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Weather Looks Nice for Mayfest for a Change

Mayfest

 

The set-up is underway in downtown Tulsa. The city's 44th Annual Mayfest begins tomorrow in downtown Tulsa. The arts festival will run through Sunday.

Mayfest’s Invitational Gallery showcases art from over 100 of Tulsa’s finest artists in oil, metal, photography, and many other specialties. Every item in the invitational gallery is also available for sale. The Invitational Gallery is also where you can see the annual official Mayfest poster art. The Invitational Gallery will be open Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Friday 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturday 11:00 a.m. -6:00 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and is sponsored by Williams Center Towers I & II and The Gelvin Foundation. If you would like to meet some of these great local artists displaying in the Invitational Gallery, many of them will be volunteering during the festival. You can check out their schedule here.

Every year, Mayfest’s Youth Art Gallery displays a wide variety of art from the younger generations with awards for the best budding artists. The Youth Art Gallery will be open Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

New in 2016 is the Pop Art Music Gallery. Tulsa International Mayfest, in partnership with WPX Energy and the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, offered an after-school art program to all fifth and sixth graders at Hawthorne Elementary School. Lauren Lunsford, the Artist in Residence at the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, instructed the students over a five-week period creating the art on display in this gallery. The theme of the classes revolved around music and pop art, and the students studied artists like Andy Warhol. These students, who have no art program at their school, received instruction in various mediums and types of art.