Tulsa I.T. Christmas Day 2024
The Long Hegira; Remembering Winston Weathers on Christmas Day
Once upon a day in the Territory there was a poet named Winston Wiley Weathers. Although he never became a household name, for over thirty years, he was an English Professor at the University of Tulsa and a prolific author of short stories, plays, poetry and fiction. He was also a kind man.
Dr. Weathers was born on Christmas Day 1926, in Pawhuska Oklahoma, a city which is perhaps the center of Osage County. 1926 was a tumultuous year for the Osage; the ringleaders of the infamous Osage murders were finally being brought to trial. The “Reign of Terror”, as it now known, has been well documented and remains yet another tragedy that can be viewed as an aftermath of the push for the statehood of Indian Territory.
“Everything is old in the Osage and there is no room for the new that will not change from new into old” • Winston Weathers
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Dr. Weathers was born on Christmas Day 1926, in Pawhuska Oklahoma, a city which is perhaps the center of Osage County. 1926 was a tumultuous year for the Osage; the ringleaders of the infamous Osage murders were finally being brought to trial. The “Reign of Terror”, as it now known, has been well documented and remains yet another tragedy that can be viewed as an aftermath of the push for the statehood of Indian Territory.
“Everything is old in the Osage and there is no room for the new that will not change from new into old” • Winston Weathers
for more
John Wesley Powell compiled this map in 1890 from the Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, U.S., and the 11th Census of the United States. Color delineates
Map of the Linguistic Stocks of American Indians 11th Census 1890
Powell, John Wesley. Map of linguistic stocks of American Indians. [S.l, 1890] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001620496/.
found map • embedded data
Panoramic View of the Arkansas River Refinery @11th St. Bridge
Arkansas River Tulsa I.T. circa 2023
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I am co-curating an exhibition that opens in September 2023 at Liggett Gallery in Tulsa.
The exhibition will feature work by individuals and artists who use map-making as a process of inner and external exploration; developing ways to interpret and reinterpret themselves and our world through artist maps. A sample prospectus is below.
To submit work go here: Liggett Studio
I am co-curating an exhibition that opens in September 2023 at Liggett Gallery in Tulsa.
The exhibition will feature work by individuals and artists who use map-making as a process of inner and external exploration; developing ways to interpret and reinterpret themselves and our world through artist maps. A sample prospectus is below.
To submit work go here: Liggett Studio
Tulsa I.T. Photos
Since 2010, I have been shooting images of Tulsa, these photographs are normally images that I capture from my car while traveling the streets and absorbing the sights and the sounds of these moments., these are just a few.