Lessons of the Past: Kari Karsten on Curating SAM’s American Art Galleries
Artworks of the past never cease to offer new lessons, insights, and interpretations.
In this video created as part of the two-year reinstallation of SAM’s American art galleries, SAM Emerging Museum Professional of American Art and member of the Seneca nation Kari Karsten discusses her research into Spokane-born artist Kenneth Callahan’s The Accident, and the enduring questions artworks such as these can raise, even over 75 years after their creation.
Read more about Kari’s contributions to SAM while serving as an Emerging Arts Leader Intern in this reflection she wrote after completing her year-long thesis for the University of Washington Museology masters program and opening Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers last fall.
Visit SAM today to experience all American Art: The Stories We Carry has to offer and see Callahan’s painting for yourself.
– Lily Hansen, SAM Marketing Content Creator
Photo: L. Fried.