Clint Stone Creative Projects
Artist Bio
Clint Stone has served as curator, art consultant, and visual arts director on many projects and for several organizations since 2005. He has served City Arts Center, now Oklahoma Contemporary, as artistic director curating exhibitions and overseeing educational offerings from 2005 to 2010. He then served as executive director of Individual Artists of Oklahoma from 2010 to 2012 where he managed operational and development program in addition to daily gallery management. From 2012 to the autumn of 2015, he served as the visual arts director for the Oklahoma Arts Council caring for the Oklahoma State Art Collection and the Oklahoma Capitol Art Collection where he provided collections care, executed loan agreements, accessioned works into possession of the state, oversaw the commissioning of new work, and wrote explanatory information panels and educational material. In 2015 he began serving in leadership for Science Museum Oklahoma where he ultimately assumed the role of vice president where he oversaw the develop of several large-scale public programs, educational community partnerships, the development of youth initiatives, and the design of several large projects including a planetarium.
In the latter half of 2024, he transitioned away from museum administration to start Clint Stone Creative Projects where he provides liaison and management services for art projects, consultation for arts and education programs, writes for publications, and focuses on his own art production. In addition to his roles at not-for-profit organizations and various advisory board involvement, Clint Stone has helped clients start and build public and corporate collections. He has organized the display of public and private collections for clients.
Artist Work
Title: OKC: Looking North from Scissortail Park
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Description: After painting a composite yet whimsical interpretation of downtown Oklahoma City in 2008 that became a cover of Oklahoma Today magazine, Clint revisited the idea in 2016. That painting became a poster for Oklahoma City Museum of Art and again an Oklahoma Today cover. In 2024, he revisited the idea.
Title: DWNTWN OKC 1719
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Description: Part of the 2024 OKC Together body of work, “DWNTWN OKC 1719” is an homage to the cryptic and imagined creatures of OKC culture. 1719 refers to the year French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe noted seeing a unicorn in what would become central Oklahoma.
Title: End of a Century
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Description: Part of the OKC Together body of work, “End of a Century” chronicles some great OKC architecture and landmarks lost to time while alluding to an alternative history.
Location
Oklahoma City, OK 73112