making object oriented.
The objects, of course are the works, however like a lensatic compass, we’ve ambitiously created them to both expand or magnify our understanding of topics important end to each one of us, acting as a compass would, giving direction even if only personal, and tool to identify location or context. Utilizing horticultural and entomology watercolors on reclaimed trailer truck floorboards I’ve attempted to utilize material and form from a Nahua understanding to bind a hopeful migrant experience, one centered on growth and transformation, to bring to light a shared nexus with non-migrants of the global south of hope and beauty.
Mark A. Esquivel Espinoza, a Xicano from Texas, is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History within the University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Arts, and a former Andrew W. Mellon intern at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. He has a BFA in Drawing & Painting, and BA in Art History from the University of North Texas, an MA in Art History from Arizona State University where he was also curator for ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research, and studio assistant for artists Claudio Dicochea and Saskia Jorda. His art is indigenously centered drawing from a Xicano vernacular that is historical, learned Nahua sensibilities, and informed by a generational indigenous diaspora from the global south. Together with a rasquache approach which draws from bricolage of sources and assembled though a verity of media, his work articulates the in-between realities of those who find themselves ni aquí, ni allá (neither here, nor there)
Opening Reception: Friday, November 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Join us for an evening of ear-splitting fun and help us raise money to improve our PA system.
Providing noise for the evening will be Glitch, BUGNOG, and Merry Walkers,
Between sets there will fun activities including:
Rock and Roll Raffle — Live Band Logo t-shirt Printing — Sweet Art Auction
Hosted by the one-and-only Richie Tarver from Rainbows Are Free and Sisteria
Doors at 7:00 | $10 suggested donation
Join us for an evening of enticingly spooky burlesque courtesy of Joans Wett and Rai of Sunshine.
The most fun you can imagine for a mere $5… Don’t forget to bring tip money!!
Join your host Maura McAndrew for an evening of classic horror.
Carnival of Souls is a seminal work of 1960’s B-movie horror that has influenced numerous movies since. It’s the story of a woman who wakes from a terrible car crash in a strangely altered world. Equal parts scary and weird, this is the perfect movie to round out your October.
As always, Maura will provide back story, production notes, and cultural context.
100% free! | BYO snack and drink if you like… and there might even be a themed cocktail available.
AUGFEST returns for an evening of scary-good beats and horrifically awesome rhymes.
Featuring King Scott, Chloe Hart, T5 Luno, and of course AUGMNTD!
$5 cover \ BYOB if you like
Three great bands, one low price!
Join us for an evening of rock and roll mayhem courtesy of three awesome local bands;
The Nobodies, Dead Steph, and the Josh Bartrug Band
If you like your music loud, fierce, and melodic, this show is for you. And at only $5, you can’t afford to miss it!
Doors at 8:00 | $5 cover | BYOB if you like
This workshop is perfect for beginners and intermediate artists eager to explore the art of glass fusing while crafting vibrant glass collages. Participants will begin with the basics of glass fusing, covering safety equipment, tools, and types of fusible glass. Through guided, hands-on instruction, students will learn essential techniques such as cutting and arranging glass to create unique designs using fusible glass sheets, frit, stringers, and powders. Students will have the opportunity to incorporate found objects that will be used as stencils to add personal, creative touches to their pieces.
Once completed, projects will be fired in a kiln and available for pick-up after cooling.
$30 registration and material fee.
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Learn an exciting process for making textile images using loose wool.
Participants will work from their own images and learn how to take them to new textural heights by embedding the surface with colored strands of wool.
Taught by Norman's own Tracy Gibson, this class will be fun for adults and teens
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What is drawing? This workshop considers the question through explorations of media and mark-making. Participants will learn how to make oak gall Ink, also called iron gall Ink, a common writing and drawing media before pre-made inks became available. We will experiment with new ways to create marks, using the gall ink alongside more traditional drawing tools and media. No experience necessary, all levels and abilities are very welcome.
Participants are asked to bring in a small(ish) meaningful object to use as a reference. All other materials provided; participants are welcome to bring their own sketchbooks or other media to discuss or try out if they like.
Taught by Haley Prestifilippo
Open to all ages!
Resoantor is proud to present an exhibition by our resident Art Therapy instructor, Soni Parsons!
Soni Parsons is an accomplished acrylic painter and mixed media artist known for her vibrant use of colors, textures, and words in her artwork. With a strong local presence, she has exhibited her pieces in various galleries and festivals in Oklahoma City, Duncan, and Norman.
Parsons has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education with endorsements in science and art, as well as a Master's degree in Human Relations focusing on counseling. She is also a licensed professional counselor and a registered art therapist, combining her artistic talents with her therapeutic skills.
In her professional journey, she has taught art therapy classes at the University of Oklahoma and has led an art program called freshstART at the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City. Her leadership in the field is reflected in her role as a current member and past president of the Oklahoma Art Therapy Association. Currently, she is facilitating a public art therapy group at Resonator in Norman, further expanding her impact in the community.
ANGST : Artist’s Statement
My body of work is deeply reflective of my inner turmoil. The combination of textures, colors, and words expresses my reactions to current events and offers a unique perspective on how art can serve as a lens through which we understand and process the world around us. Utilizing paint along with old newspaper clippings is a powerful way to juxtapose the past with the present, highlighting the evolution of societal issues and personal emotions.
Incorporating elements like trees and moons shows a connection to the environment. Bold colors, textures, and words add layers of symbolism and depth to the pieces. Mannequins are used to represent the human experience and societal roles, while trees often symbolize life, growth, and connectedness to nature, and moons can reflect phases and change.
