Linda Sellen Frazier

Linda Frazier earned a B.A. in Music and French at DePauw University. After teaching French, she earned an M.A. in the Humanities from University of Tulsa. For more than a decade she was managing editor of TU’s Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, the first learned journal devoted to women’s writing.

She credits her experiences at Will Rogers with helping make her a guiding force in Tulsa arts and an advocate for arts education, serving on the education committees of many organizations. She has been president of Junior League of Tulsa, AHHA (formerly the Arts and Humanities Council), Chamber Music Tulsa, and Tulsa Symphony, and has also served on the boards of Mid-America Arts Alliance and Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation. Oklahoma governors twice appointed her to the Oklahoma Arts Council, which she chaired from 1996 to 2000. Tulsa mayors appointed her to the Arts Commission and Performing Arts Center Trust.

As a board member of the Arts and Humanities Council, Linda was instrumental in founding the Artists in the Schools Program, the Harwelden Institute for Arts in Education, and the Kennedy Center Any Given Child Tulsa. Any Given Child is a partnership between Tulsa arts organizations and Tulsa Public Schools that gives every child, grades K-8, live arts experiences with directly related curriculum materials. She continues to work with the Tulsa Symphony Carnegie Link-Up Program, which provides a music curriculum to thousands of students, culminating in an opportunity to perform with the orchestra.

Tulsa Historical Society inducted Linda to the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009. Her other honors include the Oklahoma Governor’s Arts Award, the Marilyn Douglas Award, the Tulsa Pinnacle Award twice, the DePauw University Community Service Award, and the Charles E. Norman Harwelden Distinguished Service Award (AHHA). She continues to study French and voice and to sing as a member and soloist of Wednesday Morning Musicale, Hyechka Club, and Boston Avenue Methodist Church Chancel Choir.