Carla Forbes and Catherine Morris
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
The Evening Lecture Series is free and open to the public. With inquiries, please contact Curator Jacob Brooks.
See the exhibition Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch at the Brooklyn Museum, March 14 – July 13, 2025.
Book: I Will Not Bend an Inch, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, a collaboration between RISD and Yale University Press.
Currently the Curatorial Assistant in the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art, Carla Forbes supports the Center in creating exhibitions that forefront BIPOC artists who engage feminist methodologies, such as Nona Faustine, Elizabeth Catlett and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet. Motivated by a Black Queer Feminist episteme, Forbes is interested in centering the practices and experiences of artists and publics of the African diaspora, while shaping anti-oppressive arts and culture ecosystems that struggle towards more liberatory psychic, social, and civic potentials. Forbes is an inaugural alum of the Studio Museum Institute’s Arts Leadership Praxis, and is currently a fellow in the Association of Art Museum Curators Professional Alliance of Curators of Color. They hold a BA in African and African-American Studies from Stanford University.
Catherine Morris is Senior Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions including Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies (2024–25); Nona Faustine: White Shoes (2024); Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And (2021); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (2017); Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound (2014–15); and Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (2012–13). She has worked on projects examining contemporary practices through historical precedents, including, most recently, It’s Pablomatic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby (2023).
Morris has worked on exhibitions and curatorial projects on artists including Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Minter, Zanele Muholi, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Cecilia Vicuña. She has produced historical exhibitions such as Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to “The Ladder” (2013–14) and Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864 (2010).
