THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART
Magic City Books and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are teaming up to welcome awardee alumJennifer Hope Choi on Thursday, May 22, to celebrate her new publication, The Wanderer’s Curse. Special guest Christina Chaey will prepare light bites inspired by the book.
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | GITWIT
Poet Derek Mong and translator Anne O. Fisher read from their new books—Mong’s When the Earth Flies Into the Sun and Fisher’s translation of the Soviet gay romance Pioneer Summer—and engage in a conversation on love amid political repression and ecological crisis in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. Co-presented by Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City Books.
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 | CIRCLE CINEMA | 7:30 PM
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.
JUNE 6, 2025 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | FLAGSHIP + STUDIOS
Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, featuring 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.
JUNE 6 - AUGUST 9, 2025 | FLAGSHIP
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to announce the next Flagship exhibition. Spatial Poems redefines how we experience space and time by reconnecting the body with its environment. The works offer tools to perceive and subvert geographic language, shaping new, real, and imagined landscapes.
ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS | APRIL 2 - MAY 29, 2025
Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites applicants from all arts disciplines to apply for the 2026 – 2028 award term. Submissions open Wednesday, April 2, 2025, and close on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes artistic practitioners from all disciplines, backgrounds, and identities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PURCHASE TICKETS
The Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF), a place-based, durational award dedicated to supporting visionary arts practitioners, is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2026-2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship award term on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The commencement of this upcoming cohort will bring the place-based residency program to its fully expanded award structure, which began during its 2024-2026 inaugural term, awarding thirty artists and arts workers who will overlap in their first, second, and third award years. 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
