Rosalind Cook’s Studio is amazing

After a long week of event planning I’m sitting on my couch drinking a cup of coffee and thinking about the things I did. Yesterday I got to do something pretty incredible that I didn’t even know existed in Tulsa. I visited Rosalind Cook’s studio. Rosalind is a sculptor who has sculptures all over Tulsa and other parts of the world. If you visit Utica Square ever you will see one of her works of art in the courtyard outside of Starbucks at the West end. She also has them in front of St. Francis, Kirk of the Hills, and several other places, including the Little Light House. Every year she donates a sculpture to the Garden Party so we can auction it off, and this year I got to go with my boss and a lady on the committee to pick one out.

Her studio is behind her house in a separate building, and her house is amazing. When you walk up to her front door you see sculptures surrounding a little stream that actually goes under her house and through her back yard. These bronze sculptures are various sizes and are all of kids, Jesus and other religious figures, Grandparents with their children, kids holding frogs, etc. They are really amazing. Her house is one of those amazing houses that you drive by near midtown and wonder if you’ll ever be cool enough to afford. She greeted us at the front door with her Golden-Doodle, probably the friendliest and least scary dog I’ve ever seen in my life. She is so nice, and I was immediately comfortable as she welcomed us and took us through the house and into the back yard. Her yard is perfectly landscaped with several more bronze sculptures throughout the flowers and trees. We walked over a small bridge and into the back building which is her studio, and when I walked in I had to focus very carefully to not let my jaw stay hanging open very long. There were probably 100 sculptures sitting around. Some were life size and even larger, some were as small as a glass or water, and some were works in progress sitting on pedestals with different small sculpting tools surrounding them. She explained how she will make a small sculpture and send it away when someone wants one that is life size, and they scan it and then make something out of foam and then send it back so she can resculpt it bigger. I didn’t really understand the whole process but it was great listening to her talking about it anyway. The really crazy part was when she started telling us our options of sculptures to pick from to take to our auction. We were given several choices, and I thought it was crazy that we were given this incredible gift by being able to take one with us. We looked at a few of children, some of Noah, some of Jesus, etc. They were all amazing and I knew if I was the only person who had to make the decision I probably wouldn’t have been able to do it. Eventually we all agreed on one of Jesus holding a Lamb. As I said recently in a post, I am usually not a fan of Christian inspirational decor, but this sculpture was absolutely amazing. If it wasn’t worth over $2,000 I would consider buying it myself.

I desperately wanted to take pictures to post them on here, but my camera was dead when I got there and checked. Julia Ann, our committee chairperson, took some and when she gets them to me I will post them. If you’re at all into art you’ll be blown away. Check out her website on the link above to see some of her sculptures and where they are located around Tulsa.