A distinct group of ten multidisciplinary artists and art workers were chosen from a pool of over 1000 applicants by a panel of twelve esteemed arts leaders from around the world. The 2024-2026 cohort will commence January 1, 2024.
“Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes this visionary cohort of socially invested creatives will move the State of Oklahoma forward through groundbreaking arts practices. The awarded projects are forward-thinking, demonstrate impactful community engagement, and will significantly contribute to Tulsa’s progressive arts identity.”
MIGUEL BRACELI
LARGE-SCALE PARTICIPATORY ART, ARCHITECTURE & EDUCATION
BROOKLYN, NY
shane brown
PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOJOURNALISM
TULSA, OK
adam davis
PHOTOGRAPHY
LOS ANGELES, CA
BORIS DRALYUK
POETRY, TRANSLATION, CRITICISM
TULSA, OK
EYAKEM GULILAT
INTERDISCIPLINARY, PHOTOGRAPHY
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
HONG HONG
PAPERMAKING, PAINTING, FIBER ART
HEFEI, ANHUI, CHINA
PARDISS KEBRIAEI
SOCIAL PRACTICE, INTERDISCIPLINARY, NONFICTION
NEW YORK CITY, NY
LE’ANDRA LESEUR
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
JERSEY CITY, NJ
KASHONA NOTAH
POETRY, LITERARY FICTION & NONFICTION, JOURNALISM
SAN BERNARDINO, CA
WARREN REALRIDER
SOUND, PERFORMANCE
NORMAN, OK
Miguel Braceli is a Venezuelan-born—New York-based artist, architect, and educator. His practice is focused on participatory art projects in public space; working at the intersection of art, architecture, and social practices; exploring geopolitical and local conflicts.
Shane Brown is a photographer and filmmaker documenting the present-day cultural landscape of the American West, experimenting with representations of time and motion, and working on a variety of film projects.
Adam Davis is New York native, who started photography with his iPhone back in 2012 after graduating high school. Davis has developed relationships with the creative community in the Greater Los Angeles area to further his practice starting in a studio apartment in Koreatown and has been fortunate in his pursuits to bring to life the intimate moments in the studio and darkroom over the years.
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016), co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015), and translator of volumes by Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Leo Tolstoy, and other authors.
Hong Hong has traveled to faraway and distinct locations across the US to create site-responsive, monumental paper-works since 2015. In this nomadic practice, painting and monastic rituals coalesced with ancestral methods of Chinese paper-making.
Originally from Ethiopia, Eyakem Gulilat’s work is rooted in a quest for belonging. Gulilat focuses on the complexities of cross-cultural encounter, perceptions of time, memory, and place. His artistic practice questions the role of photography in contemporary American society and provides new ways of looking.
Le’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. LeSeur’s body of work, a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity, seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance.
Warren Realrider is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary sound artist based in Norman, Oklahoma. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma, he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice.
Kashona Notah is an award-winning writer from San Bernardino, California. He is Iñupiaq and was raised within a Diné family through his adoptive father. At 27, after almost ten years in the workforce, Notah attended college for the first time. He now holds a BA in English with a minor in Native American Studies from Stanford University, and an MFA in prose from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Yellow Medicine Review, and various other publications.
Pardiss Kebriaei is a writer and human rights lawyer based in New York City. Born in Iran, she immigrated with her family to Oklahoma as a child and spent her first years in the United States in Norman and Stillwater.
