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New Public Art Installation In Downtown Tulsa Highlights City's Past, Bright Future A special piece of art is now on display outside the Cox Center in downtown Tulsa. The piece is called Highlight. Tirado says the giant two-pronged plug pays tribute to downtown Tulsa's Blue Dome District and represents the city's past reliance on natural resources. The electrical cord is made from metal that was created in Tulsa by American Pipe Bending. Then, the giant lightbulb, symbolizing Tulsa's bright future. Mayor G.T Bynum says Tulsa is an art city and this piece fits right in with the culture the ci...
An audio version of this story The City of Tulsa hosted a dedication Friday for new public art at the Cox Business Convention Center. Andrew Ramiro Tirado’s "Highlight" stretches across the steps of the new plaza on the building’s east entrance. It consists of a two-prong plug that looks a lot like the Blue Dome building and symbolizes Tulsa’s past; an electrical cord fashioned from bent, blue metal that symbolizes the present as the link from past to future; and a yellow light bulb that can be illuminated. Tulsa Arts Commission Chair Holbrook Lawson tied "Highlight" into Tirado’s o...
$3 Million Renovations Coming To Golden Driller Plaza, First Upgrades Since 1966 Multimillion-dollar changes are coming to Golden Driller Plaza at Expo Square. The goal is to make the area more park-like. Tulsa's Golden Driller takes on new looks all the time, whether it's an OSU-Tulsa tie for graduation, pink boots for breast cancer awareness, or the Tesla look, vying for Elon Musk's attention. Right now, he is masked up during the fight against COVID-19. While his appearance has changed over the years, there have not been any renovations to his surroundings on the ground, until now. The...
Credit Matt Trotter / KWGS The Tulsa City Council wants to give the Muscogee (Creek) Nation two more years to decide whether it can commit $16 million dollars to building an Arkansas River Dam near 101st Street. The deadline for that was Dec. 31 of this year. The council voted last week to extend the deadline to Dec. 31, 2022. Councilor Phil Lakin said the additional time will ensure everyone’s budgets have recovered from 2019’s spring floods and the coronavirus pandemic and will give Tulsa officials time to meet with Muscogee (Creek) officials about the matter. "I don’t know when we’...