Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report
IN THIS Report
A Look Back at Fiscal Year 2025 July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025
Learning & Community Engagement Collections Helmerich Center for American Research Support Financial Review
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By the Numbers 719
active museum members
2,769 students from 49 schools participated in youth arts programs
14 new acquisitions
870K page views and 414,000 user engagements Google Analytics
104 active volunteers contributed more than 6,000 volunteer hours
Executive Director and CEO
As we reflect on the past year, we are proud to share the remarkable progress and continued momentum at Gilcrease. While we work diligently on the finishing touches of our new building and plans for reopening, our commitment to community engagement, scholarship, and cultural stewardship remains unwavering. Through traveling exhibitions, innovative digital initiatives, and dynamic public programming, we have continued to connect people with art, history, and ideas that inspire their understanding of themselves and the communities that surround them.
This past year marked significant milestones—from the successful launch of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum to the revival of our Artist-in-Residence program, and the expansion of youth and community outreach across Tulsa. Our membership community has grown stronger, our collection has deepened, and our digital presence has reached new audiences around the world in innovative ways.
As we prepare to open the doors to a reimagined Gilcrease, we are energized by the support of our partners, donors, volunteers, and visitors. Together, we are building a museum that honors the past, embraces the present, and looks boldly toward the future.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
Brian Lee Whisenhunt Executive Director and CEO, Gilcrease Museum
Learning & Community Engagement
In FY 2025, Gilcrease’s Learning & Community Engagement (LCE) team continued to strengthen the museum’s connections across Tulsa through vibrant outreach initiatives, hands-on workshops, youth and student educational activities, volunteer opportunities, and engaging public programs hosted throughout the metro area.
Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood
In July 2024, we launched the fifth and final installment of Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood (GIYN), a citywide pop-up exhibition that put framed reproductions of Gilcrease artworks in unexpected locations. The museum installed GIYN reproductions at five outdoor locations: Keystone Ancient Forest, Turkey Mountain, Ray Harral Nature Park & Center, Oxley Nature Center, and Gathering Place.
To enrich the exhibition experience, Laurel Benson Wrench, Anne and Henry Zarrow Director of Learning & Community Engagement, developed and led four dynamic public programs in collaboration with Greenwood Cultural Center , Rudisill Regional Library, and Circle Cinema. Together, these events—each of which was tailored for an adult, teen, or family/ multigenerational audience—attracted 228 participants. Mia (Torres) Hoskison (Muscogee, Cherokee, Choushatta, Choctaw), Manager of Community Engagement, led mindful looking and art-making sessions at the Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges, engaging 50 participants in meaningful creative exploration.
Gilcrease also hosted a three-part photography workshop series for students of Crossover Preparatory Academy, a secondary school located in North Tulsa. The series was facilitated by local photographers Don Thompson and Gary Mason, the latter of whom is a member of BLACK MOON Collective.
This final GIYN artwork cycle culminated with a celebratory Gilcrease Family Festival and Art Show on Saturday, November 16, at the Greenwood Cultural Center, a long-time, valued partner. Taking inspiration from the historic photograph featured at the five GIYN sites, Gilcrease organized a free afternoon event that included artist-led photography stations, hands-on art activities, a performance by the Carver Middle School Orchestra, and an exhibition of the photographs by Crossover Preparatory Academy students during the photography workshop series. Nearly 170 people attended.
UNcrease
In January 2025, Gilcrease issued an open call for proposals inviting community members to share their ideas for activating the new museum building during the brief period it will be empty of new exhibitions. The response was overwhelming, with more than 200 concepts submitted - many from local creatives that the museum has not collaborated with before. Gilcrease will bring the selected proposals to life in spring 2026 through UNcrease, a new three-month free public event series.
Gillies Artist-in-Residence Program
In 2025, Gilcrease Museum welcomed renowned artist Stephen Towns as the inaugural Gillies Artistin-Residence, renewing a legacy of support for contemporary artists established by founder Thomas Gilcrease.
Towns is known for his intricate, self-taught quilting practice, which explores political and spiritual themes in American history, especially moments of struggle and resilience in the Black American experience. A trained painter with a B.F.A. in studio art from the University of South Carolina, Towns has exhibited at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Fallingwater Institute, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Portrait Gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Rockwell Museum.
