Shirley Veenema is an instructor in visual arts at Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, and was a researcher at Harvard Project Zero from 1987 to 2007. She served as project manager and videographer of this project. Originally focused on printmaking and mixed media drawing, much of her current work as an artist is also in media and artist books. Her media work includes five videos for the show, Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a series of interactive documentaries funded by the Cultural Landscape Foundation.