Grace Rosario Perkins in conversation with Laura J. Allen Sat, Feb 7, 2026, 2–3 pm

Grace Rosario Perkins in conversation with Laura J. Allen

Sat, Feb 7, 2026
2–3 pm

Central concrete pillar with mixed-media debris sculptures surrounded by colorful abstract paintings in a gallery.
Central concrete pillar with mixed-media debris sculptures surrounded by colorful abstract paintings in a gallery.

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 and Repatriation Coordinator at Montclair Art Museum

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 at Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey as well as an independent curator. She is also a faculty member at Montclair State University.


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