Inspired by Basquiat, Matisse, and Frida Kahlo, this work brings together a rich diversity of styles and emotional depth. Basquiat’s raw expressionism and social commentary, Matisse’s vibrant use of color and form, and Kahlo’s deeply personal and symbolic narratives all contribute to a robust foundation for my artwork. Incorporating vivid colors to express strong emotions can create an immediate impact and engage viewers on a visceral level.
Join us in welcoming Moose Creek Park (Riverhead, NY) and Leisure Hour (Muncie, IN). Two bands travelling great distances to liven up your Tuesday night.
Joining them will be OKC’s Red Sun and The Others Like Us.
We’ll open the doors at 7:00 with music starting around 7:30.
$10 cover | BYOB if you like
Join us for an evening of kick ass rock and roll to help benefit a great cause.
OKC’s Dion Warlocke, Emma Goldman Sachs, Josh Bartrug Band, and Chris Alan Cox will travel down to Norman to blow the roof off our joint and raise money for Palestinian relief.
$10 suggested donation at the door - all proceeds will go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Join us for an evening of ambient sound and audio/visual delight.
Johnny Bell (he/him) is a northern New Mexico-based acoustic instrumental musician exploring the banjo as a progressive instrument desiring to evolve beyond its traditional roots. From within the lineage of American Primitive music Johnny’s current work juxtaposes traditional clawhammer banjo techniques with acoustic drone, ambient field recordings, radio broadcast, tape loops and other found sounds to create recursive sonic textures that are trance-inducing and cathartic.
Bird Drugs is an audio visual project by Norman based artist Justin Wallis. Each presentation is a unique experience involving disparate video and audio elements brought together in the moment by the artist. Joining Bird Drugs for this performance will be fellow local audio artist Winnowing.
If you’re a fan of the ambient and esoteric, this is the show for you.
Doors at 7:00 | $5 cover |All ages |BYOB if you like
Artist ack Chapman returns for a one-night-only installation and performance.
Details of what might happen at The Surly Bastard are hard to come by. But if Jack’s involved, we know it will be strong in concept and defy any expectations we might have.
Free show. Doors at 6:00, Performance at 6:30
Support Local Art!
AUGMNTD returns with this month’s version of AUGFEST. Club Neon promises to paint your world brightl with dope beats and rhymes courtesy of:
Ilon B and Slung, Metro, Unit 24, Doughboy Dev, Chipmontooth, and of course AUGMNTD.
Door at 7:00, Music at 8:00| BYOB if you want| Probably a small cover charge, but that will be a game time decision….
Learn techniques for marbling on paper from a local fiber arts master. For over three decades Lori Bacigalupi has been the principle fabric designer for Kiss of the Wolf , a Norman-based fashion company that sells internationally and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute.
In this workshop, Lori will lead participants through the easy and accessible world of dye-based marbling, a technique that works on many substrates including paper and fabric.
Workshop Fee is $30.
You can sign up here
Help us welcome back the amazing Lauren Panichelli (Corporeal Ceramics)!!
Public Parks Public Resources.
Much comes to mind when we consider public parks.
A place to breathe.
A place to relax.
A place to take in the beauty around you.
Originally, public parks were designed to provide the greater public with a natural environment where they could appreciate plant life and escape their urban environments. The mind goes to the sprawling environments of the Boston Commons or Central Park. The intention was to alleviate the strain of urban life with constructed natural environments that invoked a greater sense of nature and beauty that would inspire people beyond what they were experiencing every day. Sounds like a dream. Today the internet provides but one of a million social distractions that take one person away from experiencing the beauty around them. Competing architecture and design seems to compete for attention, but time and again humans have proven that their attention can be re-routed to collection and community.
In our contemporary society often without acknowledgement for what came before, public parks hold the potential to be a space that allows people to be people. Much like libraries, coffee shops, and the dwindling number of physical spaces that allow people to exist without purchasing anything, public parks are still sites where people experience societal scrutiny. Despite man-made attempts at constructing beautiful spaces that encourage cohesion with nature, and the imagination, it is difficult for one person to ignite that relationship on their own. Many components of public parks that make them so connective over time is the ephemera and history that they hold. Monuments can offer specific memoriam or cultural significance to a community. We can see those narratives gain new light and shift in narrative over time.
This body of work meditates on the concept and potential of some public resources that we all share. Institutions of public information such as schools and libraries are as necessary as public spaces such as parks to exist. The man made nature of these environments naturally cause societal anxiety in that not everyone is able to experience these resources in the same way. Often we expect that what is for everyone feels the same to everyone when it does not. During a time when humanism, empathy and compassion are more important than ever, we sometimes exist in states where the efforts of structured Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are challenged. Instead of valuing our public resources ‘for all’ as an ever changing and inclusive model or system, we turn a blind eye to those who fall through the gaping craters in those resources.
As a public we could be much more capable in understanding one another, and the lived experiences around us. Storytelling, public art, being in conversation, collective imagining and dreaming of a future are all things that create cohesion between people and their ideas. In a turbulent world it can be important to guide ourselves and each other back to places where we can slow down and focus on actionable things that do good for our communities, and that inject beauty into our worlds.
100% free! — come out and support local art!
Liven up ypour Wednesday evening with a live dose of ambient noise and video from our friends at Dissociation. They will be welcoming three acts:
OKAPI
ABBESS
UT MUTEM
If you enjoy the obscure and relish the esoteric, this is the show for you.
$10 Cover | BYOB if you like
Come check out some fantastic art created by Norman’s next generation of artists.
This one-night-only event will feature drawings, prints, ceramics, and works other media, all made by the amazing students who participated in our Summer Kids Classes this summer.
100% free, 100% awesome
