WRITING WITH OUR ANCESTORS:
A REMATRIATION WEEKEND RETREAT
Co-hosted by Awardees Ashanti Chaplin & Chelsea T. Hicks
Friday, August 11 - Sunday, August 13, 2023
For more information, visit wtpgathering.org
Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all.
Words of The People hosts Indigenous Language Creative Writing Workshops as well as Native women-led Rematriation workshops in Tulsa, OK. As land-connected women have worked to define Rematriation, it is to “return the sacred to the mother,” and comprises a complimentary practice to the Land Back movement.
SCHEDULE
Magickal Rematriation by Maria Minnis
Friday, August 11 | 12 - 3 pm
Flagship at Tulsa Artist Fellowship
112 N. Boston Ave. Tulsa, OK 74103
Rematriation Open Mic
Friday, August 11 | 7 - 9 pm
Whitty Books
2306 E Admiral Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74110
Ancestral Connection Workshop
Saturday, August 12 | 11 am - 4 pm
Archer Studios at Tulsa Artist Fellowship
109 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74103
Land Connection Workshop
Sunday, August 13 | 11 am - 4 pm
Tallgrass Prairie
15316 Co Rd 4201, Pawhuska, OK 74056
IMAGE: Workshop facilitator Maria Minnis
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Maria Minnis (she/her) is a writer, designer, and oracle originally from greater Appalachia who teaches about everyday magic and holographic thinking. She is the author of the popular blog series, Anti-Racism with the Tarot. Maria has worked with the tarot for 20 years and considers herself an eternal student of life, and thus the tarot.
Chelsea Tayrien Hicks is a writer with Wazhazhe heritage, residing in various places like San Francisco, Pawhuska, and Hampton Roads. Her first book, "A Calm & Normal Heart," was published by Unnamed Press in 2022. She is currently working on a poetry collection in Wahzhazhe ie, supported by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. Her writing has been featured in several publications, including McSweeney’s, LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, and The Paris Review. Additionally, her work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Manetti Shrem Museum. Chelsea holds an MA from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she now teaches creative writing. She is actively involved in heritage language creative writing and revitalization workshops, earning recognition from the Ford Foundation for her efforts. In 2022, she organized the Indigenous language creative writing workshop, Words of the People, in Tulsa.
Ashanti Chaplin is a cultural producer and multiform conceptual artist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, based in Brooklyn, New York. Ashanti holds an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She held the inaugural Curator of Public Engagement appointment at Dia Art Foundation. Ashanti is the recipient of a 2021-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Themes of reclamation, power, and transformation are her compass points. She leverages institutional resources and platforms to develop new models of collective engagement that unmake oppressive systems and activate networks of embodied equity. Her desire to be in community with diverse creative practitioners via eclectic means of exchange and expression informs why and how she works at the intersections of liberatory pedagogy, research, design, social, spatial, and material practice. Chaplin's fluency as a maker and cultural producer animates the core of her work and allows her to world-build across mediums, disciplines, and audiences.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. Our public programming is free, documented, and archived.
Public hours for Flagship (112 N. Boston Ave. Tulsa, OK 74103) are Thursday-Saturday from 12-6 pm. Flagship accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to the areas for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family-scale private washrooms are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. Street-side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 pm and all-day Saturday-Sunday.
Archer Studios (109 MLK Jr Blvd E. Tulsa, OK 74103) & Cameron Studios (303 N Main St, Tulsa, OK 74103) accommodate wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to areas for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family-scale private washrooms are available, designed to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. The elevator at Archer Studios is located at the main west entrance on Martin Luther King Blvd. Street-side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 pm and all-day Saturday-Sunday.
To learn more about Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming, please follow our social media channels or signup for public emails at tulsaartistfellowship.org. For questions about accessibility, to request an accommodation, or to share feedback, please email info@tulsaartistfellowship.org or call +1 (539) 302-4855.