Inner City Productions, Inc

Inner City Productions, Inc.
Inner City is a non-profit community based arts and culture development organization created in 1979, that my four sisters and I founded. Our reason for creating the organization was to offset the lack of access by children living in rural Southeastern Oklahoma communities such as McAlester, to African American arts and culture activities and programming. Since founding the organization we have sponsored over five thousand events for youth and their families featuring a wide variety of artist including the Harlem Boys Choir from New York.
Sponsorship of many of the events was shared with partners such as Langston, East Central and Northeastern Universities. The Oklahoma Arts Council, Mid-West Arts Alliance of America, County/City governments, Public Schools, local merchants and citizens dedicated to supporting the arts.
The organization’s outreach to surrounding areas has and continues to present community programming in Muskogee, Atoka, Idabel, Hugo, Eufaula, Haileyville, and Hartshorne Public Schools, parks and community facilities. We are currently attempting to establish a relationship with Oklahoma City University and the University of Oklahoma to identify gifted and talented African American artist for inclusion in the 2010-11 schedule of programming.