Our Team
Virginia Sitzes
Virginia is a printmaker, painter, and muralist living in OKC. She has exhibited, as well as taught workshops, regionally, and her work has been featured in various publications including Art Focus magazine and the Oklahoma Gazette. She has been the drawing and painting liaison at Oklahoma Arts Institute for three years, a printmaking mentor for Artspace at Untitled's high school mentorship program and is currently on the Art Tech team for Oklahoma’s department of education. Virginia is an active arts advocate and organizer. She co-founded the emerging artist collective, Art Group OKC in 2017, is the Operations Coordinator for the Connect:Collect print exchange, currently serves on the OMS board, and has curated various pop-up shows in houses, alternative art galleries, and non-traditional venues.
Shree
Shree is a heart centered human who focuses on inner healing for the benefit of all beings. We are so happy she’s on our 2021 team.
“I am devoted to self-love + self-empowerment - I believe what we do for ourselves we do for others. So as I heal + express myself I give others permission to do the same. I am passionate about community and creating authentic connections with other humans. I am the manager of Elemental Coffee (@elementalcoffee) and love the incredible community we foster and relationships we build through craft coffee and kindness.”
Sunee Rice
Sunee Rice is a visual artist who has been creating and selling canvas art in Oklahoma and the Dallas Fort Worth area for over 8 years. Sunee focuses on jazz inspired abstraction and contemporary art; hoping to influence the art culture in her community.
Katelynn Noel Knick
Katelynn is an Oklahoma City based artist creating paintings, murals, and installations inspired by color, movement, and connection. She loves being a part of the community and helping other artists thrive. You can find Katelynn working collaboratively on the Factory Obscura team, teaching art to kids at Oklahoma Contemporary and Arts Council OKC, and mentoring emerging artists on life and business skills post art school.
Kris Kanaly
Kristopher Kanaly is an artist and muralist from Oklahoma City. With an extensive family history in the arts hailing back to his great grandfather’s
Colonial Art Gallery established in 1919, Kanaly grew up in a family of artists, art collectors, art dealers, and graphic designers. This influence propelled him
into a career of art and graphic design with a heavy focus on street art in his early years. In 2015, Kanaly cofounded the Plaza Walls mural project and the Oklahoma Mural Syndicate in 2016, a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for and creating public art.
Hannah Royce
Hannah is a creative lady who cares a lot. She is an entrepreneur focused on social impact and community. She is the founder of the women’s and non-binary empowerment experience, Confidence Con. She’s also the President of the newly formed OKC Pride Alliance. Hannah has a love for digital strategy, bold visuals + design, social media management, event production, creative direction and more. Above all else, Hannah loves curating experiences and centering humans, their stories, and their magic within each experience.
Natalie Kent
Natalie (she/her) is a creative director and activist from Houston, Texas, living and working in OKC. She is the creative director of Nominee and has led the creation and launch of high-impact brands such as Oklahoma City Pride, The Jones Assembly, and the newly-launched Market at Eastpoint. Her personal project, Tiny Architecture, featured illustrations of over 70 well-known businesses and homes in Oklahoma City including the Gold Dome, The Pump, and Overholser Mansion.
Cayla Lewis
Cayla is the Community Arts Director for the Oklahoma Arts Council and has served in the past as the Executive Director of Preservation Oklahoma and the Plaza District Association. She is actively engaged in the arts community in OKC and a board member for OKC Midtown Rotary where she serves as the Admin Chair and incoming Vice President. Cayla holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Cayla can usually be found walking her dog Lola in the Paseo area or enjoying the sunshine in Scissortail Park.
Audrey Kominski
Audrey is an artist and art administrator from Kansas City who graduated from OSU with a BFA in Printmaking in 2019. She is currently working on launching @shoptimory, an upcycled apparel brand dedicated to transforming clothes into original pieces that feel like their wearers. Audrey serves as the Programs and Events Manager for OVAC (@ovac_ok) in Oklahoma City, and lives in Stillwater with her husband Charlie!
