ArtNow: The Soul Is a Wanderer Reading List
ArtNow: The Soul Is a Wanderer draws inspiration from a line in Joy Harjo's poem, A Map to the Next World. Find your own inspiration in the recommendations from ArtNow artists, the curator and Oklahoma Contemporary staff below. Looking for more artistic inspiration? Check out the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Reference Library inside the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library.
Lindsay Aveilhe, curator
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1993
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, 2014
- Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History of Blacks in Oklahoma, 1982
- Bill Grantham, Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians, 2002
- Joy Harjo, ed., When the Light of the World Has Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, 2020
- Davis D. Joyce, An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History, 1994
- Suzanne Kite, “What’s on earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth”: Lakota Relationships with the Stars and American Relationships with the Apocalypse, 2021
- Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, 2002
- Lucy Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, 2014
- Lucy Lippard, Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, 1983
- Paul R. McKenzie-Jones, Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power, 2015
- Sarah Eppler Janda, Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962-1972, 2018
- Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, eds., This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s, 2021
Jaime Thompson, director of education
- Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Black Futures, 2020
- Contemporary Art Curator, 100 Artists of the Future, 2019
- Joy Harjo, Remember, 2023
- Joy Harjo, A Map to the Next World, 2001
- Joy Harjo, How We Became Human, 2004
- Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave, 2013
- Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write), 2022
- Hamish McRae, The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future, 2022
- Lisa E. Bloom, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, 2022
Ruth Borum-Loveland, artist
- Franck André Jamme, Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan, 2011
- Hilma af Klint, Notes and Methods, 2018
- Laurie Dolphin, ed., Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan, 1999
- Edward Carey, Observatory Mansions: A Novel, 2002
Ashanti Chaplin, artist
- Robert MacFarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, 2019
- Natalie Baszile, We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy, 2021
- Nico Wheadon, Museum Metamorphosis: Cultivating Change Through Cultural Citizenship, 2022
- Sen Moise, Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic, 2018
- Brian Wallis, ed., Democracy: A Project by Group Material, 1998
- Toni Morrison, Paradise, 1997
- Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, 2017
Isaac Diaz, artist
- Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism/Taschen, The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images, 2010
- Tracey Bashkoff, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, 2018
- Sandra Cisneros, Woman Without Shame, 2022
- Franck André Jamme, Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan, 2011
Yusuf Etudaiye, artist
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (introduction by), David Cohen and Art Davidson (editors), The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album, 1991
Yatika Fields, artist
- Lisa Snell/American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, American Indians & Route 66, 2016
Molly Kaderka, artist
- Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and Dinosaurs, 2015
- John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, 2004
- Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design, 2015
- Manuel Lima, The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge, 2017
Kite, artist
- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening, 2022
- Ronald Goodman, Lakota Star Knowledge: Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology, 2017
- Suzanne Kite, “What’s on earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth”: Lakota Relationships with the Stars and American Relationships with the Apocalypse, 2021
- Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, 2007
- Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis and Suzanne Kite, Making Kin with the Machines, 2018
Moira RedCorn, artist
- Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves, eds., Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019
- Charles H. Red Corn, A Pipe for February, 2002
- Garrick Bailey, ed., The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis La Flesche, 1995
- Jason Rosenfiled, Stephen Hannock: The Oxbow, from Thomas Cole to Alfred Hitchcock, 2018.
Joseph Rushmore, artist
- Nan Goldin, I'll Be Your Mirror, 1996
- Matt Black, American Geography, 2021
- Zora J. Murff, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), 2022
- Rian Dundon, Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, 2023
- Victor Luckerson, Built From the Fire, 2023
- Lorna Simpson, Collages, 2018
- Jovan Scott Lewis, Violent Utopia, 2022.
Nathan Young, artist
- John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1961
- William Thompkins, Universal American Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America, 1926
- Douglas Kahn, Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, 2001
- Liz Kotz, Words to Be Looked at: Language in 1960s Art, 2007
