Brooklyn-based artist Keltie Ferris has been described as a post-digital painter. Ferris uses the soft contours of spray paint to apply patterns of dots, or a palette knife for jagged, irregular edges.

Note: This interview aired in March 2009. From a pool of 34 nominated artists, three were selected as this year’s Charlotte Street Foundation visual artist award fellows. They’ll receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds, as well as an exhibition in November 2009.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is serious about its collection of American Indian art, and has proven it by elevating that art in a way perhaps no other comprehensive museum in the world has. With the opening of the new American Indian art galleries, space for the work has mushroomed four fold, but that’s not what the director of the British Museum finds remarkable.