2024 Grantees
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
108 Contemporary
The bART Center for Music
Chamber Music Tulsa
presenting unforgettable performances of the very best chamber music in the world live in Tulsa.
Circle Cinema
Tulsa’s oldest-standing movie theatre that originally opened in 1928. We educate, enlighten and entertain our guests 365 days a year through selected features and programs that expose and connect our community to global issues, environments and cultures.
The Church Studio
The Church Studio is an iconic recording facility that supports, educates, and inspires with a professional recording environment, public programs, and interpretive exhibits.
Clark Youth Theatre
Tulsa’s longest running youth arts program outside the public schools. Offering a full season of main stage productions, improv, enjoy, and understand the diverse heritage of the Americas.
Discovery Lab
With a labyrinth of tunnels, a slide made from packing tape, science demos, The WorkShop, Science Lab, and so much more, Discovery Lab is a place where kids and their families can make, learn, explore, and design things using real stuff in new and different ways. Inspired by best practices in informal learning.
Fab Lab
Fab Lab Tulsa provides community access to advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication tools for learning skills, developing inventions, creating businesses and producing personalized products.
Gilcrease Museum
Gilcrease Museum, through its collections, is dedicated to bringing art, history, and people together to research, discover, enjoy, and understand the diverse heritage of the Americas.
Greenwood Cultural Center
In the heart of Tulsa’s teeming African American community, the Greenwood Cultural Center (GCC) is more than just a building or a gathering place. Their mission in its essence: promoting, preserving, and celebrating African American culture and heritage.
Harmony Project Tulsa
Harmony Project Tulsa (HPT) is a multi-year, music-based, after-school mentoring program that gives daily academic tutoring, string instrument instruction, and music lessons to students in at-risk communities. We follow students from pre-k through high school graduation.
Horton Records
Our mission is to provide support and tools for band management, promotion, booking, merchandising, and distribution in order to help local and regional musicians fulfill their artistic goals and further promote local and regional music on a broader scale.
Living Arts of Tulsa
Living Arts was organized for the development and presentation of contemporary art. We encourage the public to attend and participate in creative workshops, performances, exhibitions, films, demonstrations of current art, lectures, related educational activities and research.
Northeastern Oklahoma Wood Turners Association
The Association’s purpose is to foster a wider understanding and appreciation for woodturning as a craft and as an art form. The Association intends to offer such services as a website, introductory classes, youth education, video programs, library, seminars, clinics, shows and exhibits.
Oklahoma Movement
Formerly Portico Dance Theatre, Oklahoma Movement has over a ten year history of bringing together dance artists to experience the meaning of movement through engaging the audience in thought-provoking works that both challenge and expand the viewer’s experience. …
Oklahoma Performing Arts
Oklahoma Performing Arts, Inc. has programs in dance, voice, acting, and music-making for a well-rounded, well-trained artist. Our internationally trained and experienced faculty members are either accredited and/or professionals in their industry.
Philbrook Museum of Art
Serving over 160,000 visitors annually, Philbrook has become a poignant testimony to Tulsa’s past while building a shining example of this city’s bright future. The vision first made possible by Waite and Genevieve Phillips is now one of America’s finest art museums.
The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art
The mission of the SMMJA is to preserve and share the legacy of Jewish art, history and culture. Through exhibitions and educational programs focusing on Jewish culture, history, religion, and art, the Museum hopes people will come to understand and identify with the Jewish experience.
Solid Foundation Preparatory Arts Academy
Solid Foundation Preparatory Academy (SFPA) offers a first-rate academic program for its students. We provide a rigorous, arts-infused curriculum and a stimulating environment conducive to intellectual growth and character development. SFPA provides the foundation for our students to become lifelong learners.
South Tulsa Children’s Ballet
Our mission is to provide a pre-professional performance opportunity and encourage children to continue their dance education.
Theatre North
Artistic Goals: To continue to develop and cultivate new talent in the Tulsa community. To continue to maintain and stabilize an African-American performing arts community. To provide a nurturing environment for African-American theatre artists. To continue to work with underserved youth.
Theatre Tulsa
Founded in 1922, Theatre Tulsa is the longest-lasting local theatre west of the Mississippi River, and the seventh oldest in the United States. For 94 seasons and counting, Theatre Tulsa has been a vital part of Green Country’s culture – entertaining, educating, and inspiring Tulsans of all ages through the power of theatre.
