Grace Rosario Perkins in conversation with Laura J. Allen
Sat, Feb 7, 2026
2–3 pm
Installation view of Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–February 8, 2026). From left to right: Going After It and Getting It!, 2023; Cheii Knew We Were in The White World, 2022; When I See A Mountain I Want 2B A Stone, When I See Her Hand, I Want 2B A Bone, 2025; Lets Go Back To That Magic Place That Only You and I Have Seen (Illuminations), 2023. Artwork © Grace Rosario Perkins. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art
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Floor 1, Gallery
Join Grace Rosario Perkins for a gallery talk about her exhibition Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers. The artist is joined in conversation by Laura J. Allen, Curator of Native American Art at Montclair Art Museum. Their discussion will address aspects of emotion and narrative, privacy and visibility, preservation and activation, and more in relation to Perkins’s painting, sculptural, and collaborative works.
Laura J. Allen is an interdisciplinary curator, educator, and scholar. Her museum practice focuses on historical, modern, and contemporary Native art and critical and collaborative museology through a lens of restorative justice. Allen is based in Lūnaapeewáhkiing/Lenapehoking, living in Brooklyn and serving as the Curator of Native American Art and Repatriation Coordinator at Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey as well as an independent curator. She is also a faculty member at Montclair State University.
