Camp Philbrook
Summer Camp. Small Classes. Super Fun.
The beloved Tulsa summer tradition returns Summer 2025! Camp Philbrook offers a unique opportunity for children ages 3-14 to work with local artists and outdoor educators to make art and explore nature. Give the children in your life an unforgettable summer experience exploring ideas, getting messy in the studio and gardens, making art, and having a ton of FUN.
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Apply for a Camp Philbrook Scholarship
Philbrook Museum of Art is offering scholarships for Camp Philbrook 2025 to qualifying applicants based on financial need. Please complete individual scholarship forms for each child applying for Camp Philbrook. Scholarship(s) will be awarded and applicants contacted starting mid-April 2025.
Contact Evan Johnson, Learning and Audience Engagement Coordinator, at ejohnson@philbrook.org or 918-748-5325 with questions.
Meet the Teaching Artists
Adam Carnes
Adam Carnes (b. 1981), is a Tulsa transplant via Brooklyn. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design. GKFF awarded Carnes with the 2017-2020 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Growing up in Florida during the development of the Information Age, Carnes has been striving to maintain his connection with humanity through painting. Skira Rizzoli’s publication “The Figure” includes Adam’s work and is sold in museum bookstores like the Met, Royal Academy and National Gallery. His Griots art pieces were published in BOMB Magazine’s Summer 2021 issue #156 and “RELEASE ME, the Spirits of Greenwood Speak” anthology.
Amber Marie Deen
Amber Marie Deen is a local dancer, choreographer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the interconnectedness of the earth, its inhabitants, and Spirit. Amber believes in the transformative power of dance and its ability (through participation and viewing) to bring healing and therapeutic restoration.
Beth Henley
Elizabeth Henley is a painter and multimedia artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. While living and working in Tulsa, she also attended several schools, including studying Interior Design at Oklahoma State University. After several color theory and art classes, she realized her main passion was creating artwork through visual art. She began displaying her work publicly in 2015 but then refocused her pursuits to finding space in her local art scene for artists of color, specifically Black Artists in the Tulsa area. This desire to see inclusion and diversity in art led her to found and create Black Moon in 2018, an all-Black artist collective here in Tulsa focused on breaking standards, pushing innovation, and cultivating creativity among her local community. With the formation of Black Moon, Elizabeth and fellow artists have shown in several galleries and exhibitions throughout the Oklahoma area. Her goal is to grow and develop her skills as an artist, but to also show representation through diversity in her pieces.
Harper Kitchens
Harper Kitchens is a multimedia neo-romantic poet, mother, storyteller, performer, florist and altar maker living on occupied Osage, Cherokee, Muskogee (Creek) lands in Oklahoma. Her work acts as an archival exploration of the natural world and the ephemeral. She sees artmaking as a devotional practice, as a living altar: an ongoing conversation between grief and desire. Her work is an ever-unfolding love letter to self-intimacy, to motherhood, to the power of pleasure, to the necessity of dreams, to the passing of time and the urgency of expression. Navigating these concepts, she moves through poetry, installation, performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, fiber art, curation and film.
Hunter O’Neal
Hunter is an educator and self-taught documentary filmmaker born and based in Oklahoma. Raised on local skate videos and storm chaser footage, his work treats Oklahoma as a primary hunting ground for a wide range of stories exploring political, environmental, and personal themes. He lives in Tulsa and likes sweet potatoes and sleeping outside.
Jamie Pierson
Jamie Pierson is a designer, artist, educator, and community organizer based in Tulsa, OK. Under the name Scraps Designs, she focuses on building community through play. Her work is interactive and participatory, taking the form of playscapes and installations made from cardboard and other common materials, often in shared or public spaces. You can learn more at www.heyscrapsdesigns.com.
Jes McCutchen
Jes McCutchen (she/her) is a Tulsa born artist and writer with three published novels and a children’s book she wrote and illustrated. She taught public education for seven years and has loved summer art camps since she was a kid. It is her belief that anyone with an ounce of curiosity can create.
Jiji Coul
Jiji Coul is a Tulsa-based artist who specializes in oil paints and natural materials, often repurposing items to give them a second life. She expresses her creativity by exploring themes of self-perception and inspires herself daily by embracing activities that challenge and scare her. Jiji also teaches private art lessons, fostering connections with people of all ages to help them navigate life creatively.
