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Pratt Shows: History of Art and Design Symposium Keynote

April 23, 2026 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Alumni Reading Room, within the Brooklyn Campus Library, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

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Two men stand conversing in a contemporary art gallery. Both wear dark clothing. One man with glasses holds a red bottle at his side, while the other gestures with his hands as they speak. Framed artworks hang along the white walls, and a central display table stands in the middle of the room. The gallery has polished brown floors, exposed brick accents, and ceiling-mounted track lighting.
Large framed seascape painting displayed on a deep blue gallery wall. The painting shows powerful green waves cresting over the edge of a waterfall at sunset, with mist rising in the distance. A small object is mounted on a pedestal directly below the painting with a descriptive label. Additional framed artworks and wall labels are partially visible to the right, and a glass display case appears to the left.

We invite you to join us on Thursday, April 23rd at 5:30 in the Alumni Reading Room for “Curation as Care,” a keynote address by Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe), Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Venue: Alumni Reading Room

In this talk, Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe), Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses Indigenous community representation, engagement, and dialogue through the curation of historical and contemporary Native art in encyclopedic museums. Turner will address the concept of “curation as care” as it relates to her recent projects and her role in stewarding the Brooklyn Museum’s Indigenous art collection. She will also speak about the exhibition initiative she co-curated with Leila Grothe at the Baltimore Museum of Art entitled “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum,” the reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art wing, and her collaboration with museum professionals and Indigenous knowledge keepers alike.

Dare Turner is the Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum and a member of the Yurok Tribe. In 2024, she co-organized Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which included nine exhibitions, interpretative interventions across the Museum, and a catalogue. At the Brooklyn Museum, she curated Nico Williams: Aaniin, I See Your Light and co-curated Towards Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a radical reinstallation of the American Wing guided by Indigenous ways of knowing and Black feminist theory. Her forthcoming exhibition and book, Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World, will debut at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2026.

On Friday, April 24th, Turner will return to serve as respondent for the HAD student symposium. We encourage everyone to participate in this two-day celebration of our students’ accomplishments.

This event is open to the public and will be recorded.

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Pratt Shows is a series of public exhibitions and presentations by Pratt Institute’s graduating students in 30+ different fields, now through May.

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