Published: April 26, 2008 11:23 pm            

O’Keeffe program rescheduled

Suzan King’s postponed but now rescheduled presentation on Georgia O’Keeffe returns to Stillwater Public Library at 6:30 p.m. May 12.

The program, which is presented in Chautauqua style, is free and open to the public.

King portrays the highlights of the artist’s life and works as O’Keeffe herself. Following the presentation, King will answer questions as O’Keeffe before departing from the characterization and answer questions as a scholar.

Born in Wisconsin in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was to become the recipient of the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. As early as the mid-1920s, O’Keeffe became recognized as one of America’s most important and successful artists, known best for her large-scale depictions of flowers.

O’Keeffe continued to work in oil until the mid-1970s, when failing eyesight forced her to abandon painting, although she continued working in pencil and watercolor until 1982. She also produced objects in clay until her health failed in 1984. She died two years later, at the age of 98.

For 30 years, King taught creative writing, American literature, and freshman composition at Tulsa Community College. She served as the college honors coordinator and editor of the TCC creative writing anthology. In September 2006, she left her position at TCC and moved to a cabin in the Pocono Mountains.

Since 1992, King has pursued the life of a humanities scholar. As a Chautauqua performer, she has created characterization of radical feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, wit Dorothy Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, photographer Margaret Bourke White, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abigail Adams, Oklahoma historian Dr. Angie Debo, Emily Dickinson and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

        

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