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Stickwork-Artist Patrick Dougherty Explains His Engaging Sculptural Work

Dick Dickinson
Aired Tuesday, March 20th.

Our guest on StudioTulsa is internationally acclaimed "stickwork" artist Patrick Dougherty who is currently creating one of his trademark architecturally inspired sculptures made entirely of willow saplings. It's the latest offering from the Tulsa Urban Core Art Project which has brought a series of temporary public art installations to locations around Tulsa's downtown. This latest project being created at the Centennial Green park at 6th and Boston, is the work of North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty whose work has graced art museums, sculptural gardens, parks, and botanic gardens throughout the U-S, Europe and Asia. Dougherty weaves hundreds of saplings into architecturally inspired geometric designs, mazes, and whimsical structures, some as tall as eighteen feet tall. He joins us to talk about his 289th installation, "Prairie Schooners".

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.