Pomo Baskets, Woven Futures
- History of Art Department with Marina George and Jessica L. Horton
- History of Art Department, School of Arts & Sciences
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Project Support Grant
The History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania will host the Pomo Weavers Society for a three-day series of campus events designed to generate and share new collaborative research into Penn’s extraordinary turn-of-the-twentieth century Pomo basket collection. The Pomo Weavers Society is a Northern California-based collective of more than thirty Indigenous artists who are revitalizing their basket weaving traditions and restoring the healthy homeland ecologies on which the art form depends. Their visit will include a public roundtable conversation exploring weaving in the context of art historical and ecological currents that connect our campus and region to Pomo homelands; and a small group basket study session with the weavers in The Penn Museum collection that is focused on training in Native American art historical and curatorial methods. The Pomo Weavers Society will also have time to study the Pomo basket collection at The Penn Museum, which is one of the largest and most important Pomo basket collections in the world, and will make a visit to the University of Delaware, to view a traveling exhibition, Pomo Baskets, Woven Futures (2027), which places the collective’s work in conversation with a loan of historical baskets from Penn.
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