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2020 PASEO ARTS AWARDS: By creating whimsical chalk drawings, instituting a “Walk Silly Zone” in Edgemere Park and enlisting artists for solo performances on demand, artist Nicole Poole has stayed busy during the pandemic using her artistic talents to create moments of joy for her neighbors, community and other artists. Nicole is the winner of the Paseo Arts Association 2020 Inspirational Influencer Award.
Local chalk artist aims to bring smiles to people's faces
Watch for the chalk when you walk as little nuggets of happiness and nostalgia are popping up in Oklahoma City."For me, it's all about delightful disruption," Nicole Poole said. "What can I lay down that somebody doesn't expect to see that will ...
Something Good: Chalk Art Brightens NW OKC Park
SOMETHING GOOD: If you don't have time to see a Rembrandt or Picasso in the museum, check out a Poole on the sidewalk, Nicole Poole that is. Her works displayed on canvases of concrete at Edgemere Park in northwest Oklahoma City. News 9's Brian Mueller has the story.
Coronavirus in Oklahoma: OKC artist Nicole Poole brainstorms innovative art projects during pandemic
SEP 10, 2020 - She will be the ringleader on Saturday of "You Are Here," an afternoon of small performances for one-person audiences throughout downtown Oklahoma City that is just the latest innovative project on her slate.
OKC artist inspiring neighbors through chalk bombs of love
Giving her neighbors a reason to smile, one Oklahoma City artist is lifting spirits through creativity. She calls them her chalk bombs of love. "We're in a different time right now,” said Nicole Poole. “While we mourn what we can't do, we're finding new avenues. "Poole is a performing artist.
Embracing a community through street art
AUG 13, 2020 - While taking a walk through Edgemere Park shortly after learning about the death of Congressman John Lewis, local resident John Marshall was delighted to look down at the sidewalk to see someone had drawn a John Lewis quote in chalk.
Keeping the artistic legacy of O. Gail Poole alive
Norman artist O. Gail Poole died at age 77 in 2013, less than a month after being diagnosed with bladder cancer. He was known in Norman, not just for producing a large and varied canon of fine art over decades, but for his large personality.
The late Oklahoma artist O. Gail Poole and daughter Nicole Poole featured tonight on OETA's 'Gallery America'
In July of 1890, Vincent van Gogh died in obscurity in Auvers-sur-Oise, France at the age of 37. Having succumbed to the same end as many a great artist, he left this world having never seen the success his work would become. Nicole Poole is determined not to let history repeat itself.