Dylan Bradway
Dylan is the Vice President of OMS and is passionate about supporting local art, creating events and spaces that help champion our public art seen in OKC and throughout Oklahoma, and his personal art practice.
Alexa Goetzinger
Alexa was born and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with degrees in fine art and art history. While she spent time working and interning in China and Italy after college, she ultimately realized there is no place like home! Since returning to Oklahoma she has been a high school educator, the Education Director for ARTSPACE at Untitled, and is currently the Associate Director for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. In addition to her work in the non-profit sector, Alexa is an avid printmaker and co-founded the annual print exchange, Connect: Collect.
Tobi Coleman
Tobi has over 20 years experience in producing events and co-owns with her son, Revolve Productions, an event and festival company. They produced AMP (Art, Music, Power) Festival featuring women artists, artisans and musicians among many other events such as Wanderlust Shops at the Wheeler Ferris Wheel. Their company has sponsored OVAC's Momentum for emerging young artists as well as Oklahoma City Girls Art School. Tobi also volunteered at Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Oklahoma City in it's first three years. Revolve Productions will be producing Rad City Music Festival for the homeless later this fall.
Vilona Michael
Since 2009, Vilona has operated a full service marketing agency (@vmarketing) creating opportunities for brands to engage and connect with audiences through cost effective and innovative strategies. She is a guru in all things strategy/social media/PR/branding /digital/influencer events/community connector!
“My passion, knowledge and experience has led me to building communities around OKC for the last 10 years. I've designed marketing strategies for non-profits and businesses in a variety of industries and developed districts and shopping centers utilizing their budget and goals resulting in growth.”
Paige Powell
Paige was born and raised in Tulsa and graduated from OU with a degree in Film & Media Studies. Serving as Program Manager at the Paseo Arts Association for the past 5 years, she has fallen in love with the artist community in OKC! She is active on several event committees that support causes and organizations close to her heart including DSACO, OVAC and the Plaza District. Her business @paseoplantladies brings together her favorite things - plants & art!
May Yang
May Yang has a BFA in Graphic Design and Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Professional Printer's Certificate from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. May owns and operates Flash Flood Print Studios, a screen printing and design studio in Tulsa. She creates mixed media artwork that combines her love of screen printing, graphic design, drawing, painting and collage. She has exhibited works both in-state and beyond. May enjoys watching terrible TV to unwind, can't pick a favorite color to save her life, and is always on a quest for the perfect mac and cheese recipe.
Krista Jo Mustain
Krista is a fiber artist and muralist with a love for color, a craving to cover every surface in vibrant patterns, and a desire to celebrate everyday activities. She is also the Production Manager at Flash Flood Print Studios and loves getting to work closely with local small businesses and artists to help bring their print ideas to life! Krista grew up in a small town in Kansas and received her BFA in Textile Design from The University of Kansas in 2011. She has been living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 2015. Krista loves music, confetti and hanging out with other people's dogs!
Helen Opper
Helen Opper is an independent curator and an Associate of the Appraisers Association of America. In addition to owning her own business, Opper Fine Art, she serves as Director of The Art Hall gallery in Oklahoma City and is an Adjunct Professor in the Visual Art Program at Oklahoma City Community College. After several years of working in the arts in San Francisco and New York, she returned to her hometown of Oklahoma City to focus on working with traditionally underrepresented artists and expanding equal access to opportunities for exhibitions, collaborations and special projects in her immediate community. As a fine art appraiser, her goal is to close the knowledge gap around the business of fine art and to provide general education about the importance of professional appraisals for artist and client advocacy. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her Master of Arts in Museum Studies at New York University.
Anna Sitzes
Anna is a student at the University of Central Oklahoma studying Museum Studies and minoring in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is very passionate about making spaces for women where there has not been space before. Many amazing women have been erased from history, and Anna’s passion is researching and retelling their stories. She is beyond excited to be a part of this historic event celebrating women and non-binary folks in the arts!