MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Slide/Talk by JULIE PEPPITO

Name: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Slide/Talk by JULIE PEPPITO
Start: 2026-01-11T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-11T14:00:00-06:00
Location: 314 S Kenosha Ave, Tulsa, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74120

Schedule

Sun Jan 11 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

314 S Kenosha Ave, Tulsa, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74120 | Tulsa, OK

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Talk
Slide/Talk by JULIE PEPPITO
Sunday, Jan 11, 1:00-2:00pm
No Charge, Donations Accepted
at The Gallery at Liggett Studios
in Partnership with Indivisible Tulsa County
"MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD" Julie Peppito a Tulsa Artist now living in New York City will give a slide talk about her work as an Activist and Artist with the Resistance to this Administration's cruel and un-Christian actions with immigrants, the free speech of students and professors, the illegal murdering of sailors without due process of law and the greed that this administration seems to embrace. She will show examples of how Tulsans might choose a creative way to FIGHT FASCISM!. (see photos attached) In her words'. I'm going to speak about the role of artists right now, and how we can create our own hope. I'll speak about how important our skills are to envisioning the future we want (not just the one we are against) and in making that future possible. In the words of strategic messenger Anat Shanker Osorio we can "paint the beautiful tomorrow". I will also talk about how much organizers need artists (and artists need organizers) to help amplify the messages of the movement."
Julie Peppito (b. 1970, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a Brooklyn-based artist and activist, celebrated for her imaginative and deeply layered mixed-media works that transform cultural detritus into striking visual narratives. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Peppito has developed a unique artistic language that blends sculpture, tapestry, collage, painting, and public art, engaging with themes of connection, environmental reconnection, memory, and the human condition. She brings these themes into her political art which recently was on the cover of The New York Times in coverage of the No Kings march in New York City.
In her formative years in Tulsa she took classes at Johnson Atelier from Steve Liggett and later studied with Linda Stilley at Booker T. Washington High School. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union in New York City in 1992 and received a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in sculpture from Alfred University in New York in 2004. Her creative practice centers on repurposing discarded materials —from broken toys and tangled wires to thrifted textiles and industrial refuse — into hybrid forms that evoke both wonder and reflection.
Peppito’s work has been the subject of 11 solo exhibitions and featured in numerous group shows at prominent venues including Kentler International Drawing Space, The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, The Long Island Children’s Museum, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, Heskin Contemporary, PS122, Momenta, and The CAMP Gallery. Her public art can also be seen in parks across Brooklyn, where she has designed playground sculptures and interactive installations. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture in 2001 and has been in The New York Times, on CBS Sunday Morning, and on NY1, among other outlets. Peppito also directs Peppito Art Workshop in Brooklyn, where she teaches portfolio preparation, observational drawing, and mixed media techniques.
Peppito lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, where she continues to push the boundaries of material experimentation and artistic storytelling, making work that is whimsical, profound, political, and deeply humane.