Christina Burke

Christina E. Burke is Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a cultural anthropologist with degrees from the University of Rochester (NY) and Indiana University whose research focuses on Native North America, particularly art and material culture of the past and present. Since 1988 she has worked on a variety of collaborative endeavors with American Indian people, including collections research and exhibitions, as well as the development of Native language curriculum materials. Much of her work focuses on Indian history from Indian perspectives, particularly how Native people record and remember important events in oral, pictographic, and textual traditions. She also works with Native artists, exploring creative traditions and their contemporary expressions. Christina has served on the Board of Directors of the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) and contributed to a number of exhibitions, including the Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation series, and the award-winning online exhibition Lakota Winter Counts. Her publications include articles and essays on traditional and contemporary Native art, as well as contributions to the edited volumes The Year The Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) and The Eugene B. Adkins Collection: Selected Works (University of Oklahoma Press 2011).