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Join California State Parks and the California Indian Heritage Center Foundation for an informative day of demonstrations and activities all about basket weaving! We are honored to once again host Dixie Rogers, an accomplished Karuk weaver and cultural practitioner, for this annual event. In addition to ongoing demonstrations, visitors can also participate in several hands-on crafts and learning activities, guided tours of the museum and park, and view weaving videos in our newly renovated Basket Gallery.
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Admission:
$5.00 - Adults
$3.00 - Youth
Children 5 and under free
Visitors will also receive complimentary admission complimentary admission to Sutter's Fort State Historic Park - Basket Weaving Demonstration Day only!
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More about Dixie:
Dixie Rogers is a respected Karuk basket weaver and regalia maker from the upriver Klamath Basin. Dixie comes from a family of notable weavers from whom she learned her art. She studied both weaving and apprenticed in Karuk language with her grandmother, Ramona Starritt. Dixie began her weaving training
as a child, studying the detailed, distinct designs in her family’s basket collection, much of which can be seen by the public at the Clark Museum in Eureka, California today.
Dixie works with traditional native plants for her weaving, including willow and hazel sticks, willow, spruce and pine roots, maiden hair fern, Woodwardia fern, alder bark, wolf moss, and porcupine quills, which she gathers, cleans, processes and sizes for each basket. For her twined baskets, Dixie returns to the
exact ancestral sites where her grandmother and generations of her family gathered basket materials on the Klamath and Salmon Rivers in Northern California.
Dixie has exhibited work, taught basketry techniques, and consulted on collections at the De Young Museum, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Crocker Museum, the California State Parks Basketry Collection and Museum, the Exploratorium, the UC Davis C.N. Gorman Museum, the Museum on Main, the Maidu Museum, the Clark Museum, California Native Ways, Pacific Western Traders, the Tuolumne Indian Market, Yolo Ave Gallery, the World Breast Cancer Conference, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, DQ University, Mills College, UC Sacramento, Chabot Space & Science Center, Effie Yeaw Nature Center, News of Native CA publication, Follow the Smoke, and at home for the Karuk Tribe.
She has served on the board of the California Indian Basketweavers Association and on the Native American
Steering Committee for the Tending and Gathering Garden at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. She has received three Alliance for California Traditional Arts awards, for a baby basket in 2014, an acorn cooking basket in 2016 and a master artist for a baby basket in 2018. She has received a Native Cultures Fund Grant in 2018 for a Traditional Karuk Ceremonial dresses and regalia
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2618 K St, Sacramento, CA, United States, California 95816
