Photo taken by Cole Chandler.
About
Spencer Plumlee is an American Painter born in 1997 and is currently living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Plumlee received a BFA from Rogers State University in May of 2019. Her practice focuses on community engagement by painting from personal experience and the people she encounters. She chronicles the human experience through personal reflections in each piece and immerses the viewer through paintings that act as time capsules. Plumlee presented a solo exhibition titled "Day 'N' Nite" in 2019 at the Cameron Studios in partnership with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She has shown across the United States and Italy. Plumlee has attended the Tyler School of Art Summer Painting Intensive, The New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, the Mount Gretna School of Art, and received the 2019 Momentum Grant from Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
Résumé
Education
2024-2027 MFA in Painting (in progress), University of Arkansas, AR
2019 BFA: Studio Art, magna cum laude (3.98 GPA), Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2016 Associates in Art, magna cum laude, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
Work History
2024-2027 GA Area Worker in the Painting & Woodshop, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2026 Exhibition Producer, ASLUT & Experience Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2023-24 Adjunct Professor of Fine Art, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018-25 Painting Instructor, Pinot’s Palette, Tulsa, OK
2021 Observational Painting Instructor, Tulsa Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2019 Student Office Worker, Department of Fine Arts, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Gallery Preparator, Gary Moeller Gallery of the Arts, Rogers State University, Claremore,
OK
Portfolio Review Panelist, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Art Model, Freelance, Tulsa, OK
2015-18 Art Model, Tulsa Art Center, Tulsa, OK
Awards & Acknowledgments
2022 Tulsa Creative Engine Sponsorship Recipient: Art Basel Miami 2022, Miami,FL
2020 Spotlight Artist Recipient for Momentum 2020, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, OKC, OK
2019 Outstanding Capstone Award, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2015-19 President’s Honor Roll, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK & Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
First Place, RSU Student Juried Art Show, Milly & Morgan, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 First Place, RSU Student Juried Art Show, Self Portrait, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2017 LaMonica Endowment Recipient, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2016 Three Art Talent-ships, TCC Juried Art Show, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
2015 Art Excellence Award, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
Tulsa Gay & Straight Alliance Leadership Award, Equality Center, Tulsa, OK
Community Excellence Award, Catoosa, OK
2014 Community Excellence Award, Catoosa, OK
Solo Exhibition
2026 Solo Show, Belafonte Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Solo Show, (closing show) Belafonte Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Solo Show, The Canopy Tulsa Arts District, Tulsa, OK
2025 Psychedelic Cemetery, Core Board Shop Tulsa, OK
2024 Praxis Artist Vignettes, Tulsa OK
2023 Psychedelic Cemetery, The Studio Tulsa, OK
Psychedelic Cemetery, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2022 Solo Exhibition, Neff Brewing Company, Tulsa, OK
2021 Solo Exhibition, The Coffee House On Cherry Street, Tulsa, OK
Solo Mural, Leftys on Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
Solo Exhibition, Bar46, Tulsa, OK
Solo Exhibition, Live Painting, Lefty’s on Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
2020 Solo Exhibition, Social + Distance, Shoebox Gallery, Online Gallery Space
2019 Solo Exhibition, Day ‘N’ Nite, Cameron Studio Gallery, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Solo Exhibition, North Eastern Cancer Center, Claremore, OK
2018 Art Market After Dark, Guthrie Green, Tulsa, OK
2014 Permanent Solo Mural, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
Permanent Solo Classroom Mural, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
Group Exhibition
2025 Pleasure Or Else, Prairie St. Bar & Tap, Fayetteville, AR
“Oh Tulsa!”, Living Arts Of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2024 Dreams, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
HeArt of Tulsa Gallery, Mayfest, Tulsa, OK
“GOOD GIRL”, The Studio Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2023 Champagne & Chocolate Gala, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
Blurry Vision, Highside Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
“Girls Night”, Thelma’s Peach, Tulsa, OK
“I Want To Suspend Disbelief” LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2022 Mount Gretna School of Art Group Exhibition, Mount Gretna, PA
