Gilcrease Magazine – Winter 2019

GILCREASE MAGAZINE WINTER 2019

THE CHISHOLM KID: LONE FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL Dec. 14 - March 17, 2019 Meet the first African American cowboy to be featured in a comic strip.

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ROUNDUP RECAP View highlights from the members’ bus trip to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.

GENEROSITY FUELS ENDOWMENT GROWTH Campaign for Gilcrease celebrates another milestone with $1 million unrestricted endowment gift.

F E AT U R E A R T I C L E

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THE CHISHOLM KID: LONE FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL Take a closer look at the American cowboy as told through the 1950s comic strip and how one character changed perceptions of the American West.

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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 WINTER 2019

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OPENING DOORS Discover the impact that gifts to the annual fund have on every corner of the museum and how to get involved.

BEHIND THE SCENES Meet the museum’s chef, understand his culinary inspirations and pick up tips for hosting this holiday season.

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Gilcrease Museum Magazine / Winter / 2019

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DIRECTOR’S REPORT

THE POW PARTNER As work, technology and the pace of life can push us towards isolation, the response across generations is to find those outlets and experiences that make us feel connected to one another, more human.

Gilcrease Museum is emerging as an important part of the conversation, connecting people with their cultures, their histories and with one another.

Whether aligned with the Tulsa Girls Art School or the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, partnerships help Gilcrease make those connections and experiences for our members more rewarding.

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rotecting and maintaining a collection for future generations is at the heart of a museum’s obligation to its community.

Equal to stewardship is the museum’s responsibility to make its collection accessible. Traditionally, a museum cultivated a love affair between an object and the individual in an environment allowing for quiet reflection. While that opportunity will always be possible at Gilcrease, today’s museum must also offer the opportunity for broader audiences to enjoy shared experiences, both in the museum and throughout the community. This approach can be a bit noisier, sometimes chaotic and even a little messy, but creating opportunities for shared experiences is proving beneficial to our members, the museum and a number of local and national partners.

In cultivating new relationships to create shared learning, discovery and enjoyment, Gilcrease has identified partners whose knowledge and missions intersect with the museum’s. Whether line dancing with the Oklahoma Center for Equality at Gilcrease After Hours as part of the Blake Little exhibit, or traveling to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve for the members' bus trip with The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma, a trip inspired by our Albert Bierstadt exhibit, Gilcrease is bringing people together and building community around its collection.

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In addition to enriching the programs we offer members and visitors, partnerships are expanding the lens through which we interpret the collection.

In Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West, curators reached beyond the settlers’ perspective to include the voices of contemporary indigenous artists as well as science scholars. These partnerships bring a fuller understanding to both the cultural and environmental impact of the changes Bierstadt captured through his art.

While we expand our engagement through multiple collaborations, locally and nationally, our most important partnerships are with you, our members and the citizens of Tulsa. Thank you for helping us grow the cultural conversation through your membership and support of Gilcrease Museum.

Sincerely,

Susan Neal Executive Director of Gilcrease Museum and Helmerich Center for American Research Vice President for Public Affairs, The University of Tulsa

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THE CHISHOLM KID

MEET THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN COWBOY TO BE F E AT U R E D I N A C O M I C S T R I P.

Jan. 30 | 7 p.m.

Join us for a celebration of the Chisholm Kid with a concert by American songster Dom Flemons. Details at gilcrease.org/events.

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by Mark Dolph, Gilcrease Museum, Curator of History

GILCREASE MUSEUM IS RENOWNED FOR ITS COLLECTION O F A R T O F T H E A M E R I C A N W E S T A N D E S P E C I A L LY F O R I T S M A N Y I C O N I C PA I N T I N G S A N D S C U L P T U R E S O F C O W B O Y S .

Works by Charles Russell (1864-1926) such as Jerked Down and Smoking Up and Frederic Remington’s (1861-1909) Bronco Buster and Coming Through the Rye are just four of many examples that have contributed to the creation of defining and enduring images of the American cowboy. And that enduring image is, in many cases, a cowboy with decidedly European American ancestry.

In fact, a closer look at Russell’s Camp Cook’s Troubles and Remington’s The Stampede and The Coming and Going of the Pony Express show an American West, much like the rest of the nation, as a place filled with a very “colorful” cast of characters. In reality, American cowboys have always been a reflection of the diversity of the nation at large; far more diverse than the stereotypes so often depicted in Western art and mass culture in general. There were Hispanic vaqueros, Native American cowboys, and, as featured in Gilcrease Museum’s newest exhibition, The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter For Justice For All, an African American cowboy who challenges tired, inaccurate stereotypes.

