Best Texas Team at the Smithsonian
Dawn Orsak & Pat Jasper
Pat Jasper and Dawn Orsak honed their chops for years putting on events together for the local nonprofit Texas Folklife Resources. Dawn’s passion is for Texas food ways, while Pat tends to specialize in the many forms of Texas music. Together, they made the perfect team to curate the monthlong "Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine" exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this past summer. Jasper and Orsak invested almost a year assembling a program to showcase the diverse and fascinating aspects of Texas music, food, and wine, and their exhibit attracted capacity crowds of tourists visiting the nation’s capital. These ladies put on a show that made Texas look great – and we applaud them for it.
