Lindsay Catherine Harris
MA Arts Politics Class of 2012
B.A. in Africana Studies & Art from Vassar College
Lindsay Catherine Harris (they/she) is a Brooklyn based media artist, social justice advocate, curator and educator.
Born in Southern California in 1986, raised in Santa Fe, NM, and matured in Brooklyn, NY, Lindsay holds a B.A. in Africana Studies & Art from Vassar College and M.A. in Arts Politics from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Lindsay’s multimedia project Evoking the Mulatto (2015) has been exhibited at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn Museum, YouTube Space and published by The Atlantic, Blavity, and NPR. Co-curated by Lindsay, Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, an exhibition featuring 28 LGBTQ+ artists and collectives making work in NYC today within the legacy of the Stonewall uprising, was named NYTimes Best Art of 2019.
As Director of Education at Brooklyn Museum, Lindsay is committed to increasing meaningful civic engagement through the arts, challenging inequity, and amplifying youth voice—specifically femme, queer, and trans youth of color—in cultural programming in Brooklyn. Lindsay has worked in youth programs at schools and organizations across NYC including Educational Video Center, Museum of the Moving Image, Brooklyn International High School, and Center for Urban Pedagogy.
Lindsay was a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow (2015), Black Public Media Nonso Christian Ugbode Fellow (2013-2015), Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow (2016), and NYU Global Institute Critical Collaborations Fellow (2016-2018).