A collaboration between Firehouse Art Center and Norman Pride, Firehouse Equality Club is a dynamic and inclusive community dedicated to promoting equality through the creative expression of visual arts. Meeting once a month, our club provides a welcoming space for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, their families, and allies to come together, share experiences, and create art with a rotating roster of instructional artists.
This Program is generously sponsored by the Hufnagel Family.
Current Class
Schedule &
Information
UPCOMING class DATES
September 14th, 2025
October 12th, 2025
November 9th, 2025
December 14th, 2025
Firehouse Equality Club MEETS ON THE Second SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, FROM 3:00-5:00 PM
Tuition: FREE
September Instructor: Coleen Sovick
July Instructor: Jenna Bryan
Bryan, is a printmaking instructor. She will be teaching a Zine making workshop! These mini booklets are a great way to express yourself through doodles, comics or poems. We will illustrate them, make copies, fold them and trade with the class.
June Instructor: Lumen Miramontes (they/them)
Miramontes, is a art educator. They will be teaching a Community Mural Painting workshop! Join us for a fun and creative day at the Firehouse Art Center as we come together to paint a collaborative community mural!
Norman Juneteenth will be hosting a community art activity for their community art show on June 19 from 6-10pm!
April Instructor: Deanna Wong (they/them)
Wong, is a ceramicist. They will be teaching a rock painting workshop!
March Instructor: Anna McQuown
McQuown, is a ceramicist. She will be teaching a ceramic handbuilding workshop!
February Instructor: Dr. Lacy Jo Burgess-Cady
Burgess-Cady, a multimedia artist. She will be teaching a collage making workshop!
January Instructor: Bird Burnett
Burnett, a fused glass artist. He will be teaching a heart fused glass workshop, Pocket Hearts! Give them as a gift to show someone they are loved, or keep one in your pocket as a reminder that YOU are loved.
December Instructor: Lumen Miramontes (they/them)
Miramontes an Art Educator. They will be teaching a workshop in cookie decorating, Cookie Time with Teacher Lu!
November Instructor: CJ Carter (they/them)
Carter is a MFA Ceramics Candidate at the University of Oklahoma. They will be teaching a class in sculpting the hand.
October: May Lynn and Quinn Carver Johnson
This month we will have story time with May Lynn and Quinn Carver Johnson. Lynn will be reading "Lucha Libre: The Man in the Silver Mask," and "Lucha Libre: Anatomy / Anatomia: A Bilingual Anatomy Book."
Quinn Carver Johnson is a poet and teaching artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the author of “The Perfect Bastard” (Curbstone Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Their work has also appeared in World Literature Today, Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, and elsewhere. They are the host of People's Poetry, a reading series dedicated to protest poetics.
This meeting will be from 3-6 PM!
September Instructor: Tim Sullivan
Tim is a Professor of ceramic and printmaking, located in Norman, OK. He will be teaching a printmaking class.
Due to scheduled power outages, this months class is moved to September 22nd.
August Instructor: Glenda Hufnagel
Glenda Hufnagel is an collage artist, located in Norman, OK. She will be teaching Celebration Card Making.
July Instructor: Karis Chambers
Karis is an artist, educator and designer located in Oklahoma City, Ok. They will be teaching Pride Pigments: DIY Watercolors for the Bold and Proud.