“Faces & Figures”, The Studio Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2021 “Seeing Red”, Art House Show 7, The Canopy, Tulsa, OK
“Music Appreciation”, Lot No. 6, Tulsa, OK
“Oh Tulsa!”, Living Arts Of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
“Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Project”, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Art House Show 5, Tulsa, OK
Art House Show 4, Tulsa, OK
2020 Art in the Time of Covid, Center For Public Secrets, Tulsa, OK
Quarantine Showcase: Art & Artists in Isolation, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
Momentum 2020, Dead People’s Stuff, OKC, OK
Momentum 2020, Modella Art Gallery, Stillwater, OK
Momentum Spotlight Preview, 21C Museum Hotel, OKC, OK
2019 Group Exhibition, Anagram Generator, The Stella Elkins Galleries, Tyler School of Art,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
BFA Capstone Exhibition, Gary Moeller Gallery of the Arts, Claremore, OK
Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Art Off the Hill Festival, Ne-Mar Center, Claremore, OK
Italy Art Exhibit, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Mostra d’Arte, Student Art Exhibition, Montone, Italy
Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Back Gallery Portrait Show, Tulsa, OK
2016 Student Juried Art Show, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
Residencies
2022 Mount Gretna School of Art Summer Painting Residency, Mount Gretna, PA
2020 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson, New York Studio School, Brooklyn, NY 2019
Summer Painting Intensive, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Summer Art Program in Italy, Rogers State University, Montone, Florence, Rome, & Venice, Italy,
Publications & Press
2026 Front & Back Cover, OKIE MODERN magazine, Tulsa, OK
2023 Artist Spotlight, ASLUT Magazine
2020 Issue #1: Inaugural, Ode to Queer, Literary & Art Journal.
RSU Alumna Spencer Plumlee Captures History Through Art. The Claremore Daily Progress.
Issue #8, ASLUT Magazine
March 2020 Issue, Pikchur Magazine
2019 Cooweescoowee, Collegiate Journal of Arts & Letters, Rogers State University
2018 Student Art Exhibition Poster Art, Montone, Italy
Italy Art Exhibit Poster Art, Rogers State University
Cooweescoowee, Collegiate Journal of Arts & Letters, Rogers State University
2014 Catoosa Times Newspaper, Student Mural in Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
Tulsa World Newspaper, Students’ Mural Brightens Lobby of Catoosa High School,
Catoosa, OK
Curatorial Work
2026 Sample #5 Gallery Show, The Canopy Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Sample #4 Gallery Show, The Canopy Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Sample #3 Gallery Show, The Canopy Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2020 Strange Encounters of the Close Kind, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2019 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Study Abroad & International Travel
2019 College Art Association 107th Annual Conference, Times Square, New York
2017 Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Study Abroad, Scotland, London, & Ireland. Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
Private Collection & Commission
2015-16 Private Commission, Long Board 1 & Long Board 2, wood burned designs on long boards. Jonah LaMonica, Palladium Arts Studio, Midland, TX
2015 Private Commission, Spinal Cord, wood-burned design. Dr. Patrick Han, Tulsa, OK
Private Commission, Reverse Spinal Cord. Dr. Tyler Auschwitz, Tulsa, OK
Lecture/Workshops/Volunteer
2022 Artist Talk, OSU Student Art Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2021 Live Panel Painting Donation, Food On The Move, (Painted a panel centered around the theme of community that will be at each future food donation center events with the ability for participants to draw on it and encourage further community involvement.) OSU Tulsa Campus, Tulsa, OK
2020 Trump Political Puppet, Created and donated a 20 ft papier-mâché marionette satirical puppet of Trump that was passed around to anti trump rallies and town halls in 10 different states in the summer of the BLM Protests. Tulsa, OK
Painting Fundraiser, “Tulsa, 99 Years Later”, ($4K raised for the Greenwood Cultural Center), Tulsa,OK
Artist Talk, Bedroom Talk, Momentum 2020, Dead People’s Stuff, OKC, OK
2019 Artist Talk, BFA Capstone Presentation, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Portfolio Review Panelist, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Informational Panelist, Summer Art Program in Italy, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2012-16 Youth Services Tulsa, I have provided my artistic abilities as needed during Tulsa Pride Week during these years. Tulsa, OK
Radio & Television
2012 Leanne Taylor, Sculpture Displayed, News On 6 KOTV-DT, Tulsa, OK
2012 Dave Davis, Sculpture Displayed, News On 6 KOTV-DT, Tulsa, OK
Professional Organizations
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
College Art Association