Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes our neighbors and friends to celebrate the 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees and February First Friday open studios! Que Gusto is thoughtfully preparing a festive menu alongside beverages by Heirloom Rustic Ales.

Ring in the Year of the Snake surrounded by neighbors and friends at Downtown Tulsa's first-ever Lunar New Year Festival! This celebratory evening includes cultural performances, free food, music, family-friendly activities, sparklers, a spectacular lion dance performance by the Hung Viet Lion Dance Team, and special remarks by Mayor Monroe Nichols.

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to announce a pop-up performance organized by awardee Warren Realrider and percussionist Marshall Trammell as a new duo fighting formation, Postcolonial Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement (Postcolonial ENLA).

Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

Join us for a salon reading that will close The Remains exhibition at Studio 227 (Tulsa Artist Fellowship Archer Studios). Share a piece of elegy or reflect on what remains. I will also read a small section from the book I am working on that is tied to the exhibition.

Join the Arab Film Fest Tulsa community for a five-hour event featuring two critically acclaimed films from Arab World nations currently experiencing extreme turmoil. The event includes a discussion accompanying one film and a meal in between the screenings.

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Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

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Calling all artists and arts workers! Hang out with other artists on the lawn after hours at this second annual event, celebrating all you bring to our vibrant, creative community. Enjoy food by Burning Cedar’s Nico Albert Williams and drinks by Heirloom Rustic Ales. Bring your creative spirit, an appetite, and a blanket!

Co-hosted by the Philbrook Museum of Art. Free to all local artists, arts workers, and their families.

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Native artists overtly and covertly utilize their work in the intergenerational fight for sovereignty. Join WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism artists Anita Fields, Yatika Fields, and Bob Haozous as they discuss the influence of Native art activists of the past and their effect on the present and future of Native representation in the arts and beyond.

Curated by Kalyn Fay Barnoski, Assistant Curator of Native Art, WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism will be exhibited at the Philbrook Museum of Art from October 5, 2024, to June 29, 2025.

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Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship at Gathering Place ONEOK Boathouse for a special author reading with Traci Sorell, an award-winning fiction and nonfiction author for young people of all ages, focusing primarily on the contemporary lives of Native peoples. In Sorell’s Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, learn about Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer who designed classified airplanes and spacecrafts. An all-ages complimentary lunch will be provided. Attendee households will receive a free copy of the book and two STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) activities: Paper 'Glider' Airplanes & Mark Dion: Cabinet of Wonder Scavenger Hunt!

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Astronomical star parties are gatherings where seasoned space enthusiasts or wide-eyed beginners come together to observe celestial objects such as stars, planets, and galaxies. Space For Us will provide shared telescopes, but participants with telescopes are encouraged to bring them out and share their knowledge, fostering a communal atmosphere for stargazing and astronomical appreciation. ​​Star parties are more than just stargazing; they can be transformative experiences that ignite a cosmic perspective within every participant. This cosmic perspective is a profound overview of our place in the vast expanse of the universe.

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Join the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for an evening of "Indigenous Star Films" under the night sky. The program will feature the family-friendly animation series "Star Stories" created by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, "Sun & The Great Frog" (2017, Tsalagi Language, English Subtitles) by Joseph Erb (Cherokee), "The Story of the Northern Lights" (2016, Cree Language, English Subtitles) by the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc. (MFNERC), and the Oklahoma premiere of the hybrid feature documentary "Wilfred Buck" (2024) by Lisa Jackson (Anishinaabe).

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Inspired by his grandmother’s kitchen, Chef Bradley James Dry (Wolf Clan of the Cherokee Nation) hosts a community gathering called "Millie's House," centered around family nourishment underneath the Guthrie Green Pergola.

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On Saturday, October 5, the SkyDome Portable Planetarium and Space Science Museum, one of the southern region's largest traveling museums, will offer an all-ages an immersive journey through space, science, and the arts with NASA memorabilia, rocket models, and more.

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Scholar and Curator, Tavia Nyong’o will discuss the racial reckoning in theater, dance, and performance with moderator, artist Kalup Linzy. Yale University scholar and Park Avenue Armory Curator of Public Programming Tavia Nyong’o will discuss the racial reckoning in theater, dance, and performance. Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum, Artist, and Queen Rose Art House founder Kalup Linzy will moderate the Q&A.

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Join artist Eyakem Gulilat for an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, a tradition of sharing stories, wisdom, and community over coffee from Asikana.

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This program brings together the work of two prolific artists Arthur Jafa and Philip Mallory Jones.  Using video collage and a documentary approach, both artists have created moving works about the nuanced Black experience.

Le'Andra LeSeur organizes A Dialogue on Being, a panel discussion with Jessica Gaynelle Moss, Pamela Council, and Alexandra Jane about critical perspectives on Black art and cultivating space for the well-being of Black artists.

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Since its inaugural program year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. First Fridays features artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across our studios, roof terrace, and gallery spaces. As always, First Fridays are free and open to all.

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Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship in celebrating the 2024 Open House weekend! Experience a diverse array of events by our vibrant community of artists, including the debut of the Flagship dark sky exhibition, Earthbound, in partnership with Space for Us. Learn from artist, astronaut, and geologist Dr. Sian Proctor about her visionary perspective from the stars. Preview the first installment of the Space for Us ‘Dark Sky Diaries' series. Our friends and neighbor Que Gusto are preparing a special menu exploring the darkest ingredients in the earth, waters, and sky. Drumming and vocals by Warren Queton (Kiowa).

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Tulsa Artist Fellowship welcomes our community members to our signature monthly First Friday series that engages visitors through artists' open studios, artworks on view, curated music, and food. 

Tulsa Artist Fellowship opens for our signature First Friday series on August 2. Explore awardee studios. Experience the latest Flagship exhibition on view 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms alongside a Literary Salon in the style of Gertrude Stein. The evening features readings and performances by Osage artists, writers, and musicians, and jewelry designs in an environment of safety and freedom.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship opens for our signature First Friday series on August 2. Explore awardee studios. Experience the latest Flagship exhibition on view 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷(Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms alongside a Literary Salon in the style of Gertrude Stein. The evening features readings, performances by Osage artists, writers, and musicians, and jewelry designs in an environment of safety and freedom.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship opens for our signature First Friday series on July 5. Cool down at Flagship with frosty beverages by Heirloom Rustic Ales while exploring our new exhibition on view, 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings):𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to join us for the opening reception of the latest Flagship Exhibition. 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒻𐒷 poetic forms, featuring works by Osage artists meditating upon Waleze, or the 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒻𐒷 word for the written Osage language—as well as the word used to refer to photos, designs, patterns, books, and all markings.