We look forward to your visit to Tulsa to speak to the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations!
Here you can find some useful information about opportunities to learn more about Tulsa, a vibrant green and hilly city of a half-milliion people in one of America’s youngest states. We will do all we can to make your visit as rewarding as your schedule will allow.
Hotel and Meeting Venue:
TCFR speakers are usually housed at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown, which is located only a few blocks from our usual meeting venue, The Summit club.
Media Coverage:
The meetings of TCFR are held on an off-the-record, non-attribution basis, and working press are not present. If schedules allow, speakers are invited to tape a half-hour interview with Rich Fisher,General Manager of Tulsa’s NPR-affiliate station, KWGS, on his award-winning program, Studio Tulsa. By request and if schedules allow, meetings can be arranged with a reporter or with the editorial board of the Tulsa World.
Book sales:
Speakers who wish to promote (and autograph copies of) recently published books should inform the committee in advance. We are happy to make this opportunity available to our members.
The University of Tulsa:
If schedules allow, speakers are occasionally scheduled for an additional appearance, either formal or informal, before an audience at The University of Tulsa, which is a generous sponsor of TCFR.
Gilcrease Museum:
Many of our speakers try to allow time in their schedules for a VIP tour, guided by a knowledgeable docent, of Tulsa’s world-famous Gilcrease Museum, arguably the country’s foremost museum of Western and Indian Art and Sculpture.
The art collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by 400 artists from colonial times to the present. Some of the important, non-western artists featured in the Gilcrease Collection include Thomas Eakins, Robert Feke, Charles Wilson Peale, Daniel Chester French, John Singleton Copley, James McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, John James Audubon, William Merritt Chase, and N. C. Wyeth. Among the Western artists for which Gilcrease is renowned are the following:
Albert Bierstadt
William M. Cary
George Catlin
Woody Crumbo
William R. Leigh
Alfred Jacob Miller
Thomas Moran
Frederic Remington (including 18 of his 22 bronzes)
Charles M. Russell
Olaf Seltzer
Joseph H. Sharp
Willard Stone
Charles Banks Wilson
Airport Transportation:
TCFR speakers are personally met at the Tulsa International Airport by Director Robert Donaldson or by another TCFR member. Departure transportation may be arranged either by a TCFR member or via the complimentary shuttle from the hotel.