Tulsa Artist Fellowship announces Projection, a new rotating public art series conceived, curated, and directed by artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh on the exterior wall of the Fellowship’s studio building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hosted at Lynn & Lorraine, an evolving residency format initiated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Proximity Sessions centers cross-disciplinary exchange, research-driven practice, and site-responsive inquiry. This inaugural session unfolds in collaboration with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and joins Upstate Art Weekend (Thursday, June 25 – Monday, June 29, 2026).
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.
Join us as Miguel Braceli transforms his studio into a queer nightclub with Studio 66, featuring gogos, pole dancers, music, and movement. Through dance and celebration, Flagpole Gogo Party reclaims charged symbols and reimagines gathering as a site of joy, resistance, and collective release. This late-night performance includes mature content and is recommended for audiences ages 21 and older.
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.
First America is organizing and hosting two creative writing workshop series for emerging Indigenous writers. These workshops invite participants to imagine Indigenous nations 250 years into the future.
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.
Artist Kalup Linzy leads a five-week experimental film workshop exploring Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey through collaborative storytelling. Participants will create an exquisite corpse film, to be presented in a Fall exhibition at Queen Rose Art House.
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.
GOFF, directed by Britni Harris, explores the life and legacy of visionary architect Bruce Goff. The screening includes an introduction by Craig Lee and a Q&A with Harris, Penelope Dean, and Alison Fisher, moderated by Karl Jones. Organized by the UIC School of Architecture, MAS Context, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
A milestone First Friday.
Join us in welcoming the 2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardees—bringing our community to a full cohort of 30 artists. Explore artworks in progress, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. Free and open to all—come celebrate with us.
Please join NAM Common and Tulsa Artist Fellowship for the closing reception of Mỹ People. Traveling through Oklahoma and Missouri in 2025, artists Việt H. Nguyễn and Nic Annette Miller documented community events that sustain Vietnamese culture, history, faith, and a sense of belonging.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City Books co-present an evening with Emily Nemens, featuring a reading from her latest novel, Clutch, and a conversation with acclaimed author and translator Jennifer Croft.
Since its inaugural year, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. Discover artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. First Fridays are free and open to all. Come for the art, stay for the community.
Begin the new year with Tulsa Artist Fellowship at a focused First Friday highlighting Le’Andra LeSeur’s powerful exhibition, Monument Eternal, at Flagship. While studios will be closed in observance of the holiday, we invite you to experience this profound body of work—an evening of reflection, presence, and connection in the Tulsa Arts District.
Travel back to the 1980s with us, but make it Việt. The New Wave (2024), directed by Elizabeth Ai, dives deep into the cultural phenomenon of ‘new wave’ music within the Vietnamese diaspora. Presented by NAM common in partnership with Tulsa Film Collective and Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Join us on First Friday, December 5, for our final open studio event of the 2026 season—a festive evening of art, community, and celebration in the Tulsa Arts District. As the year draws to a close, Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes you to explore the latest exhibitions, meet the artists shaping our creative landscape, and experience the vibrant energy that fills our studios.
