People / Government & civic life
Listed Tulsa Route 66 commissioner; artist known as Dialtone
Music, visual art and Route 66 public service through one shared artist biography.
Antonio Andrews is the Tulsa artist known as Dialtone and the founder of No Parking Studios. His documented work connects hip-hop, public art and Black travel history. He is listed on the Tulsa Route 66 Commission, with a printed term expiry that has passed and a statutory holdover provision.
Institutional artist biography dates No Parking Studios to this year.
Artists Creative Fund biography records the album release.
Music to Life identifies the album and its collaborators.
Plains Exchange placed Andrews at The Medium for two weeks.
CACHE announced a $10,000 project award for his neon series.
City roster records August 7 appointment to commission seat 19.
July reporting documents his Grocery Box mural.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
Roster-listed service; printed expiry distinguished from an actual departure.
Program support observed in 2026; artist award announced in 2023. This is not a documented personal transfer from the foundation’s founder.
Completed two-week residency, distinct from a multi-year fellowship.
6 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Currently roster-listed commissioner
August7,2024 appointment; printedJuly1,2026expiry; listedOctober25,2026
Printed term expired; current listing and statutory successor holdover documented. New term and actual departure date not inferred.
Founded multidisciplinary studio
2016 origins; 2018 first premises
No employment, control or payment inferred beyond the named relationship.
Announced project award
July28,2023 announcement; July2023–March2024 projectperiod
No employment, control or payment inferred beyond the named relationship.
$10,000 · Announced project award; not verified disbursements, salary or net personal income.
Listed fund supporter · Artists Creative Fund
Current program website checkedOctober2026
No employment, control or payment inferred beyond the named relationship.
Charitable component fund administrator · Artists Creative Fund
Current program website checkedOctober2026
No employment, control or payment inferred beyond the named relationship.
Completed two-week residency
June18–July1,2023
No employment, control or payment inferred beyond the named relationship.
On July 28, 2023, CACHE announced twenty Artists Creative Fund awards of $10,000 each, including Andrews of No Parking Studios. The stated grant period was July 2023 through March 2024. His project, FIXTURE, used neon to explore Route 66 and the experience of Black travelers who depended on the Green Book. The artist page describes a five-piece series, a principal work in Tulsa and an exhibition at Lazar Imports. The amount is an announced project award in US dollars. It is not a verified cash-disbursement total, salary, profit or estimate of Andrews’s personal income.
The City’s May 23, 2024 compilation for Route 66 roadside-attraction request RFP 24-327 lists a joint submission by Yovany Gomez, Tyler James and Antonio Andrews. That bid opening preceded the appointment date on Andrews’s current roster entry. A later City project report records the award to Ken Kelleher on August 22, 2024, followed by contract execution that November. The records establish participation in a competition and its documented outcome. They do not establish a City payment to Andrews, an award to his team or his participation in selecting the winning proposal.
Antonio Andrews, also known as Dialtone, is listed in seat 19 of the Tulsa Route 66 Commission. The City of Tulsa roster records an August 7, 2024 appointment and a July 1, 2026 term expiry. He remained listed when checked on October 25, 2026. The governing rules allow members to continue until successors are appointed and qualified; the listing does not establish a new term. The City’s business guide identifies him with No Parking Studios, while arts organizations explicitly connect Andrews with the Dialtone name. Those sources connect the public appointee and the musician without relying on a name match alone.
Artists Creative Fund’s biography dates the start of No Parking Studios to 2016 and the release of Andrews’s album Magnum to 2017. Luxiere’s October 2023 profile distinguishes the initial idea from the first studio premises in 2018. Its reporting describes a move from music into painting and a collective that made room for other artists’ skills. Andrews described referring opportunities to collaborators rather than doing every project himself. The article also reported that the group was then between studios because of rental costs. That is a dated account of its operating conditions, not a claim about its current premises or financial position.
Music to Life’s artist profile identifies Andrews as Dialtone and connects him to the World Culture Music collective. It dates his album Oasis to 2019 and credits its sound to producers Papa and Joe Bruner. The organization describes his music and visual art as responses to experiences growing up in north Tulsa. This places his public-art practice within an existing musical community. Album releases and collective membership document creative work; they do not establish sales, royalty income or the ownership of every associated project.
