Located on the first floor of Davis Hall, The Nesbitt Gallery hosts frequent exhibitions by leading contemporary artists, students, as well as the university’s permanent collection. Pieces in the gallery's permanent collection include limited edition, original prints by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and James Whistler, Will Soule’s famous prints of captured Native American chiefs imprisoned at Fort Sill, along with rare photographs of the Oklahoma Land Run and Oklahoma City's birth.
Established June of 1997 as the USAO Art Gallery, it was renamed in May 2012 in honor of Charles and Margot Nesbitt, its most generous patrons. The mission of the Nesbitt Gallery is to promote the visual arts of the central Oklahoma region with a special concern for the expressions of the diverse cultures and the role that educators have played in forming those expressions.
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