Kaci Burr
Kaci Burr is a mixed media artist and literacy interventionist from Tulsa, OK. Kaci uses real specimens in her work, from preserved insects and botanicals to animal bones. She primarily creates art on a miniature scale and feels that good things often come in small packages. Her passion is inspiring others to have a reverence for nature and an ability to find beauty in the unexpected.
Katy Bruce
Katy Bruce is a multidisciplinary visual artist and all-ages arts facilitator born and raised in Tulsa, OK. They draw inspiration from their community, personal connections, and self-expression. They are dedicated to teaching kindness and fostering creativity across all age groups. Through their work, Katy aims to enrich lives by encouraging artistic exploration and empathetic engagement.
Khara A O
Khara A O is a multidisciplinary artist whose work seamlessly blends creativity with sustainability through jewelry design, visual art and fashion design. She explores the intersection of identity, self-expression, and visual art through the lens of eco-consciousness. They transform discarded materials into thoughtful, one-of-a-kind pieces that challenge conventional notions of beauty and value.
Lauren ‘Rainbow’ Lunsford
Environmentalist, facepainter and multi personalities of fun, Miss Rainbow, works for nature and with nature. Her ever changing hair color is her favorite canvas. She makes Headpieces to all the seasons, writes poetry in the dark and is now feeling like a Mime! A Spectrum of creativity for all ages.
Liz Dueck
Liz Dueck is a Nature Artist, Art Educator & Trail Guide. She primarily works in oil painting; however, she also experiments with charcoal and natural materials. Her creative practices are all based on exploration and connection. From painting, teaching, and serving as a trail guide, Dueck’s passion lies in interchangeably connecting art, nature, and people together.
Dueck graduated with a BFA in Studio Art and Teaching Certification in Art from Oklahoma State University. She worked for OSU’s Art Department in her time there as a student as well as upon graduation as the Education Coordinator of the Prairie Arts Center. She now teaches art at the Tulsa Boys Home, leads monthly Art Hikes at the Keystone Ancient Forest, and paints either on site in various locations or in her home studio in the forests of Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
Pumudu Welikanna
In Pumudu Welikanna’s artistic journey, creativity manifests itself in diverse forms. As a concept artist, Pumudu paints vivid narratives that skillfully blend traditional, contemporary, and digital techniques, creating visual stories that transcend conventional boundaries.
Beyond his concept art, Pumudu is also a performing artist who uses movement to narrate tales influenced by his multi-cultural background. Whether on canvas or stage, his performances invite audiences to explore new perspectives and appreciate the beauty of creativity. As an advocate for shared artistic experiences, Pumudu’s ability to seamlessly merge concept art with the language of movement reflects a humble dedication to his craft.
Sierra Kramer
Sierra Kramer is an artist, educator, and creative visionary dedicated to weaving magic into the everyday. As a multimedia magician and founder of HoneyBee Schoolhouse, Sierra has created a haven where imagination and learning thrive, empowering young minds through art, play, and wonder.
Her artistic practice is rooted in storytelling, using multimedia techniques to transform ordinary experiences. Whether through laser-cut sculptures, reflective installations, or intricate collages inspired by nature, Sierra’s work invites both children and adults to see the world as a place of limitless potential.
Taryn Singleton
Taryn is a local mother, teacher and multimedia artist with an MFA from the University of Tulsa. In her fine art practice, she works non-objectively, inventing characters and landscape spaces in paint, fiber, and mixed media. She then navigates these spaces using observation, abstraction, line, shape, pattern, color and the cultivation of accidents. As a teacher, she loves to encourage children’s natural inclination towards experimentation and play in art through fundamentals. To learn more about Taryn’s work visit https://tarynsingleton.com/.
Taylor Painter-Wolfe
In my personal art practice, I make and dye felted wool that I use to create abstract landscapes inspired by shapes and textures found in nature as well as aerial photography and satellite images. I am very inspired by natural environments in my own work, and I enjoy having the opportunity to help students tap into that inspiration for themselves. I have been teaching since 2008 and have taught in public and private schools and a variety of other settings including summer camps, private classes, and various non-profit arts organizations. I also regularly teach workshops for adults. I currently focus primarily on teaching fiber art and in particular the many interesting ways people can use wool to create amazing art. I love working with this versatile material and I always enjoy the opportunity to pass on a love of wool to young artists. It is usually not a material they have been exposed to in the context of art making and I find that they are always excited by the prospect of trying something new. My preference is always to introduce students to materials and techniques and then let them experiment with their newfound skills and their own creativity. I do not have expectations for how a project must look or what it must be in the end, and I love following the lead of students and letting their creativity and interests dictate which direction the class goes in.