Brooklyn Museum Hires First Full-time Indigenous ArtCurator

The Brooklyn Museum has hired its first full-time curator of Indigenous art. The institution announced Thursday that Darienne Turner will join the museum in August. She is currently an assistant curator of Indigenous Art of the Americas at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she has been since 2017. Turner will focus on growing the museum’s North American Indigenous collection while developing canon-expanding exhibition programming. She is an art historian and enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe of California. She is the first Native person to hold a curatorial role at the Baltimore Museum of Art. “We’re so pleased to welcome Turner to our growing curatorial team,” said museum director Anne Pasternak in a statement. “The Brooklyn Museum is committed to addressing the exclusion and erasure of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on her considerable expertise, Turner will help us think critically about our engagement with Indigenous communities and our important collection of Indigenous art.” Added Turner: “The Brooklyn Museum’s collection is simply remarkable, and I am thrilled to work alongside brilliant colleagues and Native community members to share it with the public. The opportunity to represent a historic collection at an institution dedicated to rethinking representation was one I couldn’t pass up. The artworks

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