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October 2026
Sorting out Race: Examining Racial Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations exhibit closes
The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center’s traveling exhibition, Sorting out Race: Examining Racial Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations, will close on Friday, October 30. This exhibition explores controversial themes and displays racially offensive images to stimulate a healthy community conversation about our ongoing struggles with race. Every day, thrift stores receive items with racial imagery—antique advertising cards, collectible salt-and-pepper shakers, vintage children’s books, and mugs with sports team mascots. This exhibit asks questions: “Are these harmless reminders of past…
Find out more »Addie’s Trunk exhibit closes
The Fred and Addie Drummond Home invites you to step back in time in October with a new exhibit that brings to life the ways women in the early 1900s carefully packed for long journeys. The exhibit showcases Addie Drummond’s coats, dresses, hats, and accessories, thoughtfully arranged as if awaiting a grand adventure. Women of this era would have traveled with massive trunks, some tipping the scales at over 100 pounds, brimming with quilts, sunbonnets, and cherished Sunday outfits, each…
Find out more »Lonesome Dove Photo Exhibit closes
The Museum of the Western Prairie will host the Lonesome Dove Photo Exhibit through Saturday, October 31. Lonesome Dove—Larry McMurtry’s epic novel of two aging Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Montana to found the first ranch there—captured the public imagination and has never let it go. The Lonesome Dove miniseries, which first aired on CBS in 1989, lassoed an even wider audience. Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the…
Find out more »January 2027
Our Journeys exhibit closes
The traveling exhibit Our Journeys, presented by Vietnamese Boat People, will be on display in the Oklahoma History Center through January 4, 2027. Created by New Jersey-based nonprofit Vietnamese Boat People, the exhibition centers the voices of Vietnamese Americans through oral histories, photographs, and interactive elements that explore migration, memory, and resilience across generations. The exhibit debuted in 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the displacement of millions of Vietnamese refugees whose stories continue to…
Find out more »February 2027
Honoring our Ancestors: The Art of Beth Loftin exhibit closes
The exhibit Honoring our Ancestors: The Art of Beth Loftin will remain open at the Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School through February 2, 2027. The art of Beth Ann Loftin combines mixed-media paintings and sculpture. She combines traditional Western portraiture with contemporary techniques and color work. Her compositions are sourced from an extensive collection of vintage photographs. Through heightened colors and multi-layered brushwork, her mixed-media pieces draw viewers into the portraits with striking immediacy. Loftin’s works cast in…
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