Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center sends this information as posted below:
OKLAHOMA CITY (Aug. 14, 2025) — Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is pleased to announce Studio School’s inaugural Artists in Residence, Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones. Since January, the artists have been utilizing Studio School’s equipment and facilities to create new artwork, teach Studio School classes and foster connections with Studio School students, instructors and local arts professionals.
Jones and Rodriguez are part of a pilot project exploring the impact and feasibility of an Artist in Residence program to strengthen local art communities by fostering and supporting the careers of emerging and mid-career Oklahoma City-based artists.
Rodriguez is a queer Venezuelan American artist. Their work presents everyday creativity as a technology for liberation. They have exhibited in galleries and museums locally and internationally, including the Visual Arts Center (Austin, Texas), the Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin, Texas), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea) and the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center (Oklahoma City). Past residencies include Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, Mich.) in 2010 and SOMA (Mexico City) in 2015. Rodriguez received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. They completed an MFA through a fully funded fellowship from Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas.
Rodriguez teaches the popular Creative Drawing classes at Studio School as well as classes in ceramics and how to create and use natural dyes.
Dylan Cale Jones’ practice focuses on building thoughtful relationships with material and community. Their work has been shown in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center, Andrew Rafacz Gallery and the Mission; and in Dallas at Galleri Urbane. In 2018 Jones was an artist in residence at Compound Yellow in Oak Park, Ill., and before that at SOMA in Mexico City in 2015. Jones completed a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2011. In 2015 they earned an MFA through a fully funded fellowship at the Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas.
Jones teaches ceramics classes at Studio School.
In addition to their individual practices, Jones and Rodriguez co-founded a project called Practice, Practice, an award-winning, community-based arts education project that publishes resources like podcasts and books to help artists build resilient practices. Their podcast Practice Practice Podcast interviews Oklahoma-based artists about how they balance their creative practices and other aspects of their lives. The first season was funded by a THRIVE Grant from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Their workbook, Practice Practice: How to Keep Creating, is designed to help people reconnect with their creativity. It is available from Printed Matter (New York City), the Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection (Chicago), the University of Arizona Libraries and Oklahoma Contemporary’s Shop Contemporary.
About Oklahoma Contemporary
Oklahoma Contemporary, formed in 1989 as City Arts Center by Christian Keesee and Kirkpatrick Foundation Director Marilyn Myers, is a nonprofit organization committed to providing quality, accessible and affordable arts programming. With a mission to encourage artistic expression in all its forms through education, exhibitions and performance, Oklahoma Contemporary is committed to instilling in the public a lifetime appreciation of the arts and enthusiasm for creative practice. For more information on free exhibitions, class schedules and public programs, visit oklahomacontemporary.org.
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