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Want to support Arts in Enid? Join our group! Need funding for your artistic cause? Consider applying for an Enid Arts grant.

The goal of the Enid Arts Council is to encourage and support cultural and educational events, both by our attendance, volunteer work and financial assistance for the greater Enid area.

08/31/2026

On October 2nd, 6-9 pm, you will have a chance to purchase the late Eldon Ames’s own works of art and many pieces from his personal collection.

Around 90 pieces of art will be displayed and available for purchase at The Barrel Room, 126 S Independence.

Eldon was the head of the Enid Public Schools Art Department, where he coordinated the art curriculum for all the schools in the Enid Public School system. He helped motivate and inspire generations of artists through the years and never stopped learning about more beautiful architecture, artists, and paintings.

He was on the founding board of the Leonardo's Children's Museum, the Enid Chautauqua Board, and the City of Enid Oklahoma Government Public Arts Commission of Enid.

Join us at The Barrel Room, next to Enid Brewing Co. & Eatery, during Downtown Enid & Main Street Enid’s October First Friday!

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08/28/2026

Enid Arts: Center Stage!...Featuring Corey Keller

While other kids were outside playing sports, Corey was in his room drawing cartoons and creating entire worlds from scratch.

Illustrations. Mosaics. Writing. Board games. You name it! And with a personal collection of 250+ board games it's clear that creation, for Corey, has always been about one thing: Bringing people together.

Which makes his role as Partner and Community Engagement Manager at Downtown Enid & Main Street Enid a perfect fit. Because nobody understands the connective power of creativity quite like someone who has felt it from the inside.

"Art brings emotions out of people that they didn't even know were there," he says. "It adds a dimension to life."

He'll also tell you he's an introvert by nature. But watch what happens when the conversation turns to art or someone pulls out a strategy board game. Suddenly the introvert has plenty to say.

For Corey, creation has never about retreating from the world. It has always been his way of inviting it in.

Welcome to Center Stage, Corey. The EAC appreciates you!

Enid Arts Council — Elevating the Arts in our Community.

08/27/2026

Enid Arts Council enjoyed meeting those who came to the August First Fridays - Downtown Enid. We found many talented chalk artists!

Thank you for having us, Downtown Enid & Main Street Enid!

Linda Moore, Eddie Lou Strimple & Ken Kelsey

08/19/2026

Enid Arts: Center Stage!
Shanan Conder

She'll be the first to tell you she has no artistic talent. And she'll say it with a smile — because Shanan understands something that takes most people a lifetime to learn: You don't have to create art to be moved by it. You just have to be paying attention.

As a school psychologist and licensed professional counselor — with four master's degrees and a career devoted to understanding how human beings tick — Shanan has spent her life studying what makes people come alive. And art, she'll tell you, is one of the few things that cuts through the daily grind and reminds us we're more than our individual daily roles.

"Sometimes we become one-dimensional based on our roles — job, spouse, parent. But we're all so much more complex than that. Art pulls at our funky side. And that's a wonderful form of self-expression."

When she's not counseling, you might find her deep in a MahJong game — thinking hard, happily lost in strategy. Or on a golf course. Or simply appreciating something beautiful, which she believes Enid does remarkably well. She simply has a deep conviction that art connects people who might never otherwise find each other.

Welcome to Center Stage, Shanan.

Enid Arts Council — Elevating the Arts in Our Community

08/10/2026

EAC Center Stage: Erin Haney

While other kids were playing, Erin was designing.

Cutting, gluing, taping — building little worlds with whatever she could find. She didn't have a name for it then. She just knew she needed to make spaces that felt like something. Looking back, it was always going to lead her here.

Today Erin is an Interior Designer at Corbin Merz & Haney — professionally doing what she's been doing her whole life: solving problems by thinking creatively. With two vocal music teachers as parents, art wasn't just something she discovered. It was something she was born into.

"Whether we realize it or not, we're all surrounded by art and creativity in all aspects," she says. "I especially appreciate helping kids discover that we're all creative in some way — that's so important."

And Erin lives that belief fully. When she's not designing spaces for others, she's gardening, playing games with her family, or gathering friends around the pizza oven her husband built in their backyard. Even her leisure looks like an intentional design.

She'll also tell you that art taught her something unexpected — that creativity and problem-solving are the same muscle. You just have to be willing to think outside the lines.

Thinking outside the lines, for Erin, has never been a problem.

Welcome to Center Stage, Erin!

Enid Arts Council — Elevating the Arts in our Community.

08/05/2026

The Enid Arts Council is proud and humbled to have supported "250 Years: The Spirit of America" at this summer's Enid Chautauqua. Thank you to everyone who came out to experience history in person — your enthusiasm is why we do what we do! Which historical figure might you like to see portrayed next year?

08/01/2026

🎨🎶🌮 TODAY, 8/1, is the Painted Sky Festival in Downtown Enid & Main Street Enid! We’re glad to sponsor the Second Stage with live music starting at 2:00 pm! 🎶 Let’s enjoy some art, music, food trucks, and more today! 🎨🎶🌮

07/29/2026

Enid Arts: Center Stage!

She'll tell you she's on the quieter side.

But twice a year, Linda steps behind the curtain in Garber, Oklahoma — and directs a full dinner theater production that draws audiences from across the region. Suddenly, she can talk to anybody and everybody.

That's what art does. And Linda knows it better than most.

From singing in her school choir, to encouraging her own kids into music, to now acting and at times directing plays that fill a room with laughter, applause, and community pride — Linda has spent a lifetime discovering what happens when quiet people find their stage.

"Art makes life easier because it builds our self-confidence," she says. "You can lose yourself in it — and somehow find yourself at the same time."

When she's not acting or directing, Linda is a Master Gardener designing flower beds with the same creative eye she brings to the stage. She farms alongside her husband — over 30 years and counting. She embroiders. She fishes. She has traveled to Alaska, Germany, and beyond.

A city girl turned farmer. A quiet soul turned director. A woman who found her voice — and now helps entire communities find theirs.

Center Stage: The Enid Arts Council (EAC) is pleased to have Linda Severin as a member of the EAC!

Enid Arts Council — Elevating the Arts in our Community

07/16/2026

Enid Arts: Center Stage!

Before she could read, Ragan Bagenstos was dancing. From her first ballet class at age 3 to the marble floors of the Louvre and the grand halls of the Met — Ragan has spent a lifetime letting art open doors to worlds she hadn't yet imagined.

Today she brings that same passport-stamped curiosity to her role as Chief of Community Engagement at Vance Air Force Base, where she connects people, builds bridges, and tells Enid's story to the world.

She'll tell you that art isn't decoration. It's a lens. "Creativity allows us to explore the world differently" — and Ragan has explored it across 20 countries and counting.

When she's not advocating for her community, you might find her needlepointing or pulling something extraordinary out of the oven.

She brings that same care and craft to the Enid Arts Council — because she believes Enid deserves a seat at the same table as every great city she's ever visited.

And we couldn't agree more.

Enid Arts Council — Elevating the Arts in our Community

07/13/2026

The Enid Arts Council loves the enthusiasm of our grant recipients! This is the flag that Julie Silva, Glenwood Elementary educator, had her art students present to the Veteran Museum at the mall in celebration of the USA's 250th.

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