BIOGRAPHY:
Steve Liggett has been an arts advocate and artist in the
Tulsa community for over 30 years. He was awarded in 2001 the Harwelden
Award for recognition of his work in the community. His formal
education is from the University of Tulsa with a Master of Arts
degree and a concentration in Ceramics. After college he was the
resident artist for the Tulsa Park and Recreation Department for
4 years leading into a position as the Director of Johnson Atelier
for an additional 6 years. He has a wide background in teaching
experience in both private and public schools in Tulsa and taught
at Holland Hall Preparatory School and is currently teaching part-time
Art at Riverfield Country Day School. He has served as the Artistic
Director for Living Arts of Tulsa for 13 years. His own studio
works have evolved from his ceramics background to performance/video/installation
work which have won many awards (Arts and Humanities Council Individual
Artist Award, The Jingle Feldman Award, NextWorks grant for Interdisciplinary
Work, Diverse Works Interdisciplinary Artists Award, just to name
a few).
During his time as Artistic Director with Living
Arts of Tulsa, it has grown from an organization with only an
education program to a rich multimedia arts organization recognized
nationwide for its support of contemporary art and artists. It
hosts seven full time programs: Video Evenings, the Myers Gallery,
the Performance Network, New Music, Education, and a Drumming
Program as well as organizing 4 major festivals yearly: Dia de
Los Muertos, The New Genre Festival, Ok Electric (an electronic
arts festival) and Living With Art in the Garden. Most recently
Living Arts became the recipient of the first award from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Travelocity has given
Living Arts an award for the New Genre Festival which was voted
one of the 10 best things about Oklahoma and the Urban Tulsa
Weekly has awarded Living Arts the Undisputed Best Art Gallery
Award.
ABSTRACT:
Liggett spoke about the programs at Living Arts and
their mission which is to develop and present contemporary artforms.
He also talked about Virginia Myers and how they have continued
the work that she started which was to showcase works by "history-in-the-making" artists
of today. Below are some images of work from artists that have
shown the Myers gallery.
URL: http://www.livingarts.org/ |
