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useNEWS News museums can use Wellbeing Series Continues with Session on Historical Loss, M Trauma, and Resilience O M A The Oklahoma Museums Association Wellbeing Committee is please to O K L A H O M A present the expert voices speaker series in response and recovery to COVID-19. This is in addition to the Wellbeing website resources which MUSEUMS can be found here. A S S O C I A T I O N The speaker series is free, but registration is required. The session will Volume 52, No. 1 • Winter 2021 be presented live in Zoom format. Once you register, you will be sent the Available to OMA members Jan 1; Zoom login information before the session. Register here. posted online for public Feb 1 Join us on Thursday, February 4 at 10:00am Central Time for “Painful INSIDE: Past; Resilient Future: Stories of historical loss, trauma, and resilience 2 within families.” with C. J. Aducci, Ph.D., Licensed Marriage and Family Shaping the Future Therapist, Executive Officer, Chickasaw Nation. Our goal is to define 3 historical trauma and discuss the lasting impact it has on generations Note from OMA President of families. The accumulation of past experiences has led to historical 4 trauma, yet families have continued to persevere. Like many First New OMA Board Members Americans, the Chickasaw people have endured hardships including removal from their Homeland. We invite you to join us for a virtual 12 OMA Awards Program presentation to address these issues and learn more about the adversity faced by people past and present and their ability to generate resilience 13 within their families and tribe. Museum Advocacy Day Thank you to Allied Arts for their support of the wellbeing expert voices speaker series. HOLD THE DATE 11th Annual OMA Smarties Fundraiser June 18, 2021 Oklahoma History Center Put it on your calendar! DONATE OKMuseums.org 1 OMA Board of Directors director's desk Richard Ellwanger • President Shaping the Future Seminole Nation Museum, Wewoka Ken Busby • Vice President As we begin a wonderful new year, 2021, I want Route 66 Alliance, Tulsa to let our museum family know how important Delyanna Trim • Treasurer you are to us and to your communities. We are Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee so proud of how Oklahoma museums handled Valorie Walters • Sceretary the pandemic and immediately jumped in with Chickasaw Cultural Center, Sulphur innovative and unique approaches to serve Dan Provo • Immediate Past President families, individuals, schools, health care workers Oklahoma History Center, OKC and so many more. As the future of museums and cultural institutions Amanda Boehm-Garcia • District 4 Rep. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman Brenda Granger change and evolve, the Oklahoma Museums Executive Director Association wants to make sure we are meeting Jordan Boyd • District 2 Rep. Dobson Museum, Miami YOUR needs. Over the next few months, the OMA Board and Staff will be sending out a survey to begin gauging what Oklahoma museums Maggie Brown • At-Large Rep. Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa need followed by conversations with you, our museum family. We Susan Buchanan • At-Large Rep. know museums are very relevant, and we want make sure you have Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa the knowledge and resources to continue with your good works. Lauren Daughety • At-Large Rep. Vann & Associates | PR + Marketing, OKC Be on the lookout for emails as well as information on our website in Marci Donaho • At-Large Rep. the coming weeks. We need you to help us shape the future of OMA Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, and what you need from your state museum association. We look Seminole forward to a great 2021 and working together for the greater good. Jason Harris • District 5 Rep. Chisholm Trail Museum & Horizon Hill, Brenda Kingfisher James Pepper Henry • At-Large Rep. The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, OKC Jennifer Holt • At-Large Rep. Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore Jacob Krumwiede • At-Large Rep. Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid Sherry Marshall • At-Large Rep. Science Museum Oklahoma, OKC Dr. Kelli Mosteller • At-Large Rep. Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heri- tage Center, Shawnee JA Pryse • At-Large Rep. Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, Norman Scott Stulen • At-Large Rep. