2019 WORKSHOPS
Tulsa Chautauqua workshops are held in the Tulsa Historical Society every day during the week of Chautauqua at 12:00 pm and 5:30 pm by Scholars not scheduled to perform that night. These carefully prepared workshops provide more insight and detail into dimensions of the historical figures and the period than is portrayed during nightly performances. Use scroll bar below right to see complete details...
TUESDAY- June 4th
12 Noon
Doug Mishler Presents
Picasso & his Women:
How Pablo Picasso's fascinations and troubles with women shaped his life and art with both good and bad consequences.
Doug Mishler Presents
Picasso & his Women:
How Pablo Picasso's fascinations and troubles with women shaped his life and art with both good and bad consequences.
5:30 PM
Joey Madia Presents
Mythopoetics and the Cult of Che :
Alive, Che was inspired radical revolutionaries like Abbie Hoffman, but in death he became a symbolic martyr, portrayed in the iconic red and black image with cigar and beret. He was immortalized through music, films, T-shirts and posters, but who was the real man behind the image?
Joey Madia Presents
Mythopoetics and the Cult of Che :
Alive, Che was inspired radical revolutionaries like Abbie Hoffman, but in death he became a symbolic martyr, portrayed in the iconic red and black image with cigar and beret. He was immortalized through music, films, T-shirts and posters, but who was the real man behind the image?
WEDNESDAY- June 5th
12 Noon
Ilene Evans Presents
The Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett
A gallery showcase of woodcuts, linocuts, and sculptures featuring themes such as social injustice, historical figures, women and the relationship between mother and child. How Catlett fits into the Mexican Art tradition and contemporary society’s beliefs and practices of racism, classism, and sexism.
Ilene Evans Presents
The Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett
A gallery showcase of woodcuts, linocuts, and sculptures featuring themes such as social injustice, historical figures, women and the relationship between mother and child. How Catlett fits into the Mexican Art tradition and contemporary society’s beliefs and practices of racism, classism, and sexism.
5:30 PM
Hank Fincken Presents
Peru Today
To grasp how Pizarro influenced life in the Americas today, a perspective is needed to compare life in Peru before Pizarro's arrival to life there today. Sometimes, the best way to understand one's own culture is to study the impacts experienced by others.
Hank Fincken Presents
Peru Today
To grasp how Pizarro influenced life in the Americas today, a perspective is needed to compare life in Peru before Pizarro's arrival to life there today. Sometimes, the best way to understand one's own culture is to study the impacts experienced by others.
THURSDAY- June 6th
12 Noon
Joey Madia Presents
Guevara, Boal and Freire: A Trinity for Change
Che believed lifelong education as both the right and obligation of the New (Hu)man he saw as the centerpiece of a socialist, egalitarian world. This workshop explores how these three South American innovators’ work created a nexus between theatre, education, and social justice that is synergistic and enduring.
Joey Madia Presents
Guevara, Boal and Freire: A Trinity for Change
Che believed lifelong education as both the right and obligation of the New (Hu)man he saw as the centerpiece of a socialist, egalitarian world. This workshop explores how these three South American innovators’ work created a nexus between theatre, education, and social justice that is synergistic and enduring.
5:30 PM
Doug Mishler Presents
Picasso in Art/Picasso & More:
This workshop will survey images representative of Picasso styles in a variety of mediums and how his work impacted world culture. Central focus will be on the birth of cubism.
Doug Mishler Presents
Picasso in Art/Picasso & More:
This workshop will survey images representative of Picasso styles in a variety of mediums and how his work impacted world culture. Central focus will be on the birth of cubism.
FRIDAY- June 7th
12 Noon
Paul Vickery Presents
The Columbian Exchange
A discussion of how the Old and New worlds affected each other after 1492. The diseases, foods, plants, animals, etc. changed both America and Europe. An examination of what happened when two worlds collide, e.g. potatoes and tomatoes are indigenous to South America. How did these new imports change European diet permanently?
Paul Vickery Presents
The Columbian Exchange
A discussion of how the Old and New worlds affected each other after 1492. The diseases, foods, plants, animals, etc. changed both America and Europe. An examination of what happened when two worlds collide, e.g. potatoes and tomatoes are indigenous to South America. How did these new imports change European diet permanently?
5:30 PM
Ilene Evans Presents
Our Proper Sphere: The Changing Role of Women in America
How did Elizabeth Catlett challenge her times in a way that made her an effective role model and leader for generations to come? This presentation examines the changing values expressed in the “Roaring” 20’s to change women's place in the world. In the Victorian Age, the ideal of “True Womanhood” and the “Cult of Domesticity” were held up as a standard for the new world family. Catlett redefined those ideals on her own terms, based on the connection of family and racial equality. She sought a world that practiced a kind of radical inclusion – one that included women and their children.
Ilene Evans Presents
Our Proper Sphere: The Changing Role of Women in America
How did Elizabeth Catlett challenge her times in a way that made her an effective role model and leader for generations to come? This presentation examines the changing values expressed in the “Roaring” 20’s to change women's place in the world. In the Victorian Age, the ideal of “True Womanhood” and the “Cult of Domesticity” were held up as a standard for the new world family. Catlett redefined those ideals on her own terms, based on the connection of family and racial equality. She sought a world that practiced a kind of radical inclusion – one that included women and their children.
SATURDAY- June 8th
12 Noon
Hank Fincken Presents
Tolerance: The New Intolerance
History used to be the study of Great White Men. Times have changed. Or have they? Hank will discuss the dangers of judging the past by contemporary values. Should who we are be judged according to the times in which we live? History proves that the present too often repeats the follies of the past. That proof may soon be in our near future.
Hank Fincken Presents
Tolerance: The New Intolerance
History used to be the study of Great White Men. Times have changed. Or have they? Hank will discuss the dangers of judging the past by contemporary values. Should who we are be judged according to the times in which we live? History proves that the present too often repeats the follies of the past. That proof may soon be in our near future.
5:30 PM
Paul Vickery Presents
The Encomienda System
How the pattern of modern land ownership began with the Encomienda System practice of giving land and Indians to Spanish conquerors influenced the relationships between the two and how las Casas fought against this system and slavery itself.
Paul Vickery Presents
The Encomienda System
How the pattern of modern land ownership began with the Encomienda System practice of giving land and Indians to Spanish conquerors influenced the relationships between the two and how las Casas fought against this system and slavery itself.