Meet the curatorial team behind our new exhibition, DREAMTIME IN NEWARK: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art.
Join Alliyah Allen, Guest Curator, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Senior Curator of American Art, and Monisha Bernard, Curatorial Assistant in the galleries for an informal dialogue and walk through the exhibition.
Tour will meet in the Welcome Center near the Admission Desk.
Alliyah Allen is a first-year PhD student in Art History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and an independent curator and arts administrator whose work takes Black feminist approaches to exhibition-making, research, and public engagement. Allen holds an MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a BA in Religion, with a concentration in Africana Studies, from Haverford College. Her major curatorial and public art projects include Blues People (2024), Wards of Newark: Manuel Acevedo (2026), and Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art, opening October 15, 2026, at The Newark Museum of Art.
Tricia Laughlin Bloom is the Senior Curator of American Art at The Newark Museum of Art. A specialist in modern and contemporary art, Bloom holds an MA in 19th- and 20th- Century Art Criticism and Theory from SUNY Stony Brook and a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Art from Rutgers University.
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