The Waiting Child Show is one of those WPA community service projects. With our photos, we want to raise public awaremness of an urgent social need. Our aim to bring loving, caring families and deserving adoptable children together.
The Waterworks photographers worked together with KTUL and the Department of Human Services to organize a Waiting Child Exhibit of black and white portraits of fifty Oklahoma children from ages three thru sixteen who are eaerly awaiting adoption. The common objective of this joint endeavor was to place some of these very special children in deserving home and families. After opening at the Tulsa University Reymolds Center on March 21, the exhibit was displayed at Woodland Hills Mall for two weeks, and then traveled to the Muskogee Azalea Festifall, the Oklahoma City Omniplex and through out the state. As a result over forty percent of these children have been adopted, including three sibling groups of six, five, and three children, The WPA is very gratified with the success of the project.
In cooperation with the Greenwood Culteral Center the Waterworks Photography Association is making black and white protraits of the survivers of the 1921 Fulsa Race Riot. Although the servivors are now scattered throughout the world, many are still in Tulsa and the WPA photographers ae immortalizing as many as possible for a permanent exhibit at the Greenwood Cultural Center witch stands in the very heart of the site of the rioting of 1921.