Street Smarts Gallery

05/30/2026

Carrie Folger, President of the Edmond Art Association at Street Smarts Gallery on Saturday, May 30th. Outside Art Show with food trucks - come on by - we're open until 5:30pm.

05/30/2026

Set up has begun for the Sidewalk Art Show sponsored by the Edmond Art Association and held at Street Smarts Gallery at 3405 North Villa Avenue.

Free admission, family friendly and open to the public. From 10am to 5pm, watch creativity unfold in real time.

The gallery is always open on Saturday so come in, discover your next favorite artist. Affordable art, originals, prints, clay and gifts. See you soon!
www.StreetSmartsGallery.com
Carrie Folger Art
Edmond Art Association
Oklahoma Art Guild

05/29/2026

Well our parking lot won't be empty tomorrow morning. The Edmond Art Association's Sidewalk Art Show at Street Smarts Gallery is Saturday, 10am-5pm. It's small but fun. In addition to the artists inside the gallery their presence will add another dozen or so to the mix. A food truck will be on property as will a truck with shaved ice and other beverages. This is the first show they have done here - hoping for a good turn-out. Hope to see you!
www.StreetSmartsGallery.com

05/29/2026

05/28/2026

Ron Pierce is a photographer, an artist and a friend. He was the first (aside from Mrs. Smith) to sign-on as a believer in a start-up art gallery to be located in a rehabbed building about to be known as Streets Smarts Gallery.

He is one of those rare birds that is pragmatic and serious, a real left brain activated techie, while also possessing the ability of orchestrating and creating magic from capturing light and color.

Ron's work is exquisite and deserves to be seen and appreciated as the art it is. I’m grateful to him and others that have agreed to sit down and chat about their work, especially his work as a photographer and their artistic path.

The full length video can be seen on You Tube: Click on the link -
https://youtu.be/ErtqAm2UbBs

You can reach Ron by email...[email protected]

www.StreetSmartsGallery.com

05/27/2026

Today is the last day to vote for Street Smarts Gallery. Thank you for your indulgence for the last two weeks - please vote one last time for a gallery and the artists that deserves the recognition.

05/26/2026

Several things to do in the next week or two.

ONE: Voting for Street Smarts Gallery ends tomorrow. Please vote today and Wednesday.

Click on the Link to vote: www.CommunityChoiceAwards.com/okc

TWO. This Saturday, May 30th is the pop-up tent Sidewalk Art Show at the gallery - 3405 N. Villa Avenue. One day only, 10am-5pm. Lots of Art, gifts, food and shaved ice.

THREE: Friday, June 5th is our First Friday Open House at the gallery, from 5pm-7pm.

FOUR: Friday, June 5th is the first day of the month long Art Show, sponsored by the Oklahoma Art Guild. A reception for artists, family and friends is 5pm-7pm coinciding with the First Friday Open House. Free and Open to the public.

FIVE: The 2nd Thursday of every month we have a live model available for those wanting to hone their sketch skills. These sessions are for beginners and experienced artists. 6-7pm. Free, family friendly and open to the public. This is a no judge zone so have fun with it.

Come by again, sit a spell, talk with the artists and enjoy the colorful expressions of the many talented artists at Street Smarts Gallery.

05/21/2026

Have you voted for us today? Thank you so much for doing so.

You can vote once per day, everyday through May 26.

Out of about two dozen galleries in town, the five nominated into the top five are: The OKC Museum of Art, The Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Howell Gallery, North Studio & Art Gallery and newcomer, Street Smarts Studios & Gallery.

Anyone can see there are two behemoths in the contests among three smaller, privately owned galleries in the running.

Please give the three smaller privately owned galleries a look. If you are able to visit each of us, I’m confident Street Smarts Gallery will get the consideration it well deserves.

Howell Gallery and the gallery at North Park Mall are nice, well run and well lit venues, as is Street Smarts Gallery. All things you would expect, but coming into Street Smarts is an experience.

Although our building is mid-century bland, the inside is everything but. You get that 'wow' moment charge!

Come see for yourself and vote for Street Smarts Gallery in The Oklahoman Newspaper’s Community Choice Awards.

So many thanks coming your way!

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VOTE: www.yourchoiceawards.com/okc

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05/21/2026

I pulled up to the gallery building in my regular spot at the north end of the building, put the car in park, turned it off, looked up and had eye contact with a moron in the act of spray tagging the building in the same spot he had chosen previously.

I blew the car horn as I flew open the door and exited to see him sprint away, back pack and spray can in hand with me yelling six of the seven words George Carlin warned could not be said on TV.

I can’t relate how mad I was. Anyway, as I rounded the back of the car, a neighbor was running down the alley in pursuit.

The tagger led the race followed by the neighbor and then me a few steps behind. After only a few long strides I remembered something important.

I’m an old man. I could never catch him and if I did, he’d probably pummel me.

I was about to round the corner of the building to see the neighbor had given up as well. The tagger ran between some houses through yards and made it to the other side of the block vanishing like a tax refund in a w**d store. Infuriating disappointment.

At least I know what he looks like. The camera on our building shows the front entrance and windows but not the side of the structure, meaning no pictures. However, the neighbors camera sounded the alert.

He must have read my FB post about what I thought of his work, especially the part stating it was not artistic in the least bit, as he intentionally wrote the word ‘Art’ into his stupid rendition of a balloon.

One day I’ll see him on the streets again and the adrenaline rush will start all over.

Here’s my description: a very plain sun-starved person with minimum pigmentation – a complexion akin to a glow stick that never got cracked, guessed to be a male with the physical integrity of uncooked spaghetti, last seen wearing gangsta cargo shorts extending mid-shin that suggest a man prepared for absolutely everything except employment. He wore off-the-rack shoes from the discount bin at Goodwill, a faded T-shirt that apparently survived three protests, four thrift stores, and a small grease fire and read: Free Mangione, or I (heart) Immigrants or Save the Whales or something rather asinine. Although lacking a spine he has a rather keen sense of fight or flight – choosing flight as his best path of survival.

This cluster of cells is somehow convinced he is just one slogan away from becoming an urban folk hero.

Hey buddy, you are not.

Again, I extend the challenge to you to come inside and convince me you are an artist.

D. T. Smith
www.StreetSmartsGallery.com