2022 Thrive Awardees

Art Friends will be hosting a week-long free and accessible, "Workshop Series", that will offer daily online programming on topics such as art, mindset, and business and end with an in-person networking party and an opportunity to receive an annual scholarship to receive an Art Friends membership and join the community! 

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Taking inspiration from longstanding BIPOC solidarity and coalition-building, Exchanging Horizons will document connections between Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities in Tulsa, OK via photographic documentation.

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This project invites Black, Native American, and White visual artists to collaborate on a 2023 exhibition about the complex, interconnected, and nuanced issue of racism.

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This community-focused exhibition will showcase two artists, Shyanne Dickey and Edward Grady, whose work highlights the power of art as a storytelling and healing tool.

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This project will create a quilt memorial for Greenwood to honor everything lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre and a space to process ongoing harms.

“Yes I Can, Roger” is a grand scale wooden inlay exhibition portraying a roller skater confronting her buffalo fears through a graphic novelesque experience.

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Mythology, Folklore & Fables:  Celebrating Mermaids of Color is a visual presentation that uniquely contrasts the Eurocentric narrative to that of marginalized perspectives.

Rock Paper Scissors collaborative will create immersive pop-up art installations around Oklahoma that engage viewers in joy as an act of resistance to the everyday mundane.

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