The ONAYLF will return on April 6 and 7, 2026!
The theme for the 2026 Fair is “My Language is My Home”
Click Here to view or download our Teacher Invitation Letter
View our 2025 Winners Lists: Pre K-5th grade | 6th-12th grade
You can view the poster art, comics and cartoon and video winners from the 2025 Fair here.
How to browse our YouTube channel:
At the top of the “Home” page, you will see the introductory video to the 2025 fair. It includes a welcome by our director Raina Heaton.
Below the introductory video, you can browse all of the fair submissions. They are grouped together by category. From there, each category is organized as a playlist, labeled by age group and category. Posters and comics have been put into slideshows by age group.
Clicking on any of the playlists on the main page will automatically play through all of the entries in that category. To go back to the list of playlists, click the back button, an arrow pointing to the left, on the upper righthand corner of your window. If you are watching the video on a mobile device, you can exit the video by swiping down with your finger, and then tap the back button on the upper righthand corner of your screen. The winners of each category have a ribbon decal on the video and are also listed in the title of each video.
If you’d like to search for a particular performance, you can use the search box (indicated by a magnifying glass and the word “Search” at the top, to the right of “About”) to search for any performance by title. If you are looking for a particular comic or poster, you’ll need to navigate to the video for either Comics & Cartoons or Posters for the right age group, and then skip through the video until you find the poster/comic you are looking for.
Please feel free to leave messages of encouragement to the young people in the comments section of the videos!
The ONAYLF staff would like to extend their gratitude to the fair’s participants, our judges and our sponsors!
2026 ONAYLF Guest Speaker – Dr. Marwin Begaye
Marwin Begaye (Diné) is an internationally exhibited printmaker, painter. As Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Arts, his research has been concentrated on issues of cultural identity, especially the intersection of traditional American Indian culture and pop culture. He also has conducted research in the technical aspects of relief printing and the use of mixed‐media. His work has been exhibited nationally across the U.S. and internationally New Zealand, Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, Siberia and Estonia. He has received numerous awards, including the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition Fellowship, Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition 365 Fellowship, The Heard Museum’s Indian Fair and Market, Best of Classification in Graphics at 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market among many others. He has been featured in many publications and is represented by Terra Rosa in Guthrie, OK. In addition to his academic work, he supports local youth organizations and Native events through printmaking design, exhibitions, and workshops, including a Native language printmaking event at the 2024 Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair.