A new generation of singer-songwriters, including Kaitlin Butts and Lance Roark, is thriving as the state's Red Dirt scene finally has its mainstream moment
Aired on Wednesday, March 10th.
Our guest on StudioTulsa is Carolyn Sickles, the Executive Director of Tulsa Artist Fellowship, or TAF, which is an arts-and-community-focused project of the George Kaiser Family Foundation. The TAF recently announced that it has given 22 of its fellows an Arts Integration Award for 2020-2021, which is meant to help these artists further their involvement with (and presence within) the Tulsa community via new works, new series, and so on. The award includes a $25,000 stipend, $10,000 in project resources, and also free living and work spaces. As Sickles tells us, a few of the notable, now-in-progress endeavors stemming from this award include Liz Blood s Creative Field Guide to Northeastern Oklahoma, Joy Harjo s We Were There When Jazz Was Invented: Jazz of Southeastern Native Nations Peoples, Karl Jones Goff-Fest, and Quraysh Ali Lansana s The Namesake Project.