Tulsa Artists’ Coalition
The Tulsa Artists’ Coalition (TAC) is a volunteer-run organization of artists and art supporters, formed to encourage and support emerging and established contemporary artists, and to foster the development of new forms and multidisciplinary work in Tulsa and surrounding communities.
Tulsa Ballet
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Marcello Angelini, Tulsa Ballet has reached new heights on the stage, while bringing unprecedented recognition to Tulsa and the State of Oklahoma by developing an artistic reputation marked by innovative works with international impact.
Tulsa Botanic Garden
The mission of the Tulsa Botanic Garden is to promote the beauty and importance of plants and nature to create a more sustainable and harmonious world.
Tulsa Chorale
Inspiring Tulsa audiences since 1992, Tulsa Chorale is a nonprofit chorus comprised of more than 100 auditioned singers from diverse professional backgrounds, blending together into one voice. The mission of the chorus is to inspire our community through passionate choral performance experiences. Each member shares a passion for great choral music, a dedication to the art of classical music performance, and a vision to make choral music performance relevant to a growing group of performers and listeners.
Tulsa Girls Art School
At Tulsa Girls Art School, art is the vehicle. Fostering resilient, self-determined, empowered young women is the goal! We are an after-school art and youth development program that provides year-round support and resources to at-promise girls – all at no cost to the girl or their family.
Tulsa Glassblowing School
Tulsa Glassblowing School was founded in 2007 and provides an open access hotshot and kiln studio offering unique experiences for anyone interested in the beauty of glass art. From the novice to the skilled glass artist, TGS provides an outlet for creativity, teamwork and self-expression.
Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
The Tulsa Historical Society is the only museum in Tulsa focused on building, preserving, and presenting a broad based general collection of Tulsa’s history.
Tulsa Modern Quilt Guild
Tulsa Modern Quilt Guild, TulsaMQG, was formed on a whim in February of 2010. There were four people at our first meeting at Shades of Brown coffee house. We now have more than 90 members in our online community and guild, with around 40-50 people attending each monthly meeting. In addition to our meetings, the guild’s activities include quarterly sew-days, an annual retreat, challenges, bees, swaps, and various workshops and social activities.
Tulsa Opera
Tulsa Opera is the 14th oldest opera company in North America, and one of America’s Top 10 favorite regional opera companies according to Opera News magazine. However, the story of opera and the foundations of Tulsa Opera begin with the city’s earliest settlers.
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust
We’re more than home to art in Tulsa; we’re also a nonprofit entity working hard to make sure everyone in our community has access to arts education and experiences. Explore to find out more!
Tulsa Symphony
The mission is to collaborate and resonate throughout our community as the professional orchestra that educates, entertains, inspires, and distinguishes our community through musical excellence, innovation and service.
Tulsa Youth Symphony
For more than a half century, the Tulsa Youth Symphony has been bringing together the best of the best talent from across Northeastern Oklahoma. Nurtured and trained by conductors of national caliber, these students learn to collaborate and produce music that will absolutely astound you.
Tulsa Signature Symphony
Mission of the Signature Symphony:
Create meaningful shared experiences between professional musicians and our community.
Vision of the Signature Symphony:
Make professional orchestral music accessible to all.
Twisted Arts
Dedicated to advancing, celebrating, elevating and amplifying LGBTQ+ artists by showcasing the best independent films, music, performances and all forms of mixed media.
World Stage Theatre Company
The World Stage Theatre Company gives actors and audiences access to the world by telling multicultural, inspirational, and transformational stories to connect our hearts and minds with people, places, and ideas.
Vocal Pride Foundation Council Oak Men’s Chorale
The vision of the Vocal Pride Foundation is to foster communication, enhance cooperation and build bridges through performing arts in Tulsa and surrounding communities by supporting gay, lesbian and affirming arts organizations that further their creative and artistic endeavors in the community.
WaterWorks Art Center
WaterWorks Art Center’s mission is to provide a nurturing environment where skilled and aspiring artists alike can explore and develop their personal interests. We believe in Art for Everyone!
Zephyrus Arts Institute
Oklahoma’s Only Competitive Drum Corps and SoundSport Team and home to South City Winds.