PLAINS EXCHANGE FEATURING ANTONIO ANDREWS & AARON TURNER
ORGANIZED BY SHANE DARWENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CACHE & TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
IMAGE: Antonio Andrews of No Parking Studios, 'Cycle of Man' 2023, Mixed media, 60" x 60" x 2", Inspired by Graham Hancock and the Younger Dryas impact
Artist Residency & Programming
PLAINS EXCHANGE
Organized by Awardee Shane Darwent
In partnership with CACHE & Tulsa Artist Fellowship
June 18 - July 1, 2023
Antonio Andrews of No Parking Studios
The Medium in Springdale, Arkansas
June 25 - July 8, 2023
Aaron Turner
Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Plains Exchange is a platform created by Tulsa-based artist Shane Darwent to foster creativity, collaboration, and audience sharing between artists working in the Southern Plains and Western Ozark regions. The emphasis of each exchange will be to collapse the boundaries between the creative communities across this region and expand the regional network for each artist, one conversation at a time.
In partnership with Tulsa Artist Fellowship and CACHE, Plains Exchange’s inaugural Summer 2023 programming will facilitate a one-to-one artist exchange between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Northwest Arkansas. Antonio Andrews of No Parking Studios will bring his Tulsa-based creative practice to Springdale, Arkansas for a two-week residency. CACHE will host Antonio at its Springdale creative hub, The Medium, a 25,000-square-foot visual and performing arts space in downtown Springdale. Tulsa Artist Fellowship will host Fayetteville-based photographer and educator Aaron Turner, providing him with housing and a studio in the Fellowship’s Archer building in downtown Tulsa. Both artists will be connected to their respective communities through coordinated studio visits, museum tours, and local field excursions.
To learn more, visit plainsexchange.com
Antonio Andrews, aka Dial Tone, is an American artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Northside. His interest in making music was sparked after seeing his friend’s older brother’s CD collection. While Nas’s video, “If I Ruled the World”, sparked him to write his first rap and ignited him as a rapper. In 2016, looking to expand on his creativity, he started the company No Parking Studios which serves as a creative outlet for various mediums such as music, visual art, and film. “I wanted to make a company that could support a bunch of different fields that work together to achieve one goal and become vertically integrated. Just a company the city could be proud of and represent us authentically.” In 2021, after helping executive produce Fire In Little Africa, (a multimedia hip hop Project released on Motown Records), a single with long time collaborator Steph Simon, and Hometown hero Charlie Wilson, Tone is looking to expand his reach in the industry. “I feel like I’m just a raw natural creative person. I’m interested in so many things and have so many ideas. I just want to take my time in this and get into a flow state in life. I feel like I’m close."
Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator currently based in Arkansas. He uses photography as a transformative process to understand the ideas of home and resilience in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. Aaron also uses the 4x5 view camera to create still-life studies on identity, history, blackness as material, and abstraction. Aaron received his M.A. from Ohio University and an M.F.A from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He was a 2018 Light Work Artists-in-Residence at Syracuse University, 2019 EnFoco Photography Fellow, a 2020 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Artists-in-Residence, a 2020 Artist 360 Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant Recipient, the 2021 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Recipient, a 2021 Creators Lab Photo Fund recipient from Google’s Creator Labs & the Aperture Foundation, and 2022 Darryl Chappell Foundation photographer-in-residence at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
About CACHE
CACHE formed in 2019 to act as the central regional agency committed to connecting, supporting and developing the region’s arts, culture, and creative communities. CACHE will bring cohesive vision and strategy to the region’s organic creative activities, uplifting local artists, the nonprofit sector, municipal leadership, creative industries, and arts philanthropy and investments. CACHE programs include the Arts and Culture Bridge Fund, OZCast, region-wide cultural planning, the Music Ecosystem Strategy and Action Plan, and ARt Connect. Learn more at cachecreate.org.