The Pickup's Arts & Culture coverage is supported by Brut Hotel, featuring a rooftop VIP after party for Tulsa Irish Fest on March 14.
Spring springs up from the earth this month as Tulsa's artists highlight color, craft, and human connection. Several exhibit openings focus on women's creativity; other events offer immersion in sound, architecture, and hands-on work. Put these shows on your calendar, and we'll see you out there. —Alicia Chesser
NEW STUFF
Kaleidoscope: A Showcase Of The Female Perspective
WOMPA, 3306 Charles Page Blvd.
March 5, 6pm
Held in the kaleidoscopic creative space at WOMPA, “Kaleidoscope” celebrates the creative voices of seven women artists who work across painting, mosaic, and clay forms. The show highlights diverse approaches to material, process, and expression—ranging from bold painterly gestures to intricate mosaic compositions and sculptural ceramic forms, reflecting strength, storytelling, and innovation through multiple mediums.
“She Makes Art” Juried Group Show
Liggett Studio, 314 S. Kenosha Ave.
March 6, 5pm
For the seventh annual “She Makes Art,” a range of local artists who identify as women present work on the theme “vulnerability is power.” The exhibition will be amplified by “She Makes Music,” a concert on March 20.
“Envisioning Tomorrow” by Anitra Lavanhar
Oklahoma Center for Humanities, 101 E. Archer St.
March 6, 5pm
“Envisioning Tomorrow” is a Tulsa-based portrait series shaped by the artist’s concern over fear and division in her community. While the dominant narrative insists the future is bleak and unchangeable, this work challenges that assumption by inviting diverse portrait subjects to imagine the future they want to create. The show features 25 black and white portraits with narratives, as well as a participatory wall where visitors can add their own hopes and dreams.
“Quilt Studies” by Erin Tyler
TAC Gallery, 9 Reconciliation Way
March 6, 6pm
This exhibit by Missouri-based artist Erin Tyler investigates how memory is shaped, altered, and reimagined as it moves across materials and technologies. Rooted in the image of a single family quilt, the work unfolds through painting, collage, photography and digital manipulation, each translation shifting the original form while revealing new layers of meaning.
First Fridays: March 2026
Tulsa Artist Fellowship, 109 M.L.K., Jr. Blvd.
March 6, 6pm
Meet the new Tulsa Artist Fellows at this month’s First Friday open studios! The evening also features Futuro Imperfecto, an exhibition of recent works by Miguel Braceli, co-presented with The Hulett Collection at TAF’s main space, plus Monument Eternal by Le’Andra LeSeur at the Flagship.
"Becoming Form" by Gabriel Delponte
11 N. Cheyenne
March 6, 6pm
“A Year Of Embodied Art” by Liz Dueck
Positive Space Tulsa, 1324 E. 3rd St.
March 7, 5pm
Liz Dueck is an artist, arts educator, and trail guide here in Tulsa, and her new solo show explores her full spectrum of practice. “On one end is a literal approach to my physical surrounds that is research-based, site-specific learning about Oklahoma’s ecosystems,” she writes in an artist statement, “and on the other end … is the visibility of my emotional grounding in nature.” In her belief that we are not separate from the natural world, Dueck’s 12 paintings present “a consistent, genuine relationship with the Earth on a deep level with themes in nature that have helped me understand themes within my own life—processing, accepting, and releasing hard things—because I see nature do it everyday.”
NatureWorks 2026
Marriott Tulsa Southern Hills, 1902 E. 71st St.
March 7-8
Each year, the nation’s top wildlife, western, and landscape artists and sculptors come together for the NatureWorks Art Show and Sale. Art and nature lovers can browse incredible artwork while contributing to the conservation of Oklahoma wildlife.
COMING UP
"Architectural Counterpoint" by Todd Woodlan
Spotlight Theater, 1381 Riverside Dr.
March 13, 7pm and 11 pm
This immersive performance invites you to wander through hidden spaces of the historic Spotlight Theater as musicians fill dressing rooms, stairwells and forgotten corners with sound and improvisational music. Experience chamber music like never before: up close, personal and embedded in a historic setting. The piece responds to Bruce Goff's organic modernist architecture and Olinka Hrdy's vibrant murals celebrating different musical traditions, providing an interplay between music, visual art and architecture. Watch performers transform the space itself into a live score, turning everyday objects and architectural features into unexpected sources of beauty. You'll discover how history, space and sound converge into something unforgettable.
