For Immediate Release: Dec

For Immediate Release: July 24, 2017 Contact: Brenda Granger Telephone: 405.424-7757 E-mail: [email protected]

Oklahoma Museums Association Announces 2017 Award Winners Awards to be Presented During Annual Conference

(OKLAHOMA CITY)  The Oklahoma Museums Association has announced the award recipients being honored during its annual conference on Sept. 20-22 in Lawton, Oklahoma. The awards program honors the excellence and quality of projects accomplished by members throughout the state. Also, the program recognizes individuals and groups whose contributions have impacted Oklahoma museums and the museum profession.

OMA awards recognize achievements from the past 18 months in the categories of conservation, exhibits, promotional pieces, publications, outreach or education programs and technology media. The competition is further divided into project budget categories. In addition, awards for contributions of individuals, groups and businesses to Oklahoma museums or a specific museum in the community will be presented.

The awards celebration and dinner is at 6 p.m. on Sept. 21. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased before Aug. 25 online using the registration button found at OKMuseums.org.

The OMA Conference is open to all board members, volunteers, students and staff of museums, historical societies, historic sites, zoos and botanical gardens, historic houses, living history museums, tribal cultural centers and other museum-related institutions. The annual conference and awards is one of the many programs and services offered by the OMA to further its mission to assist Oklahoma museums in their efforts to educate, inform and entertain. The conference registration deadline is Aug. 25. Download a conference booklet or register online at OKMuseums.org/conference.

The Oklahoma Museums Association is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in 1972. Programming offered by the Oklahoma Museums Association is important as the primary source of information and professional development for Oklahoma’s 500 museums, historical societies, historic sites, zoos and botanical gardens, historic houses, living history museums, tribal cultural centers and other museum-related institutions. -30-

Note to media: Please find the list of 2017 award winners on next page.

2017 Oklahoma Museums Association Award Winners

Certificate of Recognition Tammy Posey, Drumright Historical Society Gary Wallace, Oklahoma History Center

“Thursday Ladies” Ina Dilldine, Linda Polk and Janice Anderson, The Museum Broken Arrow

Larry Pennington, The Museum Broken Arrow

Conservation or Preservation Conservation or Preservation Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Chickasaw Cultural Center, Monarch Butterfly

Conservation or Preservation Budget Category $5,001 to $15,000 Museum of the Western Prairie, Preservation-in-Place of Historic Cobblestone Structures

Exhibits Exhibits Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Tulsa Historical Society & Museum, “A Ship Named Tulsa: Three Stories of Namesake Vessels” Exhibit

Edy Ritt-Coulter and the Laboratory of History Museum, Black Masculinity and the Lynching Tree (Honorable Mention)

Exhibits Budget Category $5,001 to $15,000 Museum of the Western Prairie, The Stories They Could Tell: The Landscapes and Vernacular Architecture of Southwest Oklahoma

Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center, The Haits Exhibit (Honorable Mention)

Exhibits Budget Category $15,001 and over National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Collision & Creation: Indigenous Arts of the Americas, 1890-2015 (Honorable Mention)

Outreach or Education Outreach or Education Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, Uncertain Futures: The Animal Photography of Joel Sartore

Outreach or Education Budget Category $5,001 to $15,000 American Banjo Museum, American Banjo Museum Quarterly

Outreach or Education Budget Category $15,001 and over Gilcrease on Wheels, Gilcrease Museum

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Discovery Kits (Honorable Mention)

Promotional Piece Promotional Piece Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Sam Noble Museum Vintage Ads

Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center, The Haits Exhibit Brochure (Honorable Mention)

Promotional Piece Budget Category $15,001 and over Chickasaw Cultural Center, ChickasawCulturalCenter.com

Publication Publication Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Tammy R. Posey, Emma and the Children of Dunbar: The Story Behind the Books Technology Media Technology Media Budget Category $0 to $5,000 Oklahoma Historical Society, Crossroads

Technology Media Budget Category $15,001 and over Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center, Native American Church Interactive