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OKPOP Director Jeff Moore Describes the Newly-Announced Design of This Upcoming Structure

Aired on Tuesday, July 17th.

The long-awaited Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture (or OKPOP) is our topic on today's StudioTulsa. The design of the downtown Tulsa building that will house this museum has jus been announced. The structure will be on Main Street, across the street from the Cain's Ballroom, with construction to begin in the fall of this year. As was reported recently by KWGS News: "The three-story, 52,500-square-foot building's exterior will be made up of black steel, gray brick, glass, video boards, and silver and gold metal panels. There's a subtle nod [in the building's design] to a famous Tulsan's one-of-a-kind 1954 Fender Stratocaster...." Our guest, who fills us in on all the details, is the OKPOP director, Jeff Moore.

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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