Printmaking Workshop: Led by Nic Miller and Alicia Smith

Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to the Heights Garden, a community-accessible green space in Tulsa’s Heights neighborhood, for an all-ages program organized by Tulsa Artist Fellow and garden steward, Lindsay Aveilhé.

For this gathering, Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardee Alicia Smith and guest artist Nic Annette Miller will lead an interactive, nature-inspired printmaking workshop utilizing block printing and stenciling methods. Drawing from their respective experimental print practices, Smith and Miller invite participants to create one-of-a-kind take-home works that reflect the spirit of collaboration and this season of transformation—celebrating fall as a time of shared harvest, biodiversity, and preparation for the season of rest ahead.

Origin Coffee and light bites will be provided. Join us mid-morning on Saturday for a welcoming neighborhood gathering that celebrates the Heights Garden as a living space where art, ecology, and community meet.

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The Heights Garden, cultivated since 2007 on land generously offered by George and Jana Aveilhé and now stewarded by their daughter, Lindsay, is a 5,000 ft² privately run, community-accessible garden in Tulsa’s Heights neighborhood. Rooted in the belief that caring for plants is a form of both ecological and cultural responsibility, the garden emphasizes native species and medicinal herbs and flowers as vital habitats for pollinators and as sources of shared nourishment. Recently certified as a Monarch Waystation by artist Frankie Cruz, the garden offers critical refuge for a diversity of pollinator species.

Interwoven with the neighborhood’s creative and agricultural spirit, the Heights Garden is part of a larger ecosystem that includes small farms, a composting operation, the nearby farm-to-table Prism Café, and community spaces like Origin Coffee.

Lindsay Aveilhé is a curator, writer, and 2025–27 Tulsa Artist Fellow with over 15 years of experience in the arts in the US and internationally. In Tulsa, she co-founded Central Standard, a contemporary art platform amplifying artistic voices from Middle America and fostering global artistic exchange through exhibitions, public programming, and site-responsive projects, while continuing her collaborative work with T.NUA Collective on international artist-led initiatives. She activates the Heights Garden as an extension of her curatorial practice—programming it as a space for artistic collaboration with nature and community—while also nurturing her passion for the healing properties of herbs and plants.

Nic Annette Miller is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist whose installations combine woodcut relief prints, sculpture, video, and poetry to explore environmental themes, storytelling, and nostalgia. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Philbrook Museum of Art, 108 Contemporary, Print Center of New York, Abrons Art Center, and MoMA PS1, with an upcoming presentation in ArtNow 2025 at Oklahoma Contemporary. Beyond her studio practice, Miller co-founded LoLoLook, a nonprofit supporting Sign Language programming at cultural institutions, and leads community projects like NAM common, which highlights Vietnamese culture and diaspora.

Alicia Smith is a Xicana multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work draws on ancestral prayer technologies, oral tradition, Indigenous futurism, and New Weird Science Fiction to interrogate colonial narratives and explore identity. Through her practice, she advocates for cultural perpetuity in response to the unfolding Anthropocene. Smith has exhibited nationally and internationally, with works included in the KADIST Collection and the Whitney Museum of Art’s Special Collections.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s third annual Open House, taking place from October 3-5, 2025, embodies our commitment to nurturing Tulsa and its visionary artistic practitioners. Programs foster interconnectedness through community care and collaboration.

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