News Release

Nancy Meinig 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 – Nancy Meinig, Tulsa, will be honored by Governor Brad Henry at the 32nd Annual Governor’s Arts Awards. Meinig will receive the prestigious Governor’s Award which recognizes individuals for longtime leadership and significant contributions to the arts across Oklahoma.

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.

Meinig has been actively involved in community service in Tulsa since moving there in 1980. She has served as a Trustee of Philbrook Museum of Art where she recently completed a two year term as Chairman of the Board and presently serves as Nominating Chairman and on the Executive Committee. A Board member of the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, University of Tulsa’s Board of Visitors and the Child Abuse Network, she is also a member of the Performing Arts Center Trust, an advisory board member of Tulsa Opera, Tulsa Ballet Theatre and the Town Hall Council.

In 1998, Meinig received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Volunteerism from Cornell University. Together with her husband, Pete, she received the Outstanding Volunteer Fund-Raising Award from the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives in 1998, was a Tulsa Press Club Headliner in 2000, and was inducted in 2001 along with her husband into the Tulsa Hall of Fame.

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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