Dare Turner
Brooklyn Museum
BGC Alum

In this talk, Dare Turner (BGC alum and Curator of Indigenous Art, Brooklyn Museum) will explore the questions: what does it mean to Indigenize museums? How is that effort different from decolonizing museums? And why is that distinction important? Turner will share insights from her curatorial practice, information about the 11 exhibitions she curated and opened in 2024, and what the future holds for the Indigenous art collection at the Brooklyn Museum.

Dare Turner is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe of California, an art historian, and a museum professional who aims to bring Indigenous art to new audiences and interpret it in fresh and accessible ways. Educated at Stanford University and the Bard Graduate Center,  Turner is the Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Prior to her appointment at Brooklyn, Turner taught “Decolonizing Design” at Maryland Institute College of Art and curated Indigenous art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. While at the BMA, Turner led the museum-wide initiative entitled Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum. Developed with guidance from a community advisory panel and participating artists, the initiative included nine exhibitions, interpretative interventions across the museum, a publication guided by Native methodologies, and an array of public programs. Additionally, Turner has contributed to exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center, the Walters Art Museum, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and Yellowstone National Park. Her work has been featured in exhibition catalogs including Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum; Towards Joy: New Frameworks for American Art; Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes and Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, as well as Frieze and BmoreArt magazines.

Tuesday, November 26, 12:15 pm

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

Lunch will be served starting at noon. Registration required.

Organized by the DEAI Working Group