This November, Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s annual Open House becomes Among Artists—a free weekend of art, conversation, and a shared meal in the heart of downtown Tulsa, November 6–7.
The Fellowship’s 30 artists live and work right here in Tulsa, and their projects show up across the city all year long. Among Artists is a chance to step inside: visit their studios, hear what they’re working on, and meet the people shaping Tulsa’s creative life. Join for one gathering or spend the weekend with us.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Opening Readings: Kashona Notah and Joy Harjo
6 PM | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship
112 N. Boston Avenue
Among Artists begins with readings by two writers whose work brings questions of memory, inheritance, and belonging into conversation.
Kashona Notah, an Iñupiaq tribal citizen and shareholder raised within a Diné family, is a fiction writer and 2024–2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow. He will read from Night Sky, his essay published in Oklahoma Humanities, reflecting on his father, becoming a writer, and the significance of Harjo’s words aboard NASA’s Lucy spacecraft.
Notah will then welcome Joy Harjo to read Remember, the poem at the heart of his essay. A poet, musician, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Harjo served three terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and has recently returned to the Fellowship’s studios as an alum-in-residence.
Executive & Artistic Director Carolyn Sickles will offer opening remarks marking the culmination of the Fellowship’s first three-year cohort.
Shane Brown: Wilderness of Mirrors
7–9 PM | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship
112 N. Boston Avenue
Celebrate the solo exhibition of Shane Brown, an Oklahoma-born photographer, cinematographer, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and culminating Tulsa Artist Fellow. Drawing on more than two decades of documenting the American West, Brown transforms photographs of landscapes, animals, and celestial events into kaleidoscopic compositions that explore place, perception, and time. A collaboration with Pokeweed, the publication founded by Fellowship alum Liz Blood, offers a limited takeaway pairing a back issue with a print of Brown’s work, while materials last.
Open Studios
7–9 PM | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Studios
109 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Meet Fellows and alumni-in-residence in their studios, see work in progress, and move between the Studios and Flagship throughout the evening.
In the Company of Art
Discover a collective presentation across disciplines, bringing small works and studio materials by current Fellows, alumni-in-residence, and Tulsa-based alumni into company with one another.
Amy Hoagland: Time Tellers
Encounter an installation by current Fellow Amy Hoagland featuring ice core holders and mirrors etched with images of Tulsa trees.
Rooftop DJ Set with DJ Natty Boom (Ebony Dumas)
Tropical bass, international pop, house, and hip-hop. Weather permitting. Dumas’s film work is also on view in Hero Journeys 2 through December 19 at Queen Rose Art House, founded by Fellowship alum-in-residence Kalup Linzy.
Adam Davis: Brothers in Life & the Arena
On the Studios façade, Adam Davis’s monumental portrait of twin brothers Trevor and Trenton Whayne, drawn from his ongoing Black Magic tintype project, brings Black rodeo culture, family, and belonging into Tulsa’s public landscape. On view through December 30, it is the second installation of Projection, the public art series conceived, curated, and directed by Tulsa Artist Fellow Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Between Practices
10 AM–4:30 PM | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship
112 N. Boston Avenue
Begin with brunch by Prism, served from 10–10:30 AM, then join conversations led by current and past Tulsa Artist Fellows, along with invited artists, scholars, and community voices. Between Practices explores how artistic practices develop through inheritance, collaboration, public space, and relationships with place.
- Inheritance and artistic practice, led by Myiesha Gordon Beales, considering how family histories and cultural knowledge inform what artists make.
- Black and Indigenous solidarity in creative spaces, led by Colleen Thurston, exploring relationships and shared possibilities.
- Tulsa’s changing spaces and collective life, led by Melissa Lukenbaugh, considering how the places we inhabit shape the ways we gather and create.
- Visibility and representation through Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, with Quraysh Ali Lansana and Amir Saadiq.
- The art of making public art, with Rehab El Sadek and Curt Gettman exploring creativity, collaboration, and compromise.
- Creative exchange and adaptation, with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Adam Davis, and Le’Andra LeSeur reflecting on how practices develop through working together.
Eyakem Gulilat: Sacred Grounds + Midrib Coffee
Current Fellow Eyakem Gulilat will introduce Sacred Grounds through a brief reflection and screening of the film’s trailer, accompanied by coffee from his family’s farm in Ethiopia. Connecting his projects Impermanent Presence and Sacred Grounds with Midrib Coffee, Gulilat considers what we carry from home and how inherited practices help us make a place elsewhere.
A Shared Table
5:30–7 PM | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Roof Terrace
109 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Gather with Fellows, alumni, families, neighbors, and guests over a meal prepared by Chef Carla Meneses and her family at Que Gusto, whose Ecuadorian roots have become part of Tulsa’s food and community life. Featuring seasonal ingredients from Clark-Asberry Homestead Ranch, operated by Fellowship alum Dr. Rodney Clark and Sheila Clark, the dinner connects the people who grow our food, prepare it, and gather to share it. Rodney will offer brief remarks on food, land, and community.
Denis McGilvray, host and producer of The Rhythm Atlas on Public Radio Tulsa, has curated music for the evening, including work by Tulsa’s own Joy Harjo.
All Among Artists exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
To RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/among-artists-tickets-2003434939836?aff=oddtdtcreator
Street parking is free after 5 PM and on weekends.
To request an accessibility accommodation, please email info@tulsaartistfellowship.org or call (539) 302-4855.
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