Events set Friday at The Depot

NORMAN — The 2nd Friday at The Depot event will include a variety of activities from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at 200 S Jones.

The following free events are planned and will include music and refreshments:

•A World Literature Today Launch Party for it’s Music and

Literature Issue from 6 to 8 p.m.;

•A Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art “Ticket to Ride Pop-Up”

to promote an upcoming exhibition, “Ticket to Ride: Artists, Designers, And Western Railways;”

•Opening reception for The Depot Gallery’s new exhibit, “The Garden Chronicles, Plus,” paintings by George Bogart.

World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s magazine of international literature and culture, will host a launch party to celebrate its forthcoming music issue that features Leontyne Price, Ethiopian jazz poetry, rock operas, and a city profile of Prince’s Minneapolis. Rob Vollmar, World Literature Today’s book review editor and veteran of the local music scene, will play an acoustic guitar set. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served, and discounted copies of the issue will be for sale. For more information, contact the World Literature Today offices at 405-325-4531.

Also, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art “Ticket to Ride Pop-Up,” an installation in the south room of The Depot promotes the upcoming exhibition “Ticket to Ride: Artists, Designers, and Western Railways,” which will run from Oct. 5 through Dec. 30 in the Nancy Johnston Records Gallery. This exhibition will feature paintings, studies, posters and graphics from artists such as Thomas Moran and Maynard Dixon, that emerged from the parallel relationships between artists and commercial designers with Western rail companies between the late 1880s and early 1930s. For more information, phone museum offices at 405-325-5990.

Additionally, The Depot Gallery will be showing “The Garden Chronicles, Plus,” paintings by George Bogart, curated by his widow Elyse. The opening in conjunction with 2nd Friday Art Walk will continue through Nov. 2. Bogart was a painter with an innate feel for color and space, a news release stated. His work was exhibited across the United States throughout his career and is included in numerous private and public collections.