Our Guest Jurors:  

Karen Kramer is The Stuart W. and Elizabeth F. Pratt Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). Her work has shaped PEM's ambitious program in Indigenous art, including curating the nationally touring exhibitions T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America and Native Fashion Now, and the paradigm-shifting Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art. She co-curated On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America, which opened in 2022. She directed PEM's Native American Fellowship Program for eleven years and currently serves as Principal Advisor, providing training for rising Native leaders in museum and academic sectors. She served as President and board member of the Native American Art Studies Association (2003–2015) and worked on three inaugural exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Kramer is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, where her dissertation examines how Native artists enact relationality, land-based literacy, survivance, and visual sovereignty in American public art from 1969 to the present.