Series consists of records relating to exhibits Karen Duffek curated or was involved with in another capacity. The records span the entire breadth of the intellectual creation process, including research, funding, administrative concerns, exhibition design and installation, and publication. The series includes supplemental information about artists’ careers, correspondences, contracts, final reporting, publications relating to artists and the exhibitions, grant applications, educational exhibit materials, transcripts of interviews and public lectures, event planning, budgets, photographs, as well as exhibition publication development.

The series is arranged into 12 sub-series, each one relating to a specific exhibition:
Sub-series 2-A: Robert Davidson: “The Abstract Edge” (2004-2005)
Sub-series 2-B: Edgar Heap of Birds: “Wheel: Overlays” (2007)
Sub-series 2-C: Mike Nicholl [Yahgulanaas]: “Meddling in the Museum” (2007-2008)
Sub-series 2-D: Willy White: “My Ancestors are still Dancing” (2002-2004)
Sub-series 2-E: Bill Reid: “Gathering Strength” (2000-2004)
Sub-series 2-F: Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy (1993-1994)
Sub-series 2-G: Carl Beam Exhibit (2011)
Sub-series 2-H: Nicholas Galanin: “Raven and the First Immigrant” (2010)
Sub-series 2-I: Annie Ross: “Forest One” (2012)
Sub-series 2-J: “A Green Dress: Objects, Memory, and the Museum” (2011-2012)
Sub-series 2-K: Ishiuchi Miyako “ひろしま Hiroshima” (2011-2012)
Sub-series 2-L: Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures (2010)
Sub-series 2-M: Bill Reid: Beyond Essential Form (1986)
Sub-series 2-N: Anspayaxw (Satellite Gallery, 2013)
Sub-series 2-O: Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk'wa (Satellite Gallery 2014)

File contains 8 comment books from the MOA general exhibit, 1976-2000

Dates of comment books:
2000
Feb. 15, 1994 – May 3, 1994
[ca. July, 1994]
Jan. 19, 1995 – [June, 1995]
Feb. 2 - Dec. 1, 2012
Oversize Box 3: Aug. 20, 1982 – Jul. 20, 1985
Visitor/media comments [selected quotes] 1976 - 1986

File consists of eight newsletters produced by the museum that highlight recent events, people associated with the museum, new initiatives, programs, exhibitions, gift shop updates, publications, recent acquisitions, courses at MOA, the results of a membership survey, behind-the-scenes information, and other news about the museum. Articles are written by curators, administrators, and other staff members. The newsletters were published three times a year, in January, May, and September.

Includes material related to the Pigapicha! exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology. Nuno Porto curated this exhibition. Records include correspondence, research, and meeting notes.