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Session 1: June 3 – 7
Session 2: June 10 – 14
Session 3: June 24 – 28
Session 4: July 8 – 12
Session 5: July 22 – 26

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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 book stores 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, it’s inhabitants, and Spirit. Amber believes in the transformative power of dance and it’s ability (through participation and viewing) to bring healing and therapeutic restoration.

Bailey Huerta-Shaw

Bailey Huerta-Shaw is passionate about theater! She holds a BFA in acting and directing from Oklahoma City University and has taught acting and art to kids for over 6 years. Bailey believes theater can strengthen self-confidence while also creating appreciation for the artform.

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 publically 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.

Candacee White

My work draws inspiration from nature and diverse cultural artifacts. I love working with oil paint, relief printing and collage, and I am experimenting with digital design as well.

I grew up in Tulsa. I received a BA in English literature and an MEd. I lived and worked overseas for 15 years, in South Korea, Myanmar, Hungary, Azerbaijan and Belgium. I moved back to the U.S. in 2021 to devote more time to my art practice. My work can be found in and around Tulsa, Brussels, Yangon and further afield.

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 art making 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.

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

Jiji Coul

Peace, I am Jiji Coul a crafter of creation. A question “What is the source of knowing?” I gathered from Sadhgurus book “Inner Engineering”. As an artist I have taken this question internally and processed this ideology of “knowing” and if I am the source of my own knowing? So that’s when the question reappears “what is the source of knowing?” I understand what I can comprehend through the senses which has become an internal embodiment for me instead of being a tool for survival. A tool of choice and action that can be shared and received. My artist truth is internalizing what my soul knows to be the unknown and bringing my reality to existence. There are so many limitations within the human life. Physically. What is within has no limitations, my art is pulled from my internal body that holds me in full felicity. I create through the questioning of life and how I can embody those ideas and allow myself project them into the existence I am connected to. Opening the watcher to an idea of truth and knowledge.

Juni Peraza

My name is Juni and I am a local artist, poet and zinemaker in Tulsa. I have been in the art scene here for 4 years and love exploring various mediums. I am an advocate for more accessibility in art and the preservation of urban wilderness, and many of my projects are centered around those two topics. I am passionate about community care and love being able to use art to further grow connections within my community!

Kaci Burr

Kaci Burr has been an artist, instructor, and event organizer in the Tulsa area for nearly a decade. Her preferred mediums are preserved insects, taxidermy specimens, and miniatures. Her experience working with ELL students and families uniquely allows her to connect with and teach a diverse group of people, no matter the age or language.

Katy Bruce

Katy Bruce is a multidisciplinary working artist, jewelry designer, and all-ages arts facilitator, born and raised in Tulsa, OK. They gain inspiration from their community, through connection, and self expression.

Khara Orr

Hello, my name is Khara A Orr and I’m an artist and jewelry maker based in Tulsa. I’ve participated in numerous events, pop up’s and festivals and have been able to hone my jewelry making skills through my background in metal stamping and jewelry assembly. I’ve always incorporated my treasure trove  of odds and ends in my artwork and personal  jewelry, which has now become one of the foundations of my jewelry endeavors. I hope to encourage others to find beauty in what once was believed to be waste and to find ways to make art everywhere around themselves as I will.

Kieran ‘C.A.P’ Crutison

Kieran Crutison known as C.A.P (Crutison’s Art Projects) describes himself as a limitless community base creative. From fashion to collaborative performance art C.A.P encourages participation in one way or another. Allowing the public to be involved in his creations and embrace their own creativity. Born and raised in Tulsa, OK and member of the collective Black Moon. C.A.P plans to spread his passion with love, education, and collaboration.

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.

Mark Kuykendall

Mark Daniel Kuykendall (July 7, 1981) is an Oklahoman, artist, and producer. His work is generally characterized by his production style of melding electronically manipulated field recordings with dusty attic 8mm films.  Graduating with an audio engineering degree from Full Sail Real World Education in 2003, he returned to his home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma to begin his journey into the world of sound. Over the past decade he’s constructed “Wild Mountain Studios” in the Osage Hills, founded ambient music label “Unknown Tone Records” In 2011 and hosted numerous courses and taught at local art camps focusing on found sound, collage, and bio sensory feedback (plant music).

Pumudu Welikanna

In Pumudu Welikanna’s artistic journey, creativity manifests itself across various forms. As a concept artist, Pumudu paints vivid narratives that seamlessly marry traditional, contemporary and digital techniques, crafting visual stories that move past conventional boundaries.

Pumudu is also a performing artist using movement to weave tales influenced by his multi-cultural palette. Whether on canvas or stage, his performances invite audiences to explore new perspectives and to appreciate the beauty of creativity.

As an advocate for shared artistic experiences, his ability to merge concept art with the language of movement reflects a humble dedication to the craft in hopes to inspire both viewers and fellow artists. With every stroke and step, Pumudu welcomes you into a realm where creativity knows no boundaries, and art becomes a collective journey of exploration.

Rachel Rector

Rachel Rector is a fine art film photographer whose work utilizes experimental film, camera-less photography, and historical printmaking techniques to evoke the ethereal, daydream quality of a nostalgic moment in nature. She often adds poetry, collage, and textile elements to her hand-printed photographs to convey the sentiment of the natural space. Her images have been published in magazines, online publications, and displayed in galleries throughout the Midwest. Rachel has developed educational workshops believing that teaching 18th century processes like cyanotypes and anthotypes captivate students’ senses and encourages them to become more engaged with their environment. She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Sarah Rucker

Sarah Rucker is a local ceramic artist and art educator. She graduated with a BFA in Studio Art at Oklahoma State University. Currently, she is teaching Ceramics, Pottery and Sculpture at Bishop Kelley High School.

Sierra Kramer

Sierra Kramer (she/they) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist based on Mvskoke (Muscogee [Creek]) Nation Reservation. They seek an understanding of this privilege and give thanks daily for the opportunity to be in connection with these lands. They work predominantly in digital drawing and painting and are currently exploring laser cutting and engraving. Sierra is best known for their art-based early childhood program, Honeybee Schoolhouse, located near Downtown Tulsa. Sierra’s work examines ideas of generational healing, matriarchal brilliance, body-love and body-loathing, and our belonging in the (un)natural world. Their work can be viewed as diaristic as it is based on personal experience.

Taylor Painter-Wolfe

Taylor Painter-Wolfe is a fiber artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She majored in fiber art at the Kansas City Art Institute where she first started using felted wool as her preferred medium. After graduating with a BFA in 2003, she traveled extensively in Australia and Southeast Asia, which greatly influenced her interest in using shapes, patterns, and textures found in natural environments as inspiration for her work. She later attended The University of Washington in Seattle where she earned a Masters in special education. In 2011, Taylor returned to Tulsa and now divides her time between making and showing her work and teaching art. She makes and dyes her own felted wool which she uses to create abstract landscapes inspired by aerial photography and satellite images. Taylor’s work has appeared in many group and solo exhibitions locally and regionally, including a recent year-long public art installation at the Tulsa International Airport.