Tulsa Artist Fellowship Announces 2018 Fellows
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In a continued effort to enhance Tulsa's arts scene, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF) recently awarded six literary and six visual artists from across the country the opportunity to live, work and create in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation in 2015, TAF provides unrestricted stipends of $20,000 for the first year of fellowship, as well as free housing and workspace in the thriving Tulsa Arts District in Tulsa. By providing such support, artists receive a measure of the financial stability and resources needed to pursue their craft.
"The Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to provide artists, at varying levels of their careers and with a variety of disciplines, the basic fundamentals that artists need to successfully broaden their practice: time, space and financial support," said TAF Program Director Julia White.
With over 500 applications from all over the country, the selected fellows will bring a variety of artistic disciplines, including: painting, performance art, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics and interdisciplinary within the visual arts cohort; and poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction within the literary arts cohort.
"The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a great opportunity for me to engage with a vibrant and burgeoning arts scene," said incoming literary arts fellow and poet Meghan Martin. "The fellowship also affords me the most precious commodity an artist can hope for?the time and financial stability to complete new work."
The 2018 TAF Visual Arts Fellow panel includes Chad Alligood (The Huntington, chief curator of American art), Jack Becker (Forecast Public Art, director of community services), Adriana Herrara (Aluna Art Foundation, curator), Andrea Hanley (IAIA Museum of Contemporary Arts, program manager) and Marilyn Zapf (The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, assistant director and curator). The 2018 TAF Literary Arts Fellow panel includes Katie Freeman (Riverhead Books, associate director of publicity), Burkhard Bilger (writer, editor and Branford Fellow at Yale University), Benjamin Lytal (author), Jewell Parker Rhodes (Arizona State University, author and endowed chair) and Tim Staley (Austin Public Library Foundation, executive director).
In addition to the Selection Panel, TAF Committee members provide assistance throughout the selection process. Jeff Martin (Philbrook Museum of Art and BookSmart Tulsa) is a TAF Committee member and moderated the 2018 Literary Arts Selection Panel.
"The thought, care, and attention to detail put into both writer and panelist selection, exemplifies the overall ambition and quality of the entire TAF program," said Martin. The 2018 TAF Visual Arts Fellows include Florine Demosthene (Painting - Brooklyn, NY); Moheb Soliman (Installation, Performance Art, Poetry - Minneapolis, MN); Heyd Fontenot (Painting, Drawing, Installation, Video - Dallas, TX); Shane Darwent (Interdisciplinary - Ypsilanti, MI); Elisa Harkins (Painting, Sculpture, Sound, Installation - Miami, OK); and Rafael Corzo (Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Installation - NYC, NY).
The 2018 TAF Literary Arts Fellows include Clemonce Heard (Poetry - New Orleans, LA); Erik Ekstrand (Poetry - Winston-Salem, NC); Rhett McNeil (Fiction - Phoenix, AZ); Kristi Eaton (Creative Nonfiction - Tulsa, OK); Mark de Silva (Fiction - New York, NY); and Meghan Martin (Poetry ? Brooklyn, NY).
The incoming 2018 TAF Fellows will be joining 2016 and 2017 TAF Fellows bringing the total number of TAF Literary and Visual Arts Fellows living and creating in Tulsa to 42. To learn more about TAF or to apply for a fellowship position, visit www.tulsaartistfellowship.org.
About Tulsa Artist Fellowship
The Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF) is a program established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to enhance the local art scene by recruiting artists to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The residency program welcomes visual artists and writers representing a diversity of styles and disciplines to live and work in Tulsa's vibrant Tulsa Arts District.
SOURCE Tulsa Artist Fellowship
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