First Year Conversations: Building Community

A Critical Conversations Event

Curators and museum exhibition designers from the Brooklyn Museum will lead a panel discussion with students around how the museum can use contemporary art and the past to build relationships with the local and larger community.

Panelists from the Brooklyn Museum

• Katya Barbash, Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, on the “African Ancestors” installation.
• Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art discussing the “Brooklyn Artists” Exhibition

This event is part of Critical Conversations: creating space for and educating one another about our multiple cultural contexts, activism, civil discourse, and academic engagement.