UNcrease
Gilcrease Museum of Art
March 14, 1pm
While we wait for Gilcrease to formally reopen, UNcrease awaits this spring. This free community arts series features 29 artists across six dates, with live music, workshops, performances, demonstrations, and lectures.
Discover Who’s In Your Old Photographs with Avery Klein
Carson House Tulsa, 1401 S. Carson Ave.
March 14, 4-7pm (Artist talk begins at 5:30pm)
This event centers on the process of identifying individuals in antique and vintage photographs, led by artist and researcher Avery J. Klein of The Dead Detective. The event includes a reception with curated photographs on view and an artist talk focused on Klein’s research and methods. During the talk, Klein will analyze select attendee-submitted photographs, demonstrating techniques for dating images, using genealogical tools, and uncovering hidden clues. An open discussion will follow, inviting attendees to share and discuss their own family photos. You can submit your own photos until March 7.
EQUINOX by Trueson Daugherty
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, 1301 S. Boston Ave.
March 21, 9am
In this one-day-only experience, Trueson Daugherty brings the spirit of his home-based creative gatherings at The Parlour to one of Tulsa’s great architectural and spiritual spaces to celebrate the spring equinox. The day will begin with a creative salon, followed by performances from Ramsey Thornton and Micaela Young, culminating in a full organ sound bath, allowing the building itself to become the instrument.
Threads of Home with Bowie Rowan and Sally Garner
Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd.
March 24, 5:30-8pm
This Writing & Weaving Community Workshop is an intimate community workshop exploring ideas of home, belonging and connection through writing and fiber art. Participants begin with gentle, generative writing prompts, then translate words and memories into a hands-on weaving practice using small looms. This process-focused gathering centers play, presence and connection over perfection. No experience is required. All materials are provided, and participants will take their loom home.
ArtHouse Tulsa Open Studio
Elevate East, 1801 S. Garnett
March 28, 1pm
Meet the artists who participated in Art House Tulsa's inaugural Artist in Residence program! This is an opportunity to engage with each artist directly, learn more about their work and process, and hear firsthand about their experience with the residency—plus a chance to hear what's ahead for Art House Tulsa this year.
ONGOING
“Roughly Right” by Alicia Kelly
108|Contemporary, 108 Reconciliation Way
February 6-March 21
Born and raised in northeastern Oklahoma, Alicia Kelly now calls Kansas home, working as an artist and curator in Lawrence and Kansas City. She's back in town this month for a solo show featuring her intricate, 3D paper installations.
“Homeward to the Prairie I Come” by Gordon Parks
Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S Rockford Rd
February 11-June 19
“Silver Clouds” by Andy Warhol
Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S Rockford Rd
February 11-June 14
“Heart in the Sky” by Marie Watt
Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S Rockford Rd
February 11-June 14
Three new exhibits are going up on the same day this month at Philbrook, and you've never seen any of it in Tulsa before. See photographs, poetry, and prose by legendary photojournalist Gordon Parks, Andy Warhol's experimental 1964 "floating painting," and contemporary Seneca artist Marie Watt's monumental cloud forms made from jingles and a neon wheel-of-the-year that marks time's passage with the names of thirteen moons.
“Moving Towards Spring” by Marshall Noice + Winter Mix
M.A. Doran Gallery, 3509 S Peoria
February 6-March 12
These colors! These details! New works by Marshall Noice (Montana) explore that moment when the seasons start to shift and winter's stark lines soften with new warmth. Sniff some springtime into your brain with these gorgeous paintings, shown alongside a collection of color-infused work by M.A. Doran gallery artists.
“Killing the Negative: A Conversation In Art & Verse” by Joel Daniel Phillips and Quraysh Ali Lansana
Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S Rockford Rd
February 21-May 24
Since 2019, Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum Joel Daniel Phillips has been working with "killed negatives"—hole-punched photographs that originated from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a government agency that sent photographers across the U.S. to document widespread poverty during the Great Depression. With poetry by Quraysh Ali Lansana, written in response to these photos, and Phillips' meticulous drawings, "Killing the Negative" meditates on discarded images, erased histories, and the power of reclaiming human stories.
