| 词条 | James Pepper Henry |
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| name = James Pepper Henry | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Portland, Oregon | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Kaw Nation/Muscogee (Creek) Nation | other_names = | occupation = museum director | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} James Pepper Henry is an American museum director. He is the new executive director of the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum (AICCM) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which has not yet opened. On April 17, 2017, the Tulsa World reported that James Pepper Henry had resigned his position as executive director of Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum, effective April 14, 2017. Five days later, The Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City newspaper, revealed on April 22, 2017, that AICCM had hired the former Gilcrease Executive Director as, "... director of the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) and chief executive officer of its foundation," starting June 19. Tulsa University announced that it had hired Henry as the Executive Director of Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, effective March 1, 2015. Henry had previously been Director and CEO of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona since 2013. Before going to the Heard, he had served for six years at the Anchorage Museum and ten years as associate director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). He was the founding director of the Kanza Museum in Kaw City, Oklahoma. Henry is a Native American, and his mother has both Kaw and Muscogee Creek ancestors. He is an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation. He was the first enrolled Native American to head the Heard Museum and is the first Native American, other than Thomas Gilcrease (Muscogee Creek) himself, to head the Gilcrease Museum.[1] Early lifeIn a newspaper article after accepting the Gilcrease appointment, James Pepper Henry wrote about his lifelong connection with Oklahoma, Tulsa and even Thomas Gilcrease himself. His maternal grandfather, Gilbert Pepper, a member of the Kaw tribe, had met his grandmother, Floy Childers, a Muscogee Creek, while both were attending Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas.{{efn|Both were natives of Oklahoma.[2]}} Gilbert was from Washunga, Oklahoma and Floy was from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.[3] Gilbert Pepper had attended Chilocco Indian Agricultural School and had come to Lawrence, where he also worked as a baker. Floy was working as a home economics teacher. The couple married in Lawrence, then transferred to Chemawa Indian Boarding School in Salem, Oregon. When World War II began, Gilbert was recruited to work as a welder in a shipyard in Portland, Oregon, where their daughter was born.[2] James Pepper Henry says nothing about his father,{{efn|One source claimed that his father was of European descent.[4]}} but says only that he spent much of his youth with his grandparents. He wrote that every summer the family went back to Oklahoma to stay with relatives in North Tulsa. His great grandfather and Thomas Gilcrease were acquainted because both were members of the Muscogee Creek Nation. James had an early introduction to Gilcrease's art collection. The experience inspired him to study art and art history in college.[2] Career in art and museum administrationJames Pepper Henry enrolled in the University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, where he studied fine arts and art history, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. He planned to become a sculptor. A few years later, he admitted that he had no idea of working as a curator or a museum administrator.[5] Henry was reunited with the Gilcrease collection when his friend and former Smithsonian colleague, Duane King, was hired as the executive director of the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum, a new facility built by The University of Tulsa. King contacted Henry and told him that the Gilcrease was conducting a search for a new director.[2] HighlightsRasmussen Center Museum - AnchorageThe extensively remodeled Anchorage Museum opened under Henry's direction in 2010. It was a project that took over ten years and $110 million to complete. According to Henry, the new planetarium included, "one of the only two aurora borealis simulators in the world, in a science exhibit."[6] The museum is Alaska-centered, with static exhibits and artifacts interspersed among dynamic, interactive displays designed, for example, to show the impacts of earthquakes and tsunamis. The revamp was also intended to display more of the museum's permanent holdings than it could formerly show at any one time. Director Henry told an interviewer that museum visitors were likely to spend twice as much time ( 4 hours) per visit as before (2 hours per visit).[6] Heard Museum - PhoenixJames Pepper Henry's most memorable achievement during his two-year tenure at the Heard Museum in Phoenix was the exhibit "BUILD! Toy Brick Art at the Heard." An article in Arts Journal blog described it as demonstrating "...how 'American Indian and non-American Indian LEGO brick artists' made many 'creative and surprising forms' from the toy. The journal added that,..."it was "the most successful summer exhibit in the [Heard] museum's history, increasing museum attendance by 58 percent and memberships by 150 percent."[7] Gilcrease Museum - TulsaIt is premature to choose one or two highlights of James Pepper Henry's tenure, since he will approach his third anniversary in 2017. However, it is useful to recollect the lofty goals he stated in a 2015 interview:
He also identified that the biggest challenge he foresees as:
It could be argued that Henry's biggest accomplishment to date was the passage of the Vision 2025, Tulsa sales tax increase in April 2016. This commits the city to provide $65 million toward a major expansion and improvement program at the Gilcrease Museum. Henry was a vigorous campaigner for passage of the plan, and outlined the following specific items that he wanted to include:
American Indian Cultural Center and Museum - Oklahoma CityOn April 17, 2017, the Tulsa World reported that James Pepper Henry had resigned his position at Gilcrease Museum, effective April 14, 2017. The article revealed no explanation for his seemingly abrupt departure, just 25 months after joining the Gilcrease, although it identified some of James Pepper Henry's achievements at the Tulsa museum. It did say that Chief Operating Officer Susan Neal would take over day-to-day operations until a new Executive Director is hired.[9] The Oklahoma City newspaper,The Oklahoman, revealed on April 22, 2017, that the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum in Oklahoma City had hired the former Gilcrease Executive Director as, "... director of the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) and chief executive officer of its foundation," starting June 19. The ICC has been a work in progress for the last 22 years. The "ground blessing" ceremony was held in 2005, and physical construction began in 2006. A visitor center was completed in 2008. According to the Oklahoman, the exterior was partially complete when the Native American Cultural & Educational Authority (NACEA), the state authority overseeing the center, stopped construction for four years because there was inadequate funding to complete the project. Recent agreements between the state government, the government of Oklahoma City and the Chickasaw Nation that will resolve the funding issue are said to be finalized soon.{{efn|Bill Anoatubby, Chief of the Choctaw Nation, is also the chairman of NACEA.[17]}} Once the agreements are final, completion of the ICC is expected to take three more years.[10] Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^"The University of Tulsa announces new Executive Director of Gilcrease Museum." artdaily.org. Accessed November 16, 2016. {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Henry, James Pepper}}2. ^1 2 3 Henry, James Pepper. "James Pepper Henry: A cultural renaissance is happening in Tulsa." Tulsa World. February 28, 2016. Accessed November 16, 2016. 3. ^1 2 Perkins, Shaun. "Okie at Heart." Oklahoma Magazine. April 24, 2015. Accessed November 16, 2016. 4. ^"Jim Pepper Henry takes position as Chief Executive Officer for the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center." Kanza Newsletter. April 2008. Accessed November 16, 2008. 5. ^[https://aaa.uoregon.edu/100stories/alumni/james-pepper-henry Wagner, Lili. "CEO of Heard Museum shares his experience in museum curation, administration." University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts.] Accessed November 16, 2016. 6. ^1 [https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/anchorage-museum-opens-revamped-imaginarium-arctic-studies-centers/2010/05/23/ Hopkins, Kyle. "Anchorage Museum opens revamped Imaginarium, Arctic studies centers. Anchorage News. Updated September 29, 2016.] Accessed January 5, 2017. 7. ^[https://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2015/01/the-heard-museum-loses-its-director-to.html Dobrynski, Judith H. "The Heard Museum Loses Its Director To… " Arts Journal blogs.com January 15, 2015.] Accessed January 5, 2017. 8. ^1 Wade, Jarrel. "Gilcrease Museum has big plans for Vision funds". Tulsa World. April 11, 2016. Accessed November 13, 2016. 9. ^Watts, James David. "ARTS: Gilcrease Executive Director James Pepper Henry resigns." Tulsa World. April 17, 2017. Accessed October 16, 2017. 10. ^1 Crum, William. "Director chosen for American Indian Cultural Center and Museum." The Oklahoman April 22, 2017. Accessed October 17, 2017. 7 : Artists from Portland, Oregon|University of Oregon alumni|Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|Kaw people|Muscogee people|Directors of museums in the United States |
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