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Gena Timberman, Esq • At-Large Rep. The Luksi Group, OKC D’Lese Travis • District 3 Rep. Martin& MartinDesign is a three division General Tommy Franks Leadership Insti- company: fine art services, architectural lighting tute and Museum, Hobart design/specification/controls, and custom fabrication/exhibits. Whether new construction Karen Whitecotton • District 1 Rep. or remodeling let us help you create a OKPOP, Tulsa comprehensive gallery exhibit design from the lighting, to the exhibit design, to how it is controlled...from design to fabrication to installation, Martin&Martin can seamlessly partner OMA Staff with you to tell your museum’s story. Brenda Granger • Executive Director Art Installation, Transportation, Shipping, Stacy O’Daniel • Administrative & Storage,Packing, Crating, Sculpture Rigging, Program Associate Mount-Making, Exhibit Design/Fabrication, Shana Keith-Ward • Office Assistant Exhibit Furniture, Architectural Lighting Design/ martin&martindesign Jeremy Springer • Contract Bookkeeper 1715 Market Center Blvd. Dallas, Tx. 775207 Specification, and Controls 214.252.0692 www.martinandmartindesign.com ART + LIGHT OKMuseums.org 2 A Note from the OMA President It was the many other members of members of our museum and thirteen Oklahoma’s amazing museum nonprofit communities. Doing so years ago community has been one of the can be transformative to both this coming most professionally rewarding you and your organization. spring and personally fulfilling decisions that I first of my career. My thanks to my predecessor, ventured Dan Provo, for his exceptional, into an I’m honored to be a part steady guidance through these Oklahoma of OMA’s board, which, in unprecedented times. Like the Richard Ellwanger Museums conjunction with its staff, rest of the OMA board, he sets OMA Board President Association provides resources, guidance, a high standard for leadership, workshop and programs in service to which I am humbly honored to and began my journey with Oklahoma’s 500+ museums, try and attain. I look forward OMA. Like many that lead small, cultural institutions, and arts to continuing to work with Dan, rural museums, I came into the organizations. I would encourage the board, and our wonderful profession without a background you, whatever your museum OMA staff in serving you and the in museum studies and was role - director, trustee, curator, Oklahoma museum community more than a bit intimidated to or volunteer - and no matter in our efforts to educate, inform, face my learned colleagues. I’m your institution size, to become and entertain! happy to report that my fears involved in OMA and reap the -Richard Ellwanger were quickly assuaged, and that benefits of engaging with the meeting Brenda, Stacy, and many talented and dedicated OKMuseums.org 3 Welcome New OMA Board Members Celebrate Oklahoma Amanda Boehm-Garcia is the Museums Week March 14-20 Director of Learning + Engagement The Oklahoma Museums at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Association is happy to announce Art on the University of Oklahoma that Oklahoma Museums Week campus. Previously Amanda was the will be celebrated March 14-20, Outreach Coordinator at the Fred 2021. Oklahoma museums are Jones Jr. Museum of Art and Adjunct encouraged to participate by Instructor at the Oklahoma City contacting your legislators to Museum of Art. At FJJMA Amanda convey how your organization has developed the museum’s first on- serves the community in areas of going programming for Alzheimer’s the economy, education, overall participants and their caregivers as Amanda Boehm-Garcia quality of life and so much well as monthly programming with OMA District 4 Rep. more. Also, be sure to invite the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs your legislators for a behind the Hospital. She is a Norman Arts Council Roundtable Representative, scenes tour of your museum. serves on the Roundtable sub-committee for Equity and Justice, and is the Oklahoma co-representative for the Mountain Plains As part of the celebration of Museum Association EDCOM Board. Amanda has a Master of Oklahoma Museums Week, OMA Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in Printmaking from the will be sending all Oklahoma San Francisco Art Institute where she was awarded a Fullbright legislators a list of museums in Fellowship and continues her studio art practice while working in their district ahead of time. the museum field. The Oklahoma Museums Scott Stulen is the Director and Association will ask Governor President of Philbrook Museum of Kevin Stitt to issue an Executive Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Stulen is Proclamation declaring the week the former Curator of Audience of March 14, 2021 as Oklahoma Experiences and Performance at Museums Week. the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Project Director of mnartists.org Let’s all celebrate Oklahoma at the Walker Art Center, Associate museums March 14-20! Curator at the Rochester Art Center, visual artist, writer and DJ. He earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Minnesota and a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Scott Stulen Claire. He created and led the first OMA At-Large Rep. Audience Experience and Performance Curatorial Department in the country at the IMA, developing the ARTx program, commissioning new performances and site-specific installations, and launching new earned-income initiatives. At the Walker, Stulen co-curated and developed the Open Field project, DESIGNER & FABRICATOR OF MUSEUM EXHIBITS reframing the museum as public park, town square and platform THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY for experimentation. His projects have included Roman Signer, SMALL BUSINESS Inigo-Manglano Ovalle, Chris Larson, Machine Project, ROLU, Chris OF THE YEAR 2019 Kallmyer, Daniel Wohl, Paula McCartney and Know No Stranger.