An upcoming event hosted by a local artist will transform community photos of nature into illuminated cut paper works, with interactive art stations for attendees.
Artist Yvonne Klinksick is a recipient of an Outdoors Unscripted 2025 Artist-Adventurer Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure grant. Her project, Fields of Vision, includes three phases.
For the first phase, Klinksick worked with her family to determine how ages and height impact people’s experience of a space through photography. In part two, Klinksick encouraged community members to use a Polaroid to photograph nature throughout Douglas County.
This week’s upcoming community art night represents the third phase of Klinksick’s project as she shares an installation of lit papercut creations based on the imagery generated in the first two phases of the project.
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“The illuminated scenes will act as a portal to offer an invitation towards outdoor spaces and nature as a conduit for wonder,” according to the grant announcement. “By gathering views from a variety of ages, locations, and times, this project will show how individual, personal and yet universal our relationship with the outdoors is.”
The community art night will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14 at a shelter in Broken Arrow Park, 2800 Louisiana St.
In addition to the papercut work, there will be interactive art, prints and a craft area. Light refreshments will be available and Yuka Naito will perform live harp music.
The event is free and open to all ages. Learn more here.
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