Sanctum: Fiawna Forté
Moonbeam Conservatory
May 16, 2026
On the east end of Kendall Whittier, just half a block past The Whittier Bar, there’s an unassuming storefront with blackout curtains so you can’t see inside. As I approached on a recent Saturday night, I could see the sun setting over Greenwood and even hear the engines of thousands of motorcycles revving at the bike rally in the distance.
Inside the storefront, the scene was anything but unassuming. Hundreds of flowers leaned against the walls, some in buckets, some in bouquets. Spanish moss hung from the ceiling rafters. Everything was glowing in the dark. It’s times like these I wish I wasn’t color blind.
This is Tyler Thrasher’s Moonbeam Conservatory, open after normal business hours for a concert series called Sanctum, where Tulsa’s music collides with Tulsa’s art under black lights. On this night, in front of a few dozen black folding chairs sat a drum kit, a couple of guitars, a mic, a piano, and a chair off to the side, all ready for Fiawna Forté to perform with Kiersten Moser on violin and Mason Remel on drums.
While folks mingled before the show, I wandered around Thrasher’s wonders: insects on display with crystallized wings, a snake’s skeleton climbing the wall, and glowing stones set into wood. In the back, you can see the tools of Thrasher’s trade and a case full of more sparkling oddities covered in geodes and crystals.