The second installation of Projection is by Tulsa Artist Fellow Adam Davis, whose photographic practice centers Black portraiture, with a particular interest in Black rodeo and Western culture. Davis creates portraits grounded in sustained relationships with his subjects and the communities and places he documents.
Introducing Among Artists, a new chapter for Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s annual Open House—a gathering around art, conversation, nourishment, and being together, November 6–7, 2026.
A free screening of the documentary The Alabama Solution, followed by a conversation with Oklahoma advocates about incarceration, immigration detention, the death penalty, and ways to take action. Hosted by Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Julius Jones Institute, and the ACLU of Oklahoma.
The University of Tulsa School of Music and Tulsa Artist Fellowship present an evening of experimental chamber music, bringing Tulsa composer and TU faculty member Alican Çamcı together with andPlay, the violin and viola duo of Maya Bennardo and Hannah Levinson.
Hyped On Experience presents a night of extreme dance music built for collective release. FULLY OPTIMIZED: Thrash Dance In Unity brings New York hardcore techno, experimental electronics, industrial, and breakcore into one high-intensity night of sound, movement, and communal breakthrough.
Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship at the 21st Cherokee Art Market, October 10–11 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, where our presentation features works by Adrienne Keene and Anita Fields alongside Indigenous artists from across the United States and Canada.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is excited to partner with Counterpublic to present Four Days in the Illinois Country; or “L’Esprit de L’Escalier,” an event series exploring land-based approaches to art and artistic approaches to territory, running October 8-11 in St. Louis, MO.
Explore open studios, Black Magic-hosted line dancing and westernwear pop-up, a new Projection mural, Cherokee Art Market, and more across Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship presents Queen Rose: World Building featuring Kalup Linzy at Untitled Art, Houston 2026, Booth D2, bringing together painting, sculpture, film, digitally generated collage portraits, performance, music, fashion, and collaborative works in an expanded presentation rooted in Linzy’s ongoing narrative practice.
Tulsa Artist Fellow Adam Davis presents Road to the Rodeo, a multi-day celebration of Oklahoma’s Black rodeo community culminating in the 24th Demery Family Rodeo. Extending his ongoing photographic project Black Magic, the series brings photography into conversation with film, literature, music, dance, and Oklahoma’s living Black Western traditions.
Explore open studios, exhibitions, and installations across Tulsa Artist Fellowship—including the return of Cherokee Art Market, the final evening of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Untitled with an artist talk at 7 PM, Alicia Smith’s immersive The Spider Women, and artwork created with Tulsa Girls Art School with music from Hot Toast Music Company.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to partner with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and The Church Arthouse to present Nawa / 🫱🏾🫲🏼 / Aha; or, The Handshake, a two-part gathering organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees Gavin Kroeber and Warren Realrider on the occasion of Realrider's Summer 2026 Bemis Sound Artist Residency.
From the Heart of Our Nations highlights a rising generation of young Native writers. Fourteen powerful short stories, all set 250 years in the future. Edited by Kashona Notah with a foreword by Rebecca Nagle.
Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, storytelling, and the release of From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short Fiction.
Serpentine Transmission celebrates the release of their first studio album, of mud and gold, with their first performances outside of Los Angeles. The improvised music quartet features Tulsa Artist Fellow Micaela Tobin on voice and electronics.
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).
This summer, as our country celebrates the 250-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, First America tells the true story of our country’s founding and how our current political moment is 250 years in the making.
This collaboration between Silkroad, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Greenwood Rising brings musicians and culture bearers together to explore how the arts preserve memory, confront difficult histories like the Tulsa Race Massacre, honor Indigenous stories of this land, and create space for healing and community.
Scores for Moving at Assembly is an improvisational dance performance by choreographer Maree ReMalia that activates the public sculpture Assembly by Richard Zimmerman in the Plaza of the Americas.
Join the Goff Center for the Continuous Present at the Spotlight Theater for Bruce Goff’s annual Birthday Bash, a family-friendly Saint Francis Tulsa Tough watch party honoring visionary architect Bruce Goff.
Join us as Miguel Braceli transforms his studio into a queer nightclub with Studio 66, featuring gogos, pole dancers, music, and movement. Through dance and celebration, Flagpole Gogo Party reclaims charged symbols and reimagines gathering as a site of joy, resistance, and collective release. This late-night performance includes mature content and is recommended for audiences ages 21 and older.
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.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship announces Projection, a new rotating public art series conceived, curated, and directed by artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh on the exterior wall of the Fellowship’s studio building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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.
