Ed Sharrer, a GCA Urban Design graduate program alumnus, was recently named the manager of Tulsa’s Destination Districts program. After six years as the director of the Kendall Whittier Main Street program, Sharrer’s success led to a phone call from Tulsa’s mayor, G.T. Bynum, asking Sharrer to take on this new role.
In addition to stimulating economic growth in neighborhoods, the program, implemented by the Tulsa Planning Office, will “provide districts with the technical assistance, guidance, and occasional financial support to help them implement the vision they have for themselves.”
“The goal is to draw people into a diverse range of parts of the city and really help unite our city in a better way moving forward as a community,” Bynum said.
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Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
