Brooklyn Museum Audio Guide Features Indigenous Perspectives on Settler Art

Insight on settler art from Indigenous artists, scholars, and community leaders is now available for listening through Brooklyn Museum’s new audio guide, Indigenous Perspectives. 

The 16-minute-long guide includes seven stops and highlights the museum’s American Art collection.

Among those sharing their perspectives are Joseph Piece, Cherokee, a professor at Stony Brook University; Patricia Tarrant, Mandan and Hidatsa, executive director of the American Indian Community House in New York; and musician and composer Laura Ortman, White Mountain Apache. 

Featured art includes “The Outlier” by Frederic Sackrider Remington, “Handsome Morning” by Harry C. Edwards, “Landscape (Birch and Oaks)” by Asher B. Durand, “Bathing at Bellport, Long Island” by William Glackens, “A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie” by Albert Bierstadt, and “Niagara” by Louis Rémy Mignot. 

According to Brooklyn Museum’s curator of Indigenous Art, Dare Turner, Yurok, each speaker’s choice of settler artwork was intentional. 

“The ways that these contributors have interpreted these settler artworks challenge classical understandings of American history and American identity,” Turner said. 

Indigenous Perspectives is available to museum visitors, on the Bloomberg Connects app, or at the link here.