DSGN Salon
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026 5pm - 8pm
Location
NYU Tulsa
36 E Cameron St
Details
What if the sheer capacity to create defined how one spiritually transcends through space and time? How does memory making through gathering combat the perpetual erasure of the Black body in the built environment? What can we conjure or uncover through interdisciplinary exploration? These prompts are some of the many reasons why dsgnrs.wrkshp exists – to identify, connect, dream weave within creative physical space (design) while reclaiming emotional and socioeconomic space within the industry.
Tuesday, March 24 | 5:30-8 PM
Doors Open at 5 PM
NYU Tulsa
36 E. Cameron St, Tulsa, OK 74103
This event serves as a gathering and precursor to ‘A Necessary Space’ a closing conversation highlighting Le’Andra LeSeur’s Monument Eternal. This connection calls all Black spatial, product, garment, and digital designers to convene through exploration, expansion, and the establishment of Tulsa’s very own interdisciplinary creative network.
ABOUT THE HOSTS:
Kamille Glenn is an award-winning designer of commercial interiors, brands, products, and experiences. She is also the founder of the dsgnrs collective. She has a very curious approach to what storytelling about the built environment can look like from the Black gaze, as well as to the future of design when radical thinking and connection become priorities. Kamille's Site: https://www.kamilleglenn.com/
DSGNRS: https://www.dsgnrswrkshp.com/events
Recent Press: https://whitewall.art/design/kamille-glenn-and-the-making-of-marcus-dc/
Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, installation, photography, and performance. Her work is rooted in examining conditions shaped by racial violence and systemic inequities. Grounded in personal experience yet resonating on a broader scale, her work interrogates how ritual, repetition, and endurance can reclaim capacity and ground us in the corporeal and the poetic. Through the presence of her body and voice, LeSeur crafts immersive experiences that disrupt perceptions and resist imposed narratives, encouraging audiences to engage in deep reflection and recognition around themes of identity, collective memory, and the duality of grief. LeSeur is the recipient of notable honors, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024), the NJ Council of the Arts Fellowship (2022), the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2019), and the Juried Grand Prize at ArtPrize 10 (2018). Her work has been exhibited at Pioneer Works (NY), MFA Boston, The Shed (NY), Atlanta Contemporary, A.I.R. Gallery (NY), and others. She has held residencies at Pioneer Works, Marble House Project, MASS MoCA, Visual Studies Workshop, and ArcAthens and has lectured at institutions including The New School, Wayne State University, and the University of the Arts.
ABOUT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
Established in 2015, Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) that addresses pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city. Our exhibitions and events are free, documented, and archived.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
NYU Tulsa, opened in Spring 2025 at 36 E Cameron St in the downtown Arts District, is the university’s fourth U.S. global network location alongside New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. The 11,000-square-foot center offers classrooms, study and wellness spaces, and areas for events and connection, with on-site faculty and staff supporting academic and student life. Located within walking distance of galleries, performance venues, parks, and the historic Greenwood District, the program connects students to Oklahoma’s cultural landscape through cohort events and co-curricular experiences focused on the region and its many Native nations. Street-side parking is available via the Park Mobile app and is free after 5 pm and all day Saturday–Sunday. The building is wheelchair accessible; please use the entry buzzer for access, including the wheelchair-accessible entrance.