Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Basket Books & Art are pleased to present the work of Perata Bradley and Eyakem Gulilat, at the inaugural Untitled Art, Houston 2025 art fair, September 19-21 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to partner with the Cherokee Art Market for three special First Fridays. Meet talented artists featured in this year’s market and take home incredible works of art.
Awardee Rehab El Sadek unveils Re:Collection—a striking new sculpture series exploring the preservation of personal and collective memories. Inspired by ancient Egyptian methods of her ancestors, El Sadek wraps her forms in gauze and natural pigments, safeguarding both object and story.
Mark your calendars for Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s Open House 2025 from October 3-5! This arts-centered weekend features exhibitions, public artworks, performances, readings, discussions, film screenings, open studios, art and literary publications, community meals, and more.
In Monument Eternal, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee Le’Andra LeSeur dissects the ways that monuments erected to commemorate racist legacies have altered the mental psyche of Black communities.
Since its inaugural year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. Discover artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. First Fridays are free and open to all. Come for the art, stay for the community.
Since its inaugural year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. Discover artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. First Fridays are free and open to all. Come for the art, stay for the community.
Celebrate the closing of WAR CLUB: Native Art & Activism with a full day of artist talks, workshops, screenings, and a rooftop gathering—free with registration in partnership with Philbrook Museum of Art.
Since its inaugural year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. Discover artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries. First Fridays are free and open to all. Come for the art, stay for the community.
Danielle Jackson, the 2025 Queen Rose Art House Artist-in-Residence, is a critic, researcher, and curator whose Getty Museum–supported project revisits Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971), photographed in the 'Model Cities' neighborhoods of Cherokee Heights and Kendall-Whittier.
Join us at the Philbrook Museum of Art for a special screening of acclaimed filmmaker Brit Hensel's short film, "THIN PLACES," an evocative cinematic experience that explores profound themes of life and death.
Join us for the You Need This Oklahoma Premiere as director Ryan Andrej Lough takes us through a looking glass into the grip of consumer capitalism—how it shapes our values, identities, and even our dreams.
Tvlse Studios and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are honored to welcome Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, and celebrated Muscogee artist Dana Tiger for a special appearance at the Keepers of the Land exhibit inside La Fonda on the Plaza as part of Sovereign Santa Fe, held during the Santa Fe Indian Market weekend.
The creative team of WAKE—including dancer and choreographer Jay Carlon and sound artist Micaela Tobin—invites you to join them for an intimate film screening and conversation about the transformation of this work and the rebuilding of rituals following the recent loss of their dear friend and collaborator, láwû makuriye’nte.
The human voice is a powerful tool. Connecting to and understanding your physical voice is an important vehicle for empowering one's inner voice! Join vocalist and sound artist Micaela Tobin this summer to discover the power of resonating your alignment.
Join us at Flagship for With Simone, a live performance of a historical score by Simone Forti, originally published in Womens Work (1975), a landmark collection of experimental compositions edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood. In this activation, Transitive State, a Tulsa-based movement collective, responds to Forti’s instruction.
Since its inaugural year in 2016, Tulsa Artist Fellowship has hosted First Fridays, a free monthly series highlighting our awardees, alum-in-residence, and Tulsa community members. Discover artistic workspaces, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food throughout our studios, roof terrace, and galleries.
Acclaimed performers include Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Raven Chacon, Tulsa Artist Fellows Micaela Tobin (as White Boy Scream), Warren Realrider (WAR) with Matt Hex (MRH) as Pit Erosion, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum Nathan Young with Chacon as Spirit Abuse.
Join Japan-based artist Umico Niwa, exhibiting artist in Spatial Poems on view at Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship, for an intimate workshop session inspired by adornment, embodiment, and transformation.
Drowned Land, the debut feature documentary by Choctaw filmmaker and Tulsa Artist Fellow Colleen Thurston, will premiere in Tulsa on Saturday, July 12, as part of the 2025 Circle Cinema Film Festival.
Presented by Pitku and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, this evening features a live performance by Kole Galbraith and Tulsa Artist Fellow Warren Realrider, with a guest appearance by Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream).
Join us for a screening of We Are Guardians, a powerful new environmental doc, at Circle Cinema with a special opening night Q&A. The Q&A will feature Amber Morning Star Byars (Impact Strategist for the film / member of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and Warren C. Queton (Kiowa Tribe Legislator / Kiowa, Seminole, & Cherokee) in conversation with Michelle Svenson (Tulsa Artist Fellowship Artistic Program Producer). Warren will also perform an opening and closing prayer with the event.
Tulsa Artist Fellow Franky Cruz and guest artist Juan William Chavez come together for a conversation on ecological art, multispecies collaboration, and transforming studios into living environments, drawing from Cruz’s work with butterflies and Chavez’s long-running projects with bees. Held in TAF’s new Greenhouse LAB space (Archer Studios #229) and organized by Fellow Gavin Kroeber, the evening concludes with a playful sonic digestif: a Plant Rave featuring sound and video by Chavez in collaboration with invited performers.
Spatial Poems re-inscribes what it means and feels like to occupy space and experience a temporality that actively reconnects the body with itself and its surroundings. The works on view provide tools for perceiving, challenging, and subverting geographic language and, in doing so, create new landscapes, both real and imagined.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to our signature First Friday series on June 6! Explore open artist studios, enjoy complimentary food and drinks, and experience vibrant creative programming across our Archer Studios and Flagship spaces.
Join us for a special evening celebrating the enduring legacy of Black rodeo culture with a screening of the rarely-seen 1972 documentary Black Rodeoand the short film Villain, directed by Tulsa Artist Fellow Adam Davis.
Poet Derek Mong and translator Anne O. Fisher present readings and a conversation around their new books—Fisher’s translation of the 1986 Soviet gay romance Pioneer Summer and Mong’s verse collection When the Earth Flies Into the Sun. Together they explore love amid political repression and ecological crisis, and discuss poetry and translation in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. Co-presented by Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City Books.
Magic City Books and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are teaming up to welcome Jennifer Hope Choi for a free event on Thursday, May 22 to celebrate her book, The Wanderer’s Curse. This event will take place at Philbrook Museum of Art. Choi will be in conversation with Christina Chaey, a recipe developer, writer, and cook.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to Osage County’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve for an immersive cliff swallow excursion. University of Tulsa’s Dr. Charles R. Brown will unveil four decades of swallow biology and habitat research, followed by awardee Warren Realrider, who presents his Kahâriwis (Cliff Swallow) art project bridging Pawnee heritage with contemporary Nebraska.
The Tulsa Film Collective presents Picture’s Up — a free workshop series led by department heads and key crew from the award-winning Reservation Dogs and Sterlin Harjo’s latest Tulsa-based series. Learn firsthand from industry pros bringing these groundbreaking productions to life.
This exhibition features work created during Queen Rose Art House's very first experimental film and video workshop. Using Oklahoma as the backdrop, subject, and/or character, each participant created a short film or video exploring a plot point from Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. Curated by Kalup Linzy, the exhibition can be viewed at Queen Rose Art House on Saturdays between 12:00PM - 6:00 PM from May 3 through June 28, 2025.