During his three-week residency (March 24–April 12), Towns conducted research in Gilcrease’s Archives and engaged with local leaders, artists, and historians. His time in Tulsa included visits to the Greenwood District and Black Wall Street, deepening his connection to the city’s cultural legacy.
Internships
In FY25, Gilcrease welcomed 14 undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates as interns. Representing institutions such as The University of Tulsa, the University of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, and Maryville University, the interns were paired with staff mentors and gained practical professional experience in departments across the museum, including Anthropology, Archives and Library, Conservation, Development and Membership, Digital Curation, Learning and Community Engagement, Marketing, and Repatriation.
The Gillies
Under the dedicated leadership of President Kathe Crapster, the Gillies—a group of long-standing museum volunteers—made a remarkable impact this year. Nearly 140 Gillies contributed more than 6,000 hours of service to Gilcrease. They worked with departments across the museum, including Anthropology, Archives, Conservation, and Digital Curation. They also continued their traveling education programs and Speaking of Gilcrease public presentation series. The Gillies continue to meet monthly, fostering a strong sense of community and collaboration. Gilcrease staff members regularly participate in these gatherings, sharing updates and leading discussions that keep the Gillies informed and engaged in the life of the museum.
Youth and Student Programs
Gilcrease is committed to providing educational and engagement opportunities for young people, both in and out of the classroom.
In July 2024, we partnered with Union Public Schools to deliver workshops for 70 students in their Indian Education program. In June 2025, the initiative expanded to include both Union and Tulsa Public Schools’ programs, serving 335 youth through creative, hands-on activities.
In July and October 2024, we held flower-making workshops at the Tulsa Dream Center and San Miguel School of Tulsa, reaching 109 youth. Led by Mia (Torres) Hoskison, these sessions offered meaningful opportunities for artistic expression and community connection.
As noted above, we collaborated with Crossover Preparatory School to offer a three-part photography workshop series in October 2024 with Tulsa photographers Don Thompson and Gary Mason. Ten students explored the history and impact of photography, learned to use digital cameras and proudly exhibited their work at the Gilcrease Family Festival and Art Show.
During the 2024–25 school year, Gilcrease continued participating in the collective impact initiative Any Given Child. As an Any Given Child-Tulsa partner, Gilcrease provides a collections-based arts education lesson, highquality materials and a hands-on art activity to every first-grade student in Tulsa Public Schools. This year, we served 2,245 students across 46 schools, providing a valuable creative learning experience that might not otherwise be available.
Community Volunteers
Mia (Torres) Hoskison continued to serve as liaison to the museum’s Community Advisory Council (CAC), a diverse group of 24 community members committed to providing guidance and assisting Gilcrease as it strives to be a truly community centered institution. The CAC met six times during FY25, offering valuable insights on member recruitment and engagement strategies, branding concepts, and the development of plans for the new museum building.
Collections
In FY 2025, Gilcrease Museum advanced its mission through dynamic exhibitions, conservation milestones, digital innovation, and meaningful repatriation efforts— ensuring its world-class collections remained accessible, protected, and relevant while preparing for the opening of its new galleries.
Exhibitions
While the new galleries are under construction, Gilcrease Museum continued to share its superlative collection with audiences across the country. More than 100 items from the collection traveled to three venues as part of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum, an exhibition co-organized with the American Federation of Arts. Featuring artwork and cultural materials spanning over 3,000 years, the exhibition highlighted the richness and diversity of Native American artistic traditions.
EXHIBITION VENUES
Ackland Art Museum
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Feb. 16 – April 28, 2024
Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
June 2 – Aug. 25, 2024
Society of the Four Arts
Palm Beach, Florida
Nov. 23, 2024 – Jan. 19, 2025
Digital Curation
The Digital Curation department continued to share more of Gilcrease’s unparalleled collection online in meaningful and accessible ways, while preparing for interactive experiences in the new museum galleries. In addition to adding newly digitized items to the museum’s Online Collections site, a key focus for the Digital Curation team this year was the development of digital infrastructure to support the museum’s forthcoming mobile guide—a first for Gilcrease—and interactive digital experiences in the new galleries. Additionally, the team completed a multi-year website restructuring project, providing us the flexibility needed for future digital initiatives and the ability to employ our digital assets more efficiently.
