Oklahoma's Official School of the Arts. Created in 1977, the Oklahoma Arts Institute (OAI) is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to providing an educational program of excellence in the arts for artists. OAI administers two educational programs each year: the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute (OSAI), a two-week residential art school for teens; and the Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute (OFAI), a series of four-day weekend workshops in the arts for adults. Both programs take place at the gorgeous Quartz Mountain State Park & Lodge in southwestern Oklahoma with OSAI for two weeks in June and OFAI the first three weekends in October.

Classes in literary, visual and performing arts are offered and faculty for both the summer and fall programs are professional artists of national and international reputations. In addition to the educational programs, OAI also administers an outreach program called Tour de Quartz, which includes statewide touring exhibits of student artwork.