Tulsa ART-DECO Museum?

[Conan71]

William, I am racing tomorrow night and cannot make the meeting, but would love to be on the board,  Please nominate me and see if you can get me voted on.  It's somewhat of a lifelong interest to me to see us have a deco museum here in Tulsa.  Earliest I could hope to be there would be 7pm, if not later.

PM me and let me know if this is a problem or not.

[sgrizzle]

I will be unable to make it this week as well. I will be at the KRMG/TYPros candidate mixer across the street at Flytrap music hall.

[Conan71]

I will be unable to make it this week as well. I will be at the KRMG/TYPros candidate mixer across the street at Flytrap music hall.

Is this the beer meet and greet w/ the councilor candidates?  Maybe Christiansen and Lakin will get really drunk and obnoxious and Grizzle winds up with the TW endorsement after all.

[custosnox]

if I can keep the family from insisting on taking me out for a b-day dinner, I should be there.

[sgrizzle]

Is this the beer meet and greet w/ the councilor candidates?  Maybe Christiansen and Lakin will get really drunk and obnoxious and Grizzle winds up with the TW endorsement after all.

Yup, It's also called the "beer summit" and Marshall's will be sampling.

[cannon_fodder]

Wife works, have child.  I will try to make it but if I do it will be more of an appearance.   Sorry William, but school starts in 2 days so ye' ole' schedule is kinda screwed up at the moment.

BUT, I hope to see you tonight.

[TheArtist]

Thanks to all who came to last nights meeting. We made some good progress and now have a board started  

Finally spoke with Macy Snyder, with the Mayo Hotel, and have tentatively booked Saturday the 14th of Nov. as the date for Tulsas first ever Deco Ball and Fundraiser, for the DECOPOLIS Tulsa Art-Deco Museum!

I will coordinate a meeting here in the next week or so, so that we can get the ball rolling on; activities, ticket pricing, sponsors, promotions, live music, etc.   

Gonna be fun, start thinking about what your gonna wear.  Flapper to Floozie, Dapper to Gangster (please no real machine guns), period costumes encouraged.

[TheArtist]

Finally got the DECOPOLIS logo juuust about done. Done enough for a "place holder" page image for some web domains anyway. Still needs some tweaking and additions but OMG this one "simple" image has taken SO much work. I have a whole new respect for people who create computer generated images. (either that or I dont know what I am doing and its taking me twice as much work as it should  ). If I were to have charged my normal rate for the time it has taken me so far to do this one image, it might have easily run 5,000$ worth of time. Egads. Now getting ready to do a (very quick and simple lol) image for the Deco Ball.     



original rough draft...


Btw, you might find it interesting to see the pic that I used as inspiration for the background of the poster/logo.

[stageidea]

Looks Good..

[TheArtist]

  We are having the board meeting tonight at Joe Mommas to hash out the dinner menu and entertainment, ticket pricing, etc. options for the Tulsa Art-Deco Ball/Fundraiser.  But thought I would go ahead and ask on here for some entertainment suggestions. Anyone know of a local act/band that could be a good fit for some 20s and 30s music? Would love a band and a singer.

Also looking to have some dance entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3vFgiOVwE
and someone who could perform different examples of dances and do a dance lesson to get people up to try some of the dances of the era. Any recommendations?

What are some of the party games that they would do back then?  

I have been doing some research online and will start making phone calls, but wanted to ask on here as well.

[Townsend]

 We are having the board meeting tonight at Joe Mommas to hash out the dinner menue and entertainment, ticket pricing, etc. options for the Tulsa Art-Deco Ball/Fundraiser.  But thought I would go ahead and ask on here for some entertainment suggestions. Anyone know of a local act/band that could be a good fit for some 20s and 30s music? Would love a band and a singer.

Not sure on 20's 30's but Heather Nelson Trio from OKC did a wonderful job on 40's music at my reception.  Very nice people and easy to work with...(reasonably priced too) They have a website http://heathernelson.net/ if you're interested in contacting them.  Maybe ask if they can do Gershwin style music.

Also looking to have some dance entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3vFgiOVwE
and someone who could perform different examples of dances and do a dance lesson to get people up to try some of the dances of the era. Got nothing for you here.

What are some of the party games that they would do back then?  I found some party ideas under google (party games of the roaring 20's)

[TheArtist]

Thanks Townsend, found a couple of great sites with that search.

Have another question... Does anyone know the name of the company in town that builds furniture. They build furniture, cabinets, shelving, etc. for stores like Dillards. I had run across a website before about them, apparently they went out of business but were bought up by another company. Would like to get a few, deco style pedestals, to put some sculptures on. Want to have an art-deco art display area in the reception area by the Ballroom.  I have designed some and can make them myself, but I am sure the quality would be better if they were professionally made.

[Conan71]

Thanks Townsend, found a couple of great sites with that search.

Have another question... Does anyone know the name of the company in town that builds furniture. They build furniture, cabinets, shelving, etc. for stores like Dillards. I had run across a website before about them, apparently they went out of business but were bought up by another company. Would like to get a few, deco style pedestals, to put some sculptures on. Want to have an art-deco art display area in the reception area by the Ballroom.  I have designed some and can make them myself, but I am sure the quality would be better if they were professionally made.

I think you might be thinking of OFC formerly OFIXCO.  You might try Hoffman Fixture, not sure if they do those or not.  Someone with great imagination who would probably appreciate what you are doing is Mark Hawley, Hawley & Co. at 7th'ish & Utica.  He's more MCM or MOD, but I'm sure he can "think in deco".

[PonderInc]

Two folks who can sing the great jazz standards with panache and pizzazz are Rebecca Ungerman and Annie Ellicott.  Both are dynamic singers with terrific stage presence.  And both have strong local followings.  Both could front a big swing band, though they typically perform with jazz combos backing them.

[Rico]

I don't have the luxury of attending the meetings that would answer my questions regarding the "Deco" Museum.... So thought I would ask them here.

The Museum will qualify as a 501 C 3, by Right. All Museums do.
Does the venture have someone working on Grant monies? to cover startup cost, etc.? ....or... is that being covered by fund raisers and private donations?

The other question is this venture being centered around the "Goddess of Oil"  statue? or am I just getting that from the logo?

No offense... but that sort of thing might turn away some very straight laced donors.

Came across the following on the internet...

Nice picture... kinda Gothic.


http://www.goddessofoil.com