Kirkpatrick Foundation

Artdesk is a free, quarterly publication devoted to contemporary art, performance and thought. Its mission is to inform readers about regional and national events, exhibitions, education, and promote creative literacy and appreciation. This publication is distributed widely across Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. The magazine prints more than 82,000 copies of every issue. With each issue, 40,000 copies are inserted into a weekly edition of the Oklahoman and a sunday edition of the new york times. 4,100 copies are distributed to every middle school and high school visual arts department in Oklahoma city public schools and more than 2,500 are mailed to all 50 states and 6 foreign countries. Published by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, artdesk will continue its mission to educate the region on the contemporary arts.

Safe & humane is Kirkpatrick Foundation's twenty-year initiative to make Oklahoma the safest and most humane place to be an animal by the year 2032. The Foundation's approach is to convene, honor, promote, fund, research, and publish efforts to improve the lives of Oklahoma animals and the people who care for them. The Foundation believes that by minimizing animal suffering and elevating the standards of care, treatment, and welfare for all Oklahoma animals, the condition of all Oklahoma citizens will be greatly improved. A key element of the safe & humane initiative is the triennial animal conference (held in 2015, 2018, and most recently on august 27-28, 2021).

Kirkpatrick Foundation has other smaller philanthropic programs that are either short-lived or not yet fully developed, and a student journalism program in the early stages.