Tulsa’s Plaza of the Americas
June 13, 2026
Scores for Moving at Assembly is an improvisational dance work by Maree ReMalia activating Richard Zimmerman’s temporary public sculpture Assembly in downtown Tulsa. Mirroring Assembly’s nineteen vertical forms, ReMalia’s dance activation brings together nineteen movers–some experienced and some new to dance–to explore movement scores in dialogue with the sculpture, each other, and the surrounding environment. During the half-hour public performance of Scores for Moving at Assembly on June 13th at 7pm, audiences witness in real-time ReMalia’s collaborative choreography involving curiosity, deep listening, and individual impulses.
Assembly by Richard Zimmerman is a temporary public artwork presented by non-profit Urban Core Art Project at Plaza of the Americas from September 2025 through September 2026. The artwork consists of twenty-one sculptures made from thousands of locally-upcycled plastic and metal objects affixed to metal armatures and wrapped in colorful fiberglass cast tape interspersed with three circular wooden viewing benches. Installed like a synthetic field popping up in the concrete plaza, the sculpture both harmonizes and contrasts with its surrounding public park where people can and do assemble.
Scores for Moving at Assembly is a collaboration between choreographer and dancer Maree ReMalia, artist Richard Zimmerman, and curator and Urban Core Art Project team member Kate Green. The event’s performers are: Vondell Burns, Meg Chang, Alicia Chesser, Élle Evans, Kate Green, Carrie Holmes, Jolie Hossack, Michelle Kenney, Avery Marshall, Brinney Mahmoud, Susan Nichols, Carissa Pankey, Sierra Pruitt, Maree ReMalia, Gabriela Rojas, Natalia Rojas, V Tyson, Richard Zimmerman, and Aniq Zoha.
Scores for Moving at Assembly was made possible with generous support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Lead bios:
Maree ReMalia is a dance-maker, performer, and teaching artist welcoming seasoned dancers and curious newcomers into shared movement practice. An adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, her work explores the moving body as a site of memory, presence, and possibility. Her solo, WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER, is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund project premiering at Kelly Strayhorn Theater in 2026. Her choreographic work has been presented at venues including Cleveland Public Theatre, NYLA Live Artery Festival, and Daegu International Dance Festival, as well as experimental and site-responsive spaces. She has taught across universities, festivals, and community spaces such as Bates Dance Festival, Brown University, and Dreams of Hope Queer Youth Arts. She is currently a performer in STORY BALLET by slowdanger and Lida Winfield’s Moving Dialogue Project. Since relocating to Tulsa, she has collaborated with artists and organizations like Madsen Movement, Temple of Dance, Transitive State, Tulsa Modern Movement, and Riff Raff Community Theater. ReMalia earned her MFA at The Ohio State University.
Richard Zimmerman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans various media, including sculpture, photography, sound, video, and drawing. His work focuses on exploring the intersection of subjectivity and the built environment. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. He received the John Hartell Graduate Award, a Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, and a nomination for The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited at various venues, including Miami Art Basel, Artlot, Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Signal Gallery, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Enter Enter, and Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. He has been an artist in residence at Real Time and Space in Oakland, California, Zero Foot Hills in Durham, Connecticut, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Currently, he lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Kate Green, Ph.D. is a curator, educator, art critic, and consultant based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over a twenty-year museum career, Green has held curatorial leadership roles in museums across the Southwest, including Artpace, El Paso Museum of Art, Marfa Contemporary, Oklahoma Contemporary, and Philbrook Museum of Art. As a junior in the field, she worked in curatorial at MoMA PS1 and in education at Dia Art Foundation in New York. Green holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a Ph.D., Modern and Contemporary Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. She was co-curator of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Celia Alvarez Munoz: Breaking the Binding, recognized by Hyperallergic as one of the 50 most important exhibitions in the world. Her writing is published in many catalogues and magazines, most recently in a monograph on Alvarez Munoz’s work by Radius Books and in ArtForum. She has developed art history and museum studies courses for museums and universities, including Austin Contemporary, Trinity University, and University of Texas at Austin. Green currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at University of Tulsa, is on the Urban Core Art Project team, and produces exhibitions and arts programming for museums, civic organizations, and independently, including an adult art history program.
photo Dan Farnum
Maree ReMalia 