The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter For Justice For All (Dec. 14, 2018 through March 17, 2019) pays homage to the many Black cowboys who drove longhorns up the Chisholm Trail out of Texas and across Indian Territory to the railroad trailheads in Kansas during the years following the Civil War. As a result of the 13th Amendment as well as the terms the Reconstruction treaties required of the Five Tribes of Oklahoma, many Freedmen found work

as cowboys. Once freedom arrived, they applied their skills and experiences learned as slaves before the war to earning a living on the back of a horse.

While no definitive numbers exist, it's estimated that at least 25 percent of all cowboys on the trail during this period were African Americans.

The Chisholm Kid exhibition features 43 panels from the trailblazing color comic strip of the same name that ran from August 1950 through 1954 in the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s preeminent black newspapers. The Chisholm Kid is both historically and culturally significant due to the Chisholm Kid, the strip’s hero, being presented as a positive force for good at a time when so many images of African Americans in all forms of popular culture reflected the ugliest and most hateful of stereotypes. These positive depictions of an African American hero positioned The Chisholm Kid as an equal to his white Western comic strip contemporaries, Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger. It is also notable, and more than a bit ironic, that many of the color comic strips that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier, one the nation’s most widely circulated African American newspaper, were written and illustrated by white cartoonists. The Chisholm Kid was the work of Carl Pfeufer, who was born in Mexico. Pfeufer worked on many comic strips and books, including the Tom Mix series of Western comic books.

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830-1902). Sierra Nevada Morning, 1870. Oil on canvas, 71.125 x 101 inches.

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955. 0126.2305

Several strips presented in the exhibition reveal the Kid’s backstory. The Chisholm Kid, previously known as Rod Stone, hailed from New Orleans, and gained fame as a man who stood tall against injustice. These strips show Stone defending an older, ailing coworker from their abusive boss. The pair eventually sign on as outriders with a wagon train as they make their way west to the Chisholm Trail. In Broken Willow, they meet up with an Arapaho guide who leads them through the Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee and Osage territories in Indian Territory.

Their travels take them to Boulder Valley and Carson, Oklahoma, where they meet up with more wagon trains before eventually reaching the Chisholm Trail. From there the Chisholm Kid has one adventure after another, including helping bring a fair treaty to area Indians, the defeat of nefarious villains,

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and peace to a lawless frontier in his never-ending quest for justice.

For African American audiences of the day, The Chisholm Kid was an American hero, fully empowered with civil rights, the very rights denied those African Americans reading the strip in the early 1950s. In many ways, The Chisholm Kid was a harbinger for the civil rights movement, especially considering that the strip began its run several years before the seminal 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Regrettably, by the time that African Americans across the nation were fully demanding the rights and equality promised all Americans in the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, The Chisholm Kid as a comic strip had ended its run, leaving the Kid unable to continue his fearless fight for justice for all. Despite no longer being on the trail, The Chisholm Kid’s

spirit of justice for all was present in the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and fully personified in the Rev. Martin Luther King’s dream of being judged by the content of one’s character, not the color of one’s skin.

The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter For Justice For All is curated by the Museum of UnCut Funk and includes comic strips from the museum’s archives, the estate of the publisher, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

Learn more about this exhibition via an interview with curator Mark Dolph at gilcrease.org/chisholmkid.

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ROUNDUP RECAP To say the members’ trip to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve’s Annual Bison Round-Up on Nov. 2 was a success would be an understatement. Within days of announcing the trip, it was sold out with a lengthy wait list large enough for a second trip. From the informative bus ride up to the rare experience of witnessing 2,700 bison being rounded-up, it was truly an unforgettable trip.

Thank you to all who attended and to our exhibition partners, The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma, for graciously inviting Gilcrease members to experience such an amazing day. In the months ahead, make plans to join us as our partnership with The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma continues. 

Jan. 25 | 7-9 p.m.

Gilcrease After Hours: Beer + Bierstadt Feb. 3 | 2-4 p.m.

Conservation Talks with The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma (sponsored by Virginia and John Groendyke)

OSAGE CASINO HOTEL SPONSORS GILCREASE AFTER HOURS Osage Casino Hotel recently became the latest sponsor at Gilcrease with a commitment to help fund the museum’s monthly evening of culture and cocktails, Gilcrease After Hours.

With this commitment, Osage Casino Hotel will be the presenting sponsor of Gilcrease After Hours.

Gilcrease isn’t the only venue in the neighborhood experiencing growth.

Although the Vision-funded renovation and expansion at Gilcrease is still in the planning stages, Osage Casino Hotel recently opened its newest property minutes from Gilcrease and downtown Tulsa to great success.

