Celebrate Healing Through Art as the Muscogee Nation Comes to JBU!

About the Event

Please join the JBU community Thursday, November 2 at 7pm in celebrating “The Cvfeknicetv Collection,” a public art project of the Muscogee Nation Department of Health installed at Council Oak Comprehensive Healthcare in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Recognizing there is “healing through art,” this collection showcases the diverse works of Muscogee artists from across the country, and is anchored by a large mural created by JBU Professor of Art and Muscogee citizen Bobby C. Martin.

The celebration, featuring addresses by David Hill, Principal Chief of the Muscogee Nation, Del Beaver, Second Chief, JBU President Chip Pollard, and Professor Martin will be held in Simmons Great Hall on the John Brown University campus in Siloam Springs. The event is free and open to the public.

Martin’s 80-foot long, 26 panel installation, located in the entry lobby of Council Oak, relates the history of the Council Oak tree—a surviving tree in Tulsa that marks not only the reestablishment of the Muscogee people in Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) after forced removal, but also the founding of Tulsa itself, and encompasses the history of the tribe and of Oklahoma to the present day. 

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