The Brooklyn Museum in New York has hired Darienne (Dare) Turner as its first full-time Curator of Indigenous Art. Turner will be responsible for researching and expanding the museum collection of Native American art, which now consists of over 13,600 items dating between 1100 B.C.E. and the present day. She will start her position in August 2023.
‘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,’ Turner said. ‘The opportunity to re-present a historic collection at an institution dedicated to rethinking representation was one I couldn’t pass up. The artworks in the Museum’s care offer the keys to understanding who we are as living Native communities, and they highlight the ways in which Native people have thrived on this continent since time immemorial.’
Turner is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe of California and currently an assistant curator of Indigenous Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2017. She holds a masters degree in decorative arts, design history and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Stanford University.
