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People Spotlight: Philbrook Museum of Art

JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

By Staff Reports
Published: 11/15/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 11/15/2009 4:41 AM

Frank Mulhern, Assistant director of development

Philbrook Museum of Art has named Frank Mulhern as assistant director of development.

In that position, he will provide oversight and management of the museum's membership, individual giving and corporate membership programs, focusing on cultivation, recruitment and retention of donors. Mulhern also will oversee the donor database and continue comprehensive system implementation and utilization.

He was development director at Philbrook from 2006 to 2007.

Mulhern has been involved in fundraising for the past decade, raising more than $4 million. He most recently served as vice president for development at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.

Other experience includes working as a copywriter in the marketing/advertising department at Wal-Mart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.; assistant director of annual giving at the University of Tulsa; several positions, including general manager, at Tulsa Ballet; and federal grant administrator and research coordinator in family medicine at Oklahoma State University and University of Oklahoma medical schools.

A native of Newport, R.I., Mulhern grew up in Millville, N.J., and Arkansas City, Kan., and graduated from Arkansas City High School.

He earned his bachelor of arts degree in organizational communication and sociology from the University of Tulsa, and his master's degree in mass communications from OSU-Tulsa.

He serves as a programming committee member for Leadership Tulsa, and is a volunteer at KWGS public radio.

Frank's wife, Heather (Bierly) Mulhern, is a middle school Latin teacher at Monte Cassino. She previously taught at Booker T. Washington for seven years, and was named Tulsa Public Schools Teacher of the Year in 2006.

Tanya Paul, Ruth G. Hardman Curator of European Art

Philbrook Museum of Art has named Tanya Paul as Ruth G. Hardman Curator of European Art.

As curator of European Art, Paul said she develops exhibitions of the permanent collection and coordinates temporary exhibitions.

"I also conduct research on our European collection and pursue new acquisitions and loans," she said. "In addition, I am responsible for the European galleries, making sure that the story we are telling with the collections is coherent, consistent and compelling."

A native of Annapolis, Md., Paul graduated from The Key School in that city. She has lived in Norwich, England; Amsterdam; The Hague, Netherlands; Los Angeles; and Cape Cod, Mass.

She earned her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and her master of arts and doctorate degrees from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Her dissertation will be an international loan exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2012.

Paul has worked in museums since 1988, most recently as curatorial fellow at the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She was also a graduate intern in the paintings department at the J. Paul Getty Museum and worked as both an intern and a fellow at the University of Virginia Art Museum.

She is a member of the College Art Association, the Association of Art Museum Curators, the American Association of Museums, the Historians of Netherlandish Art, the Renaissance Society of America and the Sixteenth-Century Society. By Staff Reports

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