Allied Arts

The Arts Council does so much for Oklahoma City - including planning and providing some of the city's best arts events. We hope you'll put their events on your calendar now - you won't want to miss them!

And leave a comment if you've been to Opening Night, Festival of the Arts or the Oklahoma City Storytelling Festival...we want to know what you think!

Here's more information on the Arts Council of Oklahoma City...

Name and Title: Emily Reagan, Communications Director
Organization Name: Arts Council of Oklahoma City
Organization Phone Number and Web Site: 405-270-4848, www.ArtsCouncilOKC.com

Give us the gist of your organization, Twitter-style (that means 140 characters or less).
We bring arts to everyone in the community through several community-wide events, such as Festival of the Arts, Opening Night (OKC’s New Year’s Eve Celebration), free Sunday Twilight Concert Series, Oklahoma City Storytelling Festival, and a number of arts education programs that benefit under-served youth and adults.

What does your organization bring to Central Oklahoma?
We produce one of the nationally top-rated outdoor festivals (Festival of the Arts) and a variety of free and low-cost programming. Our community-wide events celebrate ALL aspects of art.

List a few things that your organization is looking forward to in the coming year.
All of our events! We are going green with Festival of the Arts in April so we’re looking forward to implementing more steps to reduce our carbon footprint and set an eco-friendly example for other organizations.

How can people get involved with your organization?
Our organization is completely volunteer-driven. It’s a great way to get involved with art, even if you are not an artistic type. Plus there are plenty of leadership opportunities. It takes 5,000 volunteers to put on Festival of the Arts and 700 to put on Opening Night. If you’d like to get involved, you can sign up via our Web site (http://www.artscouncilokc.com/volunteer-form) or call us. We’d love to have you!

Name your favorite piece of art or art performance.
I am really looking forward to the Oklahoma City Storytelling Festival in the fall. Storytelling is such an under-appreciated art form, and it’s so entertaining! It’s essentially theater and comedy combined into one entrancing performance.

Which artist would you most like to meet?
I can’t wait to meet our storytellers who will be performing at our 2010 event. Storytellers are such captivating people! I also enjoy meeting all the diverse and traveled Plaza Artists at Festival of the Arts. Last festival, I really admired the “happy house” paintings of Houston artist Elaine Lanoue and  enjoyed chatting with her.