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December 2026
More Than a Game: Coaches of Oklahoma exhibit opens
From youth leagues and high school teams to collegiate athletics, professional sports, and Olympic competition, coaches have played an important role in Oklahoma’s sports history. More than a Game: Coaches of Oklahoma explores their impact as teachers, mentors, leaders, and community builders whose influence extends far beyond wins and championships. Opening on Monday, December 7, in the Sam Noble Gallery at the Oklahoma History Center Museum, the exhibition complements the museum’s Oklahoma Sports Heroes exhibit and draws heavily from the…
Find out more »Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry exhibit closes
The Oklahoma Historical Society exhibit Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry will be shown at the Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity at TCC Metro Campus through December 8. Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry is a traveling exhibit originally organized by the American Library Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Dr. Jess C. Porter from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It traveled to 25 sites across the US and is now in the permanent care…
Find out more »Photographing the Great Plains: Farm Security Administration, 1935–1945 exhibit closes
The Oklahoma Historical Society exhibit Photographing the Great Plains: Farm Security Administration, 1935–1945 will remain open at the Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity at TCC Metro Campus through December 8. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) began in 1937 as the successor to the Resettlement Administration (RA), which was formed in 1935 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal program. Roy Stryker was hired in 1935 to head the Historical Section, also known as the Information Division. He established…
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…
Find out more »April 2027
Faces of the Mother Road: The Lost Portraits of S. J. Tyler exhibit closes
The Oklahoma History Center Museum exhibit Faces of the Mother Road: The Lost Portraits of S. J. Tyler will remain open through Friday, April 30. The exhibition features photographs by an Afton photographer whose glass-plate negatives were rediscovered in 2023. Tyler operated a photography studio in Afton beginning in 1913, more than a decade before Route 66 was established. For nearly forty years, he photographed the people who lived, worked, and traveled through the northeastern Oklahoma town. Tyler’s portraits, created…
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