Thanks to our Sponsors and Everyone that came to our First Fundraiser!
We had a great time with everyone that joined us for our first event as a non-profit. Thanks to our sponsors: Red Fork Distillery, Oklahoma Aquarium, Cedar Rock Inn, The Route 66 Alliance, Trailblazer Energy, Lonnie Sims, Jim Rea and Oaktrust Development. Tune back in more information about our summer plans and summer programming! Thank you to Lollie Moore for the additional event photography.
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”
Our Mission: To ensure community access to the transformative power of the arts. We do this through creative outreach, mentorship, and artistic expression in the greater Tulsa area.
Molding Minds
At the core of RAFT’s objectives is providing access to arts and arts education to people who otherwise would go without. Becoming involved with the arts encourages abstract thinking, problem solving, planning and discipline. A regular practitioner of the arts can find solace, recovery, expression, joy and self-discovery through their work and in studying the works of others. The RedFork Arts Foundry Tulsa works to make a welcomed improvement to the hearts and minds of future artists.
Casting Creativity
The infusion of creativity and expression into a developing mind can have lifelong benefits and forever alter how that mind operates. Utilizing skills taught through art can develop confidence, emotional expression, communication, and alter how that mind views everyday scenes and items. A crumble of colored paper, the light cast by a setting sun, or a daub of pigment can unlock processes and stories in a creativity instilled mind. The RedFork Arts Foundry Tulsa strives to be a part of the process of exposing future artists to exploring and developing their own personal creativity.
Sparking Instinct
Practicing art involves experimentation. Taking pride in success and learning from failure can instill a deep sense of instinct that guides actions both in the creative process and everyday life. As creatures of comfort and repetition, it is important to both operate out of comfort zones and break repetitive life cycles. Art and creative expression provide a space to operate outside of regular life’s confines and challenge artists to ask questions, make decisions, convey emotion and tell stories. The RedFork Arts Foundry Tulsa facilitates this experimentation, challenging future artists to cast off preconceptions and repetition, learn to look inward and outward, and explore another side of the human experience.