Reaching New Art Enthusiasts
Gilcrease was delighted to be invited by the National Gallery of Art to showcase artworks and artists through their daily online game Artle (like Wordle for artists). Leveraging new content produced thanks to a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the museum shared digitized artworks and biographies of thirteen artists— many of whom were new discoveries for Artle players. Woody Crumbo emerged as a crowd favorite. On days when Gilcrease collection items were featured, the number of people visiting our website soared, sometimes as high as 8,000 a day. Our participation in Artle significantly expanded our reach and public awareness of the artists in our collection and our valuable online resources.
Website Engagement (July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025):
• Page Views: 870,000
• User Engagements: 414,000
• Top Visiting Countries:
• United States
• Singapore
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Mexico
Repatriation
In April 2025, Gilcrease Museum created a formal Repatriation Department as a testament to our commitment to building relationships with Native Nations and prioritizing our legal and ethical obligations under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This fiscal year, Gilcrease repatriated 19 sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony and 31 funerary objects.
Staff is actively consulting with approximately 65 Nations from across the United States to facilitate repatriation of ancestral human remains, funerary objects, and cultural items.
Featured Conservation Treatment
Multnomah Falls, an oil painting on canvas by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) painted in the late 19th century, depicts a beautiful waterfall located in the Columbia River Gorge, 30 miles east of Portland, Oregon. This work will be displayed in the new museum galleries, but its original brilliance had been dimmed by a heavily applied natural resin varnish that had
Conservation
Gilcrease’s conservation team grew this year with the addition of a new full-time staff member. Elly Davis, who joined the team as assistant objects conservator in October. Over the year, the conservation team continued to focus on assessment, treatment, and preparation for display of more than 750 items scheduled to go on view in the new building. In early 2025, our conservators began reviewing casework drawings, evaluating casework material options, and guiding object mountmaking – all of which are critical to ensuring items are protected from sources of damage. Ann Boulton, who served as a part-time Objects Conservator since 2009, retired in March 2025.
significantly discolored over time, darkening and warming the tonality of the work’s colors. A talented and experienced external paintings conservator gradually and carefully reduced the varnish with a solvent solution applied using a non-abrasive, highly absorbent fabric. Thanks to this treatment, cool and lighter tonalities emerged, creating a livelier composition and restoring its visual impact.
Top: During removal of the discolored varnish.
Bottom: During removal/reduction of the discolored varnish.
Loans
Additional stats from the Conservation Department’s research and outreach activities:
• 155 hours dedicated to lab tours, public talks, workshops, consultation with community members about caring for their collections, job shadowing by high school and undergraduate students, and development of social media content
• 33 new data loggers installed to monitor temperature and relative humidity
• 73 collection items analyzed for the presence of pesticides, and ahead of repatriation efforts provides important information for anyone handling these items, including tribal representatives
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art borrowed eight Gilcrease items for its exhibition KnowingtheWest, displayed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, September 14, 2024–January 27, 2025. The items will travel with the exhibition to the North Carolina Museum of Art, May 2–August 9, 2026.
• Joseph Becker, Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (01.1212)
• James Walker, VaquerosinaHorseCorral (01.1480)
• Earnest Leonard Blumenschein, Moon,Morning Star,andEveningStar (01.2192)
• Walter Ufer, Hunger (01.2196)
• Earnest Martin Hennings, Pueblo Indians (01.2199)
• Albert Bierstadt, SierraNevadaMorning (01.2305)
• Mary Nimmo Moran, A California Forest (14.102a)
• Mary Nimmo Moran, A California Forest (14.102b)
First Americans Museum borrowed one item for their exhibition OklaHomma:TribalNationsGallery, displayed at First Americans Museum, July 1, 2024–July 1, 2026.
• Child’s Moccasins (84.2321a-b)
Acquisitions
The Gilcrease collection continued to grow this fiscal year, with new acquisitions—both gifts and purchases—aligned with themes and narratives planned for the reimagined galleries. Many of these works will be on view when the museum reopens.
Acquisition Highlights
Two drawings by renowned 20th-century Mexican artist Diego Rivera, were generously bequeathed by Burt B. Holmes.
One is a minimalist ink wash of a woman crafting a child’s cradle, reflecting Rivera’s interest in rural Mexican life.