Osage Casino Hotels’ support comes at an exciting time for Gilcrease. The museum is reaching new audiences in response to its diverse exhibition schedule and programming, making Gilcrease a popular destination for Tulsans.

“We appreciate the support of our neighbor, Osage Casino Hotel, its support of the arts and commitment to making the northwest corridor a fully contributing economic driver for our community,” said Gilcrease Executive Director Susan Neal. “We are eager to work with and leverage developments

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and investment for an area that is so clearly an important gateway to our region’s history and future. We welcome the opportunity to introduce new visitors to the museum and this area. The more we work together as a community, the more successful all of Tulsa will become.”  Haven’t been to Gilcrease After Hours?

See what you are missing out on at gilcrease.org/gahspotlight.

GENEROSITY FUELS ENDOWMENT GROWTH

As 2018 draws to a close, Gilcrease is celebrating another milestone in the journey to transform the museum.

With the vision for the museum’s new interpretive plan becoming clearer, the related Campaign for Gilcrease won another generous gift.

The campaign kicked off in May 2016 with a $1 million gift from the Stephenson Family Foundation. The campaign’s most recent gift – another $1 million – was given in September by anonymous donors who, enthusiastic about Gilcrease and its future, made an unrestricted contribution to the museum’s endowment.

The Campaign for Gilcrease was developed to complement the public investment to update the museum (through the Vision Tulsa tax initiative) by growing the Gilcrease endowment to a more significant level and further

strengthening the museum’s operational capacity. By making this gift, the donors have brought the museum’s future closer in reach.

Although the identity of the donors will remain confidential, the impact of their gift will be felt for years to come.

Unrestricted endowment gifts support a broad range of activities including educational programs for children and families, broader exhibition offerings, incorporation of technology into the Gilcrease experience and more.

Generous gifts like these not only have a lasting impact on the museum’s operations, but also demonstrate confidence in museum administration.

Unrestricted gifts allow leadership to allocate the earnings to what the museum needs most, providing flexibility in addition to financial support.

“Gilcrease is encouraged by this latest gift to our campaign, the ninth gift of $1 million or more,” said Susan Neal, Gilcrease Museum executive director. “Not only is it illustrative of the generosity the Tulsa philanthropic community is known for, it gives us resolve as we look toward marking our 70th anniversary next year. Such support reminds us that Gilcrease is vitally important and deeply loved throughout our community. We are extremely grateful to the donors for their confidence in Gilcrease.”

To date, commitments to the $50 million Campaign for Gilcrease total more than $37.6 million. Of that, $23 million is dedicated to the Gilcrease endowment.

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ANNUAL FUND

OPENING DOORS In a state where the need for education funding is front of mind, museums and other cultural organizations continue to do their part to provide art experiences for students that otherwise would not have a place in most public schools. Last year, Gilcrease served approximately 25,000 children through more than 14 programs and camps. From school tours that introduce children to Native cultures, to free admission days for families, your support is the key that opens the door for young minds every day.

Whether you give $25 to provide art supplies for our drop-in studio activities or a $250 scholarship for a week of summer art camp, your gift makes a difference to a student who may not otherwise unlock their full potential.

Please consider making a gift to the Gilcrease Museum Annual Fund today. For more information, please contact the Membership Office at 918-596-2758 or support-gilcrease@utulsa.edu. ď Ž Visit gilcrease.org/annualfund to hear from Milo Ellicott and what he likes most about art.

" M Y FAV O R I T E T H I N G S AT S U M M E R A R T C A M P AT G I L C R E A S E A R E MAKING ALL THE COOL PROJECTS AND GOING ON HIKES." - Milo Ellicott, Council Oak Elementary fifth-grader

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’TIS THE SEASON TO SHOP Enjoy 25 percent off all items during our annual Members' Holiday Sale Dec. 7 – 9 (no additional discounts). From handcrafted jewelry to home décor, books, educational toys and ornaments, we’re your one-stop shop.

Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday – Sunday

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BEH THE SCEN

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HIND with Lenny Borkowicz, executive chef at The Restaurant at Gilcrease

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With the holiday season upon us, food is always a priority. We sat down with Executive Chef Lenny Borkowicz to get the inside scoop from the kitchen.

Q: Where are you from?

A: I’m from Philadelphia. My family is from the area, and I grew up a diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan along with any other hometown team.

Q: What was your first job?

A: I started helping in the kitchen with food prep at my uncle’s restaurant in Philly called The Rascal’s Roost when I was just 13 years old. At age 14, I started to dabble in cooking. I worked there until I was 18.

Q: What is your favorite part of the job?

