Oklahoma's Immigrant Women Artists

The Oklahoma Immigrant Women Artists Oral History Project looks at the work of first-generation immigrant women artists living in Oklahoma. This series reveals how these women’s complex positioning and diverse identities shape their art and add a global dimension to the cultural ecosystem of the state. Participants include ten women artists and one narrator representing arts support networks in the state which hail from a variety of countries: Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, Poland and Venezuela. Represented art work includes but is not confined to photography, painting and printmaking, dance choreography, installation art, furniture and large scale public sculpture. One theme that unites the work of many of these artists is a focus on women’s identity and cultural positioning in their countries of origin and their adopted homeland(s).