Tulsa Artist Fellow Franky Cruz and guest artist Juan William Chavez come together for a conversation on ecological art, multispecies collaboration, and transforming studios into living environments, drawing from Cruz’s work with butterflies and Chavez’s long-running projects with bees. Held in TAF’s new Greenhouse LAB space (Archer Studios #229) and organized by Fellow Gavin Kroeber, the evening concludes with a playful sonic digestif: a Plant Rave featuring sound and video by Chavez in collaboration with invited performers.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to our signature First Friday series on June 6! Explore open artist studios, enjoy complimentary food and drinks, and experience vibrant creative programming across our Archer Studios and Flagship spaces.

Join us for a special evening celebrating the enduring legacy of Black rodeo culture with a screening of the rarely-seen 1972 documentary Black Rodeoand the short film Villain, directed by Tulsa Artist Fellow Adam Davis.

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Poet Derek Mong and translator Anne O. Fisher present readings and a conversation around their new books—Fisher’s translation of the 1986 Soviet gay romance Pioneer Summer and Mong’s verse collection When the Earth Flies Into the Sun. Together they explore love amid political repression and ecological crisis, and discuss poetry and translation in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. Co-presented by Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City Books.

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Magic City Books and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are teaming up to welcome Jennifer Hope Choi for a free event on Thursday, May 22 to celebrate her book, The Wanderer’s Curse. This event will take place at Philbrook Museum of Art. Choi will be in conversation with Christina Chaey, a recipe developer, writer, and cook.

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Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to Osage County’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve for an immersive cliff swallow excursion. University of Tulsa’s Dr. Charles R. Brown will unveil four decades of swallow biology and habitat research, followed by awardee Warren Realrider, who presents his Kahâriwis (Cliff Swallow) art project bridging Pawnee heritage with contemporary Nebraska.

The Tulsa Film Collective presents Picture’s Up — a free workshop series led by department heads and key crew from the award-winning Reservation Dogs and Sterlin Harjo’s latest Tulsa-based series. Learn firsthand from industry pros bringing these groundbreaking productions to life.

This exhibition features work created during Queen Rose Art House's very first experimental film and video workshop. Using Oklahoma as the backdrop, subject, and/or character, each participant created a short film or video exploring a plot point from Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. Curated by Kalup Linzy, the exhibition can be viewed at Queen Rose Art House on Saturdays between 12:00PM - 6:00 PM from May 3 through June 28, 2025.

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series that highlights our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, performances, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all. Come for the art, stay for the community.

LEYA visits Tulsa Artist Fellowship for the first time since 2022 in support of their recent album, I Forget Everything. They will present material from the record alongside a special duo drone performance from TAF fellow Micaela Tobin, aka White Boy Scream, and Derrick Estrada, aka Baseck.

Words of the People hosts a special reading with Joy Harjo centered on rematriation, an Indigenous woman and Two Spirit-led movement reconnecting the sacred to the mother.  Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and a citizen of the Muscogee Nation, will share a reading of her poetry, offering a powerful reflection on land, memory, and spiritual reclamation. Introductions by NDN Girls Book Club. 

Drift///Hold closes with public program Terra Cognita: Mapping Land Narratives and Embedded Epistemologies, a sound bath and panel discussion.

Join the Department of English, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for an evening featuring the talents of UTulsa students! Five creative writing students will showcase the work they have created under the guidance of TAF mentors.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship is hosting NGO, the NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA, led by percussionist and composer Tatsuya Nakatani. This public performance features Tatsuya Nakatani and a community-assembled gong orchestra. The sound level and space reverberation will be variable. Ear protection will be provided.

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series that highlights our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

Join James Beard-nominated writer and Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum Sarah Perry for a special food writing workshop and brunch to celebrate her latest publication, Sweet Nothings!

Join us for a one-day-only free screening of Black Barbie: A Documentary, followed by a post-film Q&A with filmmaker Lagueria Davis. This special event is sponsored by: Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Netflix, and the Center for Queer Prairie Studies.

Join us for the launch of "Hard Sayin Not Knowin," a provocative new zine by portrait photographer and 2D visual artist Jackson Augustus Adair. With over a decade of experience capturing the vibrant worlds of others, Adair blends photography, film, and sound to create immersive visual storytelling in this multimedia exhibition. 

Visiting artist Samantha Woj is Canada-based and often paints live, making marks with sports equipment. Samantha will be in Tulsa for two exciting projects with GKFF and the Oklahoma City Thunder. She will also be joining us for March 7 First Friday open studios activities at Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes our neighbors and friends to celebrate the 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees and February First Friday open studios! Que Gusto is thoughtfully preparing a festive menu alongside beverages by Heirloom Rustic Ales.

Ring in the Year of the Snake surrounded by neighbors and friends at Downtown Tulsa's first-ever Lunar New Year Festival! This celebratory evening includes cultural performances, free food, music, family-friendly activities, sparklers, a spectacular lion dance performance by the Hung Viet Lion Dance Team, and special remarks by Mayor Monroe Nichols.

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to announce a pop-up performance organized by awardee Warren Realrider and percussionist Marshall Trammell as a new duo fighting formation, Postcolonial Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement (Postcolonial ENLA).

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.