Just across from Nichols Hills Plaza sits one of Oklahoma City’s oldest fine art galleries. Howell Gallery is run by Laura Howell Tirrell, who was born to be in the art business.
“In the 1970s, my parents would host art shows in Oklahoma City in partnership with a gallery out of Chicago,” Tirrell said. These shows’ benefits involved bringing truckloads of fine art to our city, with proceeds from the sales going to benefit the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma. Her parents, Linda and Ken Howell, realized that the metro needed its own resource for locals to purchase fine art, so they founded Howell Gallery in 1991.
This location has allowed the Howell family to create a space focused around beauty—both inside and outside the home. It houses Linda’s interior design business, and another Howell daughter, Leigh Howell Love, has her landscape design business there too. Ken Howell also ran a successful architecture firm from the building before he recently retired…