The other is a detailed pencil portrait of American sculptor Ralph Stackpole, who played a key role in Rivera’s San Francisco commissions.
These additions expand the museum’s holdings of Latin American art and deepen its commitment to presenting diverse artistic voices and cultural histories.
Diego Rivera, Mujer Preparando La Cama Para Dormir Rustica Del Nino, circa 1930. Brush and ink wash on paper, 11 x 15 ½ in. Gift of the Estate of Burt B. Holmes. 2025.2.2
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Ralph Stackpole, 1932. Pencil on paper, 20 x 16 in. Gift of the Estate of Burt B. Holmes. 2025.2.1
Acquisitions
Daniel Begay
54.20610
Black-on-black jar with excised heartline bear and feather motifs 2024
Santa Clara clay, slip
7 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Museum Purchase
Rowan Harrison 13.4044
ContainedEnergy 2023
Artist marker, graphite, handmade archival linen paper 13 ¾ x 10 1/8 in. Museum Purchase
Rowan Harrison
54.20611
Two Tribes 2023
Isleta clay, commercial underglaze 5 x 5 ½ in.
Museum Purchase
Madeline Naranjo
54.20612
Black-on-black tile with scene of woman holding Pueblo pot 2024
Santa Clara clay, slip 6 ½ x 4 7/8 x 7/8 in. Museum Purchase
Annie Pedro 54.20613
Bowl
Circa 1920 Clay
1 3/8 x 6 ½ in.
Anonymous Gift
Mattie Reid Luther 54.20614
Bowl
Circa 1930 Clay 5 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.
Anonymous Gift
Ima Johnson 14.1047
After the Storm 1957
Lithograph 12 11/16 x 16 in.
Museum Purchase
Patrick Martinez
19.109
TheyTriedtoBuryUs,TheyDidn’t Know We Were Seeds (Dinos Christianopoulous) 2023
Digital print on PETG plastic 15 ¾ x 16 ¾ in.
Gift of Mitchell Hurricane Smith and Brian Lee Whisenhunt
W. Richard West, Sr. 01.2613
Pueblo Koshare
1969
Oil on canvas
37 x 24 7/8 x 1 ½ in.
Gift of John Haworth
Alexander Henderson 33.2
The Maia Primer 1852
Print book
7 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.
Gift of The University of Tulsa McFarlin Library
Tiffany Alfonseca 01.2615
Hazme Olvidarla, 2025.
Acrylic, glitter, rhinestones, and colored pencil on canvas
47 ¼ x 39 ½ x 1 ¼ in.
Museum Purchase
Chase Earles
54.20615
Gourd Friend II – Caddo Effigy Pot 2024
Clay
19 ¼ x 14 ¼ in.
Museum Purchase
Deaccessions
• Taylor cylinder printing press; transferred ownership to the Cherokee Nation
• 14 unassociated funerary objects; repatriated to Wilton Rancheria
• 5 associated funerary objects; repatriated to Wilton Rancheria and Ione Band of Miwok Indians
• 4 unassociated funerary objects, 5 objects of cultural patrimony; repatriated to the Tule River Indian Tribe
Someoftherepatriatedmaterialswerenotaccessionedinthepermanentcollection.
• 4 sacred objects, 10 objects of cultural patrimony; repatriated to the Pueblo of Acoma
• 8 unassociated funerary objects; repatriated to the Tejon Indian Tribe
Helmerich Center for American Research
AT GILCREASE MUSEUM
In its 10th anniversary year, the Helmerich Center for American Research (HCAR) continued to grow as a hub for scholarly excellence, collections stewardship, public engagement, and education. Our team remains dedicated to elevating the Center’s reputation as both an international research destination and a vital community resource.
Research Excellence
HCAR was founded to expand access to Gilcrease’s archival and library holdings. This year, HCAR welcomed 192 research visits from 60 scholars, including seven short-term fellows, three graduate fellows, one travel grant recipient, and our annual Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow. Hailing from Mexico, Canada, Germany, and across the U.S., researchers explored a wide range of materials - from Spanish Colonial manuscripts and Native American collections to rare
Tulsa history. Dr. Paul Barba (Bucknell University) credited Gilcrease’s “eye-opening” collection with reshaping his research on Black fugitivity in Native country. In addition to admiring the scope of Gilcrease’s collection, scholars praised the collaborative and supportive research environment HCAR provides. For remote researchers, staff provided over 4,000 digital reference images.