The Artists Creative Fund’s current website identifies support from the George Kaiser Family Foundation and describes the fund as a charitable component of Tulsa Community Foundation. It separately identifies CACHE’s role in the 2026 application process and Mid-America Arts Alliance’s professional-development work. These are distinct institutions and functions. An artist’s selection for funding does not make the artist a foundation employee, trustee or representative, and it does not establish a personal relationship with a foundation’s founder. The contemporary program structure is useful context but should not be assumed to describe every administrative arrangement in earlier award years.
CACHE’s 2023 Plains Exchange announcement placed Andrews at The Medium in Springdale, Arkansas, from June 18 to July 1. The exchange linked CACHE and Tulsa Artist Fellowship; the reciprocal visit brought photographer Aaron Turner to Tulsa. CACHE’s annual report subsequently described Andrews’s completed two-week residency. This was a specific exchange opportunity, distinct from a multi-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship award. It connected his Tulsa practice to another regional arts community without establishing that he joined the governing boards or staff of either institution.
In July 2026, The Oklahoma Eagle reported on Andrews’s mural at RG Foods’ Grocery Box in Phoenix at 36N. The work references north Tulsa institutions including Cooper’s Produce and Pete’s BBQ. Andrews connected its purpose to the community imagery he remembered seeing at Lacy Park. The article also reports the grocery organization’s account of gathering residents’ ideas. This is a documented instance of his work in a neighborhood-serving setting. The reporting does not specify his fee or establish a governing position at the grocery nonprofit.
Check the record
Research checked 2026-10-25. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
Route66 seat19: August7,2024 appointment; printed July1,2026 expiry. Still listed October25,2026; roster also states statutory holdover. No newer appointment inferred.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
PDF6/printed3: Antonio Andrews (No Parking Studios), direct institutional identity bridge.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
Chapter14 sections1400–1403; purposes, unpaid membership, successor holdover and duties. Direct403; indexed text and City roster inspected.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
Named artist page, biography and FIXTURE project description. Photo named Andrews.Antonio.JPG on this page; photographer unspecified.
independent-reporting · Source date 2023-10-17 · Checked 2026-10-25
Michael Kinney, October17,2023; 2016idea,2018studio, artist collaborations and contemporary rental pressures. Asking prices not receipts.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
Explicit Dialtone(AntonioAndrews) identity, Oasis2019, WorldCultureMusic affiliation. Organizational artist description, not independent sales data.
primary · Source date 2023-07-28 · Checked 2026-10-25
July28,2023 announcement:20artists,$10,000each; AntonioAndrews listed; July2023–March2024projectperiod. Award announcement, not cash-disbursement or personal-income accounting.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
Support/about sections checked October25,2026: GKFFsupport; charitable component fund administered byTCF; CACHE2026applicationprocess; M-AAAprofessionaldevelopment. Contemporary structure not backdated.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
2023program announcement: Andrews at TheMedium June18–July1; partnerTulsaArtistFellowship. Two-weekexchange, not multi-yearTAF fellowship.
primary · Checked 2026-10-25
TheMedium/PlainsExchange section confirms Andrews completed two weeks in residence; page explicitly titled2023AnnualReport. Direct403; accessible indexed full text.
primary · Source date 2024-05-23 · Checked 2026-10-25
PDF1, RFP24-327, May23,2024 bidopening: joint YovanyGomez/TylerJames/AntonioAndrews submission. Proposal listing not award.
primary · Source date 2025-07-09 · Checked 2026-10-25
PDF29/printedCABS2, reportdatedJuly9,2025: RFP24-327 awardedKenKelleher August22,2024; contractexecutedNovember13,2024. No financialtable amounts used.
independent-reporting · Source date 2026-07-15 · Checked 2026-10-25
ElliotTerrell, TheOklahomaEagle onTulsaFlyer, July15,2026; Andrewsidentifiedartist, northTulsaicons, RGFoodspubliccomments.
