February 24, 2023 | By Lily Hansen | samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
Artworks of the past never cease to offer new lessons, insights, and interpretations.
In a video created as part of the two-year re-installation 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.
Check out the video here:
Read more about Kari’s contributions to SAM while serving as an Emerging Arts Leader Intern in this reflection (https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2022/07/indigenous-matrix-kari-karsten/) 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.
