Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites applicants from all arts disciplines to apply for its 2026–2028 award term. Applications will open on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, and close on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
The 2025 exhibition program at Flagship launches with Sacred Signs, a presentation of Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardee video works by composer and sound artist Micaela Tobin and multidisciplinary artist and activist Alicia Smith.
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.
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.
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.
Mark your calendars for October 3-5, 2025! This arts-centered weekend features exhibitions, public artworks, performances, readings, discussions, film screenings, open studios, art and literary publications, community meals, and more.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship proudly supports Tulsa LitFest 2025 with public programs spotlighting community voices and special guests. This year’s events—hosted at our Flagship and venues citywide—feature conversations and screenings on justice, identity, and cultural expression.
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!
The 2025 Intertribal Noise Symposium, co-presented by Nathan Young, the Chinati Foundation, and Atomic Culture, will take place Friday, March 14 through Sunday, March 16, 2025 at the Chinati Foundation and Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to present 2024-2026 awardee Miguel Braceli’s solo exhibition, Emancipatory Lands, at Booth C3 during the 13th edition of Untitled Art Miami Beach. Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024 will take place Wednesday, December 4 through Sunday, December 8, 2024, with a VIP and Press Preview on Tuesday, December 3, at 12th Street and Ocean Drive.
Join us for a salon reading that will close The Remains exhibition at Studio 227 (Tulsa Artist Fellowship Archer Studios). Share a piece of elegy or reflect on what remains. I will also read a small section from the book I am working on that is tied to the exhibition.
Join the Arab Film Fest Tulsa community for a five-hour event featuring two critically acclaimed films from Arab World nations currently experiencing extreme turmoil. The event includes a discussion accompanying one film and a meal in between the screenings.
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.
Calling all artists and arts workers! Hang out with other artists on the lawn after hours at this second annual event, celebrating all you bring to our vibrant, creative community. Enjoy food by Burning Cedar’s Nico Albert Williams and drinks by Heirloom Rustic Ales. Bring your creative spirit, an appetite, and a blanket!
Co-hosted by the Philbrook Museum of Art. Free to all local artists, arts workers, and their families.
Native artists overtly and covertly utilize their work in the intergenerational fight for sovereignty. Join WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism artists Anita Fields, Yatika Fields, and Bob Haozous as they discuss the influence of Native art activists of the past and their effect on the present and future of Native representation in the arts and beyond.
Curated by Kalyn Fay Barnoski, Assistant Curator of Native Art, WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism will be exhibited at the Philbrook Museum of Art from October 5, 2024, to June 29, 2025.
Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship at Gathering Place ONEOK Boathouse for a special author reading with Traci Sorell, an award-winning fiction and nonfiction author for young people of all ages, focusing primarily on the contemporary lives of Native peoples. In Sorell’s Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, learn about Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer who designed classified airplanes and spacecrafts. An all-ages complimentary lunch will be provided. Attendee households will receive a free copy of the book and two STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) activities: Paper 'Glider' Airplanes & Mark Dion: Cabinet of Wonder Scavenger Hunt!
Astronomical star parties are gatherings where seasoned space enthusiasts or wide-eyed beginners come together to observe celestial objects such as stars, planets, and galaxies. Space For Us will provide shared telescopes, but participants with telescopes are encouraged to bring them out and share their knowledge, fostering a communal atmosphere for stargazing and astronomical appreciation. Star parties are more than just stargazing; they can be transformative experiences that ignite a cosmic perspective within every participant. This cosmic perspective is a profound overview of our place in the vast expanse of the universe.
Join the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for an evening of "Indigenous Star Films" under the night sky. The program will feature the family-friendly animation series "Star Stories" created by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, "Sun & The Great Frog" (2017, Tsalagi Language, English Subtitles) by Joseph Erb (Cherokee), "The Story of the Northern Lights" (2016, Cree Language, English Subtitles) by the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc. (MFNERC), and the Oklahoma premiere of the hybrid feature documentary "Wilfred Buck" (2024) by Lisa Jackson (Anishinaabe).
Inspired by his grandmother’s kitchen, Chef Bradley James Dry (Wolf Clan of the Cherokee Nation) hosts a community gathering called "Millie's House," centered around family nourishment underneath the Guthrie Green Pergola.
On Saturday, October 5, the SkyDome Portable Planetarium and Space Science Museum, one of the southern region's largest traveling museums, will offer an all-ages an immersive journey through space, science, and the arts with NASA memorabilia, rocket models, and more.
Scholar and Curator, Tavia Nyong’o will discuss the racial reckoning in theater, dance, and performance with moderator, artist Kalup Linzy. Yale University scholar and Park Avenue Armory Curator of Public Programming Tavia Nyong’o will discuss the racial reckoning in theater, dance, and performance. Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum, Artist, and Queen Rose Art House founder Kalup Linzy will moderate the Q&A.
