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James Pepper Henry, Head of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Will Soon Become the Director of Gilcrease

(Photo: Craig Smith / Heard Museum)
Aired on Wednesday, January 7th.

On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with James Pepper Henry, director of the well-regarded Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, who's just been named at the new director of the Gilcrease Museum here in Tulsa. Pepper Henry will begin his tenure at Gilcrease in late March. He's a member of Oklahoma's Kaw Nation, and in a statement released on Monday the 5th, he referred to his upcoming arrival at Gilcrease as "a real homecoming.... I have lots of family and friends in Oklahoma. The museum's founder, Thomas Gilcrease, and I share Muscogee Creek heritage. That makes my appointment as executive director even more special." Pepper Henry has also worked at the Anchorage Museum, the Kanza Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. He speaks with us about his plans for growing the reputation of the Gilcrease Museum both locally and nationally. Also on today's program, our commentator Mark Darrah has some carefully noted -- and Tulsa-centric -- observations to pass along on the relationship between narcissism and driving.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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