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Home to the successful and historic Black Wall Street, the Greenwood District lost over 300 citizens to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The tragedy was kept a secret for 75 years. Greenwood continues to suffer from redlining policies and the construction of a highway which perpetuated the destruction of the community. "Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later" blends historical accounts of the massacre and the art of local creatives to paint a full picture of Greenwood-from the past, present and aspirations of a thriving future.

This film explores Lt. John Finn, the oldest living Medal of Honor Recipient and the only surviving Medal of Honor recipient from Pearl Harbor.

Gallery America is an Emmy-award winning monthly television series highlighting the stories and techniques of Oklahoma and American artists and craftspeople. The half-hour series, previously called Gallery, is produced by Oklahoma's OETA, country's most-watched PBS member station.

Popular small town resident, seen as a pillar in the community was actually running one of the largest Ponzi Schemes in Oklahoma History.

It's estimated that from 1910 to 1930 hundreds of Osage tribal members were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances in an organized effort to rob them of their oil money. They cried out for years, pleading for help which never came.

After months of staying inside, many Oklahomans are dying to get out and enjoy the summer sun. Robert Burch and the Back in Time crew are taking a road trip to visit the many historic sites across the state, while staying safe. Green markers dot the state highways and back roads, telling the complex and fascinating tales of our state's past. Join us as we explore Oklahoma's Roadside History. (395)

Tulsa-based artist Joel Daniel Phillips believes a return to realism could help people believe each other again in this era of misinformation. Armed with a pencil, he creates life-size drawings of censored WPA-era photograph negatives documenting the Great Depression. His series "Killing the Negative" recently won him honors from the Smithsonian. OETA's Gallery America goes inside Joel's studio.

Stillwater-based Mark Sisson is a printmaking legend, creating storytelling lithographs and woodcuts through layers of painstaking color. He's also an Oklahoma State legend, having taught printmaking there for 32 years. This year, Mark's retiring. Gallery America sits in on one of his final classes, while Mark shares the secrets behind some of his life's artworks at a recent exhibit at OSU.

Oklahoma embroidery artist Irmgard Geul grew up in a Dutch artist colony, then relocated to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to run a horse farm. She balances her "hometowns" with her work, using threads to capture small-town scenes from her rural studio -- as seen in an exhibit of her works that plays off iconic images of both Oklahoma and the Netherlands. Gallery America drops in to see how she does it.

Oklahoma City rappers Lil' Mike and Funny Bone woo audiences with their high-energy and high-positive music. Now they've appeared on America's Got Talent and become star actors on Hulu's "Reservation Dogs," a Native American coming-of-age series that's drawn international acclaim. Gallery America revisits its 2013 profile of the brothers' "crunk" music and now reconnect to talk TV and the future.

Over the past two decades, Oklahoma City artist Matt Goad has helped create the look of the modern cityscape, with street signs, logos and beer cans. Now he's tackling his biggest project, a 40,000-square-foot terrazzo flooring at the Will Rogers World Airport expansion. The goal is to tell city history and inspire visitors to see the city as a great modern metropolis bounding with possibility.

Edmond-based artist/teacher James Coplin has created all his life -- and then he became a bodybuilder champ. On Gallery America, James explains how he viewed bodybuilding as an art, how he transitioned into being a lifelong teacher at Edmond's Santa Fe High School, and where he walks us through the process of painting Oklahoma's Deep Fork River -- from tinted canvas to finished piece.

Tulsa-based artist Sarah Ahmad has created "American Dream," an outdoor art installation for the Greenwood Art Project to promote racial healing in the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. It combines historic images from 1921 with new marigold garlands created in Pakistan, where Sarah grew up. To see it, visitors must walk through the forest -- a place, Sarah says, that everyone belongs.

Gallery America celebrates its 20th anniversary by returning to a few past episodes and reconnecting with artists. We see where sculptor David Phelps' biggest piece, American Beauty, ended up and how he caught the attention of golfer Greg Norman; and learn how Hollywood actor Timothy Fall's 2009 film bootcamp changed his career - and inspired one of his 14-year-old students to make her own movies.

Jerry Yarnell has won millions of fans for his naturalist art. He's a painter, teacher and TV show host, whose program "Paint This with Jerry Yarnell" has been shown across the US and Canada the past couple decades. Gallery America visits his Skiatook, Oklahoma studio to see how he passes on his magic to others. As he says, "art is the thing that gets people through life."

Joe Slack is Oklahoma's iron man. His enormous, lifelike sculptures of steel are transforming public spaces across Oklahoma City. His latest project, though, is the biggest of all - a mural of steel birds and dancers that fills a median wall in Midtown that stretches over two football fields in length. Gallery America goes inside Joe's art to show how his unique style with steel is making Oklahoma.

Surrounded by quilts growing up, McAlester artist Jason Wilson paints abstract art that he likens to quilts. His creativity requires a detailed, time-consuming process to build geometric-puzzle pieces that seem to defy dimension. As this episode of OETA's Gallery America shows, Qu'aint - an Oklahoma collective of quilters - are now turning Jason's paintings back into quilts in surprising ways.

Kelly Pennington never passes an Oklahoma field without wondering, is that art? She's a plein-air artist, meaning she paints outside. It took years for Kelly, a former art teacher, to admit to herself that she's an artist. She certainly is. You'll see her impressionistic works come to life - and learn how she spots beauty in everyday Oklahoma countryside. She calls it her "happy place."

The incomparable Tyson Meade is Oklahoma's "godfather of alternative rock" and abstract artist. Gallery America visits Tyson's "art house" in Oklahoma City, where most days he wakes to "beat the heck" out of plywood canvases with twigs, his boots or thrown paints. We talk about his rock'n'roll past with the grunge-era band Chainsaw Kittens, as well as his years teaching in Shanghai.

For centuries Native Americans had been forced from their lands in the east and were told that eventually they would have a place out west where they could live in peace and call their own. After years of broken promises the tribes in Indian Territory decided the best way to preserve their way of life was to become a state.