Explore open studios, exhibitions, and installations across Tulsa Artist Fellowship—including the return of Cherokee Art Market, the final evening of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Untitled with an artist talk at 7 PM, Alicia Smith’s immersive The Spider Women, and artwork created with Tulsa Girls Art School with music from Hot Toast Music Company.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to partner with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and The Church Arthouse to present Nawa / 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 / Aha; or, The Handshake, a two-part gathering organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees Gavin Kroeber and Warren Realrider on the occasion of Realrider's Summer 2026 Bemis Sound Artist Residency.

Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, storytelling, and the release of From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short Fiction.

Serpentine Transmission celebrates the release of their first studio album, of mud and gold, with their first performances outside of Los Angeles. The improvised music quartet features Tulsa Artist Fellow Micaela Tobin on voice and electronics.

This collaboration between Silkroad, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Greenwood Rising brings musicians and culture bearers together to explore how the arts preserve memory, confront difficult histories like the Tulsa Race Massacre, honor Indigenous stories of this land, and create space for healing and community.

Scores for Moving at Assembly is an improvisational dance performance by choreographer Maree ReMalia that activates the public sculpture Assembly by Richard Zimmerman in the Plaza of the Americas.

Join the Goff Center for the Continuous Present at the Spotlight Theater for Bruce Goff’s annual Birthday Bash, a family-friendly Saint Francis Tulsa Tough watch party honoring visionary architect Bruce Goff.

First Fridays returns with open studios, exhibitions, and live programming across Tulsa Artist Fellowship. This month features our annual Pride collaboration with Twisted Arts and the Center for Queer Prairie Studies, including rooftop music and drag performances starting at 8 PM.

Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa Film Collective, and Waters Media at Philbrook Museum of Art for a special community screening of the documentary feature film Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool (2026).

Participants are guided through the Body Ether Light Exercises—a series of accessible, meditative practices that combine breath, voice, attention, and subtle movement to explore the body as a site of perception, memory, and transformation.

Join us for an artist talk with interdisciplinary artist Anna Luisa Petrisko, co-founder of Body Ether Institute, presented by Tulsa Artist Fellow Micaela Tobin. Working across experimental opera, video, and performance, Petrisko explores how sound, embodiment, and ritual can reshape our experience of time, memory, and relation.

Join the Oklahoma premier of I Love Boosters, a crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. Director Boots Riley will participate in a post-film conversation with filmmaker, Tulsa Film Collective co-founder, and Tulsa Artist Fellow Alum Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs, The Lowdown).

Presented alongside Dreamland Theater’s screening of I Love Boosters, this conversation explores how radical cinema shapes Black cultural imagination—connecting the histories and futures of Oakland and Tulsa’s Greenwood District.

Join us for Picture's Up: A Guide to Script Continuity, a free workshop hosted by the Tulsa Film Collective. This event features a panel discussion with leadership from Lowdown Season 2, moderated by Tulsa-based producer Dylan Brodie.

The University of Tulsa, in partnership with Tulsa LitFest, Art Directors Club, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, presents Publishing from the Ground Up, a symposium about independent publishing and the creative communities it sustains.

Experience an evening of immersive sound art as Warren Realrider (Pawnee/Crow) and Robbie Wing (Cherokee) bring their acclaimed duo project to Drifters Theater.

The Indian Territory Film Festival returns to Circle Cinema on April 18, 2026, to celebrate contemporary Indigenous Cinema.

Join us for Picture's Up: Camera, Lights, Sound, a free workshop hosted by the Tulsa Film Collective. This event features a panel discussion with leadership from Lowdown Season 2, moderated by Tulsa-based producer Dylan Brodie.

Since 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series celebrating awardees, alumni, and the Tulsa community. Visitors can explore open studios, exhibitions, and live programming throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries.

On the occasion of the closing of Le'Andra LeSeur’s exhibition, Monument Eternal, this panel brings together Acclaimed Designer, Kamille Glenn, and NDA Haus Founder, Vondell J. Burns to join her in an intimate conversation on the importance of telling our stories through intentionally cultivated spaces. 

Preview the forthcoming feature documentary, What She Carries, directed by Brit Hensel and produced by Taylor Hensel, both award-winning filmmakers and citizens of the Cherokee Nation. The film follows Indigenous mothers, families, and birth workers as they work to restore cultural knowledge and community-centered birth practices.

Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Philbrook Museum of Art for a special World Water Day celebration featuring a live performance by Samantha Crain, followed by a screening of Drowned Land (2025).

Impermanent Presence centers the Ethiopian coffee ceremony as both cultural practice and shared social space. Through aroma, conversation, and attentive preparation, the gathering opens a space to think about hospitality, memory, and the relationships formed around the table.