Keene Meltzoff, an anthropologist from an artistic family passionately creates her own "raw vision".

For over twenty years, Keene Meltzoff has carried out extensive anthropological fieldwork in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Chile, Spain, and the Florida Keys, researching custom versus civilization juxtapositions between "primitive" and industrial societies, and the

cargo cults upon which her Cargo Art and Sacred Spaces are based.

She began gathering artifacts during her travels while an undergraduate at Connecticut College. She spent a year in the West Pacific on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and started specializing in Oceanic art, collecting ethnographic materials and photographing village life.

She returned to the Pacific for her Ph.D. research in anthropology

(Columbia University 1982) and for subsequent visits. Her extensive fieldwork in the Indo-Pacific and South America is a source of ethnographic materials for Cargo Art, Sacred Spaces, and Workshops.