Oklahoma Arts Institute

ADVISORY PANELS

Oklahoma Arts Institute Advisory Panels
Oklahoma's Leading Arts Professionals

The Artistic Advisory Panels guide the Oklahoma Arts Institute's programs. Composed of leading arts professionals from across Oklahoma, the panels assess program needs, determine curricula, judge auditions, and recommend faculty artists.

Creative Writing Advisory Panel

Britton Gildersleeve, Director, Writing Project, OSU-Tulsa
Matt Hollrah, Professor, UCO
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor, OU
Lisa Lewis, Director, Creative Writing Program, OSU
Vivian Nida, Teacher Consultant, Oklahoma Writing Project
Francine Ringold, Editor-in-Chief, NIMROD
Ann Stone, Poetry Editor, NIMROD
Harbour Winn, Professor, OCU
Lauren Zuniga, Founder, Oklahoma Young Writers

Dance Advisory Panel

Marcello Angelini, Artistic Director, Tulsa Ballet
Tiffany Barber, OSAI Alum and Educator, Oklahoma City
John Bedford, Dean, School of American Dance and Arts Management, OCU
Mary Margaret Holt, Director, School of Dance, OU
Stacey Jenkins, Director of Education & Outreach, Tulsa Ballet
Robert Mills, Artistic Director, Oklahoma City Ballet
Jo Rowan, Chair, Department of Dance, OCU

Film & Video Advisory Panel

Leslie Channell, Deputy Director, Oklahoma Film & Music Office
Gray Frederickson, President, Graymark Productions
Kim Haywood, Chief Operating Officer, deadCENTER Film Festival
Andrew Horton, Professor, OU
Rick Allen Lippert, Owner, Lippert Media
Lance McDaniel, Executive Director, deadCENTER Film Festival
Clifton Raphael, Film & Television Educator, Jenks High School
Jill Simpson, Director, Oklahoma Film & Music Office
Bill Thrash, Station Manager, OETA
Clark Wiens, President & Co-Founder, Circle Cinema
Harbour Winn, Director, Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Literature and Film Institute, OCU

Music Advisory Panel

Rod Ackmann, Professor, OU
John Clinton, Dean, College of Fine Arts & Design, UCO
Nancy Cox, National R&S Chair, ACDA
Douglas Droste, Director, Orchestral Studies, OSU
Eugene Enrico, Professor, OU
Daniel Farris, Professor, SWOSU
Tony Gonzalez, Director, Vocal Music, Norman North High School
Jan Hanson, Professor, USAO
Mark Hollingsworth, Chair, Department of Music, ECU
Jim Lambert, Chair, Department of Music, Cameron University
Mark Parker, Dean, School of Music, OCU
Ron Wheeler, Conductor, Tulsa Youth Symphony Orchestra
Judith Willoughby, Professor, OCU

Theatre Advisory Panel

Michael Baron, Artistic Director, Lyric Theatre
David Fennema, Professor, Cameron University
Chris Freihofer, Director, Freihofer Casting
Daisy Nystul, Chair, Theatre Department, UCO
Michael Payne, Educator, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Rich Taylor, Dean, College of Fine Arts, OU
Max Weitzenhoffer, Broadway and London Theatre Producer, Norman

Visual Arts Advisory Panel

Marwin Begaye, Professor, OCU and OU
Jim Bruce, OAI Board Member and Painter, Oklahoma City
Jon Burris, Executive Director, [Artspace] at Untitled
Ghislain d’Humières, Director, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Konrad Eek, Photographer and Owner, Maxwell Eek Design Photography
Christiane Faris, Retired Professor, OCU
John Jernigan, Commercial Photographer, Oklahoma City
Julia Kirt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
Katherine Liontas-Warren, Professor, Cameron University
Ben Long, Freelance Photographer and Consultant, San Francisco
Michelle Martin, Professor, TU
David McNeese, Photographer and Owner, McNeese Fitzgerald Associates
Bob Palmer, Professor, UCO
Andrew Phelan, Professor, OU
Mary Ann Prior, Executive Director, City Arts Center
Joy Reed Belt, Owner & Director, JRB Art at the Elms
Liz Roth, Professor, OSU
Audrey Schmitz, Professor, Northern Oklahoma College
Chuck Schroeder, Executive Director, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
John Seward, Photographer and OAI Board Member, Oklahoma City
Paul Taggart, Photojournalist, World Picture Network LLC
Laura Warriner, Founder, [Artspace] at Untitled