Tulsa Artist Fellowship joins the 21st annual Cherokee Art Market with a presentation featuring Tulsa Artist Fellow Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) and Alum-in-Residence Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee).
Their presentation brings together two distinct practices engaging Indigenous knowledge, material traditions, and contemporary life. Keene works across basketry, found materials, light, and technology, exploring reclamation, reconnection, and Indigenous futurisms, while Fields works across clay, textiles, Osage ribbon work, sculpture, and installation.
Presented by Visit Cherokee Nation, Cherokee Art Market brings together nearly 170 Native artists and artisans from across the United States and Canada, with works spanning jewelry, pottery, textiles, painting, sculpture, basketry, and more.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Adrienne Keene is a writer and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, originally from Southern California. She writes essays and books that explore how Native people are represented in popular culture, as well as utilizing themes of reclamation, reconnection, and Indigenous futurisms to examine the impacts of settler colonialism on her family. She is the creator and author of the blog Native Appropriations, the co-creator of the All My Relations Podcast, and the author of Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present (Ten Speed Press). Her essays and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Stanford Magazine, Teen Vogue, Catapult Magazine, Indian Country Today, and others, as well as numerous academic journals and edited volumes.
She holds a BA in Native American Studies and Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University and a doctorate in Culture, Communities, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to her time as a Tulsa Artist Fellow, Adrienne was an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, teaching courses in Indigenous studies.
Anita Fields is a contemporary artist and citizen of the Osage Nation and a descendant of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses clay, textiles, Osage ribbon work, sculpture, and installation. Born in Oklahoma, Fields creates work grounded in Osage knowledge systems, exploring relationships between culture, land, memory, and the natural world.
Across her practice, Fields considers balance and transformation through early Osage concepts of duality—including earth and sky, male and female—and the interconnectedness of living things. Clothing, coverings, landscapes, and figurative forms recur throughout her work as vessels for cultural knowledge and ways of understanding our place within the world. Heavily textured surfaces, layered materials, and distorted writing reference the complexities of Indigenous histories and the ways those histories have been recorded, interpreted, and misrepresented.
Fields is recognized for bringing clay and textile traditions into dynamic conversation. Her ceramic sculptures often translate the forms and visual language of clothing, moccasins, purses, and Osage ribbon work into clay, while her textile practice carries forward knowledge learned through family and community. Moving between inherited forms and contemporary experimentation, Fields approaches making as both a continuation of cultural knowledge and a space for transformation.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions including Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists; Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women at the National Museum of Women in the Arts; and Who Stole the Teepee? at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In 2026, her work is featured alongside Norman Akers and Ryan RedCorn in Home/Land: Wahzhazhe Artists Speak at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, an exhibition considering how land, language, history, and culture shape ideas of home and belonging.
Fields’ work is held in public collections including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Arts and Design, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and Heard Museum.
In 2021, Fields was named a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, recognizing her extraordinary work in Osage ribbon work. Her honors also include an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and a Francis J. Greenburger Award. In 2025, Fields was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
A former Tulsa Artist Fellow and current Alum-in-Residence, Fields remains an active part of Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s studio and artistic community. Her continuing relationship with the Fellowship supports an evolving practice rooted in Osage culture, material experimentation, and the relationships among land, community, memory, and contemporary life.