A: I love the creativity of being a chef. I enjoy turning simple ingredients into bold flavors and tastes. I also love watching people enjoy a good meal!

Q: What would our members be surprised to learn about when it comes to the every-day operations of the restaurant?

A: I think members would be surprised to know just how small our kitchen and staff are to pull off the number of events we do. We are a team of five, including me, and we are able to handle large dinner events for the museum and campus with 300 plus

guests. I like to say we are small but mighty.

Q: What do you look for in a quality meal or dining experience?

A: It’s all about presentation and service. I love to see something creative and colorful on my plate.

Consistency of a dining experience and meal are also very important. If people enjoy a specific meal they will come back to reorder it, and it needs to match their expectations from their first positive eating experience.

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: I love seared tuna or a rack of lamb.

Q: What is your favorite category of food to make and why?

A: I’m an entrée guy. I like to focus on the center of the plate because that is the focal point of a meal.

You have to bring what idea is in your head to the plate, not dissimilar to what an artist does.

Q: What tips do you have for our members who are preparing to host large parties and families over the holidays?

A: First, make sure you order or prepare enough, especially when it comes to hors d’oeuvres. Second, don’t be afraid to get creative; and third, always have a backup plan.

Watch a follow-up Q&A with Chef Borkowicz at gilcrease.org/restaurant.

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ART LEGENDS' WIFE STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT

By Susan Buchanan, Director of Collections and Chief Registrar

GM 01.2593 Untitled, 1868, by Mary Nimmo Moran. Oil on canvas. Given in honor of Eleanor and Edgar Wallace.

In early 2018, the museum was offered a donation of a Mary Nimmo Moran untitled landscape painting by a donor in Massachusetts. While Gilcrease has a substantial collection of Thomas Moran works — 2,046 to be exact — we have very few by his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, and none of her oil paintings.

In fact, her oil paintings are quite rare; and in 2011, an oil on panel of Nimmo Moran’s was her first painting to appear at auction.

“Like many 19th-century women artists, Mary Nimmo Moran’s work is often under recognized by scholars and museums today,” said Laura Fry, Gilcrease Museum senior curator and curator of art. “While she never achieved the fame of her husband, Thomas Moran, Mary was a talented artist in her own right. We were thrilled by the donation of one of Mary’s rare oil paintings, which will allow Gilcrease to shed additional light on her career.”

Despite the painting’s poor condition, Gilcrease accepted the piece due to its rarity.

The piece is currently awaiting conservation treatment and reframing that we plan to complete by the end of 2019.

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“This small painting has suffered from environmental fluctuations resulting in heavy planar distortion, a pronounced network of cracks and some related loses,” said Joanna Didik, Gilcrease’s chief conservator. “It will be scheduled for treatment to enable safe usage and full appreciation of this unique piece.”

The Nimmo Moran painting is a valuable addition to Gilcrease’s permanent collection, and we are grateful to the donor, Kathy Bangerter, who gifted the piece in honor of Eleanor and Edgar Wallace. 

B R E AT H I N G R O O M The Anthropology Collections storage area recently completed an incredible makeover thanks to the residents of Tulsa’s voting for the Improve Our Tulsa initiative in 2013. The previous storage facility was over capacity with no room for growth for the densely packed objects. Museum staff, volunteers and visiting scholars and students shared a workspace that consisted of a single sixby-four-foot table that was just six feet from the rows of shelving holding the archaeological collection. The collection and the people who use it had vastly outgrown the space, and change was desperately needed.

Today we have a state-of-the-art work space and storage area. The work space includes three labs specific for object handling, a photography studio and office space. It also includes compact shelving and special units such as saddle racks and large drawers for items with unique storage needs. This is a far cry

By Laura Bryant, Anthropology Collections Manager

from the original single six-by-four-foot table.

However, the move was neither quick nor easy. In 2014, we began to work with architects and a storage company to design the new storage space and the high density compact shelving. With the relocation of the library and archives to the Helmerich Center for American Research, the Anthropology Department expanded its footprint into that vacated space. This offered the opportunity for a larger workspace as well as an expanded and improved storage area.

To prepare for the construction, Anthropology Collections staff and volunteers had to move the entire collection to a temporary storage area on site. This involved rehousing many objects to better stabilize and support them, and re-inventorying and tracking the collection and its movement. As rows of objects were moved, we would

disassemble the old shelving and reassemble it in the temporary area so we had space to move the next round of items. This process took approximately eight months.

With these upgrades, we can now optimize many of the objects’ needs for housing to meet best practices and help better preserve them for research and display for generations to come.

