Karen Ann Hoffman on Raised Beadwork

Karen Ann Hoffman is a Haudenosaunee raised beadwork artist. An enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Hoffman lives near Stevens Point on a 40-acre homestead, where she hunts, forages, and beads. In her beadwork, Hoffman believes strongly in the power and importance of Native art and the necessity to have authentic, in-community voices at the forefront of the conversations, installations, and curation of Native art. Through her devotion to safekeeping Oneida culture, Hoffman has received recognition as an Oneida National Treasure by her tribe and was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a TapRoot Fellow, a United States Artist Fellow, and a Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Fellow. Hoffman’s work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; Field Museum, Chicago; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; among others.

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