News Release
Joan Gilmore to receive Governor's Arts Award
Nov. 6, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ann Dee Lee
Public Information Director
Oklahoma Arts Council
(405) 521-2931
anndee@arts.ok.gov
Oklahoma City, OK – Joan Gilmore, Oklahoma City, will be honored by Governor Brad Henry at the 32nd Annual Governor’s Arts Awards. Gilmore will receive the Bill Crawford Memorial Media Award which recognizes an individual member in the print and/or electronic media who demonstrates commitment to the arts in Oklahoma documented through public awareness support and fairness, initiative, creativity and professionalism in reporting.
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council, 16 individuals and four organizations will be honored for their contributions to the arts in their communities or throughout the state. The ceremony is scheduled for 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 28th in the 4th Floor Rotunda of the State Capitol and is open to the public. Presiding at the ceremony will be Council Chair Jim Tolbert and Interim Executive Director Suzanne Tate.
In addition to writing about arts events in her daily column called “Around Town” in The Journal Record, Joan Gilmore operates her own business called Joan Gilmore, Inc., Videotaping/Public Relations. An active volunteer, Gilmore is truly dedicated to the arts world and the committed people who support the arts. A native of Waukegan, Illinois, Gilmore came to Oklahoma to join the Women’s News Staff at the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times, climbing the ranks to editor of the sections and the head of the Metro News Department.
She has served on the boards of Ballet Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Symphony Society and volunteered at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Untitled [ArtsSpace], Oklahoma Children’s Theatre and many other organizations. Among her numerous honors, Gilmore was recognized as Outstanding Alumna of Drury University from which she was graduated and by the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, the Leadership Oklahoma City Founders Award and the Byliner Award from the Oklahoma City chapter of the Association for Women in Communications.
A reception on the first floor of the Capitol will follow the 4 p.m. ceremony. A complete list of Governor’s Arts Awards recipients and their photos are available at www.arts.ok.gov. For more information about the Governor’s Arts Awards, please contact Ann Dee Lee at (405) 521-2931 or at anndee@arts.ok.gov.
ABOUT THE OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL
The Oklahoma Arts Council is a state agency whose mission is to improve lives through the arts by promoting and sustaining the development of a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education and economic vitality for all Oklahomans.
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