Artwork made by displaced Ukrainian children is on display in downtown Tulsa. It is part of an effort to do Something Good for children who have lost everything in the war.

Inside the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at Archer and Boston, colorful paintings from children in Ukraine fill the walls. Some of the artwork was completed by children as young as four.

"It's so vivid. It's so bright. And it speaks more to hope than tragedy. It would be easy to imagine some really dark and terrible paintings but we see happy faces, we see surprisingly, to me, a number of American flags hanging on the walls,” Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Sean Latham, said.

Latham said someone he knows told him about Painting the Future, a nonprofit organization and art show in New York. Now Tulsans can see it for themselves.

"This woman named Caroline Cappy went to Ukraine, was helping with refugee assistance and realized someone needed to help these kids find a creative expression for their hope, for their grief, for everything that had gone wrong and what they thought a brighter future might look like,” Latham said.

The exhibition will open to the public during First Friday Art Crawl, from 6 to 9.

"This was made by children, often in orphanages, sometimes working in displaced villages. Many of them have been forced out by the war, they lost parents, friends, relatives, teachers, schools, homes, entire cities to the war,” Latham said.

There are also several pieces done by adult artists in Ukraine. The art will be on display at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities through the end of June, then it will be auctioned off online.

Painting the Future said that money will be used to keep the art program going for displaced Ukrainian children, who are either in Ukraine or here in the US.

"So it's not just an opportunity to sort of look at what happens in the midst of a war, but also to play a real role in helping the children that have been sort of caught in this terrible crossfire,” Latham said.

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