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.
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).
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).