The child of puppeteers, Pat began traveling at age 14 with her parents, performing with marionettes and hand puppets throughout the eastern United States in schools, theaters and summer camps and later in commercial films and trade shows. In 1957, Pat was invited to join the Taliesin Fellowship of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and participate in its annual Festival of Music and Dance at the Fellowship's winter home near Scottsdale, Arizona. She was an apprentice and staff member there for nine years. In 1966 Pat moved to New York City to study watercolor painting with Mario Cooper,...more