Palm Springs Art Museum featured Barbara Gothard's Artist Talk about her research-based multimedia arts and humanities exhibit consisting of mixed media installation works. "Contradictions - Bringing The Past Forward" explores the plight of early 20th century African-American homesteaders in the Mojave Desert. The series focuses on the Homesteaders’ stories and the contradictions of Gothard’s own desert-lived experience. Raul Ruiz, M.D., Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, California Congressional District 36, 117th Congress, presenting Certificate of Congressional Recognition for documentation, visual interpretation, and public presentation our history through art, "Contradictions - Bringing The Past Forward"