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
June 8th
July 13th
August 10th
September 14th
October 12th
November 9th
December 14th
January 11th
February 8th
March 8th
April 12th
Firehouse Equality Club MEETS ON THE Second SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, FROM 3:00-5:00 PM
Tuition: FREE
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.
