'WE BELIEVED IN THE SUN' OPEN AT OK CONTEMPORARY THROUGH AUGUST, SUMMER CAMPS AVAILABLE / by Ebony Iman Dallas

Article and photos by Perrin Clore Duncan

Oklahoma Contemporary’s newest exhibition, We Believed in the Sun, celebrates the enduring legacy of the Civil Rights movement in Oklahoma City. The exhibition, which opened in the Mary LeFlore Clements Oklahoma Gallery on May 6, features the work of Ron Tarver, an Oklahoma-born, nationally recognized artist and recent awardee of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, and Ebony Iman Dallas, an emerging artist based in Oklahoma City. Both artists share their powerful, difficult and liberating personal narratives of the Black experience in Oklahoma through their work.

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