Orange Wall Art Gallery
The Orange Wall Art Gallery is housed in the basement of the Student Union and is supported by Campus Life’s Student Union Activities Board. The Student Union has a mission to enrich the intellectual, cultural and social well-being of the OSU student body and campus community, through displaying student artwork throughout the Union and the Orange Wall Art Gallery.
Beyond the permanent collection, the Union also is home to the Student Union Orange Wall Art Gallery. This space is located in the basement and features exhibitions year-round by OSU students, alumni and visiting artists. In this space, students learn how to install exhibitions as well as collaborate with professional artists such as Scott Kolbo, Bob Snead and Sara Schenckloth. The Student Union gallery has given OSU alumni such as Cassie Pickens, Jason Wallace, Scout Marshall and Mireille Damicone the opportunity to reconnect with the university through solo exhibitions.
- Annual Student Union Art Contest
The OSU Artist's Society hosts an annual juried art contest at the Orange Wall Art Gallery. The 1st & 2nd place pieces are displayed within the Student Union permanently. The 1st place winner also recieves a $500 scholarship.
Check back later for more information about the Spring 2025 Art contest.
Spring 2024 Winners:
1st Place: Lenora Garvie
2nd Place: Kate Battershell
- Gallery
Previous Showcases
OSU Artist Society's Abstract Art showing. 8th Annual Student Union Art Competition: 1st Place, Erin Owen 9th Annual Student Union Art Competition Winner: Autum Tanner. Piece name: Medusa 9th Annual Student Union Art Competition Winner: Carley Vaash 11th Annual Student Union Art Competition: Texture 11th Annual Student Union Art Competition: Texture 10th Annual Student Union Art Competition: Being & Belonging Ceramics: Artist Unknown Artists: Sierra Do & Ali Isbell Artists: Sierra Do & Ali Isbell - Prospective Artist Information
- Student Union Art History
The Oklahoma State University Student Union is home to a diverse and historic collection of art.
Some of the highlights from the collection include:
- Paintings from former OSU art faculty members including Ella Jack, B.J. Smith, Dale McKinney and J. Jay McVicker.
- A landscape painting by Doel Reed, OSU faculty member for 35 years and an internationally recognized artist.
- A sketch of Dick Tracy dedicated to the Student Union and signed by the cartoonist, Chester Gould, an OSU alumnus.
- Ten Asian artworks, one of which is an embroidered landscape dedicated to the Student Union and donated by the Chinese Student Association.
- Winning artworks from the annual Student Union Juried Exhibition.
- Approximately 20 Native American pieces that include works by artists Woody Big Bow, A. Whiteman, and Chris Tiger.
- The Sequoyah Room is home to a significant collection of original paintings by Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Big Bow.
