Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a place-based, durational award focused on supporting independent contemporary arts practitioners.

Every year, Tulsa Artist Fellowship designates 10 new awardees from an open call process who will receive $150,000 over three award years, $12,000 yearly housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health and wellness stipend, $1,200 yearly studio support stipend, $1,500 moving stipend, fully subsidized studio space, and access to shared art-making facilities, including ceramics, wood, printing, and media studios.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship recognizes that groundbreaking art practices thrive within an intention-setting framework. Awardees commit to actualizing a project during the three-year program term.

Our studios and programming space are integrated into a vibrant downtown cultural district with museums, galleries, performance venues, green space, independent bookstores and retailers, restaurants, and more.

 
 
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OUR LAND, HISTORY & CULTURE

Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world who contributed their hopes, dreams, and energy to making the history that led to this moment. Some were brought here against their will, some were drawn to leave their distant homes hoping for a better life, some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted, and some fled Tulsa, never to return. Truth and acknowledgment are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship begins this effort to acknowledge what has been buried by honoring the truth:

Our work stands on the tribal lands of the Osage, Cherokee, and Muscogee People. We honor their elders, past and present.

Our work stands on the land of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. We pay respect to these victims and survivors, past and present.

Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement upon this land. Tulsa Artist Fellowship offers our care and commitment to acknowledging these truths and resisting injustice through intentional programming and artistic practices.

 
 
 
 
 

Inclusivity is our driving force.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes artistic practitioners of all kinds. Beginning as a program for visual artists, we have purposefully expanded our mission to support contemporary artists of all mediums, as well as arts workers.

We promote diversity within our fellowship and specifically reserve places for Native artists.

 
 
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“The Tulsa Artist Fellowship has given me the time and resources to pursue my creative practice, here, near my tribal community. And the fellowship locates me within an inspirational community that inspires my art-making.”
— Joy Harjo
 
 
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Arts practitioners in their own right, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship team brings specialized expertise and cultivates partnership opportunities to ensure that awardees thrive creatively.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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