Anjelica Lindsey Named 2025–26 Fellow AT Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
Anjelica Lindsey Named 2025–26 Public Fellow at The University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
Anjelica Lindsey has been awarded a 2025–26 Public Fellowship by The University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. The fellowship brings together a diverse cohort of scholars, students, and community members to engage in a yearlong exploration of the theme myth, examining how ancient and contemporary narratives shape culture, identity, and public life.
As part of the fellowship, Lindsey will collaborate with the cohort to develop public-facing programming to be presented in spring 2026. Her participation reflects a deep commitment to bridging music, memory, and cultural storytelling through site-specific and historically grounded works.
In a statement about her work in light of the fellowship, Lindsey writes:
I am fascinated by the idea that we are always living in myth—whether inherited, constructed, suppressed, or reborn. Myth is not something relegated to ancient times or distant lands. It is alive in how we narrate our history, how we remember our ancestors, how we erase and re-inscribe identities. Myth, to me, is the invisible architecture of cultural memory.
As a composer, I work with these unseen structures. My music is a response to myth—not only as it is told, but as it is silenced. I am a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and I come from a lineage of women whose stories were often buried beneath narratives of assimilation. My work is dedicated to voicing these erased or submerged stories through sound. I compose concert music—chamber, orchestral, and vocal—that moves between contemporary classical and experimental traditions, often incorporating electronics, field recordings, and storytelling.
Through my musical works, I explore what it means to reclaim voice and visibility through a musical language that is classical in form but mythic in spirit. More than crafting compositions, I am building sonic architecture around the idea of cultural survival and an oppressed voices revival.
This lens of living myth also informs my civic approach. I collaborate with institutions, local artists, and communities to create place-based musical experiences that are rooted in Tulsa’s layered history—one that includes Native, Black, and settler stories, often existing in tension or silence.
Myth is what has been told. My music asks: what remains unsung?
More about the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and its 2025–26 theme is available at humanities.utulsa.edu.