Additionally, this move has allowed the team to reorganize much of the collection, thus making it more useful and accessible to staff, tribal members, scholars and students. There is no doubt the new Anthropology Collection storage is a vast improvement and one that will be felt museum-wide as we are able to better preserve, share and study our priceless collection.  Watch a quick tour of the new space with Laura Bryant at gilcrease.org/anthromove.

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B A B Y, I T ' S C O L D O U T S I D E Looking for indoor activities during the coldest months of the year?

Check out our upcoming programs, panel discussions and special events.

Funday Sunday The third Sunday of the month is Funday Sunday. It’s a free admission day loaded with fun for the whole family. Visitors can enjoy art projects for all ages, gallery tours, activities and special guest performances.

Sessions | Activities scheduled noon to 4 p.m.

Dec. 16 Take holiday photos with Santa Claus, listen to musical performances, make artworks inspired by the season, experience winter fun both on the grounds and inside the museum and find the perfect holiday gift.

Jan. 20 Inspired by our exhibition Americans All!, learn how different immigrant cultures have shaped and enriched Tulsa over the years through food, visual art, performances and special gallery tours. Additionally, participate in our “human library” presented by Thrive Tulsa.

Feb. 17 Enjoy an overdue celebration of the history and cultural contributions of black cowboys in conjunction with the exhibition The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter for Justice for All. Gilcrease After Hours* The last Friday of the month is Gilcrease After Hours presented by Osage Casino Hotel. It’s a free admission event with culture and cocktails.

Sessions | 7-9 p.m.

Jan. 25: Beer + Bierstadt Feb. 22: Oklahoma Delicious *Due to the holiday season, there will be no Gilcrease After Hours in December.

Drop In Studio Explore new materials and concepts on the first Sunday of the month from 1 to 4 p.m. under the guidance of Gilcrease teaching artists. Studio activities can be adapted for visitors of all ages, backgrounds and artist abilities. Free for members and free with admission for not-yet members. No registration required.

Learn and Play* Presented in collaboration with Tulsa Community College Early Childhood Education Department, this program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers to enjoy a developmentally appropriate gallery experience followed by hands-on activities. Snacks and all materials are provided. Free with museum admission, but advance reservation is required. Contact christine-hostetler@utulsa.edu.

Sessions | 10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Dec. 6 and 7 Feb. 7 and 8 *Due to the holiday season, there will be no January classes.

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SPECIAL EVENTS: Dec. 9 (1-4 p.m.)

Crystal Making Workshop and Nature Walk with Tyler Thrasher Jan. 5 El Dia de Los Reyes Magos Celebration Jan. 6 (2-3 p.m.)

Americans All! Book Club with Tulsa Literary Coalition

THE LAST WORD with Alison Anthony

Coming together to make a difference in our communities — many of us wake up every day asking how to do just that.

Yet the term “collective impact,” defined as a commitment by organizations across sectors to tackle complex social issues, is frequently discussed but difficult to recognize in our daily lives. I’m impressed with the way Gilcrease Museum has been leading the charge for collective impact among cultural institutions in our community. Over the last several months, Gilcrease has been hard to ignore as a proactive example of how one organization can serve as a catalyst for collaboration and positive change.

From the diversity of exhibitions and programs being offered, Gilcrease is changing, and Tulsans are taking notice. The community is responding to the museum’s open invitation to learn, engage and share. From highlighting the important contributions immigrants have made and continue to make to American culture in Americans All!, to discussing the role of the LGBTQ community in the American West in the current exhibition Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo, the museum is opening the dialogue about current issues, history and the connections between the two, all while asking the community to join in the conversation.

The changes I’ve witnessed are a shift in the museum’s approach to content and emphasize ways to present that are relatable to people from all walks of life. While sometimes subtle, the results are starting to surface. Renewed excitement over one of our city’s most beloved institutions is growing alongside the many energizing developments that are part of Tulsa’s renaissance.

At United Way, we work to advance the common good by focusing on three building blocks of a better quality of life — education, health/safety and financial stability. Relying on collaboration and community partnership is how we do our work. Our very mission is to unite people and resources to improve lives and build a stronger community. Observing the emphasis Gilcrease has recently placed on community, education and examination of complex social issues speaks volumes to what we’re all trying to achieve. Tulsa is a great place to live for many reasons, but one of our most notable assets is our willingness as a city to work together. Gilcrease is leading by example, and my hope is that others will follow suit.

As an advocate for Gilcrease, I’m inspired by the changes I see taking place. Through intentionality, focus and persistence, together we can all make our community a better place.

Alison Anthony, President & CEO Tulsa Area United Way Gilcrease Museum Magazine / Winter / 2019

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