Shapeshifting: Inviting Change through Exhibiting Native American Art | HYBRIDITY Symposium

Shapeshifting: Inviting Change through Exhibiting Native American Art presented by Karen Kramer, curator of Native American Art and Culture at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) Karen Kramer is curator of Native American Art and Culture at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). She recently curated the exhibition Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art at PEM. Her longstanding commitment to innovative museum exhibition and interpretation has led her to many interesting projects over the past twenty years, including two inaugural exhibitions with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and additional exhibitions at PEM: Raven's Many Gifts: Northwest Coast Native Art; Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic; and Intersections, Native American Art in a New Light.