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.
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.
Explore open studios, exhibitions, installations, and music across Tulsa Artist Fellowship—including Alicia Smith’s immersive The Spider Women, artwork created with Tulsa Girls Art School, and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s public art installation Untitled.
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.
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.
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.
Join us for Picture's Up: Camera, Lights, Sound, 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.
Since 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series celebrating awardees, alumni, and the Tulsa community. Visitors can explore open studios, exhibitions, and live programming throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries.
Artist Kalup Linzy leads a five-week experimental film workshop exploring Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey through collaborative storytelling. Participants will create an exquisite corpse film, to be presented in a Fall exhibition at Queen Rose Art House.
On the occasion of the closing of Le'Andra LeSeur’s exhibition, Monument Eternal, this panel brings together Acclaimed Designer, Kamille Glenn, and NDA Haus Founder, Vondell J. Burns to join her in an intimate conversation on the importance of telling our stories through intentionally cultivated spaces.
Preview the forthcoming feature documentary, What She Carries, directed by Brit Hensel and produced by Taylor Hensel, both award-winning filmmakers and citizens of the Cherokee Nation. The film follows Indigenous mothers, families, and birth workers as they work to restore cultural knowledge and community-centered birth practices.
Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Philbrook Museum of Art for a special World Water Day celebration featuring a live performance by Samantha Crain, followed by a screening of Drowned Land (2025).
Impermanent Presence centers the Ethiopian coffee ceremony as both cultural practice and shared social space. Through aroma, conversation, and attentive preparation, the gathering opens a space to think about hospitality, memory, and the relationships formed around the table.
GOFF, directed by Britni Harris, explores the life and legacy of visionary architect Bruce Goff. The screening includes an introduction by Craig Lee and a Q&A with Harris, Penelope Dean, and Alison Fisher, moderated by Karl Jones. Organized by the UIC School of Architecture, MAS Context, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
A milestone First Friday.
Join us in welcoming the 2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardees—bringing our community to a full cohort of 30 artists. Explore artworks in progress, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. Free and open to all—come celebrate with us.
Please join NAM Common and Tulsa Artist Fellowship for the closing reception of Mỹ People. Traveling through Oklahoma and Missouri in 2025, artists Việt H. Nguyễn and Nic Annette Miller documented community events that sustain Vietnamese culture, history, faith, and a sense of belonging.