During the fiscal year, we welcomed Dr. Amanda Summers as our sixth Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow, Kristen Oertel (The University of Tulsa) as Faculty Associate Director, and Onyx Montes as Manager of Fellowships and Public Programs. Graduate assistants Julianah Abraham and Vela Lightle supported our work while pursuing master’s degrees from TU’s Museum Science and Management program.
HCAR staff shared original research at the University of Cambridge, Instituto Mora (Mexico City, Mexico), and ranged from Cherokee hymnals and Black resistance in Indian Territory to the Mexican Inquisition. Publications
rehoused 17 archival collections to improve preservation and access. Over 1,000 items were put in new folders Volunteers, interns, and student workers contributed (TURC) and Junior-TURC researchers, and Advanced who received hands-on training in rare materials and
Public Engagement
HCAR continues to foster dialogue around the stories within Gilcrease’s collection. In 2024, we saw record attendance at events, programs, and tours. Highlights included:
• “Cherokee Nation: A History of Resilience” – a free, public history course offered in partnership with the Cherokee Nation.
• “Let’s Talk About It” – a civil rights book discussion series funded in part by Oklahoma Humanities (OH) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Sessions were hosted at HCAR and Rudisill Library.
• Works-in-Progress Seminars – featuring scholars from TU, Oklahoma and surrounding states.
• Group Tours – more than doubled since 2022, with 22 tours and 185 visitors, including the Cherokee Adult Choir.
Signature events included the Cultures of the Americas Seminar, featuring Christina Ramos and a roundtable discussion about her award-winning book "Bedlam in the New World," and a public talk with Donald L. Fixico on "The State of Sequoyah," co-hosted with Magic City Books.
Support
Support from donors, members, and partners fueled transformative progress at Gilcrease in FY 2025— advancing campus enhancements, deepening community engagement, and ensuring the museum’s collections and programs continue to inspire for generations to come.
Support
With full funding secured for Gilcrease Museum’s new building, the Development team shifted its focus to supporting improvements across the museum’s expansive 460-acre campus. Efforts include a comprehensive reimagining of the landscape surrounding the new museum building and construction of approximately 14 miles of biking and hiking trails interwoven with public art installations in the viewshed to the west of the museum.
In August 2024, two long-time museum supporters made a transformational gift of more than $1 million to Gilcrease. This generous contribution will fund the acquisition of an iconic, monumental sculpture that will serve as a dramatic focal point for visitors approaching the new museum building.
In November, Gilcrease held its final Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood public program, the Gilcrease Family Festival and Art Show. The student art show, and the photography workshop series that preceded it, was made possible by a gift honoring the memory of Phyllis Hurley Frey. The festival was supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Oklahoma and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In March 2025, the museum achieved an ambitious fundraising goal – doubling the $100,000 given as a matching challenge by a generous couple in 2023. Given to support the assessment and treatment of items due to go on display in the new galleries, their vision of ensuring every object in the new museum shows its true brilliance and is protected for future generations, was realized thanks to generous contributions from seven museum members and supporters as well as the Terra Foundation for American Art.
With support from four generous donors and The Gillies Gilcrease Service Association, Gilcrease hosted acclaimed artist Stephen Towns for a three-week artist residency in March and April. A self-taught quilter and trained painter, Towns centered his focus on the Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection - a powerful archive of documents, memorabilia, and oral histories gathered by educator and historian Eddie Faye Gates. Towns will return in November to deliver a public lecture reflecting on his experience.
Thanks to a more than $238,000 Oklahoma Arts Sector ARPA Grant, Gilcrease offered nine paid internship opportunities during FY 2025 - advancing its longstanding goal of financially supporting emerging museum professionals as they gain valuable real-
Growth of Gilcrease Endowment Assets
Fiscal years ended June 30
Thanks to our generous donors, our endowment assets have grown by nearly 5 times since fiscal year 2015.
