Brooke Finister
Curator | Researcher | Writer
Research. Documentation. Critical Writing
Exploring contemporary art through archives, exhibitions, artist practices, and public scholarship.
Research. Documentation. Critical Writing
Exploring contemporary art through archives, exhibitions, artist practices, and public scholarship.
Princeton University Art Museum- exhibition review and criticism that contributes to larger research goals of evaluating the intersection of bodily autonomy in ceramics through the lens of women in the African Diaspora
An interdisciplinary research project documenting contemporary Black women ceramicists across the African diaspora through archival research, oral history, exhibition writing, and material culture. Burnished Earth investigates how clay functions as a vessel for memory, identity, migration, and Black feminist knowledge production.
Behind-the-scenes documentation of artists' studios, creative processes, and material experimentation, highlighting the labor, research, and ideas that shape contemporary practice.
Critical essays, exhibition reviews, and visual analysis connecting contemporary art to broader histories, cultural memory, and public discourse.
Published essays, commissioned writing, interviews, catalogs, and editorial features spanning museums, galleries, archives, and independent platforms.