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A rear view of a woven tapestry, approximately 8 ft tall. It is sectioned into three parts with the middle depicting a white outline of a figure weilding a baseball inside a blood red rectangular band of color. Above and below are areas of white text against a blended blue, white and brown background.
Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
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A corner view of three large-scale, woven tapestries mounted to gallery walls. The left textile is a black-and-white image of an officer pointing a gun at a group of men with baseball bats; the background is a wooded area tinted blue. The works on the right wall are a pair which both include black-and-white, historical imagery of figures set against intricate floral backgrounds.The work on the right depicts a funeral procession, and text like a newspaper headline above reads “VOTERS IN REVOLT”.
Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
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A black and white, historical photograph of two men sitting in the shade of a tree is translated into the medium of tapestry. Black text in a typewriter font runs across the bottom and reads “It is a pedagogical task”.

Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023 (detail). Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller