A ticket includes the guided tour and admission to the Museum. Tours will meet in the Welcome Center near the Admission Desk.

Dreamtime in Newark
Friday, December 11, 1 pm 

Come meet the curatorial team for an up-close tour through DREAMTIME IN NEWARK: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art. Learn about how this groundbreaking exhibition was created and the long history of collaboration between Aljira and the Museum. This tour will be led by Alliyah Allen, Guest Curator of Dreamtime in Newark.    

Alliyah Allen is a first-year PhD student in Art History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and an independent curator and arts administrator whose work takes Black feminist approaches to exhibition-making, research, and public engagement. Allen holds an MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a BA in Religion, with a concentration in Africana Studies, from Haverford College. Her major curatorial and public art projects include Blues People (2024), Wards of Newark: Manuel Acevedo (2026), and Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art, opening October 15, 2026, at The Newark Museum of Art.