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Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists shaping Tulsa’s cultural and civic future.

We champion community-engaged practitioners whose work expands creative practice, sparks dialogue, and strengthens cultural belonging in our city.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
 
 
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Inclusivity drives us forward.

Across disciplines, backgrounds, and identities, artists and arts workers build this fellowship. We advance their work, voices, and ideas.

THE FELLOWS
 
 
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MIGUEL BRACELI:
FUTURO IMPERFECTO

THROUGH JUNE 5, 2026 | FLAGSHIP

In Futuro Imperfecto, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee Miguel Braceli has created a range of performances, installations, photography, and videos that comment upon the polarized, sometimes disorienting conditions of today’s political climate in both his native Venezuela and the United States.

EXHIBITIONS
 
 
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Calendar
FROM OAKLAND TO GREENWOOD: RADICAL CINEMA AND BLACK CULTURAL IMAGINATION
May 8
FROM OAKLAND TO GREENWOOD: RADICAL CINEMA AND BLACK CULTURAL IMAGINATION

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.

HEALING SOUND AND SOMATICS: ARTIST TALK WITH BODY ETHER INSTITUTE
May 14
HEALING SOUND AND SOMATICS: ARTIST TALK WITH BODY ETHER INSTITUTE

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.

HEALING SOUND AND SOMATICS: WORKSHOP
May 15
HEALING SOUND AND SOMATICS: WORKSHOP

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.

FILM SCREENING: LAINEY WILSON: KEEPIN’ COUNTRY COOL + DIRECTOR Q&A
May 16
FILM SCREENING: LAINEY WILSON: KEEPIN’ COUNTRY COOL + DIRECTOR Q&A

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).

FIRST FRIDAYS: JUNE 2026
Jun 5
FIRST FRIDAYS: JUNE 2026

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.

LYNN & LORRAINE: TATYANA FAZLALIZADEH x LE’ANDRA LESEUR
Jun 14
LYNN & LORRAINE: TATYANA FAZLALIZADEH x LE’ANDRA LESEUR

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).

PROGRAMS
 
 
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LATEST NEWS

TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCES 2026-2028 AWARDEES

Building on more than a decade of place-based impact, the 2026–2028 awardees were selected from a robust applicant pool representing 47 U.S. states and territories, as well as U.S. citizens living in 15 countries across five continents. Together, the cohort reflects a wide range of artistic approaches, cultural perspectives, and commitments to long-term, community-engaged practice.

ANNOUNCEMENT
 
 
 
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