Petrina Dacres

Dr. Petrina Dacres is an educator and curator on contemporary Caribbean and African Diaspora art and visual culture. She is Head of the Art History Department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. Her research particularly focuses on the art and politics of memory in the Caribbean, memorials and monuments. Dr Dacres is also a founding member of Tide Rising Art Projects, an organization created to support and promote contemporary Caribbean art and film, where she serves as its resident Curator and Education Director. She has organized exhibitions at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York, The National Museum, Jamaica, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and recently at the International Studio and Curatorial Program where she was the 2022 Jane Farver Curatorial Fellow.

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