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.

Visual Arts Advisory Panel

Marwin Begaye, Visual Artist and Instructor, OCU and OU
Jim Bruce, OAI Board Member and Painter, Oklahoma City
Ghislain d’Humieres, Director, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, OU
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, School of Art, TU
David McNeese, Photographer and Owner, McNeese Fitzgerald Associates
Bob Palmer, Professor, Art Department, UCO
Andrew Phelan, Director Emeritus & Professor, School of Art, OU
Christina Pickard, Faculty, A+ Schools
Liz Roth, Professor, Art Department, OSU
Chuck Schroeder, Executive Director, Nat’l Cowboy & Western Heritage Mus.
John Seward, Photographer and OAI Board Member, Oklahoma City
Laura Warriner, Founder, Untitled [ArtSpace]

Film & Video Advisory Panel

Gray Frederickson, President, Graymark Productions
Andrew Horton, Professor, Dept. of Film/Video Studies, OU
John Kennedy, Oklahoma City
Rick Allen Lippert, Owner, Lippert Media
Cacky Poarch, Executive Director, deadCENTER Film Festival
Jill Simpson, Director, Oklahoma Film & Music Office
Jeanne Hoffman Smith, OAI Emeritus Board Member, Oklahoma City
Paul Taggart, Photojournalist, New York
Bill Thrash, Station Manager, OETA
Jeff Van Hanken, Professor, Film/Video Studies, TU
Clark Wiens, President & Co-Founder, Circle Cinema
Harbour Winn, Director, Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Lit. and Film Institute, OCU

Writing Advisory Panel

Britton Gildersleeve, Director, Writing Project, OSU-Tulsa
Francine Ringold, Editor in Chief, NIMROD, TU
Jeanne Hoffman Smith, OAI Emeritus Board Member, Oklahoma City
Ann Stone, Assistant Poetry Editor, NIMROD, TU
Jim Tolbert, Owner, Full Circle Bookstore
Harbour Winn, Professor, English Department, OCU

Dance Advisory Panel

Marcello Angelini, Artistic Director, Tulsa Ballet
Gail Beals, Community Volunteer, Oklahoma City
John Bedford, Dean, School of American Dance and Arts Management., OCU
Mary Margaret Holt, Director, School of Dance, OU
Jamie Jacobson, Director, School of Dance, UCO
Jo Rowan, Chair, Department of Dance, OCU

Music Advisory Panel

John Clinton, Dean, College of Arts, Media & Design and Director, Oklahoma Center for Arts Education, UCO
Nancy Cox, National R & S Chair, American Choral Directors Association
Steven C. Curtis, Director, School of Music, OU
Douglas Droste, Director, Orchestral Studies, OSU
Eugene Enrico, Professor, School of Music, OU
Daniel Farris, Professor, School of Music, SWOSU
Jan Hanson, Professor, Division of Arts & Humanities, USAO
Mark Hollingsworth, Chair, Department of Music, ECU
Jim Lambert, Chair, Department of Music, Cameron University
Mark Parker, Dean, School of Music, OCU
Judith Willoughby, Professor, School of Music, OCU

Theater Advisory Panel

David Fennema, Professor, Theatre Department, Cameron University
Chris Freihofer, Casting Director, Freihofer Casting
Greg Kunesh, Director, Department of Musical Theatre, OU
Daisy Nystul, Chair, Theatre Department, UCO
Tom Orr, Director, School of Drama, OU
David Pasto, Professor, Theatre Department, OCU
Mary Gordon Taft, Past OAI Programs Director, Oklahoma City
Rich Taylor, Dean, College of Fine Arts, OU
Max Weitzenhoffer, Broadway and London Theatre Producer, Norman