DANIELLE JACKSON ON TULSA (1971) 2025 QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Door 5:30 PM | Program 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Tulsa Artist Fellowship - Studios
109 MLK Jr. Blvd E. Tulsa, OK 74103
Danielle Jackson, the 2025 Queen Rose Art House Artist-in-Residence, is a critic, researcher, and curator whose Getty Museum–supported project revisits Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971), photographed in the 'Model Cities' neighborhoods of Cherokee Heights and Kendall-Whittier. Jackson explores how Clark’s searing images reveal the limits of neighborhood-based policies in addressing Tulsa’s wider political economy.
The event is co-presented by Queen Rose Art House & Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971) has been considered one of the seminal photo essays in the history of photography. As Clark made his searing pictures of teenage addicts in the Cherokee Heights and Kendall-Whittier neighborhoods, Model Cities–a massive federal anti-poverty initiative under President Lyndon Johnson–was in progress mere blocks away. Tulsa–and Clark’s subsequent books Teenage Lust (1983) and Return (2024)–can help us understand how local, neighborhood-based economic policies have fallen short in addressing the city’s larger political economy, which, by the date of Tulsa’s publication, began to exclude working class people of all races.
ABOUT DANIELLE JACKSON
Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and independent curator. This project was developed during her time as a 2024 Getty Museum Guest Scholar. She is the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery, screening room, and educational space. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department for the photo agency, Magnum Photos. Her essays on art and politics have appeared in Artnet and Cultured Magazine. She teaches courses on visual culture and policy at Stanford in New York and New York University.
ABOUT QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE
Founded in 2021 by interdisciplinary artist Kalup Linzy, the Queen Rose Art House is a social but critical art space that engages with our local, national, and international art communities. The project inspires and creates a safe space for artists to dwell by hosting events like gatherings, performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposiums, and short-term artist residencies. Supporters include the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Studios at 109 MLK Jr Blvd E. Tulsa, OK 74103 accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to areas for distanced standing. Family-scale private washrooms are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. The elevator at Archer Studios is located at the main west entrance on Martin Luther King Blvd. Street-side parking is available at both buildings using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 pm and all day Saturday and Sunday.