Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights
She immersed herself in New York’s creative underground, then shifted to globetrotting activism for decades as the founder of Tribal Link.
Pamela Kraft in 1968, photographed with “Leg Table,” a piece created for Implosions, Inc., a part of the Fluxus art movement. She was immersed in the creative scene in New York for decades.Credit.Robert Watts
By Alex Williams
May 7, 2021
Pamela Kraft mingled among stars like Lou Reed and Patti Smith at the storied nightclub Max’s Kansas City, but she was not a musician. She championed the rights of Indigenous peoples with the United Nations, but had no background in policy. She worked with artists in the Fluxus movement, but was not, by trade, a painter or a sculptor.