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Author: Brooks Turner Brooks Turner

Brooks Turner is an artist, writer, and educator based in Minneapolis. Through diverse methodologies that include archival research, writing, collage, drawing, and installation, Turner engages anti-fascist histories as a means to deconstruct and challenge the aesthetics of violence enshrined by ongoing US imperialism. Solo exhibitions include Knowledge Becoming at the Perlman Teaching Museum (Fall 2023), Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota at the Weisman Art Museum (Fall 2020), and Uncanny Familiarities of Scenes and People at St. Cloud State University (Fall 2020). Turner is a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Federation, the Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Minnesota State Inter-Faculty Organization. Turner is the author of numerous essays published by HAIR + NAILS, Art Papers, and Mn Artists. He received a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Chair of Visual Art at St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.

Horse's head represented in motion with multiple outlines across the paper
1Michal Sagar, Between the Dream, 2024. Courtesy the artist.
Visual Art
10-25-2024

Dreams All the Way Down: On Sight Between

Brooks Turner
Tapestry with dark blue mushroom cloud with face inside it.
1Brooks Turner, Airborne Toxic Event, 2023.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-4-2023

Pedagogy and Propaganda: A Manifesto for Anti-Fascist Education

Brooks Turner
Protesters carrying signs outside of stone building.
1Minnesota Federation of Teachers on strike. Photo: Tamara Turner.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-21-2023

An Uncertain Syllabus for Art Education

Brooks Turner, Isa Gagarin, Emmett Ramstad, Livia Disney, Luci Aslakson, Audrey Wilson
the New Liberator heading appears in the bottom right corner of the collage. The rest of the image contains simple black and white illustrations of landscapes, armies, cities, scenes from the Bible, nude women, shepherds, and ships among others.
1Excerpt from Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota, 2020. Artwork by the author composed of every symbol from The New Liberator. A complete archive of The New Liberator is available via the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_liberator/
Design Visual Art
1-21-2021

American Fascism as Aesthetic Experience

Brooks Turner
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