TulsaPets Magazine September 2023

September / October 2023 • TulsaPets 9 PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE Creating Music and Art Community Art Home Draws People and Pets Together by Jennie Lloyd | Photos courtesy of Jarett (JB) Boss C ommunity Art Home is exactly what it sounds like. Tulsa artists of all ages show up once a week at a home — loaded with art supplies, production equipment, and porch-sitting spots — to create music and art together. The ongoing social/art experiment is magic personified, with rambunctious, inspired vibes to spare. If you’re there, you’re part of the crew. So you might as well join in and get a little paint on your hands. Art Home began a year and a half ago when Jarett (JB) Boss opened his home to friends on Monday nights to see what they could create. “It’s kind of like a bunch of cliques that come together and make art in weird ways,” he says. Now, more than 60 people arrive at Art Home every week, off the beaten path and through a thicket of trees to park in gravel before walking up to the front door. Inside, you might find a group of mostly 20-somethings freestyling over beats, dancing, and hyping each other up. In another room, a smaller group plays with production equipment on large computer screens. Down the hall, a dozen or so are in deep discussion. In the pool outside, one girl is serenely swimming, quietly cutting through water. Friendly Feline Host While everyone gets weird, the official host of Art Home sits perched on a kitchen counter, eyes half-closed, in total peace with his rowdy surroundings. Ra- mone is a slim tabby cat in shades of tan and black, relaxed and funny, with big, curious eyes. “Ramone is just always in the art, on the art, like always up on it. He lies on the paintings,” Boss says. Before Art Home began, Ramone “was really shy toward people and didn’t really like people at all, besides me,” Boss says. “But then through Art Home happening, now he’s the friendliest cat ever.” Ramone went from being a little “punk” as a kitten to a friendly “studio cat and a social butterfly,” Boss says. Lots of people “at Art Home sometimes come here just to see him.” Community Art Home is held “every Monday, rain or shine,” says Evan Hughes, a regular attendee and popular local come- dian and promoter. Details are posted each week via the Art Home Instagram account, @communityarthome. Shoot a direct message for the address. Canine Comfort A month before Boss rescued Ramone, he was devastated by the mysterious disappearance of his dog, Norah. It’s still unclear what happened. The one thing that’s certain is that Norah was either taken from or wandered off Boss’ proper- Ramone the cat and Norah the dog learn to share the attention of their dad, Jarett (JB) Boss, while he learns to pet both of them at the same time.