Pat Courtney Gold is a Wasco-Tlingit Indian, who is reviving the art of Wasco Basket weaving: full-turn twined baskets with geometric human figures and motifs. She is preserving the technique and recording the traditional designs as well as creating contemporary baskets. This page is an assemblage of links to the works of Pat Courtney Gold online.

Turtle Island Storytellers
This presentation includes curriculum vitae, a transcript along with an audio file of an interview with Pat. The interview includes a biographical statement discussing her personal history, the tradition of Wasco full twist twining and the origins of the organization Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association.

Wisdom of the Elders Artist Circle Interview
An interview transcript and audio of Pat Courtney Gold, Wasco-Tlingit Indian basketmaker with the late Bruce Crespin which was part of Wisdom of the Elders Radio Program Six: The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indians.

Craft In America
Pat was one of the artists included in the PBS presentation of Crafts in America. She served on the Board of Directors, was featured in episode one of the TV series, MEMORY and the book. Pat Courtney Gold explains her basket designs which represent her heritage and her culture’s memory in a video included on MEMORY, in another video Gold describes the imagery on her baskets and in a third she demonstrates full turn twining, and discusses the technique. Direct links to Video 1, Video 2, Video 3 More about Pat is included in the downloadable Educator Guide.

National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship in 2007
Pat was the recipient of the NEA Arts Heritage Fellowship. The National Endowment for the Arts annually awards one-time-only NEA National Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists. These fellowships recognize lifetime achievement, artistic excellence and contributions to our nation’s traditional arts heritage. This presentation includes an interview with Mary Eckstein.

Baskets by Pat Courtney Gold For Sale
Pat offers some of her baskets for sale at Bonnie Kahn's Wild West Gallery, LLC.

Sturgeon Greet the Babies
This presentation by the Oregon History Project of the Oregon Historical Society depicts a Wasco Sally Bag, named “Sturgeon Greet the Babies,” made by Pat Courtney Gold, a member of the Wasco Nation of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation.

Language of Native American Baskets from the Weavers View
In spring 2003, the National Museum of the American Indian invited Pat Courtney Gold and four other Native basket-makers and one Native basketry scholar to a two-day seminar to review this exhibition in its early stages. All of them expressed their strong wish to present basketry as a living art, with strong links to cultural history. To help illustrate this continuity, Pat chose these four baskets from the Museum’s collections and paired them with baskets from her own and other Plateau basket-makers’ contemporary works. Features Pat's "Yuppie Couple".

Time Spiral With Faces
A full turn twined basket made of Asian hemp by Pat Courtney Gold is presented here by the World's Women Online.

What Follows Video Presentation
This program from What Follows at the University of Colorado, features an interview with Pat Courtney Gold, a Wasco-Tlingit Indian, who is reviving the art of Wasco Basket weaving: full-turn twined baskets with geometric human figures and motifs. She is preserving the technique and recording the traditional designs as well as creating contemporary baskets.

Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellowship 2009
Pat Courtney Gold was the recipient of a fellowship from the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. The fellowships give artists time to explore new avenues of creativity, grapple with new ideas to further advance their work, and to strengthen existing talents. While in residence, the artists can access the School’s Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) collection of Native arts for research and study.

Maryhill Museum of Art
Pat Courtney Gold speaks of this museum in several of her interviews. She recalls visiting the basket collection as a child with her own mother. Baskets of the indigenous people of North America were a collecting interest of Sam Hill; today the museum’s Native American collection represents nearly every tradition and style in North America, with works of art from prehistoric through contemporary.

Photo Album of Baskets by Pat Courtney Gold
A selection of Pat's baskets in a webshots gallery.