Brad Kahlhamer is an artist known for his multi-media practice, ranging from sculpture and painting to performance and music. He draws on his tripartite identity in his art, navigating his Native American heritage, adoptive German-American family, and adult life in New York City’s Lower East Side, where he has lived since 1990. His “Dreamcatcher” series draws on the form of a traditional Native American symbol of unity and identification, which over time has become commercialized and often appropriated. This choice invokes the complexity and multiplicity of cultural histories, as he examines the cultural hybridity of navigating multiple communities simultaneously while addressing questions of representation of Native culture in the twenty-first century.