FY19
$19.1M
FY17
$12.4M
FY15
$7.2M
FY24
$35.3M
FY21
$31.2M
Gilcrease Endowment Assets by Area
Operations
Education
Conservation & collection care
Research & scholarship support
Exhibitions, digital curation & acquisitions
world experience. Gilcrease is deeply grateful for their contributions to our work and excited to watch their careers unfold.
See gilcrease.org/donors for a full list of Gilcrease patrons.
Membership
Despite the museum’s temporary closure, Gilcrease membership remains strong, with nearly 720 active members continuing to champion the museum’s mission and future.
In FY 2025, Gilcrease continued to deepen relationships with its members through a robust calendar of engagement opportunities. Over the year, the museum hosted eight member-focused events, drawing more than 190 participants and helping sustain vital connections with our most ardent advocates.
Program highlights included an Inside Out webinar celebrating the Helmerich Center for American Research’s 10th anniversary, an in-person presentation by Chief Conservator Jacinta Noble on caring for and protecting personal photos, and a bus trip to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to see the exhibition KnowingtheWest, which features several Gilcrease artworks. In the spring, we offered members the opportunity to tour the new building. These were especially popular, quickly filling up, and offering behind-the-scenes access to the future museum space and valuable one-on-one engagement with long-time supporters.
FY25 also marked a turning point for the membership program: this was the first year since Covid and the building closure, without a decline. We exceeded our membership revenue goal, and renewals rose by 12%.
A total of 750 memberships were sold - an increase of 80 over the previous year - demonstrating strong and sustained community support.
In late November 2024, the City of Tulsa and Gilcrease recognized the leadership of Mayor G.T. Bynum as he concluded his tenure in office. Mayor Bynum’s term began in 2016, a year that also saw Tulsans approve the Vision Tulsa sales tax renewal package that included $65 million for upgrading Gilcrease’s main building. On November 22, the City of Tulsa marked the near completion of the museum’s state-of-the-art new facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
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Staff + Board
Boards
FY 2024 - 2025
City of Tulsa Gilcrease Museum Board of Trustees
Teresa Meinders Burkett, chair
Susan Savage, vice chair
Cassie Reese Tipton
Shane Fernandez
Rodrigo Rojas, mayoral designee (through February 2025)
Mike Miller, mayoral designee (beginning March 2025)
Gilcrease Museum Management Trust Board of Trustees
Brad Carson, president, The University of Tulsa
Eric Schick, chief financial officer, The University of Tulsa
Marcia MacLeod, board chair, The University of Tulsa Staff
Executive Office
Brian Lee Whisenhunt, executive director and CEO
Dana Yarbrough, executive assistant
Registration
Susan Buchanan, director of collections/chief registrar
Alicia Rawlins-Perkins
Josie Sorelle
Conservation
Jacinta Noble, chief conservator
Elly Davis
Ann Young (through March 2025)
Curatorial
Alex Mann, director of curatorial affairs (beginning April 2025)
Chelsea Herr
Jenny Keller
Allison Richmond
Digital Curation
Diana Folsom, director of digital collections
Claire Cross
Joseph Carriger
Zachary Qualls
Garrett Gibson
Development and Membership
Suzanne Thompson, senior director of development (beginning February 2025)
Leslie Bonaventura
JJ Cody Fox
Exhibitions
Calvin Frank, chief preparator
Kelly Campbell
Elizabeth Kennedy (beginning June 2025)
Helmerich Center for American Research
William “Billy” Smith, director
Onyx Montes (beginning March 2025)
Amanda Summers
Leslie Taylor
Alex Patterson (through September 2024)
Jana Gowan
Charles Hilton
Learning and Community Engagement
Laurel Benson Wrench, Anne and Henry Zarrow director of learning and community engagement (beginning March 2025)
Mia (Torres) Hoskison
Alison Rossi, director (through December 2024)
Grace Dishman (through March 2025)
Marketing and Communications
Maddy Witt, digital marketing coordinator
Museum Store and Visitor Services
Melanie Rosencutter, director
Teresa Chapman
Repatriation
Laura Bryant, director
Lacey Faulkner
Jordan Naruszewicz (beginning October 2024)
Security
Lynn Williams, manager
Jacob Arnzen
Michael Augusta
Cody Scott
Wali Daqiq
Randy Farran
Jerry Hancock
Kayla Landrum
Sam McKinney
Patrick Wallace
