The Community Curator program of Kansas City Museum invites historians and history educators to share their perspectives on artifacts they choose from the Museum collection. This provides fresh insight about artifacts and collections of Kansas City Museum and Union Station, and welcomes diverse input from the Kansas City history community. Community Curator lectures are presented the third Sunday of each month in Collections Storage at Union Station Kansas City, allowing the actual artifact to be presented with the observations of our Community Curator.
Community Curator Lecture Series is the fourth Tuesday of every month, at 6 p.m.
When: Tuesday, March 23 at 6 p.m.
Where: Union Station
Address: 30 West Pershing Rd Kansas City, MO. 64108
Admission: Free - Click here to pre-register now!
Curator: Pat Gold, Smithsonian Visiting Scholar
Discover Kansas City Museum’s collection of Native American woven baskets from our Dyer collection of Native American artifacts with a Smithsonian visiting scholar. Ms.
Gold will discuss the many functional and cultural uses of the Northwest
woven baskets in the Museum's collection and explore the different
techniques that created them.
About the Curator
Pat Gold is a basket weaver who combines traditional and contemporary techniques to preserve the art of her tribe, the Wasco Indians. Gold was born in 1939 and grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. In her early youth, she attended a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school and later received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. Afterwards, she pursued a career in mathematics and computer science. It was not until later, in 1991, that she began her second career of basket weaving. Gold used her background in mathematics to master the traditional Wasco art of full-turn twining, a rare and nearly extinct form of basket weaving at the time. This technique allows her to make geometric images and motifs in her weaving, enabling her to preserve the tradition and culture of her ancestors. For her works, Gold uses natural materials such as cattails, cedar bark, tree roots, tule, dogbane fiber and wool.
Gold helped organize the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association and enjoys teaching the art form to others. In 2001, she was honored by the Oregon Governor’s Arts Awards for preserving Native American cultural traditions. Gold is recognized internationally as her work is displayed in many museums all over the world, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In 2006 she was featured in the PBS program, “Craft in America,” and in 2007 she received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Gold is enrolled in the Wasco Nation of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Ore.
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Check out these other Community Curator lectures this year:
April 27: Architecture from Photography
Elizabeth Rosin, Rosin Preservation LLC
May 25: Kansas City Hats
Ann Brownfield, Historic Garment District
June 22: The League of Women Voters Collection
Sharon Sanders-Brooks, Kansas City, Mo., City Councilwoman
July 27: Musical Material in the Collection
Chuck Haddix, University of Missouri-Kansas City-Marr Sound Archive
August 24: Decorative Silver
Catherine Futter, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
September 28: Postcards from Old Kansas City
Michael Bushnell, Northeast News
October 26: Loula Long Combs and the American Royal
Michael Raynor, Longview Community College
November 16: The Parties of Yester-year
Heather Paxton, The Independent
December 21: Toys in the Attic
Paul Mesner, The Paul Mesner Puppets, Inc.
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