Tony Dyke
Art

I am excited to be joining the Rose Union staff this year and am looking forward to making a positive difference in your children’s school experience. Last year I started teaching in the Deer Creek School System at Prairie Vale Elementary (grades 1-5) and am fortunate to see many familiar faces at Rose Union this year.  

I received a masters in fine arts (MFA) from The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University. I also completed an associates degree in graphic Communication (computer graphics) at Oklahoma City Community College.

My student teaching started as an assistant in the painting department at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. After graduating I worked as the assistant to the Artist in Residence program at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At this time I also taught drawing, painting and photography at The Community College of Vermont, and continuing education classes with the art department at Johnson State College in Johnson Vermont.

In 1999-2000 I worked with my wife Susan Morrison-Dyke; who is also an artist.  She was chosen by the Maps Commission to create, in mosaic tile, the six Murals at the home plate entry at the Bricktown Ball Park, (about 800sq.ft.). Together we created two more murals, one at the Westminster Church in Oklahoma City, and another at the Tulsa Boys Home, funded by the Reynolds Foundation. The foundation also purchased a landscape painting of mine for their collection.

   My work is represented by Pickard Gallery in Oklahoma City. In June-August of 2005 I had a solo exhibition at Rose State College. The paintings were of motifs around the Bricktown area. I have also exhibited with JRB at the Elms in The Paseo district.

   Before moving to Oklahoma in 1996, I lived and exhibited my work in Boston and New York. Since 1996 I have worked primarily as a graphic artist at diverse businesses around Oklahoma City.

    Over the past six years I have taught young students part time in my studio downtown, at City Arts (at the state fairgrounds) and at Studio Mid-Del. I am excited when I see children engaged in and developing their art work. It is a great joy to share in their struggle to create and in watching the satisfaction that drawing gives them. I consider teaching children to be especially rewarding!

                                                                        Tony Dyke